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NEWS: Netcomics Licenses Five New Boys-Love Manga Titles

I hope Media Blasters, for anime, considers Yamibou or Touka Gettan since they're having a pretty good yuri streak going on. I'd probably buy Yamibou straight up.

I read Honey Senior, Darling Junior on Netcomics.com. I liked it, but not enough to buy the print volumes (and for less than $2 to read the whole thing, I think it would be worth it to read online, even if you did later want to buy the books). Totally Captivated, on the other hand, is something I've voraciously consumed, both online and in collecting the print volumes.

Volume 5 is available, actually. I got it a couple of months ago (from JustManga), so try checking around again.

Right you are, it's actually vol.6 that's out in April. Guess I have some catching up to do.

I didn't realize that you can read entire first chapters on their site for free-- I'll be checking that out for future NetComics releases. Too bad other publishers don't do this too, because for every title I might not have bought because of the first chapter, I'd bet there are more that I would take a chance on once I saw the art/story for myself. Anyway, Cait, thanks for the info!

You can also read June titles online (at emanga.com), but their previews are only 15 pages long and you can't buy individual chapters to read (only whole volumes).

They also have a couple of the BL novels up there (and you get to rent them for a longer period of time), but I don't know about reading a novel all at once on my computer.

I spent the last 30-40 minutes reading previews on the Netcomics site (and wow, didn't even have to register to do so) and found at least 3-4 titles, mostly by S-Kun, that I would probably buy when they're available (Vibration Life is looking especially good to me). It's also cool that they have a lot of non-manga/manhwa yaoi (titles by Yaoi Press, Studio Kosaru, KOSEN, Dany&Dany, etc.) to sample because I've always been curious about the art in those. I've also just registered at emanga and will probably spend a good long while looking at their previews in the days to come.

Man, I wish I'd known about these novel previews before I bought Body Language because I wouldn't have gotten it! Anything that helps me avoid disappointing purchases like that is a great plus in my book.[/size]

musouka wrote:

walw6pK4Alo wrote: I already seen literally 150 different yaoi titles on Borders shelves, what's the difference between any of these? "I've seen literally 500 different manga titles on Borders shelves, what's the difference between any of them?"

Don't condescend me. I am being serious. I've read the synapses, flipped through. They are literally all the same thing each time. At least with general manga you can see a wide variety that appeals to different tastes. Luckily each of these are mostly just one volume long.

Pretty much this. e_e Yaoi has to be one of the worst genres around, and this is coming from someone who can at least occasionally tolerate it.

That said, certainly wouldn't mind some more yuri licensed, what little there is anyway.