👨‍❤️‍👨 BL Book Club 🎓 BL University 📚 Reading: ガンバレ! 中村くん!

I was also considering nominating that one as well, but decided against it, since I think a lot of people here read it already?

That being said, I have read トラップヒロイン 1 | L21 but wouldn’t mind tagging along if it ever got selected…

I would tell you to take one of my weekly nominations but… I just made one as well.
I don’t mind sponsoring (or making myself) a nomination for 魔法少年なつき×らびっツ 1 | L24 though.

2 Likes

I wouldn’t worry about it. Some of the BL regulars here have, but I can only think of, like, three including myself off the top of my head. It’s definitely not anything like よつば in terms of learner popularity.

3 Likes

Book type: manga
Available formats: physical / ebook

Summary - Japanese

第1巻の内容紹介: 「俺の同室者は…男…じゃない!!?」 俺のルームメイト・小日向真は男子。 …なんだが、女子の制服を着て、女子みたいなか細い手足で、女子みたいな声と仕草。 コイツ、本当に男なのか――?? 可愛すぎる男子(?)に惑わされる中毒者、続出中!! ちょっと変わった青春学園ラブコメディー

(Source: Amazon)

Summary - English

[DeepL Translation - needs review] Volume 1: “My roommate…is…not…a…guy!” My roommate, Makoto Kohinata, is a boy. …but he wears a girl’s uniform, has thin arms and legs like a girl, and has a girl’s voice and gestures like a girl. Is he really a guy? Is he really a man? A number of addicts are being bewitched by the too-cute boys (?)! A slightly different kind of adolescent school love comedy!

(Translator: DeepL)

Content Warnings

I don’t know.

Reason(s) for nominating: Like my previous nomination, this is a shounen manga. The cross dressing tag is also interesting to me, because I currently watch the otokonoko senapi anime. Also I think at least @Naphthalene might vote for this, so maybe it has a chance.

3 Likes

My apologies for not having added your book to the nomination list yet bbo! I thought I’d grabbed all of them, and I didn’t notice this one until I came back to check the poll start date.

We have three slots left for nominations! Get your noms in before the pool opens on the 20th!

Well, might as well, then.

Title:

Book type: manga
Available formats: physical / ebook

Summary - Japanese

定期的に可愛い恰好をしないと禁断症状が出ちゃう少年、七星なつき。ある日現れた変なヌイグルミ・門左衛門に騙され魔法少年になってしまい悪い宇宙人(:male_sign:)に唇を狙われる事態に! しかも自分のキスには地球の滅亡がかかっていて!? (本人の知らぬところで)学校のアイドル、(本人の気付かぬところで)敵からも天使扱い、魔法少年なつきの運命は!?

Summary - English (fixed the DeepL translation on Natively)

Natsuki Nanahoshi is a boy who has withdrawal symptoms if he doesn’t dress up in cute clothes regularly. One day, Monzaemon, a strange animated plushie, suddenly appeared and tricked him into becoming a magical boy, and now evil aliens (male) are after his lips! What’s more, the destruction of the earth is at stake if they manage to kiss him! What will happen to Natsuki, the (unbeknownst to him) school idol who’s (also unbeknownst to him) seen as an angel (i.e., really cute) by his enemies?

Content Warnings

The whole premise of adult guys trying to kiss a middle schooler against his own will is kinda icky.

Reason(s) for nominating: It looks really cute and fun. I checked the extended free preview (about 1/3) and it was indeed, with the major drawback put in the content warnings. But I’m sure I can push through that with the help of the club :triumph:

4 Likes

Excellent!

We’re here for you. :handshake:

2 slots left! Current list of nominations here.

1 Like

It’s poll time!

This poll will close on July 28, and we will start the chosen book on August 19. Please see the list of nominations here (Natively post) or here (Natively list).

4 Likes

Remember to vote, everyone~

In other news, I have finally confirmed the existence of a Chinese translation of Flesh&Blood. No one’s surprised one exists, I know, but not knowing how to search for it has taken me a while to get past. Anyway, I’d like to acquire a physical copy of the first book if I can, but my used-Chinese-book-buying-fu is really weak. Does anyone know any good places to check, proxies to enquire with?

Translated title: 海盗风云
Translated author: 松冈夏树

3 Likes

Considering how calm the forum is those days, I don’t have much hopes about participation :sweat_smile: I’m already amazed that we have 9 voters at the time of writing.

1 Like

Very true; I’ve been wondering if we’re going to have a children’s club repeat. Looks like it helps that we have manga options, though; current top 4 are all manga, at least.

1 Like

Ah, speaking of the top picks, I was re-reading @Naphthalene’s nom post and have to ask: @enbyboiwonder, as the only marked user having read ギンモクセイ, was there any adult content that you saw in either volume?

1 Like

The first chapter is available for free until the 1st of August (and the books discounted). There’s 1 (one) panel with some skin visible, but the angle prevents to see anything “inappropriate” (by which I mean the crotch area). One commenter on Booklive said of the content “エロさ控えめ”.

1 Like

Somehow I don’t see the timer until the end of the poll, but I’m still allowed to change my vote?

Anyway, tie again!

I wonder if we should ask Brandon to turn the first post into a wiki? :thinking:

1 Like

Odd, I didn’t see the ending time either. :thinking: I’m fairly certain I set that…

I’ll close it by hand tomorrow (later in the day for you Naphth), see if we can break the tie.

Oh, that would be nice. Could you do that here and on the children’s club @brandon?

3 Likes

You did, because I used to be able to see it 2 days ago.
I wonder if it’s just a visual change due to the last forum update?
(Menus look a bit different too)

2 Likes

Made both of these wikis!

5 Likes

Interesting and a bit sad if so. It’s handy to be able to know when a poll closes at a glance… Well, I’ll leave it up for now, and see if it naturally closes?

Link to poll for those who haven’t voted yet!

Thank you, Brandon!

2 Likes

Assuming you didn’t close it yourself, I guess it did!

2 Likes

Excellent! And seems like we have a tie!

Tie-breaker poll! Which would you like to read?
  • ギンモクセイの仕立て屋
  • 僕らの食卓
0 voters
Do you want to read the runner-up immediately after? Or vote for a new book?
  • Read the runner-up immediately after
  • Vote for a new book
0 voters
Both books have a volume 2. So…
  • I want to read just the first volume of the winner
  • I would like to read both volumes of the winner
0 voters

I don’t have a strong preference on which to read first (as I’d like to join for both). I’d also like to read both volumes, but only if we don’t read the second volume simultaneously as the following book, as I feel that it would be too much to join for both…

3 Likes