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Since I'm too busy (😭) this Pride Month to do anything fancy, here's a thread of some queer novels comparing Western covers vs. the Japanese ones!
First up, Casey McQuiston, Red White & Royal Blue and One Last Stop
I think it's very cool of Path to Nowhere to finally give us a game populated by hot mommies- I mean mommies- I mean mommies whose defining trait ISN'T "has fat tiddies and literally nothing else going for her" 😏
Tbh I used to say that female characters that could just as well be male characters and nothing would change are bad but then Zoya from Path to Nowhere came around and suddenly I think that if it means they get to be badass, let them embody toxic masculinity, I don't care 🥰
So there's this new game coming out soon called Path to Nowhere (@PathtoNowhereEN @PathtoNowhereJP ) and WOW finally my dream of a game populated by badass sexy evil oneesans is coming true??? 😳😳😳
It's absolutely sending me how the Jp title of this manga is literally "When I Reunited With My Childhood Best Friend, We'd Both Grown Fat Tits" asdfghjkl
Anyway, BL has grown so large and diverse that nowadays it can include:
- an epic period drama
- a bona fide sports series
- a memoir by an actual gay man
- pwp about a guy being fucked by a ghost
and much more!
Whatever you want to read, BL has got you covered 😌
Take Kieta Hatsukoi - a shoujo manga that starts off straight but quickly becomes queer as the girl leaves the love 🔺️ and the guys like each other. A nice "straight-baiting" intro to gay romance
But SasaMiya is a manga about fujoshi/fudanshi culture. They KNOW their audience.
Ngl I like how Saga is the most masculine character in the entire cast and yet the only one who always wears nail polish 🥺
Between toxic masculinity and the emo aesthetic, Saga knows his priorities 😤