It seems like the BL was an anime only thing so unfortunately no free for keeps entry for Monochrome Factor
Edit: I miss those times where they took the ikemen sus boys vibe from manga and just turned into it into BL anime, gave some good action packed BL at the time
The year is 2022. The Diet has been hit by a series of political terrorist attacks. A new security force, the Kokkai-Keibitai (Diet Garrison), has been established. Then, the terrorist organization begins to target the instructors in charge.
Ishikawa, the eighth-generation instructor, is the only one who has managed to evade the dangers thanks to the desperate efforts of his beloved SP Iwase…
Morimoto Shu’s near-future love and action!
Content warnings
Based on the description, terrorist attacks/violence.
Reason(s) for nominating: Another long series (for BL, anyway), this is a sci-fi manga series that started in the 90s and is currently sitting at 75 volumes. And I’m curious about long-running BL stories!
Always weird to see series I know/have read some of nominated. G-Defend I never got super far through; it felt more episodic than I originally thought it would be, so I would lose steam every time I tried. I still want to give it another go, though; 75 volumes can’t be wrong, right? I have the first 20 purchased, so I can’t give in
A second one in a row that I know/own; crazy. It’s been looking at me from my shelf for years
It’s well-enough known in the English fandom for having the anime brought over during a time when little BL was hopping over the pond, I’d say. It was also an isekai before it was cool.
That and Junjou Romantica seemed to be the most popular (with English-speaking audiences anyway) back when I first started getting into BL. You don’t hear about it much now, though…
I have several volumes of Kyou Kara Maou (Flagship HPB had them one time I visited and I snagged them; they’re all random volumes though) but not the first, so that might be my excuse to get some books off Mandarake that aren’t on CDJapan
Just based on the amount of comments I see in this thread whenever I come back to the forums, I feel like this club is going to be the most fervent one we have.
When I started it was gravitation lmao
Though when kkm came out there was barely any noise but it had a lot of episodes and several seasons so I guess inside Japan it was fairly popular
The noise about junjou Romantica when it just came out was HUGE lol I remember it so well it was so surprising