On his first day of high school, Yuuya Ochi is shocked to discover that the girl sitting in front of him in class is actually a guy named Shigemitsu Izumi. Unable to simply ignore it like the other guys in class, Yuuya can't stop thinking about Izumi and wonders if he's actually a girl, especially after Yuuya sees Izumi waving to a good-looking guy who he suspects is Izumi's boyfriend. Intent to find out more about who Izumi really is, Yuuya follows him after school, only to end up being dropkicked by him over a misunderstanding. Izumi later tells Yuuya that he started cross-dressing to put his twin sister Yurika at ease, who is extremely afraid of guys. However, Izumi confides in Yuuya that he has one other reason why he cross-dresses, something Izumi has never told anyone else.

From MangaHelpers:
In the 1950s, an old woman was brutally murdered on the face of a clock tower by her adopted daughter. Two years later, the clock tower is known as the 'ghost tower' and it is supposedly haunted. Through an unusual series of events, a young NEET man named Amano Taichi is attacked by someone or something in the same clock tower, and finds himself bound to the clock face to be killed in the same way as the old woman. Luckily for Amano, he doesn't meet the same fate. He's rescued by a mysterious person who claims his name is Tetsuo. He is searching for a treasure that is connected with the ghost tower, and he wants Taichi to be his partner. Taichi, whose life has mostly consisted of poverty, loneliness, and pornography, is enticed by the idea of gaining extreme wealth. He's further convinced when a house fire leaves him without a home and depends on Tetsuo's charity. The adventure is going to be very dangerous, since the same 'enemies' who attacked Taichi before seem certain to try something again! Not to mention, Taichi really knows very little about his new partner.

From StarryHeaven:

The aphrodisiac night retreat is a place with no menu, and the tea is made to the customer's image by the employees. An omnibus story surrounds the overbearing masters, various customers, and the tea!

Eun-soo Cha is the main character of the story. Eun-soo has hated her Mother ever since she was abandoned by her. Raised by her Grandma, she became a wild child that likes to fight. She has even disguised herself so well as a guy that people won't believe her even if she says she's a girl. She can fight well, and is even referred to as hot by girls. One day, however, her Grandma's already bad health worsens, and she promises not to fight anymore. When Eun-soo's grandma dies soon after, she decides to leave Dae-Jeon (where she lives) and goes to Seoul to live with her Mother, despite still hating her, because she has nowhere else to go. There, she runs into one of the best fighters, at her new school, and immediately gets on his bad side. What will happen? Will she break her promise to her grandma? Will love bloom?

Based on the Korean Internet Novel, "암컷늑대의 BOY" by i쿠키i조아 (iCookieiLike)

Short story about the Udou brothers' very different love lives.

This is one of the best-known titles by Yamagishi Ryouko. It shocked the public immensely when first published, because the story depicted how the legendary regent of Japan, Prince Shoutoku - who supported the spread of Buddhism - fell in love with a man, suffering because of it, and acting on his unrequited love.

This is no ordinary BL manga, as its homoerotic theme is the driving force behind a convoluted plot centred on complex characters and depicted in complicated Japanese as representative of the setting. Hi Izuru Tokoro no Tenshi is regarded as a masterpiece in the manga world.


Won the 1983 Kodansha Manga Award for shoujo.

The story begins with a scientist, Dr. Yorkshire Bell, noting that dinosaurs flourished and became extinct when they advanced beyond their ability to adapt to change. Giant mammals, such as the saber-toothed tiger and the mammoth, came and went the same way

From MangaHelpers:
Kamiya Hiroki always thought women had it easy.
This thought was throttled by the fact that his 24-year-old sister does not work and plays games all day. Why couldn't he have it this easy? He wanted to become a woman and be lazy like his sister.
After blogging about his rants about his sister online, a mysterious reader comments on his blog, stating that there are ways to swap bodies with others. This would bring Hiroki's dream of becoming a woman to reality . Unfortunately for Hiroki, swapping bodies had unintended consequences when he returned to his own body.

A collection of short stories. Note that the vast majority of these stories contain heterosexual romance themes. A few stories explore transgender issues, but it's a stretch to call them shounen-ai or BL romances. This series demographic is josei.

Le théâtre de A
1.Oeufs D'ange - Tenshi no Tamago
A man is asked by a young painter to be her model.

2. Velvet Going Underground
A doll becomes a super idol. Hijinks ensue.

3. Childhood's End
Alastair runs away and meets the Rabbit.

4. Bite Me Something
Allistaire followed Mr. Rabbit all the way to Wonderland. Will he be able to find him among the crowd?

5. Long Along Alonging
A girl asks a vampire to be his apprentice. But what is her motive?

6. Till Dawn
In a dark tower, a caged voice is singing until a hunted man enters the darkness.

7. Leçon un
Sequel to Long Along Alonging.

8. My Skin on My Back

9. Highland Walker
Sequel to Leçon un.

10. Perfect World
The story of a young wife whose husband is infected with a fatal disease called Flower-Blossomitis.

11. Perfect Lady
Sequel to Perfect World and drawn especially for this book.

12-13. Looks Like a Teaspoon
A boy named Allistaire is often teased at his all-boys school. One night he dresses like a girl and stumbles upon the boy who often bullies him, Simon. Allistaire runs off into a tower and as Simon runs after him, we see the sign "Welcome to Wonderland" hanging by the tower's door.

14. The Pearl Blue Story
Do you believe in mermaids? Coggy, a young boy finds a mysterious lady laying down near the shore of the beach. He brings her home to help her.

15. I Am a Piano
A piano tells the story of her life and the people she encounters.

16. Parade

Le théâtre de B
1. Noël
A short story about a holiday romance.

2. Teddy Bear Satsujin Jiken (The Teddy Bear Murder Case)
Four murders have taken place at an all girl school. Lying beside each of the victim was a teddy bear with one missing limb.

3. Yonshimai Satsujin Jiken

4. A is for Alice
Alastair, a grown man, is off to follow the Rabbit once again to return to Wonderland.

5. Nedai no Musume Atelier no Musume (The Bedroom Girl, The Sculpture Room Girl)
A story about a girl in her death bed finding another chance in life in the body of a doll.

6. B&W (Black&White)
A story about a boy waiting for his sister.

7. Le Jardin du thé (The Tea Garden)
A mysterious story about a poor young man who orders a kind of tea called Huan Ying – “The Illusion”.

8-9. Free Fitting for Her
A priest and his captured vampire must save a naive and selfish young girl from the murderous desires of a Lolicon. But perhaps this girl isn't all that she seems.

10. Rose Dusk, Pale Moon

11. Hello, My Sister

12. The Happy Prince

13. Welcome to Wonderland
Simon, Alastair's old classmate, is now a grown man who bumps into his childhood Wonderland traveller.

Elna was entrusted with ruling a country at a very young age when her father, the king of a small kingdom, fell very ill. With such a heavy burden placed upon a mere teenager, the king gave Elna an important piece of advice about how he made his time of rule a success: find your shadow. By finding her double, she will find the will to live and be brave even in the most dire situations. Elna does find a person who looks identical to her, but it turns out fate loves to play games. Teshio used to be a simple peasant who had a problem of always being mistaken for a girl but he is about to go from rags to riches because he becomes the new shadow for princess Elna.

From Viz:

The comedy starts when the cross-dressing begins! The Kobayashi twins, Mego and Mitsuru, were named after historical figures, but only Mego has grown up with a taste for history. So when Mitsuru is in danger of losing his weekends to extra history classes, he convinces his sister to swap clothes with him and ace his tests! After all, how hard can it be for them to play each other?

But Mego can’t rely on just her book smarts in Mitsuru’s all-boys, delinquents’ paradise of a high school. And Mitsuru finds life as a high school girl to be much more complicated than he expected!

Mireille is the daughter of a bakery owner and her twin brother Fred was adopted into another family when they were kids. One day a letter from her brother arrived, saying he was in love with another man's woman. She replied, challenging him to be a man and claim the woman as his.

Two months later, a beautiful young man named Richard, claiming to be a messenger from Fred, visits and tells her "I've come for you." When the bewildered Mireille resists, he proceeds to kidnap her! It turns out that Fred has eloped with the crown prince's fiance, and it is now her responsibility to impersonate Fred - the former Count of Bernhardt!

As a child, Yashiro Nonoyama developed an intense fear of men due to boys constantly bullying her. Now in high school, she dreams of being reunited with her first love: a girl who protected her one day from her bullies. Yashiro is in disbelief when a transfer student named Mikoto Saionji arrives who looks a lot like her first love, but she later discovers that Mikoto is actually a guy, and that he was her first love. Yashiro learns that Mikoto is rapidly turning into a girl, and the only way to counteract this change is for them to passionately make out with each other every day.

For her brother Subaru's sake, Hitomi decides to take his place at an all male prestigious high school for a year until he recovers and is discharged from the hospital. She gets to the school and runs into a few strange guys on her first day, but as soon as she tells them her name - they are surprised and make her go to the Lion Club. Hiding the fact that she's a girl will be difficult enough and now she has to deal with this strange group who are forcing her to join their club because they all believe that in their past lives they were members of the Shinsengumi!

Description by LuffyNoTomo

From the master of love comedy manga, Wakabayashi Toshiya, comes a high school fairy tale about love☆!

Shindou Rei (Cinderella) comes from a very poor family. Her only clothes are hand-me-downs from her brother, even her school uniform. So everyone always mistakes her for a boy. Even her close friend Hakuba Ouji (white horse prince), who starts developing confusing feelings toward her all the while believing she's a boy. Tsukumo Yuki (Snow White) is the leader of a delinquent gang and falls in love with Rei at first sight, also believing her to be a boy.

Marimo Himenogi desperately wants to become an idol singer. When a local contest is announced, she begs her boyfriend, Ayumi to sing as her partner. Ayumi relents, and disguises himself as a girl so that he and Marimo can enter the singing competition. Surprisingly, they win and are signed to a recording contract as a new group called "Twinkle". Now they must keep their newfound fans from finding out that Ayumi is actually a boy.

A 30-year-old business man makes a wish to be a girl. A chanting object runs toward him, and the next thing he knows he has became a loli elementary school girl.

A collection of short stories. Note that the vast majority of these stories contain heterosexual romance themes. A few stories explore transgender issues, but it's a stretch to call them shounen-ai or BL romances. This series demographic is josei.

Le théâtre de A
1.Oeufs D'ange - Tenshi no Tamago
A man is asked by a young painter to be her model.

2. Velvet Going Underground
A doll becomes a super idol. Hijinks ensue.

3. Childhood's End
Alastair runs away and meets the Rabbit.

4. Bite Me Something
Allistaire followed Mr. Rabbit all the way to Wonderland. Will he be able to find him among the crowd?

5. Long Along Alonging
A girl asks a vampire to be his apprentice. But what is her motive?

6. Till Dawn
In a dark tower, a caged voice is singing until a hunted man enters the darkness.

7. Leçon un
Sequel to Long Along Alonging.

8. My Skin on My Back

9. Highland Walker
Sequel to Leçon un.

10. Perfect World
The story of a young wife whose husband is infected with a fatal disease called Flower-Blossomitis.

11. Perfect Lady
Sequel to Perfect World and drawn especially for this book.

12-13. Looks Like a Teaspoon
A boy named Allistaire is often teased at his all-boys school. One night he dresses like a girl and stumbles upon the boy who often bullies him, Simon. Allistaire runs off into a tower and as Simon runs after him, we see the sign "Welcome to Wonderland" hanging by the tower's door.

14. The Pearl Blue Story
Do you believe in mermaids? Coggy, a young boy finds a mysterious lady laying down near the shore of the beach. He brings her home to help her.

15. I Am a Piano
A piano tells the story of her life and the people she encounters.

16. Parade

Le théâtre de B
1. Noël
A short story about a holiday romance.

2. Teddy Bear Satsujin Jiken (The Teddy Bear Murder Case)
Four murders have taken place at an all girl school. Lying beside each of the victim was a teddy bear with one missing limb.

3. Yonshimai Satsujin Jiken

4. A is for Alice
Alastair, a grown man, is off to follow the Rabbit once again to return to Wonderland.

5. Nedai no Musume Atelier no Musume (The Bedroom Girl, The Sculpture Room Girl)
A story about a girl in her death bed finding another chance in life in the body of a doll.

6. B&W (Black&White)
A story about a boy waiting for his sister.

7. Le Jardin du thé (The Tea Garden)
A mysterious story about a poor young man who orders a kind of tea called Huan Ying – “The Illusion”.

8-9. Free Fitting for Her
A priest and his captured vampire must save a naive and selfish young girl from the murderous desires of a Lolicon. But perhaps this girl isn't all that she seems.

10. Rose Dusk, Pale Moon

11. Hello, My Sister

12. The Happy Prince

13. Welcome to Wonderland
Simon, Alastair's old classmate, is now a grown man who bumps into his childhood Wonderland traveller.

Isao Komori is a college dropout who spends his days cooped up in his apartment playing video games and masturbating. The highlight of his day is visiting a convenience store where an angel-like high-school girl called Mari visits every night.
One morning Komori wakes up in Mari's body. Another "Komori" inhabits his old body, and Mari has disappeared. Komori struggles to maintain Mari's ordinary life and starts to investigate Mari's disapperance. Perhaps Mari wasn't so innocent and perfect after all?

This manga is set in the Western Xia state at the beginning of the 13th century, when there were violent, ongoing incursions by the Mongol army. Guided by Suzuki, a student who has transferred from another school, a present-day boy called Sudo, a high school student who has been plagued by a vivid dream of a battlefield, is reborn as Shutohel, a female warrior for the Western Xia army, who has lived for vengeance on the Mongols, and travels to the battlefield. At the same time, the Mongol prince Yurul defies his own army, which is trying to destroy the Western Xia script, and makes plans to protect a collection of Western Xia writings. This is an epic, long-form action manga featuring elaborate, dynamic depictions of combat and the enigma of an ancient script.
Note: Won the 16th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize's New Artist Prize in 2012.