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TsukasaElkKite
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I agree 100% that I Hear The Sunspot should be turned into an anime.
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Toyokaaaa
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Those are nice and cozy SoL series, but there are more BLs out there.
For example, Acid Town could've been an amazing yakuza series with darker tone. I can see Bad Boys, Happy Home as a more lighthearted delinquent series with good fight scenes. The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese/The Carp on the Chopping Block Jumps Twice already has a live action adaptation, but it wasn't that well received due to censorship. Multiple OVAs could've done it justice. Since isekais are coming out from left and right those days, The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter anime can be very successful, having good world building and likable MC. You get my point, variety's a spice of life. |
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SHD
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Yes, that's my take on it as well. Nothing against "nice and cozy SoL" and other very safe and middle-of-the-road type stuff, but there's so much variation out there, why stick to one particular flavor? My list would definitely include manga like Momo to Manji, Barbarities, Yoake no uta... Mirage of Blaze is also long due a new, better anime adaptation... a whole lot of other older works and classics that have zero chances of getting adapted (and may or may not have aged well, but you'll get my Ai no kusabi and Zetsuai 1989 when you pry them out of my cold dead hands  as well as Yura Tamaki's works, which I think aged mostly well). And definitely weird and fun stuff like my latest love, Yabun ni kyuuketsu shitsureishimasu or my longer-time favorite Yongen no elegy, which is technically not BL but ahaha okay, and its visuals would make it an absolute amazing anime in the right hands. (By the way the mangaka's latest work, Akuma wa yurikago wo utau is really fun so far.) And I absolutely second Bean Counter, it's pretty fun even to someone like me who is not into isekai in general.
More to the point, though, I'd rather they didn't make any BL anime if it can't be guaranteed it's getting the right attitude and approach, I won't even say anything about budget. Precious few has been given a decent treatment, and honestly Sankaku mado left me with a slight case of PTSD when it comes to BL adaptations. By the way, I think with CheriMaho an anime is really just a question of time at this point, even if only a movie. (But I would still prefer an anime adaptation of Toyota's previous, non-BL but IMO much superior manga...) |
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musouka
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I know the article writer meant this in good faith so please don't take this as me being upset at him, but the actual bark of laughter I let out when reading those lines! You couldn't have chosen a couple of worse examples, except maybe the upcoming Ten Count movie, which has "cheap" and "terrible" written all over it. I also agree that the list doesn't really show the breadth of what BL series are out there. Rather than chose feel-good drama or romantic comedies that are both cheap and easy to produce in live action, I'd love to see (like Toyokaaaa and SHD mentioned) things like Momo to Manji or The Other World's Books Depend on the Bean Counter. It's probably not at a point where the plot would allow for an anime, but I'd also love to see Yoake no Uta get a prestige fantasy treatment. The lack of Bean Counter is especially nuts to me. The webnovel is short and could probably be smooshed into one cour (though two would be better) and the manga is selling like gangbusters! In a time when it seems like anything with "another world" in the title gets the automatic rubber stamp, why, oh why, haven't they jumped on this one? |
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Rodem
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Kieta Hatsukoi isn’t a BL!! It’s a shoujo cause the magazine it was serialized in is a shojo magazine (and if you went to any JP bookstore it would never be in the BL section it would of course always be with the other margaret comics.) I find it incredibly lame how English speaking communities have to plaster on the “bl/gl” label to any and all things that star a gay couple. (And it sure doesn’t help the stigma of gay couples supposedly being different from “normal” couples.) Also it has 9 volumes not 8…. How was that mistake even made when the correct count is a click away on the series page?
(and yes I know Ten Dance isn’t serialized in a bl magazine either but I’m not familiar with it and how the author classifies it so I don’t have anything to say on that matter….) Complaints aside, my top picks are Sleeping Dead and MADK (mostly the former.) But since those are so gory I find it incredibly unlikely they would get a TV series. So my fantasies specifically involve a high budget film or two. SD seems to be based on western horror movies so something in that style would be very very cool. and the demon world of madk is so detailed and beautiful seeing it in color/motion would for sure be a treat to the eyes. (a person can dream.) |
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MagicPolly
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We might have gotten a lot of BL in the past few years that I'm thankful for, but unfortunately there's almost nothing upcoming. The only things we've got are the Sasamiya movie (releases in a month), the Ten Count movie (looks like it's gonna be a dud), and the two Saezuru sequels (I've accepted them as all but cancelled by now). Even 2022 only gave us Sasamiya and a cheap Comicfesta adaptation. Hopefully something will be announced soon to end the drought.
My preferences tend to lean more towards fluff or lighter drama, so my picks would be Minato Shouji Coin Laundry (the live action was great) and literally anything by Yamamoto Kotetsuko. I get that Honto Yajuu might be a bit difficult because of the smut scenes but I feel like they could be easily faded to black without losing much. A lot of my other favorites are 1 volume self contained stories or not ongoing so I don't expect anything out of them. |
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ryonomiko
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Would be great to have more BL anime adaptations... but doubt there'd be much increase of the number of them being done anytime soon still. =[
Golden Days (shounen-ai) have wanted an anime adaption for for many many years... also more and more disgruntled it doesn't get licenced for an official English release (whole lot of reader surveys for several publishers done for years). *sigh* |
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SHD
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Right?! Sankaku mado was absolutely terrible, and even in the few episodes I could stomach, at points it felt downright disrespectful to the source material as well as its fans.
Yep, that's what I imagined as well when I mentioned it - it would be great to see it adapted as a big, prestige fantasy show! Then again... knowing what is more likely to happen with a BL anime adaptation..... ................. (the Sankaku mado PTSD is kicking in again)
Honestly, I have a feeling that it's because as perfectly tame as it is, it's still not the kind of BL that this list also seems to gravitate to. (I mean, it has sex in it, too! gasp, faint, we can't do that sort of thing on TV, unless we do it like in Sankaku mado)
Haha, I love Madk but there's no way it'll ever get an anime, not in my lifetime anyway.  Not even an OVA. I'd love to see one, because I agree it would be amazing, but... yeah. Then again, they could totally make anime out of the mangaka's other, non-BL works... Jinba is finished and ripe for adapting, and Tekkai no senshi was obviously cancelled but oh my god all the character and world designs in that would be amazing to see in color and movement.
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musouka
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Oh, before I forget, since it was brought up, One of the things I'd do if I became a billionaire would absolutely fund a lavish, complete version of Mirage of Blaze. Not even because I like it all that much, but just because it deserves so much better than it got.
Probably the most "interesting" BL title with a chance of getting a high quality adaptation is The Summer Hikaru Died, but I wonder if the buzz will last long enough for the material to build. (I would have said the same about 10 Dance at one point, but I think its chance has passed.) |
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secondkas
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Most of the previous posters already stated it: I appreciate the list, but BL has a broader scope than just slice-of-life romance, and the fantasy ones are those that I want to see animated. Inariya Fusanosuke's works like Code: Leviathan and Inui Hana's Marriage to the Wolf: The Tale of an Interspecies Union (Ookami he no yomeiri) have such beautiful settings and character designs, I think they will be great to be adapted by Kyoto Animation or PA Works. I also agree with the Momo to Manji suggestions. Basically titles with very distinct and detailed styles of artwork are those I'm fascinated to watch in motion. BL readers also want to see good quality adaptations and the medium maximized to its fullest capability. I like that Given was animated because I enjoy watching instrument-playing scenes and finally hear Mafuyu sing, but imagine if it were given (hah...) the Kids on the Slope, K-ON, or Bocchi the Rock treatment. Unfortunately the BL fanbase have to accept the notion that it is too small to cater to with big budget productions, and at the core of the genre are elements that can't be exposed to a wide age range audience, but if Nekopara and some questionable isekai titles can be adapted with care, they have no excuse to skimp on BL.
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Toyokaaaa
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Haha, I agree, Sankaku could've been sooo much more! But after seeing a truly terrible BL adaptation(6 Lovers) I don't think I can hate it now. 
I think it's easy for the sex scene to be off screen in this case. Honestly wouldn't be that bad.
Tbf Nekopara monstrosity was kickstarted by fans, so it was unavoidable. And I'm not surprised we haven't received any more adult-oriented manga adaptations because nobody tried to adapt more adult title to full series since...Sekaiichi Hatsukoi, a 2011 anime. It's honestly sad Saezuru only managed to get 3 OVAs instead of full series despite how beloved and respected it is. Anyways, I totally agree with Yuki to Matsu suggestion, but I'd love to see how Stigmata would fair. I know the author wanted to see live action adaptation of it, but it could've made a nice gory detective series! |
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KPK10
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Go for it, Nakamura! is the one that needs an adaptation
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SHD
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Fortunately I never watched that, heh. But if it's worse than Sankaku mado, oh boy...
I completely support this! Really, Mirage of Blaze is one of those stories that you either do in an absolutely lavish, elaborate production, or not do it at all. (Which is why I'm deeply disappointed with the new manga adaptation, it looks and reads so... bleh.)
By the way, even if one is into more "conventional" or slice of life stories, there's so much more to even that than what this list shows... how about all those works by basso? (Kuma to interi, anyone?) Or crime stories like Canis. Or... or... Anyway, yeah. There's a lot more to BL than what this list implies.
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MagicPolly
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Sankaku Mado could at least be called an adaptation and possibly be enjoyed by people who didn't read the manga. 6 Lovers on the other hand was 3 minute clips based on each manga with the most minimal animation possible. And this is after it was delayed for 4 years. |
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secondkas
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Yeah, I realize that if the goal of anime adaptation is to increase the sales of the original source material, then there's no point sanitizing BL for a mainstream audience. But I wish someone would be inspired to animate them simply for animation's sake, because there are many BL titles that are so well-drawn and dynamic. Sometimes I imagine Saezuru and Acid Town being produced by Mappa, Production IG, or Madhouse, or Badass by Trigger or Bones but I know those are pipe dreams. I wonder if there will be a day big renowned studios will pick up BL, or at least the studios that do reach the levels of the prestigious ones. The Stranger by the Shore (L'etranger) movie looks nice, and Banana Fish happened, so I still haven't lost hope for BL anime. |
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