Yaoi, aka Boy's Love - Japanese genre of fiction focusing on relationships between two male characters
So i was wondering
what's everyones favourite author here? i super duper luv scarlet beriko

Yaoi, aka Boy's Love - Japanese genre of fiction focusing on relationships between two male characters
what's everyones favourite author here? i super duper luv scarlet beriko
Yaoi, aka Boy's Love - Japanese genre of fiction focusing on relationships between two male characters
In terms of mangaka? Yamane Ayano and Takanaga Hinako for me. I adore Awkward Silence, Crimson Spell, the Finder series and KSB/Challengers. Naono Bohra does some amazing work too.
Which of Beriko's work do you like best?
Awkward Silence is one of my favorite BL manga! So cute~
jealousy by scarlet beriko [link removed so i dont get banned on accident]
Yoooo I just realized that Scarlet Beriko was the mangaka for Jackass! Don't Touch, which is one of my favorite manga! I wasn't familiar with her work before reading that. I'll have to check out Jealousy.
Overall, it's really hard to say, but for genre? Comedy has to go to Yamamoto Kotetsuko (Hontou Yajuu, Omairi Desu Yo, Brothers, DokiDoki Renai, Konya mo Nemuranai are all SO GOOD), though Tanaka Suzuki's "His Favorite" is also classic. As far as favorite drama, I'd say either Takarai Rihito (Seven Days, Ten Count, Only the Flower Knows), though I have a really solid, broken place in my heart for Mizushiro Setona's "The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese" and the sequel. I also really like Lily Hoshino's work. Those are (more-or-less) off the top of my head, but I've read some really good things recently that were by mangaka I wasn't familiar with.
Oh man, how could I forget about Yamamoto Kotetsuko??? Hontou Yajuu was so cute I was audibly sighing with cuteness at pretty much every chapter...
"His Favorite" is pretty good, and it's actually about the most common BL you can find in Waterstones here (which isn't that often, but STILL)
Takarai Rihito is lovely from what I've seen so far - I really enjoyed Seven Days, but I need to catch up on Ten Count.
I'm not familiar with Mizushiro Setona's work.
ALSO
Forgot to mention Sakuragi Yaya, I know her stuff is pretty much classic yaoi (giant hands and dem chins) but I love love love the stories esp. Yume Musubi Koi Musubi and Himegoto Asobi.
Other mangakas I like: Honma Akira, Yoneda Kou, Natsume Isaku, Sakuraga Mei (I have her entire collection of "Warui" series on my shelf), Sakira, Mishima Kazuhiko and Yamato Nase (seriously, go read Chintsubu, it's about magical talking penises and it's hilarious)
Omg, I was trying to think of Yamato Nase's name and the name of "Chintstubu" but couldn't remember the mangaka or the title, but YES that is one of my faves! So hilarious! Also her authors notes on that series is too funny as well. Ah, I may have to dig that up and re-read it!
Setona-sensei mostly does doujinshi, but the manga I mentioned above emotionally destroyed me. I have trouble re-reading it because it's just so intense, but it's amazing.
I've got a few other manga that are dear to my heart, like Brilliant Blue (gotta love a stupid uke, lol) but I can't remember the author off the top of my head.
I actually found Chintsubu because it was recommended to me on SomethingAwful years back...Me and a bunch of other goons were reading it expecting it to be terrible, but it was actually really good and funny despite the bizarre storyline. I think CherryDoom did a dramatic reading at one point. I know she did a playthrough of Sweet Pool on livestream XD
I'll have to check it out then. I love stories that have that kind of intensity.
And Saemi Yorita is Brilliant Blue's mangaka!
I don't remember how I stumbled upon Chintsubu... I think it might have been just perusing manga online, and being like, "Wtf?" at the summary. I had to read it! I wasn't expecting it to be as good as it was, either. It was great how she incorporated the ridiculous concept into actual solid story-telling. I loved it!
Thanks for looking that up - I was on my phone and lazy, lol. You would think I'd remember the mangaka after reading Brilliant Blue a zillion times, but oh well. I'll have to look into the other mangaka you mentioned! I'm so bad about remembering their names, which is so terrible of me, lol.
Chintsubu is to die for! I nearly fell off my chair a few times reading them. I'll go back to them someday. Did she (I think Nase is female) also write the yaoi about the farm boy turned chef who talked to his vegetables?
Yep! That was writen by Yamato Nase too!
Yoneda Kou. Hell yeah. I also really love Kizu Natsuki and Kii Kanna. I like Scarlet Beriko too! (Do CLAMP count as BL authors? I would so put them in the fave list for all the delicious BL-ish material they've provided over 20+ years haha)
Anyone else like Natsume Ono? Only her non-yaoi has been published in English so far as I can tell, but I loved what I read of her set-in-Italy yaoi in scanlation. I'm enjoying her non-yaoi but gentleman-filled "Gente" these days). Also, I love Miyamoto Kano, who like Ono writes more serious stories, getting into politics a fair amount as well as realistic and often short-term male/male relationships. Much of her yaoi is published in English--my favorite is Sleeping Moon" because I love historical Japanese settings.
Hmm... hard to say! Especially since the authors of my favorite series also wrote other series I'm not a big fan of.
Like, I love Abe Miyuki's Komatta Toki ni wa Hoshi ni Kike! But I'm not a fan of Super Lovers, which goes too much over the edge into shotacon for me.
I also love Nakamura Shungiku's shorter series Umi ni Nemuru Hana, but don't really like her much more popular series Junjou Romantica.
I feel exactly the same re: Abe Miyuki. I tried to read Super Lovers and just forget about how young the uke character was (which, I know, is terrible of me, but the art is so good), but she DREW him so young that you can't just set it aside. It got way too shouta-ish for me, and besides that, being around the seme's age and even THINKING of touching a 15 year old just... disturbed me. I couldn't get around that.
Oh yeah, I can definitely understand that. I'm a CSA/incest survivor myself so I personally use Super Lovers for coping reasons + identify with Ren a lot, but I understand why it would squick most people out. I hope you don't mind that I post stuff about Super Lovers and similar series in the comm - I can tag them if needed.
Oh no, you can post all you want! It won't bother me. It doesn't bug me to the point where I can't even look at it, it's just that it's not something I felt comfortable actually reading/pursuing. No worries, I know a lot of people love the series for their own reasons, so I won't be upset if you post it :)
My favorite is Taishi Zaou, though I have a lots of second-favorites.
Most people already know Love Stage!! (Eiki Eiki doing the writing and Taishi Zaou with the illustrations), but have you read one of their earlier works, 'Color'? It was one of the first ones that I read and it still holds a rather special place in my heart~
Color is so good!
I adore Color! I have the manga--somewhere amidst my shelves of manga (which I've had to double-shelve like most of the other paperbacks husband and I have collected between us). My favorite of Zaou's is "Mysterious Love"--the boys are both so funny, then funny-sexy and sweet, and the plot is hilarious!