#MangaUpdate

[visionproductions2008]

Just dropped: the first rough thumbnails for 'The Next Hokage' 🌪️🔥 Witness Narumi Uzumaki's electrifying journey as she embarks on a democratic quest to become the next Hokage. Get ready for a story of power, passion, and politics.

[obstinaterixatrix]

the first story is 14 pages of women talking to each other, I quite like it...

who doesn't resonate with the longing to talk to a cool grandma

[cloudy-reverie]

[ritornello]

[offbeat-manga-ships]

YAGATE KIMI NI NARU ( やがて君になる )

Bloom Into You / Nakatani Nio

Complete, with 45 chapters / 8 volumes

F/F; Shoujo Ai, Drama, Romance, Slice of Life + lgbt, queer & ambqueer, queer character

SUMMARY: Yuu has always loved shoujo manga and awaits the day she gets a love confession that sends her heart aflutter with bubbles and hearts, and yet when a junior high classmate confesses his feelings to her... she feels nothing. Disappointed and confused, Yuu enters high school still unsure  how to respond. That’s when Yuu sees the beautiful student council president Nanami turn down a suitor with such maturity that she’s inspired to ask her for help. But when the next person to confess to Yuu is Nanami herself, has her shoujo romance finally begun?

MAL score: 8.65 AL mean score: 86% MU average: 8.8

PERSONAL SCORE: 7 out of 10

[ofbooksandlattes]

Found out something very fucking annoying about tachi/mihon and now I have to go in and fix damn near 550 local manga titles :')

[cacaitos]

okay found their incest work in under an hour. no surprises here.

[ceiye]

"These semes aren’t even manipulative anymore the ukes r just stupid five stars u know I would never say no to a megane" indeed

[11queensupreme11]

I think you might like the manhwa "The Magicians" by Kim Hui Bin. It's about a princess who is abducted by her servant who she saved as a child and forced to become his lover, also not to spoil anything but his body fluids are magic and plot relevant. It's pretty mature so you should probably look at the warnings on mangaupdates if you are thinking of reading it. (Also the princess looks a little like Percy).

"his body fluids are magic and plot relevant"

[saezurumurmurs]

A BL Platform For Everyone

NB: Please reblog this for visibility!

A little over two years ago, me and my BL crew were in our little chat sharing recommendations. 

Cat had an impressive spread sheet, Marcie and I had iCloud Notes, and it was pretty much chaos.

I looked at it and said out loud, "There has to be a better way for us to keep track of our reads and share recommendations. There has to be right?"

Cat said she wished someone would build a BL app with everything already there. Me, a developer of almost thirty years, paused while a floodlight (not a light bulb) went off in my head.

“Well I could maybe build one… cause like, I build stuff. How would that be?”

By the end of the conversation Cat had invited me to build an app for BL. 

Four weeks later, in late February of 2022, digitaljuicy.com was online. 

In the last couple of years, I’ve been listening to the fandom, paying attention to feedback, poured over analytics, read your responses to the Reader’s Survey and continued to craft a platform with all this in mind.

What I have been building is 100% for us... there is nothing but BL and it is an attempt to encompass ALL of BL. Not just the bits and pieces.

But for two years I've been struggling. Struggling in many ways, but specifically to get what I wanted out of the platform. I tried and failed so many times.

In September of 2022 I tried to raise venture capital to build the platform I wanted for us. I pitched it to accelerators and true blue venture capital.

Juicy is what is called 'pre-seed'. Which means were still so new and evolving, under-resourced and while there was interest, there was no joy. No funding was raised.

In December 2023, I realised it was time to rethink Juicy. i have been on the deepest dive for months rebuilding Juicy from the ground up and preparing the framework for the mobile app.

I’ve built something I want to use… and wild, I’m building it and using it as a fan at the same time. I'm at the point where it's impossible not to want to share.

And what kind of platform do I mean? At its most basic level:

You can track your reads, watches and plays

You can review and recommend the titles to the community, your friends, strangers on Twitter, your friend you're trying to corrupt outside the fandom. Your poison.

Timelines for you, for titles, for episodes, chapters… just about everything. I mean everything: The creators, the publishers, the studios, the actors... you can leave reviews and status posts on EVERYTHING. No algorithms, no force feeding... just discovery, recommendations and honest reviews by this community about our community and the industry we feed.

Collections! Lists of stuff you're reading, dropped, want to read, want to buy, love or hate, all pretty and organised and shareable..

A growing database resource of titles, tagged up to its eyeballs with a minutiae of data.. with reading an streaming links and anything else we find that we think is relevant.

But it is also a lot more than this.

I wanted it to be more than what it was. I want to turn Juicy into a mobile app, add some more functionality and more specifically, platform all of BL for its non-Asian fandom.

We get left out of so much, I feel like we need our own thing. 

I don’t know about ya’ll, but I was tired of being banned on social media for sharing content. How you gonna ban me for saying a 2D fictional character needs to be shot with shite and strung with cobweb? But they did… and I know it’s not just me.

What about the creators? How do they interface with the non-Japanese or non-Korean fandoms? On which misogynistic hell site?

What about the publishers and merchandisers? What about the little Etsy sellers? Why does BL have to hidden away in the databases of mangaupdates, anisearch and anilist? Why does every single manga tracker out there seem to have pitiful listings for BL? 

Is it because we’re a female or queer audience? 

Look at this lil video I made:

Either way, I’ve long felt it’s time for us to do our own thing. So I’ve been building it. Pixel by pixel. Feature by feature on my own.

Juicy has been a small chat group, but I’m the only developer. We’ve always been clear about what we wanted to build: A platform for the fandom, the creators, the publishers, the merchandisers… my goal is a one-stop platform for BL and I am damn close to presenting this new iteration.

This was and remains the core of what I’m building: The largest English platform for BL on the planet. The functionality is one thing, but building a database like that is not a one-person job.

So now I need your help.

First to keep the servers online, so I can continue to build and develop and finally, finally release the mobile app. I can't tell you how much I want that.

I’m close to pushing the new Juicy 3.0 out, and I’m very in love with the work I’ve done since December. It’s a new look, and it works 1000 times better than the previous iterations of Juicy.

I just have hit a wall financially, and need your help and support to get it over the line.

Juicy's ass is fat and I been carrying her mostly alone for two solid years. 

I’m going to launch a Kickstarter for this project in a bit so I can hire another developer  to help with the trickier bits and fine tune the mobile app, but for now, I felt a Patreon would at least help us keep the servers up and maybe, just maybe allow us to afford a few crucial bits that will elevate your experience as a user.

And because I’m a developer, and I can do some pretty kinky shit with APIs and such, if you support this Patreon campaign, you will get some nice feature perks on the platform automagically. You won’t have to pay again to access these perks in-app later.

As many perks as I can cook up anyway, not the least of which will be access to some of the nicer functions and features I’ve already built into the platform.

When the mobile app launches, you will get it first and for free! Plus we’ve been talking about a lot of other ways we can make the platform fun beyond what I've done already.

I plan to monetise the platform in various ways, but in a profit sharing model. You contribute to the database, you contribute content, you get a share of whatever the platform makes. This is already built into the system. This will be open to anyone willing, but to Patrons first.

Finally, I'm limiting the number of people who can subscribe via Patreon to 1000 people. Once we hit that number, the rolls will be closed to new membership, and everyone directed to the platform to pay for any services or merchandise.

My goal for this group of Patrons is that you become an exclusive and tightly knit inner circle.

My hope is that you will help me actively shape what Juicy will become. Your votes and say will carry weight. Your feature requests considered and if possible implemented first.

You will get access to exclusive merchandise, exclusive giveaways and promos (like free stuff), and exclusive programming from the team.

With your help we will produce an exclusive podcast for Patrons only discussing all things BL and Juicy (honestly our conversations are generally wild and hilarious... it will be a rollick for sure), along with other content for Patrons only. We've even planned watch parties and other fun shit... I swear, we want you all to be our greatest ambassadors so we are planning as many treats as we can.

Your access on the platform will be specific to your Patreon subscription and your treatment will be VIP for the life of your subscription.

Finally, the way my auADHD are set up, I have no interest in the dramas of the BL fandom, so this is never going to be about gatekeeping access to anything. It’s about making more access possible. You can help bring us all together and make us stronger as a group.

So do you think Digital Juicy sounds like something you’d like in on?

Okute Sea

Saezuru Murmurs

[obstinaterixatrix]

it’s sooo hard being the person in the friendgroup that reads almost every bl and yuri in existence no one can ever give me recs 😔

[kabutoraiger]

browsing mangaupdates and thinking about how odd the lack of actually good toku inspired manga is... like obviously mr villain is great and tokugagaga is some of the best to ever do it but beyond that it's like. kind of a wasteland out there, huh.

specifically the henshin hero/ine x "villainess" romances that've cropped up are so weird to me bc of how. when you read them it genuinely seems like the authors have never seen a season of toku in their lives and are basing these manga entirely off of vague cultural perception of the genre. or off of other previous genre parodies. like a bizarre game of sentai telephone. and you have to wonder why someone would choose this as a basis for a story if they don't have passion for all the trappings that surround it.

[yuripoll]

KNOCKOUTS: I Love Amy (2022 - 23)

I Love Amy is a Korean webcomic by Unun (aka Unni) about the local crazygirl roping the local lonergirl into helping her with her crush.

"Is this how it feels to have a friend?" Bibi is obsessed with Peter, the prince of the school. When she spots Amy next to him, she starts to feel jealous. She invites Amy to her house to warn her, but instead takes a liking to the girl. They agree to be friends on the condition that Amy has to help Bibi confess. - MangaUpdates

No official ENG (yet? hopeful expression?) EDIT: thank youu Tappytoon for hearing my plea; KR available at Peanutoon.

CWs under the cut. General severity rating: moderate.

violence <- while the suggestion of violence is there, there's no notable instances of violence i can think of.

yandere-typical romantic pursuit <- bibi's yandereisms never really go too far, beyond possessiveness, following her crush around and implications that she's willing to hurt (even torture...?) people who get in her way. it's mostly jokes. most stalkerish thing she does is install a tracker on amy's phone without asking and breaking into her house. most yandereish thing that happens is brainstorming murder methods after seeing her crush with someone else.

kidnapping <- not really taken seriously. jokingly mentioned that bibi has been kidnapping since she was but a babe, and amy always seems to be getting tied up.

pet death <- rabbit accidentally killed in childhood. cartoony and not graphic at all, but you see its preserved body in a jar fairly frequently. the childhood pet dog also died, and its mentioned that it was dismembered post-mortem (only ever shown via teddy metaphor).

ableism <- people throw around words like 'crazy' and sometimes 'psycho' regarding bibi pretty regularly.

vomiting <- not shown in detail or dwelled on. ch23 & 24 afaik

suicidality <- amy fairly often says shit like "kill me now" when she's in a not-ideal situation throughout the series, but more seriously tends to show severe disregard for her own well-being, and as the series goes on, her self-hatred gets more and more intense.

child abuse <- mother attempts to murder her child via leaving her in a car on a hot day. ableism & trauma-motivated neglect by an uncle who is explicitly informed about bibi's support needs and continues to avoid her. side character and his sister were abused by their father - details of that are vague.

[ladygwyndolin]

I wish I could afford to pay scanlation groups to pick up certain titles because God not being able to read some of the series described on mangaupdates is KILLING ME

[naonoholics]

Project suggestions OPEN!!

Hello (^∇^)

I'm back again with another project suggestion post! We found out about some really good manga to pickup last time so we want to hear from you again. Plus we had to remove 3 future projects since they got licensed so we're looking for a few new projects to work on since right now only 1 is really on the list.

Please link to the mangaupdates page for the manga you’re suggesting!!

Only comments left on this post will be looked at. Please don’t direct message me suggestions or send ask (that includes anon ask as well). I want to be able to keep track of all the suggestions and I don’t want to get flooded with messages.

If you have the raws (physical or digital) for the manga you’re suggesting let me know since that will factor into the picks! Plus it will give us a chance to look at the story to see if it seems interesting.

Just a few rules before suggesting a project:

Limit of 5 suggestions please. (Really think about what stories you’ve been wanting to read but haven’t been picked up) You don’t have to post them all at once so take your time since this post will remain up for a while.

No ongoing magazine stories. I have no way of getting magazines scans reliably and don’t want to depend on someone else to provide them so only stories with an actually book release. The story itself can be ongoing but if the only way to read it is currently through a magazine then please don't suggest it.

Don’t suggest projects from active groups or something they have on their future list.

The translator that thankfully joined us recently is more into the softer side of the BL spectrum atm more than the 18+ side so stories that fit that criteria will catch her eye more. She doesn't mind 18+ stories just very certain squicks she's not into.

I love age gap stories with the older person being uke so if it catches my eye I would be willing to pay for the translation like I have with our other projects.

No projects licensed for English release.

Feel free to suggest whatever you want! I’m totally out of the loop when it comes to BL releases so go wild and let me see what you’re interested in.