Manga like Sleeping on Paper Boats

What is Sleeping on Paper Boats about?

Status: Finished

Kei Kitahara, a visionary screenwriter who has taken postwar Japan by storm, has made the difficult decision to lay down his pen for good after he realizes the people he's been basing his characters on have all met unfortunate ends. He spends his days in misery, waiting to die, until a reason to live finds him in the gutter, too drunk and beaten to move. Kei can't help but be attracted to his savior's bewitching innocence, and the urge to write about him grows stronger by the day. Knowing he can't take the risk, he vows to never use his pen against him, but will temptation prove too great?

Notes:
Chapters 1 to 8 were split into two parts in the original serialization and later combined in the volume releases.
Includes one extra chapter.

Tags: Boys' Love , Writing , Historical , Photography , Primarily Adult Cast , Tragedy , Psychosexual , Male Protagonist , Nudity , Prostitution , Time Skip , Gore

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Haruka Tooki Ie

Also known as A Home Far Away.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

In the winter of 1990, a young man named Alain finds himself lost and searching for direction. He currently cannot find it at home nor through the church. But when he meets Hayden, a free-spirited cook, he at least finds someone he can relate with. He may not know where his life is going but at least he has someone to lean on. But Alain's new life, filled with new feelings and many new challenging experiences, may force him to find his path on the road...

Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Travel , Boys' Love , Tragedy , Fugitive , Religion , Suicide , Crime , Male Protagonist , Foreign , Prostitution , Nudity

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Pixiv Comic

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Gesshoku Kitan

Also known as Total Eclipse of the Eternal Heart.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Romance , Supernatural

High schooler Hoshino Terumichi has been haunted by a recurring dream: a young man, a century earlier, dying at the hands of another man he calls “Sensei.” This dream–or curse–is about to merge with reality when a mysterious, attractive classmate named Yamada Omihito steps into Terumichi’s life.

Tags: Reincarnation , Boys' Love , Age Gap , School , Memory Manipulation , Gore , Male Protagonist , Tragedy , Revenge ,

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Lezhin

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Gengetsurou Kitan

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Drama , Fantasy , Horror , Mystery

Shouichirou Tsurugi is the master of an well-established, upscale miso shop. He's a noted "prodigal son" and an eccentric "Jack of all trades, master of none." He's also the patron of a suspicious male geisha, Yosaburou, who will do anything for money and has no talent, except for telling ghost stories. It may or may not be true that the young master is making amorous advances toward Yosaburou! Every night, the parlor of a restaurant in the red light district called Ghost Moon Tower showcases mysterious tales that interweave "strange things" and people's other desires.

Tags: Ghost , Historical , Boys' Love , Male Protagonist , Oiran , Demons , Primarily Adult Cast , Josei

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Sakura Gari

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Supernatural

The manga is set in the Taisho era, and centers on Masataka Tagami, a teenager who leaves his provincial home to try his luck at enrolling in a preparatory school in Tokyo. Just as he arrives in Tokyo, he is involved in a small traffic incident with the 25-year-old Soma Saiki, the scion of the Saiki family and president of the family's trading company. With Masataka's housing prospects grim, he decides to make his services available to the Saiki family as a servant, and grows closer to the young Soma, while learning more about the family's dark secrets.

Tags: Boys' Love , Josei , Yandere , Historical , Tragedy , Nudity , Male Protagonist , Bisexual , LGBTQ+ Themes , Transgender

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Yakuza no Oshigoto

Also known as The Yakuza's Bias.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Comedy , Romance

Ken Kanashiro is one of the top lieutenants in the feared yakuza outfit the Washio Clan. He lives his life by the code of the Japanese underworld, where nothing is more important than loyalty, and ties between soldiers and their aniki are sacred bonds. Ken’s never had time for hobbies... until the boss’s only daughter Megumi drags him to a K-pop concert, and he sees the glittering, charismatic Jun for the first time. Smitten like a new recruit on his first job, Ken plunges into fandom with the solemnity and passion only a true man who walks the way of the yakuza could muster.

Tags: Idol , Yakuza , Josei , Otaku Culture , Criminal Organization , Male Protagonist , Urban , Primarily Adult Cast , Primarily Male Cast

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Comic Days

Pocket Magazine

Piccoma

Lezhin

Bomtoon

Naver Series

Omoi Manga Planet

INKR

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La Fede

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Romance

Tags: Foreign , Boys' Love , Historical , Musical Theater , Bisexual

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Aitte Yatsu wo Oshiete Kure yo

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

A man who lost love and a penniless kept man. An encounter of the direst kind, a disaster in its own right.

Note: Includes one extra chapter.

Tags: Boys' Love , Male Protagonist , Bisexual , Primarily Adult Cast

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Wolfhound

Also known as Wolfhound.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Mura is the number one host in the business. His affections and time demand a high price. Miroku is a part-time employee who's completely devoted to him—maybe a little too devoted. It's starting to interfere with his work. When Mura goes to discipline his obsessive employee, he notices how Miroku's eyes light up with desire. These two might be in for some "obedience training" that they'll never forget!

Note: Includes two extra chapters.

Tags: Boys' Love

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Last Summer Vacation

Status: Finished
Genres: Psychological , Romance , Thriller

I saw something in that girl from my class that she "didn't want anyone else to see..." Mizuki is a cute, bright, and popular girl. She is devoted to caring for her sick mother and seems like the perfect "good girl" in every way. Until Unno saw Mizuki in a situation she shouldn't have......? What happens when you try to escape from reality? A road movie about sad girls.

Tags: Crime , Tragedy , Josei , Travel , Female Protagonist , Yuri , Fugitive , Rural , Motorcycles , Ships , Primarily Teen Cast , Gore , Revenge

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