New Beginnings

Author: Kotetsuko Yamamoto
Publisher: Digital Manga, Inc.
ISBN: 1931712379
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 222

Book Description
Time and distance–perhaps the two greatest trials a relationship must withstand for love to be proven true. That is exactly what Keigo has to conquer when, at a young age, he gets separated from best bud Chihiro when his family moves overseas. As the years go by, his separation from Chihiro becomes so unbearable that Keigo becomes a withdrawn shut-in. Keigo’s family agrees to send him back to Japan so that he can be where he is happiest, and he moves in with Chihiro’s family. Reunited with Chihiro, Keigo unceremoniously blurts out, “I love you Chihiro! I totally love you! Ever since the past! I’m in love with you!” Unfortunately for Keigo, Chihiro is creeped out because they’re both guys, and he’s already in love with one of the girls at his school. Young love is as bumpy as ever in this quirky romance by up-and-coming artist Kotetuko Yamamoto!

Yes, No, or Maybe? (Light Novel)

Author: Michi Ichiho
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment
ISBN: 1648274137
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
Kunieda Kei is the up-and-coming Prince Charming of the evening news. Inside, he's the opposite: brash, hot-tempered, and prickly as can be. For years, Kei has successfully juggled his private and professional personas--until a chance meeting with a stop motion animator threatens to bring it all crashing down. But is that really as frightening as the possibility that someone might love and accept both sides of who he is?

This Night's Everything

Author: Akira Minazuki
Publisher: Digital Manga, Inc.
ISBN: 161313259X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 174

Book Description
A certain politician has his own private security group. In that group is someone special. That man, Aoi, is someone who is extremely capable at his job, handling even dirty work with ease. But in that heart lies not only cold reason, but passion. Can love survive in such circumstances, and light a path out of the darkness?

A Strange and Mystifying Story, Vol. 1 (Yaoi Manga)

Author: Tsuta Suzuki
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
ISBN: 1974700909
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 212

Book Description
Akio Yamane’s bloodline is cursed! Or at least that’s what his relatives would have people think. Now feverish and delusional from a terminal illness, Akio accidentally summons his family’s guardian deity. Little did he know this sinfully hot god would appear naked, sporting ears and a tail. Wait until Akio finds out the unconventional and rather intimate manner his protector plans on using to cure him! -- VIZ Media

Kizuna

Author: Kazuma Kodaka
Publisher: Kizuna
ISBN: 9781569701829
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
"Beautiful Ranmaru and sweet, serene Kei fell in love at first sight when they were just boys, and now that they're finally old enough, they're moving in together! College should be all about new experiences and freedom-- but what will the couple do when their home-sweet-home is invaded by the brash and spoiled Kai, Kei's half-brother? Is their relationship strong enough to weather a sudden storm of sibling rivalry?"--Publisher's web site.

Seven Days

Author: Venio Tachibana
Publisher: Digital Manga, Inc.
ISBN: 193171245X
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 171

Book Description
It is rumored that Touji Seryou, one of the more popular boys at school, would go out with anyone who asks him out on a Monday morning. But on this particular Monday morning, the first person he meets at the school gate is no other than Yuzuru Shino, Seryou's sempai at the archery club. On a whim, and well-aware of Seryou's reputation, Shino asks Seryou to go out with him. Thinking that it will be treated as a joke, they're both guys after all, imagine Shino's surprise when Seryou takes him up on the offer! There is a catch, though. While Seryou does go out with the first girl who asks him out on a Monday morning, the other side of the coin is - by the end of the week, he will break up with that person. In essence, Seryou is a lover with a one-week expiration date. But will Shino prove to be the exception to that rule?

Why Don't We Start By Sharing For Now? Vol. 1 (Yaoi / BL Manga)

Author: Minori Shima, Akira Kanbe
Publisher: TORICO
ISBN:
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 165

Book Description
My daily job is a supermodel Kannon, whose gender nor sex is unknown by all my fans. But usually, I am just a dull man who was in love with my childhood friend, Kanade, a very cool guy who always saved me from the bullies! Unfortunately, it seems like he does not remember me anymore... But I won't give up! By covering my identity and becoming a cool man, I will make Kanade share a house together with me!

A Little Life

Author: Hanya Yanagihara
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804172706
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 833

Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.

Lab Partners

Author: Mora Montgomery
Publisher: Puffin
ISBN: 9780241455715
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Heartstopper meets Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda in this addictive love story When Elliot becomes lab partners with the new boy at school, Jordan, his life suddenly becomes much more interesting. He's never met anyone like Jordan before - someone so good looking, charming and smart. And soon school becomes way more than just boring lectures and bad cafeteria nachos. For the first time ever, Elliot can't wait to go to chemistry class. The butterflies Elliot has around Jordan finally start to make sense when Jordan unexpectedly kisses him . . . but that's also when everything else stops making sense! As Elliot tries to figure out how he really feels about Jordan, and what that might mean, he'll realise that sometimes the last thing you're looking for is the one thing you need the most.

Boys Love Manga and Beyond

Author: Mark McLelland
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1626743096
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 463

Book Description
Boys Love Manga and Beyond looks at a range of literary, artistic and other cultural products that celebrate the beauty of adolescent boys and young men. In Japan, depiction of the “beautiful boy” has long been a romantic and sexualized trope for both sexes and commands a high degree of cultural visibility today across a range of genres from pop music to animation. In recent decades, “Boys Love” (or simply BL) has emerged as a mainstream genre in manga, anime, and games for girls and young women. This genre was first developed in Japan in the early 1970s by a group of female artists who went on to establish themselves as major figures in Japan's manga industry. By the late 1970s many amateur women fans were getting involved in the BL phenomenon by creating and self-publishing homoerotic parodies of established male manga characters and popular media figures. The popularity of these fan-made products, sold and circulated at huge conventions, has led to an increase in the number of commercial titles available. Today, a wide range of products produced both by professionals and amateurs are brought together under the general rubric of “boys love,” and are rapidly gaining an audience throughout Asia and globally. This collection provides the first comprehensive overview in English of the BL phenomenon in Japan, its history and various subgenres and introduces translations of some key Japanese scholarship not otherwise available. Some chapters detail the historical and cultural contexts that helped BL emerge as a significant part of girls' culture in Japan. Others offer important case studies of BL production, consumption, and circulation and explain why BL has become a controversial topic in contemporary Japan.