#Sumiya Zeniko

[oratokyosaigunda]

Majo ga Koi suru 5 Byou Mae, volume 1

[otaku-republic]

Ookami wa Tantei wo Tabetai vol.2 by Oomura You

Iki Dekinai no wa Kimi no Sei (Breathless Momentum) vol.4 by Sumiya Zeniko

Gotcha! ~ Kyorikan Zero na Gokudou no Chikubi ga Kyou mo Yuuwaku Shite Kimasu  by Satonishi Rikka

Shota Oni vol.3 by Nakayama Miyuki ※Shota Oni vol.3 limited edition (a Booklet included)

[hatsumishinogu]

Kawa ni Sazanami Vol.5

[obstinaterixatrix]

[listless] if only I could convince a good bl writer to write bl and just change it last second to women

[allthefujoshiunite]

FRIDAY BL — BREATHLESS MOMENTUM

Hello friends, I’ve gone and done it… One of those horribly beautiful cases of having access to adult money. There was a coin-back event on Bookwalker, and in my defense, it’s been a long time since they did one so big. That’s a dangerous rabbit hole to go down in. You buy manga, and they give you 70% of the money you spent back. You add a bit on top, buy more manga, and get more points. And then…

[enoe-of-noen]

Last art of the year 🫶

I love this manga sm oml @endedajj knows very well hehehe (I reread it so many times)

Ref under the cut w the diff layers

I LOVE ZENIKO SUMIYA RAHHHHH!!!

Also used this vid as a tut (thanks again @endedajj <33): https://youtu.be/39Gu8BATKfs?si=t3aLdHKaumH87JrX

[venomgender]

im literally so sick with it

[19011301180905]

sasori to otome not ending in the relationship was good but i need closure, i'm gonna write a fanfic for them

[storiedshelves]

saw that animate international licensed the breathless momentum / Iki Dekinai no wa Kimi no Sei *spinoff* by zeniko sumiya ; called loveless momentum and it looks so interesting!

im currently reading 5 seconds before the witch falls in love & im really looking forward to continuing my read of breathless momentum too~

it definitely feels like a series that romance readers would enjoy; will probably do a more formal rec post for it at some point because its really well written in my opinion!

[animangabwedit]

Sasori to Otome by Sumiya Zeniko

[yaoinonconformist]

i am so so so excited for animate’s BL licenses this month. because i have been wanting to read the kabukicho bad trip spin-off since i knew it existed. and more zeniko sumiya licenses means more people get to know of my goat.

but also zeniko getting all of their BL announced to be licensed in english EXCEPT kawa ni sazanami still drives me crazy a little bit. because the other BL have already been fully scanlated. like i am celebrating official english licenses but kawa ni sazanami was my introduction to zeniko sumiya and they’re just so cute and so dear to me. and i miss them. i still try to keep up with jp but i can’t read it and i want to be able to… especially now that it stopped being just cute slice of life moments and they started getting into their relationship during high school 🥲🥲🥲 euggghh

[hatsumishinogu]

Ikidekinainoha Kiminosei Vol.5

[obstinaterixatrix]

also went on a paddle boat with sister, it was fun I haven’t done it in like 7 years. we stopped by a book store, and

1) there’s a physical copy of A Hero in the Demon King’s Castle which was surprising to me because syohei(/inutoki)’s got really off-beat style so I’ve figured they’d be too niche to be licensed, plus it had a dust jacket WITH author/artist bio AND the extra comics on the actual cover… I didn’t get it because I’m not quite ride or die for it, but I am reconsidering because syohei’s art is just really fun. plus it’s just a well-printed book, how often do you see manga printed in eng with dust jackets? I’ll probably reread it and see if I Really Do Want It. if anyone wants a bit of a wacky read with interesting art, give it a look. I actually… really like inutoki & syohei’s other anthology more because I really like the love interest of the main oneshot but it also has one oneshot that’s pretty vicious to the point I’m not sure I’d actually get a physical copy lol

2) speaking of pretty vicious, a physical copy of one of asada nemui’s works was there which I think is pretty cool, her art is sooo interesting to look at. it’s not as crazy as syohei’s, but it just feels… direct? impactful? just an appealing style. I wouldn’t buy a physical copy of that one, but I’d get one of sleeping dead… I’d consider getting the anthology but she really paired two of my favorite oneshots while having the main story have My Hardline Exclusion Criteria 😞 I’d get the other anthology tho, no hard no’s in that one. where was I going with this? well, if you like strange morose rancid toxic romances, definitely look up asada nemui and also a list of content warnings

3) on that note, it made sense to list manga alphabetically by title back when it’d take up a single shelf max, but I think book stores really need to rethink manga shelving, especially since more bl with smut/het with smut/yuri with smut is getting licensed and distributed

3a) by the way there were quite a few yuri titles, which is a cool change! I already had the one I liked

3b) buy ‘5 seconds before a witch falls in love’ it’s so good. I LOVE the main story. I am lukewarm on the other oneshot. the main story is SOOOO fun, zeniko sumiya has kind of a more shounen-esque art style and she usually draws bl so you need to treasure her fun & dumb witch/witch hunter shenanigans

3c) I mistyped shenanigans as shenanigals lmao that kinda fits still

3a) and the other ~15 I’ve read and dropped because I wasn’t interested in them (I showed sister the cover of SHWD—like, I also want muscular women but I cannot get over some of the anatomy, those are beach balls attached to her chest? like it’s not the aesthetic of Anime Titty Jiggle Physics but I really cannot get over it) but I’m glad there’s more yuri. mostly. I hate that the gamer one is there, the art and writing is so weirdly uncomfortably… H for something that is a SFW slice of life, and I didn’t like a few of the other series that sister pointed out because they were really. too long with not enough sense of direction/momentum to have satisfying character/relationship progression. BUT IT’S GOOD THAT MORE YURI IS BEING LICENSED.

3) anyway I was thinking that there should probably be more a delineation between either genres or age of audience, but at the same time, that’s tricky—having an 18+ section could make it uncomfortable for folks who enjoy being able to browse without a glaring neon sign that indicates they’re looking at smut, dividing by genre can make it tough for folks who want to take a look at gay romances/lgbtq autobio more surreptitiously,

3d) well, I would imagine it’s less of a huge deal now than it was ~15 years ago, but homophobia still is a thing

3) so in the end I have no defined conclusion to my thoughts on manga shelving in english-speaking countries

4) I saw several copies of nagisa furuya’s works! I might go back for number call, that was the first one of hers I’ve read and it’s really cute. I was telling sister, this might sound bad but I like how… standard her art & writing is, it’s very clean and pleasant, her low(ish)-stakes slice of life fluff is really good. also nice to have sfw options for introducing folks to bl

5) this is completely unrelated to this bookstore trip but a couple of weeks ago I saw an m/f romance and was like. do I know this artist from bl??? but I looked up the artist and didn’t see anything I would recognize, it’s just… the way older men is drawn is so…

5) like I know I’m stupid biased because I read an inadvisable amount of bl but he looks like a guy straight out of my miserable office worker bls. I feel like I should know him from bl. I guess I just forget that m/f fans also like older men because all the josei romances I’m involuntarily exposed to are very (…) Like That

5a) mangaplanet REALLY needs to reorganize its genre divisions. hardcore josei smut shouldn’t be lumped with shoujo. hentai should not be lumped with shounen. guys what is going on there

5) but I’ve been thinking of reading it because even by style alone it looks like it’ll at least be unique m/f (though, if I’m gonna read m/f, my preference would be for a miserable older office lady and kinda punk-ish younger guy, but oh well…) it’s just, the cognitive dissonance of squinting at this guy and being like. you belong in a bl.

6) I need to get back out of the habit of reading bls to pass out at 2am 😔 for a while I finally dragged myself back to sleeping at 1am with my baby leash (screen lock) but I’m back in my bad habits. I could at least look at the unhinged horror m/f racher’s been begging me to read just to diversify what I’m pouring into my brain. oh, also sister gave me night is short walk on girl to read and the writer really did deserve all his awards, his character voice is extremely arresting

[yuribookclub]

[fandompost]

Seven Seas Acquires ‘Ripples in the River’ Boys-Love Manga By Zeniko Sumiya http://dlvr.it/THQphW

[venomgender]

i miss them