LGBTQ+ manga recommendations

Happy pride y’all! 💜🌈 I’m happy to share with you my current favorite LGBTQ+ manga series!
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timestamps:
00:00 - intro
00:31 - school manga
02:30 - workplace romance manga
05:12 - food/cooking manga
10:13 - slice-of-life manga
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#mangarecommendations

[@namusrecord]

my recommendations: 1. my lesbian experience with loneliness 2. the summer hikaru died 3. the guy she was interested in wasn't a guy at all 4. I married my female friend

[@CelticGuardian7]

Can't comment on most of these, but I've enjoyed The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All so far. =)

[@mangacaptor]

Thanks for your recommendations! :)

[@mangacaptor]

@@CelticGuardian7 Very excited about the English release of that one! :)

[@CelticGuardian7]

@@mangacaptor Good to hear! I think you'll like it~

[@namusrecord]

@CelticGuardian7 it's really captivating, isn't it ☺️

[@Aki_draw._.]

My recommendation: GL school life: -the summer you were there (tragedy) -the magical revolution of a reincarnated princess and genius young lady (fantasy) (isekai) -I’m in love with the villainess (fantasy)(isekai) -Bloom into you Historical GL: -goodbye my rose garden Aromantic/Asexual series: -Is love the answer -I want to be a wall

[@mangacaptor]

Wow! So many cool recommendations! Thanks for sharing them! :)

[@lyddiemoon]

SHE LOVES TO COOK is one of my all time favourite manga of all time not just for GL!! It's amazing, I bought vol 4 as soon as it released in store cos i couldnt wait. I've been an advocate for the series for awhile now haha

[@mangacaptor]

Yes! I love it so much, every release has felt so painful to wait for but it's worth it!!! :')

[@hyomaaiiroofficial]

@@mangacaptor u know mangas for transgirl?

[@PeterPan-dz7mu]

The anime for Cherry Magic finished and I was positively surprised how nice and cute it was. Especially with how respectfully they treated each other. Went into the season expecting to love "A Sign of Affection", came out of the season hating "A Sign of Affection" and loving "Cherry Magic" instead.

[@mangacaptor]

I NEED to check out the anime for Cherry Magic! Thanks for the reminder! :)

[@miyayume_eclectic_dream]

I like them. I love Cherry Magic first the live-action series than the movie [🤔 maybe movie more] than the anime! I will not read the manga. Tried and didn't work for me. The Sign of Affection is cute and I like character presentation. Maybe I will read the manga for this one.

[@panikiczcock2891]

​@@miyayume_eclectic_dream I love the japanese Cherry Magic live action! I tried the manga but I didn't like it much. I feel like the comedy works *much* better in the LA. Also this is 100% personal taste but I think the manga art style is super ugly 😂

[@miyayume_eclectic_dream]

@@panikiczcock2891 I was thinking manga art was plain and nothing stood out also panels were "empty". Do you know where one can get the hands on bluray?

[@cheesecheesepastacheese8028]

Ahhhhhh Hualian at the back! It’s my favourite ship of all time!!! Also thank you for posting this video I’m basically hunting for sapphic content :)

[@mangacaptor]

Hualian is the best! Thanks for watching! :) 💜

[@sapientaqua1556]

Is love the answer by uta isaki is one of my favorite mangas of all time, a story about someone finding out they’re asexual, great nuance + characters

[@mangacaptor]

Sounds amazing! It's on my list! :)

[@femaquine]

I absolutely love Our Dreams at Dusk and reread it some weeks ago. As for the other mangas, i'm looking forward to read them soon! Loved the recommendations. I would also recommend Gambare, Nakamura-kun! for a light and funny read and The Summer Hikaru Died for more mature and horror themes (wich i love).

[@mangacaptor]

Our Dreams at Dusk is just wonderful! 💜Thanks for the recommendations! I'm also enjoying 'The Summer Hikaru Died'!

[@Yuriko-bh2vw]

Yess I love that manga

[@herbookmaterials]

Such a great selection! Many of the titles in this video I really want to read soon. Two LGBT+ series that I really like are "My Brother's Husband" and "Bloom into you".

[@mangacaptor]

I'm glad you found some titles you want to read soon! I really enjoyed 'My Brother's Husband', it was so sweet! :)

[@rhymeswithmoose228]

Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon is iconic. It's actually an aspec romance, too!

[@cherrylessablossom]

omg kieta hatsukoi and cherry magic ahhhhh ❤😝 haven’t heard about the last one but woww thanks

[@mintyscott23]

i watched the adaptations of both and they are my absolute favourite. i really need to read the mangas.

[@MillyKKitty]

Here are some lgbtq+ manga I like: Bloom Into You, a manga about two girls, one who doesn't want to be loved but wants to love, one who wants to be loved and love but struggles to do so. This manga also has an aroace characters in it. Boys run the Riot, a manga about a trans man who finds a group to make clothes with. Love me who I am, a manga about Mogumo who joins a crossdressing cafe for their own reasons. Has tons of lgbtq+ characters and also discusses homophobia and the effects of that on the characters, so trigger warning for that.

[@mangacaptor]

Ah! Thank you for so many cool recommendations! I need to check out 'Boys Run the Riot' and 'Love Me For Who I Am' ! :)

[@jinxedreviews]

Every time I watch your videos, I always add recommendations to my list and now I really need to read Our Dreams at Dusk. I think my favourite LGBTQ+ manga at the moment is Is Love the Answer. It is so cute and I love how it narrates aroace. Chainsaw Man is also good, even if it isn’t in the LGBTQ+ genre. Quanxi is such a great lesbian character and how Fujimoto writes her shelf discovery is comedic, yet serious

[@mangacaptor]

I'm happy to add more to your list! :) 'Is Love the Answer' is on my list of things to read, I'm glad you enjoyed it! I haven't been interested in 'Chainsaw Man', but I'm considering it after what you've mentioned! Thanks for sharing! :)

[@femaquine]

Oh my, thanks for the recommendation of a manga with an aroace protag!

[@CelticGuardian7]

I was really happy to hear Doughnuts Under a Crescent Moon and Our Dining Table being brought up! They're two of my favorites. =) *Mild spoilers for Doughnuts below* Something I particularly like about Doughnuts is that at the end, the couple gets together, but they're hesitant to do anything sexual together. They seem to prefer being together as opposed to having interest in those sorts of things. I don't see that happen often, and even less often do I see it being outright addressed, so that was really nice. *End of mild spoilers* The others I'm either unfamiliar with or haven't read yet, but I'll definitely check them out! On my end, I'd recommend, all of which are pretty short: *Cotton Candy *Handsome Girl and Sheltered Girl *Haru and Midori *I Can't Say No to the Lonely Girl *Legally Married Yuri Couple *Seven Days *Still Sick *Boy meets Maria (HEAVY content warning, one of the characters has a very dark backstory)

[@mangacaptor]

Thank you for sharing your recommendations and thanks for watching! :)

[@KeybladerStorm]

So many you discussed in this video are among my favorite manga. Thank you for shining a light on them! For a rec, I would choose “Welcome Back, Aureole” by Takatsu (another pen name for Misaki Takamatsu who is making Skip and Loafer), it’s a oneshot that really rugged at my heart in terms of growing up and relationships changing as you do between two best friends.

[@mangacaptor]

Thanks for the rec! It sounds like a lovely story! :)

[@sakuwuw]

i just finished given and was looking for new lgbtq+ mangas to read, thank u for the new recommendations ❤

[@mangacaptor]

You're welcome, thanks for watching! :)

[@cedlec02]

A recommendation I have is "is love the answer?" We follow the story of a an ace aromantic girl on the path of discovering herself as she meet with people who will help her find more about herself as well as the assumptions some of the lgbtq+ community encounter

[@beanie4103]

I'm late but have you heard of "how do we relationship" by tamifull? It depicts a sapphic couple trying to figure out stuff that happens once you're already dating someone. Thank you for the video and the recommendations!

[@fuchsiamoonlight1301]

First of all, I love the video and I'm so excited to read some of these! I've read Our dreams at dusk and its sooo good! Like the art? I love it so much. My recommendation is 'I Hear the Sunspot' for anyone that likes A Sign of Affection this is similar dealing with life for deaf and hard of hearing people in japan. It's about two guys in a relationship and sadly doesn't have any other lgbtq+ characters so far but it is my favorite bl I've read. Happy pride!

[@mangacaptor]

I'm happy you enjoyed the video! Thanks for sharing your recommendation! Happy pride! :)

[@ArdenOnyx]

I recently binged Our Dreams at Dusk. Anything with that strong a focus on community will always be a gut punch for me. Glad thst the characters were always treated with respect by the writing even if they weren't by other characters

[@goyavoyage]

Ooooh these are GOOD! I can't recommend I Think Our Son is Gay and Doughnuts enough too (and Our Dreams at Dusk, with its fair share of content warnings though). I've heard good things of most of the others, with a special mention to I love to cook... of which I've been eagerly awaiting the French release (which just happened, and I'm eager to slowly catch up). Here are my top sapphic ones at the moment, because yuri shall rule the world: - How Do We Relationship? by tamifull (college students, incredible exploration of very messy sapphic romances, one of my favorite mangas period. Has NSFW scenes that feel extremely real and are used to explore the characters's insecurities just as much as everything else) - Even Though We're Adults by Takako Shimura (35 year old women falling in love, one of them is already in a straight marriage; but everyone is mostly of good faith and tries to untangle how this could work, which is a very nice change of pace from this formula) - Run Away With Me, Girl by battan (late 20 women reconnecting after briefly dating until high school, one of them is now married and stuck in an abusive relationship; heavy CW regarding that, simple plot, stellar execution and art style) - Otherside Picnic by Iori Miyazawa (almost-horror, uncanny genre fiction, just as much as it is yuri. Follows two college students bonding over the exploration of an otherworld where Japanese urban legends and true ghost stories live. The protagonist is extremely neurodivergent-coded, canonically has PTSD and some kind of dissociative disorder, slowly and organically learns that you can be gay and not to be in denial of her own feelings. Originally a (great) light novel.) Other titles I want to mention (but I'll keep it brief) include: Kase-san and... (Kase-san and Morning Glories, then Kase-san and Yamada for the sequel series) (staple good high school yuri) Whisper Me a Love Song (staple good high school yuri) The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy At All (good high school yuri with an emphasis on rock and a striking art style) The Moon on a Rainy Night (realistic closeted sapphic + love interest with hearing disability) The Summer You Were There (tragic, rather nonstandard high school yuri, with neurodivergent-coded main character) Goodbye, My Rose Garden (Victorian sapphic historical fiction)

[@ssnekky]

Literally just bought the last 4 volumes of My Love Mix-Up, I watched the drama first and fell in love with the characters. It’s such a good series, can’t recommend it enough. Same with Run Away With Me, Girl. It’s one of my favorite GLs, it’s so good and it made me cry. It is a josei and it does cover heavier topics like toxic relationships (not between leads), domestic abuse (not between leads), and internalized homophobia, and it’s so good. It does have a happy ending, and it’s not too long! Only 3 volumes.

[@mangacaptor]

Enjoy the last 4 volumes! I recently read the first volume of 'Run Away With Me, Girl' and enjoyed it. I plan on reading the whole series! :)

[@caitlinmcdougal5728]

Hi! Happy Pride Month! I am new here. I don't know if you have read I Can't Believe I Slept With You or Yuri Life. I would highly recommend them. They are both yuri. Have a good day. Definitely adding your recommendations to my list.

[@mangacaptor]

Welcome, and Happy Pride! Thank you for the recommendations! :)

[@avermalt]

I’ve read most of these and they are absolutely amazing so I’m definitely gonna check out the rest for myself, I have recc for you as your friendly neighborhood asexual: I Want To Be A Wall. It follows newlyweds Yuriko and Gakurouta who have entered into what is essentially a lavender marriage, with Yuriko being aroace (just called asexual in the series but that’s mainly due to Yuriko having limited access to queer terms) and Gakurouta being a gay man in unrequited love with his childhood best friend. It’s a lovely story that I have unfortunately only been able to read the first volume of (I want to buy the next one but finding manga is rough where I live lol) but even with just that it left me a little bit weepy from how much I related to both their struggles, alongside the joy it brought me to see them care for each other so much. Will forever recommend it to anyone I can, I love it so much :)

[@mangacaptor]

Thank you for such a lovely recommendation! I'm glad it brought you so much joy and I hope you can find the next volumes soon! I'm definitely adding this to my list of must-reads! :)

[@happy.b.day2u]

The first workolace one comes out on my birthday!! 😮

[@happy.b.day2u]

Workplace*

[@Yuriko-bh2vw]

Omg you know our not so lonley travel ????? Its one of my fav mangas after umibe no etranger Its sooo good and I havent seen many talk about it so far Ik

[@mangacaptor]

It's one of my favorites! Thanks for watching! :)

[@user-tb7fc7vc9x]

i absolutely love blue flag by kaito, its not specifically bl or gl, but it's more about struggling with unreciprocated feelings, and i found it very realistic and relatable. i highly reccomend it to anyone its so underrated 😭

[@miyuki1722]

Totally agree with some of the things you said, and before i add my recommendation I just want to say about "Our not-so-lonely plante travel guide", that it also features representation of queer identities other than gay ppl. I'ts one of the most neautiful mangas I have read btw, go and read it now in cas you haven't. Sooo I know a few but I'll have to go with "Fukakai na Boku no Subete wo", I have read it a while a go but it is a must read. It kind of research the gender spectrum from many difference angles, being very gentle, somewhat innocent yet serious, and there is a lot about self searching jorney and self acceptance. There are many beautiful colors of friendshi and love, and hella wide representation : Gay/ lesbian characters, binary trans, bi and pansexual characters, and the main character is non-binary.

[@mangacaptor]

Thanks for the awesome recommendation! I'm always down for a manga with an nb main character!

[@miyuki1722]

Sure :)

[@kierinmilhorat3435]

have you read boy meets maria? ive heard its very good and have been wanting to read it

[@mangacaptor]

I've heard of it but haven't read it because I'm pretty sensitive to the long list of trigger warnings it contains.

[@kierinmilhorat3435]

@@mangacaptor thats fair

[@grff_]

Thank you for these!!! I wanna recommend Happy Life with my girlfriend because the author is a lesbian writing the story w her girlfriend

[@mangacaptor]

That sounds amazing! Thanks for the recommendation! :)

[@grahamdamberger7130]

Here's a couple that I own (both are school manga): Girlfriends (does contain a small few scenes of teenage nudity). Kisses, Sighs, and Cherry Blossom Pink (main couple is Nana x Hitomi who attend different high schools, but other pairings from both schools who may or may not be connected to the main couple get a chapter to themselves). Both are by the same author, so characters in one will look very similar to characters in the other.

[@mangacaptor]

Thanks for sharing your recommendations! :)

[@vilvile]

Koimonogatari and Blue Flag are also nice.

[@mangacaptor]

Thanks for the recommendations! :)

[@euirjoon]

thank you for what you said in the beginning

[@mangacaptor]

💜 :)

[@bizarreindividual4026]

❤❤❤

[@TextosyGraficos]

Thoughts about "I Will love you Tenderly"?

[@mangacaptor]

I have not read it, but it's getting reprinted this year, so I might check it out! :)

[@NeneKusanagi-]

For my fellow aroaces read is love the answer, trust me

[@rhymeswithmoose228]

SHE LOVES TO COOK AND SHE LOVES TO EAT SWEEP

[@user-ob8pm9yh2s]

ur voice is so cute

[@rifkinr4660]

OMGGGG!!!!!! I have only been consuming Gay/BL manga, LA or anime shows, hence your yuri recommendations, which I assume are not written through male fetishisation pov, are very appreciated. I have watched My Love Mix-Up ! LA the series, it was good and I didn’t know that the manga was good too! YOOOO CHERRY MAGIC!!! I LOVE THEIR LA AND MANGA OMG!!!! The manga is SOOO AWESOME toooo!!! YOOOO I LOVE OUR DINING TABLE LA SO MUCHHH!!!!! OMGGG IM SO HAPPY THAT IT MADE TO YOUR RECOMMENDATION LIST!!!! BROOOOOOOO WHAT DID YOU EAT YESTERDAY LA SEASONS 1 & 2 AND THE FILM WERE GOOODDDD IM SO HAPPU THAT IT ALSO MASE IT TO YOUR LIST If you’re looking for a wholesome BL LA in 2024, I would like to recommend: Although I love you and you?, Perfect Propose, and Living with Him Thank you so much for making this video. HAPPY PRIDE YAALLLL :)))

[@kyle__dotme]

idk where y'all get the impression of yuri being "male fetishization" but it's rare to find yuri that's actually made by men or is "for men". if anything the few yuri that are made by a man are pretty good and i recommend watching/reading them like Revolutionary Girl Utena and Whispered Words. BL is known to be made by women and consumed by women but no one points that out, but somehow GL already gets this dirty img by non-GL readers that it's either the typical "it's boring" or "it's made for the men" sorry if my comment comes off as aggressive. as a yuri fan im just tired of non-gl readers/watchers saying stuff about something yuri when it was never like that. like it's a whole projection 😭

[@mangacaptor]

Thank you for the recommendations and thank you for watching! :)

[@rifkinr4660]

@@kyle__dotme hoooo gomennasai, I have been mostly consuming western media works and the default setting of any of their gl works is mostly made through male fetishisation pov. I think Im gonna start with the GL which are listed on this video first before moving to other GL works Thank you for sharing your opinion!

[@kyle__dotme]

​@@rifkinr4660 oh i see that sucks. i understand. again, sorry if i come off as aggressive. here are some yuri manga recommendations since i've noticed the vid mostly rec bl: the summer you were there how do we relationship vampeerz run away with me, girl sylph no hanahime a monster wants to eat me

[@rifkinr4660]

@@kyle__dotme sounds desu ne! Arigatou gozaimasu for the recommendations!!!! ^^

[@cynthiahunt371]

ABOMINATION

[@halcyon.x]

hush up cynthia