Spotlight - Male BL Manga Authors
In this post, I'd highlight a few Boys Love ("BL") titles that are written by men, in contrast to the sizable percentage of BL titles that are written by women (and/or nonbinary people). I'd like to note that, although most male BL creators featured here are publicly known to be gay (because they started out as creators of geicomi -from "gay comics", works by gay men for gay men, or have published such information) there are some with no public information regarding their sexuality. It's also possible that out there, some works are made by gay men who choose not to disclose their identity publicly, and therefore did not make it to the list. Some notes: (i) For the sake of accessibility and respecting authors' intellectual property, this post will only feature titles officially licensed in English. (ii) this post's scope is restricted to manga (of Japanese origin) only. It also only covers works that are published by a traditional publisher and n...
