What is Shounen Ai manga?

Shounen Ai means boys love, and thus explores what happens when two boys (or men) fall in love. This is not to be mistaken for Yaoi which is (or, at least, how this term is often used by the western audience) used in adult works. This is not; that means there is no graphical sex. The female version is Shoujo Ai.

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God Child

(Godchild)

8

Description:

Deep in the heart of 19th century London, a young nobleman named Cain walks the shadowy cobblestone streets of the aristocratic society into which he was born. Forced to become an earl upon the untimely death of his father, Cain assumes the role of head of the Hargreaves, a noble family with a dark past. With Riff, his faithful manservant, and Mary Weather, his 10-year-old half sister, Cain investigates the mysterious crimes that seem to follow him wherever he goes. (Source: Viz Media)
Type

manga

Volumes

8

Chapters

48

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

2001-01-01

Hikaru ga Shinda Natsu

(The Summer Hikaru Died)

8.11

Description:

"So, Hikaru is no more... If that's true then..." Yoshiki and Hikaru are two boys who live in a certain village. They're the same age and have always been together growing up. But one day, Yoshiki noticed that "something else" has taken Hikaru's place. Even after learning of this, Yoshiki still wants them to be together. And so, his life with the "something" that looks like his friend begins. At the same time, strange incidents keep occurring in the village... (Source: Kadokawa, translated)
Type

manga

Volumes

10

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2021-08-31

Koimonogatari

(Love Stories)

8.09

Description:

When Yuiji overhears his classmate Yamato confessing to a friend that he's gay, he does his best not to let prejudice color his view, but still finds himself overthinking things. He especially notices the way Yamato looks at one particular boy: Yuiji's own best friend. Even though he tries not to get involved, watching Yamato's one-sided love draws Yuiji in in a way he never expected. At first, he’s fueled by empathy, knowing that Yamato’s love interest is straight. But as his own friendship with Yamato deepens, Yuiji realizes how much he's come to care for his new friend. He just wants Yamato to be happy... and to be able to express his true self. (Source: Tokyopop)
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2013-05-22

Kimi wa Natsu no Naka

(You Are in the Summer)

7.85

Description:

Chiharu Saeki and Wataru Toda are two high school students who share a common hobby. They love to watch movies. After they meet, they become fast friends until one day, their relationship takes a sudden twist. What does it mean to love someone? What can you really do about it? Follow the story of their adolescence and relationship as it unfolds through a brilliant summer. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

5

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2017-11-21

Nanairo Sekai

8.23

Description:

A series of one-shots that ran in Monthly Melody (before it became Melody). 1. The Glasses Thief 2. Convenience Store Honey (Shounen Ai) 3. Adult-Uniform 4. Refrigerator Chocolate Note: Stories 1 and 3 were collected in Bus Hashiro.
Type

manga

Volumes

0

Chapters

4

Status

finished

Started

2005-11-28

Bloody†Mary

(Bloody Mary)

7.85

Description:

Set in Yokohama, this is the story of a priest with a "survival wish" and a vampire with a "death wish." After hundreds of years, Mary—an immortal vampire with a death wish—finally finds out the whereabouts of Maria—the exorcist who possesses the "Blood of Maria" that can exterminate him. But, it turns out the Maria he found is not the right "Maria!" However, as Maria does inherit the "Blood of Maria," he is constantly being targeted by vampires, so constantly that he hardly has time to catch his breath... And so, Mary makes a proposal to Maria: if Maria pledges to kill him, he will protect Maria from the vampires until the threat is gone, and... The story begins! (Source: MEGU-Scans)
Type

manga

Volumes

10

Chapters

40

Rating

Horror

Status

finished

Started

2013-11-22

Endou-kun no Kansatsu Nikki

(The Endou Observation Diary)

7.16

Description:

Because of changes in seating arrangements, high school student Tsuda ended up behind the quiet and expressionless Endou. Their interaction is born from a trivial incident, and he begins to see Endou who he has never gotten to know before. That mole, slender nape, and soft hair. The subtle faces that he makes and little changes in his attitude. But Tsuda, who used to be indifferent about others and never made any deep connections, now feels impatient about the distance between him and Endou, who he has been gradually getting closer to. What on earth is drawing these feelings? (Source: MU) It includes the one-shot "Tsuda Memo".
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

5

Status

finished

Started

2010-02-01

Acid Town

7.57

Description:

In a city where the law has been rendered non-existent, Yuki and his best friend Tetsu break into the offices of the Seidoukai to steal in a desperate attempt to finance his ailing brother's hospital bills. They ultimately fail but instead spark the interest of the mob's young leader, Kazutaka Hyodo, who offers Yuki a deal he can't refuse: pay him a visit at his office once a week and all hospital bills will be taken care of. Yuki accepts without hesitance and in order to keep his end of the deal, starts paying Hyodo the visits he asked for... (Source: Dangerous Pleasure)
Type

manga

Rating

Smut

Status

current

Started

2008-03-22

Vassalord.

(Vassalord.)

7.88

Description:

Charley, a cyborg vampire who does the Vatican's dirty work, is the thrall of the local vampire playboy Johnny Rayflo. As the two fight crime--and each other--hilarity, violence and sacrilege ensue! But can Charley resist his own desperate cravings for blood? Find out as the devilish duo go up aginst a childlike vampire princess, a mysterious branch of the Unitarian Church...and one another. (Source: Tokyopop) Included one-shots: Volume 2: Zoul Harf (or Zoul Half)
Type

manga

Volumes

7

Chapters

36

Status

finished

Started

2004-11-17

Wish

7.4

Description:

One night, a man named Shuichiro Kudo comes across a tiny angel trapped on a tree branch. He frees her, and in return she offers to grant him a wish. However, Shuichiro is a successful doctor, with a home and everything he needed; he declined the angel's offer. The persistant angel, named Kohaku, refused to give up, stating that "some wishes cannot be fufilled by oneself." After settling in at Shuichiro's home, Kohaku reveals her mission to track down the Angel Master of Wind, Hisui, who has abandoned heaven. That is, if her devil rival and his two catty servants would let her leave long enough to do so... (Source: ANN)
Type

manga

Volumes

4

Chapters

23

Status

finished

Started

1996-06-01

Out of Control

(Out of Control)

8.11

Description:

Yuri, one of the school's most handsome guys, and Jaerim, one of the school's ugliest, collide!...or don't they...Can't understand what's going on between these two! It's Out of Control!! (Source: Lezhin)
Type

manhwa

Chapters

85

Status

finished

Started

2013-08-31

Otouto no Otto

(My Brother's Husband)

8.05

Description:

Yaichi is a work-at-home suburban dad in contemporary Tokyo; formerly married to Natsuki, father to their young daughter, Kana. Their lives suddenly change with the arrival at their doorstep of a hulking, affable Canadian named Mike Flanagan, who declares himself the widower of Yaichi’s estranged gay twin, Ryoji. Mike is on a quest to explore Ryoji’s past, and the family reluctantly but dutifully takes him in. What follows is an unprecedented and heartbreaking look at the state of a largely still-closeted Japanese gay culture: how it’s been affected by the West, and how the next generation can change the preconceptions about it and prejudices against it. (Source: Pantheon)
Type

manga

Volumes

4

Chapters

28

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

finished

Started

2014-09-25

Hana to Usagi

(Flower and Bunny)

7.43

Description:

Aizawa-san in room 411 is always wearing a rabbit… The delivery’s good customer Soubou-san is a shy rabbit-man with a withdrawal syndrome. Why is he wearing something like that in the first place? Pervert? Everyday he does delivery but you can’t see his face and he’s mute, there’s nothing scarier than this. But one day, still wearing the rabbit-head, he grabbed tightly onto my arm, “T-thank you, I’ll see you again tomorrow…” Saying it in such an embarrassed way- My heart beats so fast. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

6

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2011-12-07

Junketsu Drop

7.78

Description:

Blockheads Kasukabe and Misato are always quarreling over everything. But one day, Kasukabe finds himself helping Misato to escape from a bunch of fangirls. Alone in the classroom. Kasukabe starts taunting and teasing his arch enemy. But somehow, things start taking a turn towards a completely unexpected direction… (Source: Echochi)
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

6

Status

finished

Started

2011-04-22

Reversible!

7.17

Description:

Shuu Kaidou is sent away to an all boys boarding school with a very strange rule concerning half the students. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

3

Chapters

15

Rating

Ecchi

Status

finished

Started

2010-04-24

Yozora no Sumikko de,

8.11

Description:

Hoshino has fulled his dream and has become a teacher. One day, he encounters his old friend Sudou in the front of the school after 11 years. Suddenly Sudou collapses and Hoshino takes him to the school's infirmary. Hoshino is stunned when it shows up that Sudou seems to be the father of a boy named Shouta from his class!
Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

9

Status

finished

Started

2011-10-01

Yuki no Shita no Qualia

(Qualia Under the Snow)

7.46

Description:

Type

manga

Volumes

1

Chapters

7

Status

finished

Started

2014-01-20

Uragiri wa Boku no Namae wo Shitteiru

7.67

Description:

Plagued by reoccurring dreams he can't quite recall and a strange power that allows others' thoughts and emotions to flow into him, high school student Sakurai Yuki has always longed to know the reason for his existence. Soon after a hauntingly beautiful, nostalgic stranger named Zess saves Yuki from an oncoming car, the head of the Gioh clan shows up at the foster group home where Yuki lives, claiming to be family. Who are the Gioh clan? What is their connection to Zess? Most importantly, can Yuki accept his role in the "destiny" laid out before him...? (Source: Storm in Heaven)
Type

manga

Volumes

0

Chapters

68

Status

finished

Started

2006-07-26

Kieta Hatsukoi

(My Love Mix-Up!)

8.24

Description:

“Aoki... I didn’t know you thought about me that way...” Aoki has a crush on Hashimoto-san who sits next to him. However, when he borrowed her eraser, he discovered the name of his classmate, Ida, written on it... (sobs). Moreover, Ida saw him using the eraser... Don’t tell me he misunderstood?! It’s a little silly, but so begins the story of them working their hardest for their first love. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

9

Chapters

36

Status

finished

Started

2019-06-13

Raising a Bat

(Raising a Bat)

7.73

Description:

High school senior Min-kyum has been left to his own defenses after his parents kicked him out of their lives. His new house is in a shabby neighborhood, the site of several mysterious assaults that have left victims with bite marks on their necks and blood loss symptoms. After moving in, Min-kyum heads out for a meal…then somehow wakes up at home with strange marks on his neck. He tries to shrug it off, but his deskmate at the new school looks suspiciously pale and familiar… (Source: Lezhin) Note: This series contains additional (optional) 18+ scenes.
Type

manhwa

Volumes

0

Chapters

86

Rating

Smut

Status

finished

Started

2015-06-26

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