Best BL: slow burn

10 DANCE

10DANCE

Inouesatoh

The champion of Latin and the champion of Standard ballroom agree to teach each other so both can compete in all ten dances.

A Break in the Clouds

破云 (Po Yun)

Huai Shang

A detective investigating a frozen corpse is assigned a consultant who survived the drug raid that killed his whole team.

A Certain Someone

某某 (Mou Mou)

Mu Su Li

A solitary top student and the popular transfer who rivals him are about to become stepbrothers.

A Raven That Cries But Sheds No Tears

UNOHANA

Seiji Aizawa cannot stop thinking about Rin Ugouda, the cool neighbour who goes to his college.

About a Love Song

Hiroko Natsuno

A band frontman who cannot write love songs meets a warm, honest part-timer and then learns he is still in high school.

About Time

Yousulan

Cynlas has failed to kill Mei Qianjun in one timeline after another, so this time he moves in as Mei's brother.

Addicted to You

難掩之癮 (Nan Yan Zhi Yin)

PENGUIN

An angel known only as 11 cannot make sense of his own heart or his bond with another angel, 3.

Anti-Romance

アンチロマンス (Anti-Romance)

Shoko Hidaka

Two childhood friends have shared an apartment for six years without ever saying what they are to each other.

At 25:00 in Akasaka

25時、赤坂で (25-ji, Akasaka de)

Hiroko Natsuno

A rookie actor cast in a BL drama agrees to a practice relationship with his famous co-star, who happens to be his old upperclassman.

Ballad of Sword and Wine: Qiang Jin Jiu

将进酒 (Qiang Jin Jiu)

Tang Jiu Qing

Shen Zechuan, last survivor of a traitor prince's family, is dragged to the capital, where powerful heir Xiao Chiye wants him dead.

Behind the Desks

Day7, Evy

A new teacher at his old high school is drawn to a sunny chemistry teacher who looks like his first love.

BLACK BLOOD

Hayate Kuku

A worn-out cyborg soldier retires to a quiet planet and meets a botanist who makes him wonder if he still has a heart.

Black or White

ブラック オア ホワイト (Black or White)

Sachimo

An actor typecast as villains is secretly dating the actor who gets every prince role.

Boundless Utterance

欲言难止 (Yu Yan Nan Zhi)

Mai Xiang Ji Ne

At an elite academy, two S-class students share a rank and almost nothing else.

Breathless Momentum

Zeniko Sumiya

Sax-playing bartender Jun Shizuki flirts with everyone. Flautist Yukiji Yano is gifted, kind and liked by all.

Can You Kiss Me First?

お前のほうからキスしてくれよ (Omae no Hou kara Kiss Shite Kure yo)

Yamayade

The star of the sales team learns his stern friend from accounting is gay, and is oddly annoyed to hear he is not the man's type.

Candy Color Paradox

飴色パラドックス (Ameiro Paradox)

Isaku Natsume

A straight-laced magazine reporter is teamed with a photographer whose methods drive him up the wall.

Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!

30歳まで童貞だと魔法使いになれるらしい (30-sai made Doutei da to Mahoutsukai ni Nareru rashii)

Yuu Toyota

A shy office worker turns thirty a virgin, gains the power to read minds by touch, and learns his handsome colleague is in love with him.

Classmates: Dou kyu sei

同級生 (Doukyuusei)

Asumiko Nakamura

A carefree guitarist offers to coach the class honor student for the choir festival, and the lessons turn into first love.

Codename: Anastasia

코드네임 아나스타샤

Boyseason (original novel)

NIS agent Taekjoo Kwon goes to Russia to find a weapon codenamed Anastasia, and his local partner, Zhenya, takes an unsettling interest in him.

Coins of Destiny

六爻 (Liu Yao)

priest

A broken-down cultivation sect is revived by five misfit disciples who would mostly rather be doing something else.

Contrast

コントラスト

itz

The boy everyone watches and the model student nobody talks to keep meeting on the stairs to the roof.

Dear Stranger

minggur (story), neoddeol (art)

Soo-han wakes from a coma with no memories and a husband he cannot bring himself to trust.

Delivery Hug Therapy

Toworu Miyata

A burnt-out 29-year-old wakes from a drunken night to a 20-year-old student and agrees to weekly hug sessions.

FAKE

Sanami Matoh

Detective Randy 'Ryo' Maclean joins the NYPD's 27th precinct and is partnered with the brash Dee Latener.

Faraway Wanderers (Deluxe Hardcover)

天涯客 (Tian Ya Ke)

priest

The emperor's chief assassin retires to wander until he dies, and picks up a talkative stranger who will not leave him alone.

Floating Amber

Kagis

Shintaro thinks love is a nuisance. Then Kippei becomes his mentor at the design company.

Given

ギヴン (Given)

Natsuki Kizu

A guitarist who has lost his spark agrees to fix a classmate's broken strings and ends up with a singer for his band.

Good-Bye, Heron

ymz

A loner and a cheerful classmate meet on the school roof at 16 and grow up leaning on each other.

Happy Together

해피투게더

story and art: 날파리헌터 (Nalpari Hunter)

Four years after a scandal broke up his boy group, ex-idol Jaeyoung is doing deliveries, and a hit rapper now uses his old stage name.

Hatsukoi Note

ハツコイノオト

Amekiri

Shouya finds an online diary full of longing for another boy and works out which classmate wrote it.

Heaven Official's Blessing: Tian Guan Ci Fu

天官赐福 (Tian Guan Ci Fu)

Mo Xiang Tong Xiu

Eight centuries after his first rise to godhood, the twice-banished Xie Lian ascends again and must work off his debts on earth.

Hello, Green Days

AYU SAKUMOTO

Tomo is a shy botany graduate student who is frightened of love. Then he meets Yoji.

Here U Are

DJun

A cheerful sophomore is assigned to look after a tall, sullen freshman who snaps at everyone.

Hirano and Kagiura

平野と鍵浦 (Hirano to Kagiura)

Shou Harusono

A cheerful first-year adores his blond, gruff dorm roommate, who keeps insisting he is just being a good senior.

Hunt for the Leviathan

吞海 (Tun Hai)

Huai Shang

A guarded new officer and the sergeant who distrusts him are drawn into a string of crimes tied to a dark web marketplace.

I Cannot Reach You

君には届かない。 (Kimi ni wa Todokanai.)

Mika

Two childhood best friends each believe the other is out of reach.

I Hear the Sunspot

ひだまりが聴こえる (Hidamari ga Kikoeru)

Yuki Fumino

A hard-of-hearing student who keeps to himself meets a loud, hungry classmate who offers to take lecture notes for lunch.

Joyful Reunion

相见欢 (Xiang Jian Huan)

Fei Tian Ye Xiang

A neglected boy is taken from his mother's family by a stranger who says the father he never knew will come for him.

Kaleidoscope of Death

死亡万花筒 (Siwang Wanhuatong)

Xi Zi Xu

A man opens a door that should not exist and enters a world of lethal puzzles, where a veteran player offers to guide him.

Let Me See the Real You, Senpai!

先輩、ナカみせて (Senpai, Naka Misete)

Yuho Okita

A shut-in with a hugely popular VTuber persona agrees to collaborate with a newcomer who wants to know the real him.

Liquor & Cigarettes

酒と煙草 (Liquor & Cigarettes)

Ranmaru Zariya

A liquor store owner who cannot hold his drink agrees to a trial run at dating his best friend from the shop across the street.

Lonely Nights In Bunny Paradise

Tonomaro

A host at a bunny boy bar has to train a blunt newcomer who confesses to him on day one.

Long Period

ロングピリオド

Nagisa Furuya

Yusei tells himself he hates his gifted best friend, because the alternative is harder to admit.

Look Up at Me: Deng Ni Yang Wang

等你仰望 (Deng Ni Yang Wang)

IXiura

An A-list actor, free of a ten-year contract that banned romance, is cast opposite a rookie who seems to see straight through him.

Love Tractor

트랙터는 사랑을 싣고

HmmYongYong

Burned-out law student Sun Yool heads to the countryside for a quiet summer and keeps colliding with Yechan, the tractor-loving farm boy next door.

Lullaby of the Dawn

Yoake no Uta

Ichika Yuno

A warrior priest slowly dying from the sea monsters he fights is followed by a boy who swears to save him.

Marriage to the Wolf: An Interspecies Union

狼への嫁入り　異種婚姻譚 (Ookami e no Yomeiri)

Hana Inui

After a year of failed harvests, a rabbit village marries one of its own to a wolf.

Monster and Ghost

Himemiko

A feared delinquent with a violent past meets the one person who sees him clearly, and that person is a ghost.

My Little Prince

小王子 (Xiao Wangzi)

Kjorelo

An aloof art student and a hot-tempered athlete, both repeating a year, are made to tutor each other.

My Summer of You

君は夏のなか (Kimi wa Natsu no Naka)

Nagisa Furuya

Two classmates bond over movies and spend a summer visiting film locations, with a confession hanging between them.

No Moral

노 모럴

Tehanu

A lawyer who takes cases for the powerless free of charge gets paired with a colleague who wins by any means, fair or not.

Old-Fashioned Cupcake

オールドファッションカップケーキ (Old-Fashioned Cupcake)

Sagan Sagan

A 39-year-old in a rut is dragged to a pancake shop by his blunt younger coworker, and it wakes him up.

Only the Stars Know

星だけが知ってる (Hoshi Dake ga Shitteru)

Nagisa Furuya

On the worst weekend of his life, a college student shares a meteor shower with a stranger who kisses him.

Our Paradise

청사과 낙원

Greeneer

Maehwa Yang starts college determined to bury his high school crush on Jaewon Myeong, then finds out Jaewon goes there too.

Patisserie of Love

Anna Hanamaki

Erimo is an innocent pastry chef. Kai is a novelist with a past nobody knows, and a regular at his shop.

Release Your Persona

Yeaze

A film star worn out by fame is intrigued by a neighbor who has no idea who he is.

Sasaki and Miyano

佐々木と宮野 (Sasaki to Miyano)

Shou Harusono

A BL-loving underclassman lends his manga to a delinquent senior, and the senior falls for him.

Seaside Stranger

海辺のエトランゼ (Umibe no Étranger)

Kii Kanna

On a small island near Okinawa, a novelist cut off by his family and a grieving teenager begin something that takes three years to finish.

Seven Days: Monday-Sunday

セブンデイズ (Seven Days)

story: Venio Tachibana

A first-year dates whoever asks him first on Monday and ends it a week later, and this Monday an older boy asks.

Shoegazing

슈게이징

story and art: 아서 (Arthur)

After the war, a former soldier stands on a hotel balcony ledge until a war photographer's camera catches him first.

Stars of Chaos: Sha Po Lang

杀破狼 (Sha Po Lang)

priest

In a steam-powered empire, a boy from the border learns his whole life was a cover story, including the godfather he adores.

Stranger: A Western BL

Stranger

Hayate Kuku

A sheriff left to die in the desert is rescued by a Native American man he cannot stop thinking about.

SUPER NATURAL

ETSUKO

Two beauty school students who do everything together drift apart when one starts to want more.

Sweet Not Sugar

BADA, whiteapril, YongGo

An omega who has been abandoned all his life is taken in by an alpha who wants nothing in return.

Sweet Room Escape

スウィートルームエスケイプ

Owal

A businessman with a no-strings hookup in every city spends one night with a man he cannot stop thinking about.

Tailhook

尾钩 (Wei Gou)

La Rive Gauche

A former naval fighter pilot now flying passenger jets meets someone who makes a calm life feel risky again.

Takara's Treasure

タカラのびいどろ (Takara no Vidro)

Minta Suzumaru

A freshman moves to Tokyo to find the stranger who once comforted him, and gets the cold shoulder.

Tangled Feelings Tugged Loose

Mugi Ikuta

Kaname has never had a lover or even a crush, and his sharp stare keeps the rest of campus at a distance.

The Apology of Noumi-Senpai

能美先輩の弁明 (Noumi Senpai no Benmei)

Koala Omugi

An easygoing philosophy student joins a book club and is drawn to a serious, openly gay underclassman.

The Approach

从万米高空降临 (Cong Wanmi Gaokong Jianglin)

La Rive Gauche

An airline captain everyone treats as a hero meets the one air traffic controller who is not impressed.

The Awkward Steps of Love

Yoriko

A friend asks Kotaro to pose as her boyfriend to scare off an admirer, and Kotaro ends up having tea with the admirer instead.

The Defectives

残次品 (Can Ci Pin)

priest

In a future run by a mind-linking AI, those who cannot connect are exiled as defectives, and one of them pulls a legend out of a drifting lifepod.

The Flavor of Melon

Etsuko

Nakajo works at a live music club. Kiuchi is a regular. A few words later they are sharing a flat.

The Horizon Will Soon Shine

水平線はやがて瞬く (Suiheisen wa Yagate Matataku)

Yuki Fumino

A high schooler carries a collapsed stranger back to his dorm, and the stranger stays.

The Light Conjurer

Gene

Rubin is a summoner whose spells keep failing. The one that works calls up a mysterious prince, who drags him off to a dragon's castle.

The Metalhead Next Door

Tonari no Metaller-san

Mamita

A broke graduate student is rescued from a blizzard by the intimidating metalhead in the next apartment.

The Old Suit And The Roughneck

Shogo Ikegami

A timid office worker is in love with a construction worker ten years younger who says he is not into men.

The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter (light novel)

異世界の沙汰は社畜次第 (Isekai no Sata wa Shachiku Shidai)

Yatsuki Wakatsu

The original novels about a workaholic accountant who audits a fantasy kingdom and catches a knight commander's eye.

The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter (manga)

異世界の沙汰は社畜次第 (Isekai no Sata wa Shachiku Shidai)

art Kazuki Irodori

An overworked accountant is dragged into another world by accident and immediately asks for a job.

The Story of a 30-Year-Old Gay Bachelor

Kuaikan Comics

Wei Qiuyu is successful, past thirty and unmarried. On a blind date set up by his family, the person who shows up is his date's brother.

The Vampire and His Pleasant Companions

吸血鬼と愉快な仲間たち (Kyuuketsuki to Yukai na Nakama-tachi)

story Narise Konohara

A half-baked vampire who turns into a bat by day is frozen, shipped to Japan by mistake and taken in by a gruff embalmer.

To Love a Liar

一骗丹心 (Yi Pian Dan Xin)

A Huo

A naive immortal visiting the mortal world strikes a deal with a self-proclaimed seer who promises to teach him about people.

Twilight Out of Focus

黄昏アウトフォーカス (Tasogare Out Focus)

Jyanome

Two dorm roommates in the film club set three rules to keep things simple. The rules do not hold.

Two Guys at the Vet Clinic

動物病院のおふたりさん (Doubutsu Byouin no Ofutari-san)

Sinonome

A veterinary student rushes a stray kitten to an animal hospital and falls for the director at first sight.

Until the Moment We Part

Veni

Luka lives in a snowbound mountain village with Werk, a beastkin man who shows his affection without holding back.

Vodka and Mandheling

伏特加与曼特宁 (Futejia Yu Manteling)

Yu Dao Qiao

The restless owner of a bohemian bar and the reserved barista of the cafe across the street could not be more different.

When It Rains, It Pours (Light Novel)

ふったらどしゃぶり (Futtara Doshaburi)

Michi Ichiho

Two co-workers, each unhappy at home, start confiding in an anonymous email pen pal without knowing who is on the other end.