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BANANA FISH

Also known as Banana Fish.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama , Psychological , Thriller

Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of "Papa" Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands--and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance...



Tags: Mafia , Tragedy , Gangs , Conspiracy , Noir , Drugs , Primarily Male Cast , Revenge , Coming of Age , Criminal Organization , Ensemble Cast , Anti-Hero , Fugitive , Crime , Shoujo , Delinquents , Urban , Foreign , Politics , Male Protagonist , Guns , Adoption , Primarily Adult Cast , Orphan , Tanned Skin , Assassins , LGBTQ+ Themes , Police , Cars , Boys' Love , Bisexual , Heterosexual , Photography , Classic Literature , Prison , Time Skip

Torawarebito

Status: Finished
Genres:

Ryou is the heir to the Asama group and in love with his bodyguard, the sophisticated Wada. They've slept together, but does Wada think of Ryou as anything but the heir?

Tags: Boys' Love

Mister Mermaid

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Romance , Slice of Life

On a full moon night, Subaru - a merman - coincidentally saved a man who sank into the ocean. After that, in order to see that man again, Subaru traded off his tail for a pair of legs and came to the surface to find Tatsuki - the man's name. Despite of his throbbing feet and his lost voice, Subaru was happy to be able to stay by Tatsuki's side. However, his happiness soon faded away when he found out the reason why Tatsuki was at the bottom of the ocean that day.

Note: Includes the previously self-published story "Fuji no Yamai (フジノヤマイ)"

Tags: Boys' Love , Love Triangle , Mermaid , Tragedy , Bisexual

Yubiwa Monogatari

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

The tale of two boys who are dating each other and mutually hiding the fact that both are dating their teacher, who frets because a ring has been lost.

Note: First published as doujinshi in 1993, published in Magazine BE×BOY No. 3 (1993-08).

Tags: Boys' Love

Dousei Ai

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life

“The first person to cause me sorrow was of my own gender.” Tsubaki gets hurt by his classmate Kaoru, and Koutarou by his kind older brother. Yet, in their hearts, they still hold longing and deep devotion. Passion, heartache, despair, sadness… Loving with body and soul, this is the real life story of these boys.



Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Unrequited Love , Age Gap , Yuri , Boys' Love , Coming of Age , Ensemble Cast , School , Bisexual

BRONZE: zetsuai since 1989

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music , Psychological , Romance

The story picks up after Zetsuai 1989, Koji and Izumi as a couple. Izumi decides to leave for Italy for soccer, Koji races to meet him at the airport getting into an accident. Now, Koji, a famous rock star, cannot sing after his accident. Will Koji and Izumi ever come to terms?

Tags: Yandere , Boys' Love , Shoujo , Tsundere , Idol , Incest , Male Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes

Blood

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

There's Vinny, the gang leader, and his best friend and sidekick Sean. Skip and Dick are, respectively, the errand boys and the muscle of the gang. And there's Vinny's younger brother Kyle, whom Vinny raised from a baby after his stepfather took off and his mother died of drug addiction. Vinny also has a neat girlfriend, Sandy. Vinny is rabidly homophobic (besides having a hate-on for almost everyone else- doctors, police, social workers, the usual.) Kyle is gay and getting it on with Sean. Trouble is just around the corner. Trouble happens, but with a long fuse. Things aren't over when Vinny finds that Sean's been screwing his baby brother and beats him to a pulp.

Tags: Boys' Love , Foreign , Drugs , Crime , Tragedy , Time Skip

Let Dai

Also known as Let Dai.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological

Is this desire for freedom the very thing that entrapped us?

Let Dai is a tragic tale of forbidden love and unforgivable betrayal.

Set in a soulless neo-Seoul ruled by young punks and pleasure seekers, an amoral teenager named Dai is the living embodiment of the city's beauty and cruelty.

As the leader of the vicious Furies gang, Dai seduces everyone who lays eyes on him, only to blind them to his own barbaric nature. When an honest schoolboy named Jae-Hee rescues a beautiful girl from being mugged by the Furies, he can't possibly realize how this brief encounter will plunge him into a downward spiral of unbridled passion and unfathomable pain.

From his brutal gang initiation to an unspeakable act committed against his girlfriend, Jae-Hee wavers uncomfortably between revulsion and fascination. And in Dai he finds a tender, caring friend one moment and a heartless sociopath the next, awakening strange and unhealthy desires in Jae-Hee that he could never before have imagined.



Tags: Suicide , Boys' Love , Tragedy , School , Male Protagonist