❖ tasteful bl's ❖

action/fantasy
shounen ai

a powerful hunter approaches mc for his ability to restore buildings in exchange for bringing peace to his undead friends who he wasn't able to kill himself

great story about grief & healing
mc's light-coded powers only brought him to ruin & ml's darkness brought him peace
ml is controlling at first but becomes super sweet, always trying to make mc happy

supernatural
shounen ai

mc had a run-in w/ the new neighbor & accidentally attaches himself to a charm that lures spirits to him, roping him in to his neighbor's exorcism career

mc is an extreme airhead who is way too confident for his own good
ml grew up feared by others & mc is the only person who sees him as completely normal despite the supernatural powers
emotional support cat

showbiz/crime
shounen ai

a ruthless killer who cleans the streets of thugs fell in love w/ korea's heartthrob, a famous romance actor whose love for the noir genre made him take an interest in the mc's tough personality

they are so cute your honor
ml fell in love for him for his hard-boiled personality but man is so awkward & slow when it comes to love lol
hilarious shenanigans; being a heartthrob apparently lets you get away w/ a lot of bs

sci-fi/thriller/comedy
shounen ai

forced to take a series of inhumane tests, a pair of amnesiacs, a participant & an examiner, team up to push the limits of the system, finding that they may share a deeper connection than they realize

manhuas remain as the king of slowburns
the mcs find the funniest ways to break the rules w/ such a idgaf attitude abt it
they're so tired of each other's bs

horror/thriller/isekai
yaoi

within the countless loops stuck in a slasher horror game, mc accidentally allows a side character to remember the events of the last loop, revealing a twisted personality much to the contrary of his previous impression

interesting premise
begrudging cooperation turned to enjoying the other's company
very meta; have to exploit horror tropes to survive

psychological/fantasy/isekai
yaoi

mc is killed by the man he loves but he wakes up years in the past to find out that the world he lives in is a video game that has repeated the same story in a loop & that he is merely a side character in that game who is left to the disposal of the player, his beloved

ml is extremely twisted
tbf they both kinda are but that's a spoiler
lots of twists & turns

showbiz
yaoi

a model w/ several scandals vows never to involve himself w/ the guy he slept w/ when he was drunk at a party, but as fate would have it the man appears before him as the manager of the hotel where he has his next shoot

ml is playful but he's so sweet when it comes to mc; they're so cute <3
a redemption arc that happens within the mc's lifetime, refreshing for a genre w/ an abundance of reincarnation stories

showbiz/reincarnation
yaoi

an actor's face is ruined with acid burns, leading everyone to abandon him & bringing him to his death, but he wakes up in the past w/ the chance to rekindle the relationships of the ppl who actually cared abt him

tw: self-harm, suicide
wholesome relationship
natural progression of the characters' realization of their feelings
mc breaks away from a toxic relationship

showbiz/psychological
shounen ai

a debt collector dies in a traffic accident alongside a controversial idol, the very idol whose body he wakes up in the next time he opens his eyes; now stuck in this boy group, mc must adapt to the industry while unconvering all of the original body's dark secrets

no romance as of yet
all the characters seem innocent but they're hiding smth abt the idol's past
love how no one can be trusted

zombies
yaoi

after losing the map in an escape from a horde of zombies, the two mcs must put aside their differences in order to survive, one to lead the way w/ his photographic memory & the other to fend off the undead w/ his strength

these two are so fun; they're in a hopeless situation but they can't keep it in their pants
low-empath mc who learns how to care for the ml
ml who wants many happy memories to cover for the bad ones he can't forget