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What are your favorite Boy's Love or Girl's Love anime/manga/game/etc? Canon, please! I am in desperate need of gay recommendations, particularly anything new.

For me:

Yuri: Kannazuki no Miko
Yaoi: No. 6

I read Nabari No Ou once. Huge mistake

No. 6 isn't really yaoi, though. It's more of a show that just so happens to have gay main characters.

But if you're looking for more stuff like that, there's Bodacious Space Pirates which has a kind of prominent side lesbian couple that's fantastic. Also pretty much all of the characters are female and capable. (Also don't let the title fool you, it has less fanservice than Rugrats.)

And I'm pretty sure there's Sakura Trick that's airing next season which is about a school girl lesbian couple. I don't know much about it beyond that.

Also here's something if you can want yuri lite: http://yurimangacaps.tumblr.com/

Thanks for the recs!

I'm mostly just interested in gay relationships. I know (and appreciate) No. 6 is not yaoi genre and still has main characters, but considering gay is what I'm after, it doesn't really matter to me either way. I just like canon gay relationships, though I survive on heavily implied, too.

BL is FAKE. always always ALWAYS will be the top in my book. it's BL with actual plot and story besides simply the two characters getting together.

woah, for a second I thought you meant, like, BL is so unrealistic and doesn't represent real gay relationships blah blah blah

then I finished your comment and decided to look into FAKE. :)

woah, for a second I thought you meant, like, BL is so unrealistic and doesn't represent real gay relationships blah blah blah

LOL, same here.

lol oops! yeah, should have worded that better :p i hope it's something you will enjoy.

Seconded. Fake is the BL manga that all other BL mangas will try to be.

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I really liked the shoujo-ai anime Simoun. It was a good watch. And of course, Utena.

lililicious.net Has a large selection of yuri manga. I read some a few years ago. They were depressing, but it looks like they have loads more options now (some that look happier too).

I've been out of the yaoi in circle for a while, but a twitter person I follow rec'd Honto Yajuu and it was really funny and cute. Sadly, it's not done. But it is still worth the read!

Old yaoi favs of mine: Dost Thou Know?, Fake, Kissing, Constellations in My Palm, and Sweet Revolution.

lililicious.net Has a large selection of yuri manga. I read some a few years ago. They were depressing, but it looks like they have loads more options now (some that look happier too).

Since they've been a going concern since before 2006 (when I discovered them), of course they've got more, but between stuff they've taken offline due to being licensed, and stuff they've dropped due to lack of interest, even from then I wouldn't say 'loads more options' (unless you're interested in series that will never, ever be finished). A lower proportion of the depressing stuff? Probably - they definitely display a preference for the more upbeat stuff, so that's what they'd have kept up with.

I'm not on my computer right now, so I can't access my rec list, but my favorite yaoi is Yume Musubi, Koi Musubi. Favorite shounen-ai is The First Stage of Love. I don't know too much GL, but Double House and one story in Mermaid Line are sweet lesbian stories involving trans ladies, which is pretty cool.

Seconding Double House and Mermaid Line!

Yaoi: Yamashita Tomoko. Some smutty one-shots, but focuses mostly on relationship drama and tension. Sometimes stories of gay characters are from the POV of their relatives, classmates, etc. I'd rec the anthologies:

-Yes It's Me: probably the most diverse in terms of mood; fun title story and follow-ups
-Koi no Hanashi ga Shitai: multi-chapter sweet relationship story + bittersweet one-shot
-Illumination: angst out the wazoo

Also has a couple licensed comics in English. I've only picked up Black-Winged Love and think it's relatively uneven, though the first two stories were quite good.

Suzuki Tsuta. Mostly PWP, but she mixes up her couple types a lot, making decent odds that if you don't like a pairing or dynamic in one one-shot, you might like another in the same collection. Her anthology Hand Which showcases that pretty well imo.

Finally, No Color by Natsume Isaku: one-volume comedy-drama, with a serious law student and a happy-go-lucky part-timer. This has a couple yaoi/romantic comedy cliches, but subverts some others nicely (not so much in what I've seen of her other stuff so far though). Isaku apparently has a couple series licensed in English, but I haven't read either yet.

Yuri: Dynasty online reader's a good place to browse. Pretty certain I'm forgetting a bunch of authors I like on there.

Hayashiya Shizuru: Strawberry Shake Sweet and the one-shot Vega: A Lifeform in Puberty (which was apparently expanded on and "remixed" with one of her other one-shots into a one-volume work this year). The above are hyperactive but ultimately sweet comedy, though she has some darker/smuttier works out there, too. Her non-yuri but subtext-y Hayate x Blade has been licensed in English, as well as not-in-the-least yuri series Sister Red and Onegai Teacher.

Nangoku Banana (who also has some hard yaoi and horror(!) out there): Heart-Pounding Excitement at Mononoke Girls' Academy. Smutty fantasy comedy.

Akiyama Haru: Octave. Realistic relationship drama, with focus on where the main characters are headed in their lives.

Morishima Akiko: A lot of collections... light stories that range from sweet to smutty.

Otsu Hiyori: Same as above, except no smut, just sweet to bittersweet.

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