
But I just watched little women and the quote “And I’m so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for.” Just hit so hard her struggling to write while everyone around her is telling her to get married for her stories to have love. Idk if it’s the lack of asexual Shoujo and Josei writers but every fantasy, school life, mystery, drama, historical, with a female lead always has a very dominating story line male lead, for romance or other things. Like they’re so fleshed out just to be reduced to hey I’m gonna marry this clearly over powered male lead with a copy paste personality. Like I know Male centered stories have romance but it feels like a side story line since most of the time the romance is later or it’s about the mc mostly(which I’m not defending since I know the lack of female characters with personality is a scarcity in shounen) I just appreciate the plot focus on the story line not with romance. Of course I’m excluding the romance shounen and harem shounen. Which I can easily filter out. With shoujo it’s much harder. Like idk if they’re being forced to include romance or all writers of shoujo and Josei just have this need for a man in the story.
Like can I get some recs with a female main character who’s focused on their craft doesn’t have an overly dominating story line male lead. And isn’t clearly a fetishy story aimed towards men. Just a female mc and the story. Like I can’t think of one. Also no romance please.

daughter of a thousand faces is easily my favorite (ongoing) series. the main character isn’t perfect or overly calculating she has real flaws and feels genuinely human. her training arc is also super grounded. there are no time skips or sudden jumps in power. she starts off weak and you really see her struggle and grow. there’s no clear male lead, which i actually like. there are hints of romance imo but nothing is definite yet (still no clue who she might end up with, honestly lmao). if i had to compare her to someone, i’d say she reminds me of katara from atlab.

i'll definitely look around when i have time! i just wanted to mention that daughter of a thousand faces doesn't contain any romance or implied romance. i initially thought there might be some because of a few comments i saw, but it turns out it's just speculation. i'll see if i can find something for you, though!

Uncommon male mc Shounen/Seinen genre Recommendations. Just something that is still within the range of the genre but tries something different. There’s a lot of repetitive shounen stories.
Something like
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/the_ultimate_shut_in/
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/solo_farming_in_the_tower/
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/tondemo_skill_de_isekai_hourou_meshi/
Preferably no romance I’m not looking to read romance or I’d just read Shoujo/Josie they do it better anyway.

https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/underworld_restaurant/
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/please_have_a_meal/
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/bizarre_restaurant/
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/tondemo_skill_de_isekai_hourou_meshi_sui_no_daibouken/
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/spirit_farmer/

I forgot the title so please gimme the name
Basically the uke has this stalker that breaks into his house that does the boombayah, the sex, the ya know to him while he’s sleeping/half asleep. The seme is a weird stalker guy who breaks into his house to touch him and take care of him like does his laundry and cleans his house while he violates the uke. The uke doesn’t know who the Seme is at first.

Is there any bl with something other then romance and drama between the two leads, like something with plot and substance to it that if there was no romance it would still be a pretty good story, like blood bank, [switch], Komatta Toki Ni Wa Hoshi Ni Kike!, silver diamond …etc…

https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/barbarities/
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/mo_dao_zu_shi_novel/
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/coyote_zariya_ranmaru/
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/10_dance/
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/madk/ - only read this if ur ok with messed up sh
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/park_hanhoo_s_manager/
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/geu_kkeute_issneun_geos/
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/yoake_no_uta/
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/gift_ichinose_yuma/
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/haruka_tooki_ie/
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/awairo_emaki/

Anyone have stories that have a good plot and have bl undertones or strong bromance?
I’ve read ORV, trash count, s classes that I’ve raised
And anything on this list https://www.mangago.zone/home/mangalist/1912561/?filter=&page=1
I haven’t found anymore bromance stories and I’m dying on the inside please recommend.

https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/vanitas_no_shuki/ <— there are so many mis-matched relationships in the community but the two MCs are strongly radiating bl and bromance vibes
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/mr_villain_s_day_off/ <— maybe, comments were going crazy about the mc and another character
And I couldn’t find anymore that I’ve read that weren’t in your list ( ̄∇ ̄")

‘BL vibes’ tag - specifically ones that I’ve heard/glanced through that seem to have a bromance happening
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/the_duke_s_redemption/
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/yuukoku_no_moriarty/
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/owari_no_seraph/
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/bloody_mary_samamiya_akaza/

https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/tokyo_aliens/ pretty strong bromance between the mcs and the plot/art is amazing imo

A bl I read about A snail that could transform into a human, a mountain god was in love with him who was also a famous actor. Snail became his assistant.
Then another couple was the plant that liked this human idol, he was a good singer so he came on the show his fav idol was on. the human idol found out he wasn’t human because the plant transformed when he got embarrassed, then they fell in love. The humans brother was in the show who was roommates with the plant.
I remember another small mountain god who was a good dancer than came on the show, bad singer tho.
MC is a normal person who lives in the country side accidentally signs a contract for a show. ML is a celebrity who is the star of said show in which he learns the life of the country side. The show is a success and MC and ML develop crushes on each other. ML goes back to city and MC becomes to famous and get harassed by streamer. ML feels bad and invites mc to visit him in the city, mc is also scared of elevators. ML helps mc get therapy. What story is it.
https://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/my_house_has_become_a_filming_location/