Best Boys Love Manga of 2025

One snowy winter evening, Chang-Deok spots a high schooler crouched in front of his favorite restaurant, blood running ice-cold in the falling snow. Lured in by the promise of meal made just like the restaurant's, Chang-Deok ends up inviting the boy—Jong-U—into his home; after all, Chang-Deok's life is as dry as day-old rice, and food is his only joy. So when Jong-U offers to cook him a delicious dinner every night in exchange for a place to stay, he reluctantly agrees. But as their unusual cohabitation begins, Changdeok can't shake this bloody feeling that Jong-U might be hiding something... Hopefully being a good Samaritan doesn’t come back around to bite him in the neck—er, butt...

Keitarou, dreaming of a soulmate, meets a beautiful brown girl (?) Sun. Apparently, he'd promised to marry Sun when they were young — and it turns out he's a prince of the kingdom of Caglionia! Will they find their soulmate in each other!?

Oh Seung-Pyo has always been at the top of his class, but once he enters high school, his spot gets stolen by Ryu Jae-Min. No matter how hard Seung-Pyo tries, he can't seem to reclaim his place and is stuck in second. For the first time in his life, he develops an inferiority complex and, without realizing it, he starts keeping an eye on Jae-Min. One rainy day, the two accidentally swap phones. Though it seemed like a minor accident, what Seung-Pyo discovers on Jae-Min's phone leaves him in shock, complicating their relationship beyond expectation.

Black panther Pyo Yoontae returns to So Jeongseo’s small town with one objective: to find his first love who had fur as white as snow. Being the school outcast, Jeongseo decides to help Yoontae in the hopes of finally making a friend. Besides, Yoontae’s first love surely can’t be Jeongseo himself, since he’s a weasel with brown fur. But something about Yoontae feels awfully similar to a forgotten childhood playmate, and there is one secret Jeongseo is keeping from him. Every winter, Jeongseo actually sheds his fur and turns snow-white!

University student Itaru Hachimori obsessively stalks his crush, Yamato Mitsunaga. But Mitsunaga only has eyes for HIS own target, Hiromasa Tate. And Tate? He’s secretly stalking the one he likes…who turns out to be Hachimori?! A twisted love-hate triangle between three stalkers who attend the same university—disastrous for them, entertaining for onlookers! *Source: Manga UP! Global*

Ji-Han Yoo played Hero of Legends but always lost to pro-gamer, Gamgak. Fed up, he jumps ship to a new game, but the guild master, Yoo-Chae, picks a fight over his gamer ID. But when Yoo-Chae finds out Ji-Han used to play HoL, he becomes obsessed. Can Ji-Han withstand Yoo-Chae's relentless pursuit?

Employee-of-the-Month champion and service-industry all-rounder Lim Seongshik thought he’d seen everything, until he wakes up inside a bleak BL novel as none other than Elliot Brown, a minor villain doomed to die. In the original story, everyone meets their end at the hands of the protagonist, Arzen Theron. So Elliot decides to keep his past life as a writer hidden, lie low, and quietly avoid the one event that triggers the tragedy: ghost-writing a love letter. But life—and his cat—have other plans. A desperate situation forces him into becoming Arzen’s personal bed attendant, of all things. To make matters worse, his “secret identity” as a writer gets exposed to the novel’s original love interest. Before he knows it, Elliot is back to ghost-writing letters… this time for Arzen himself! But something’s off. The Arzen in front of him doesn’t match the cruel lead he remembers... Can Elliot keep faking those letters just enough to dodge his scripted death ending? Or has the story already started to change?

Cerberus, a coliseum gladiator, has been ordered to become a stud for breeding a new generation of powerful warriors. For political reasons, Phaethon, a handsome priest of the sun god, has agreed to give the virgin gladiator lessons in sex. At first, Phaethon underestimates the reserved Cerberus, but the gladiator's eyes hold a smoldering love that borders on raging inferno. Can the love between two lonely souls break the chains of social status that bind them?

Mitsu Hikawa, a second-year high school student, and her best friend Rui Majima secretly love BL, and Mitsu spends her days fantasizing about the boys in her class. One day, one of the people she is observing, Shou Kagomiya, asks Mitsu, "Hikawa, you like Rui Majima don't you?" and Mitsu is shocked――!? A chaotic love triangle (?) between a fujoshi gyaru and a handsome himedanshi!!

Taiga is a part-time DJ and model who rose to popularity with his old hits. After a club show, he spots someone who’s his exact type. Fully expecting it to be just a one-night thing, Taiga finds himself in an unexpected situation when a language barrier causes a misunderstanding. To make matters more complicated, his casual hookup left out one key detail about who they really are… A story between a trashy DJ/Model and an overwhelmingly beautiful stranger.

When he was a child, Ritsuki brought home a kitten and named it "Tama". He spent his days raising the cute ball of fluff only for it to take the form of a young beast-man who goes by the name of "Shuri". However, as they become high schoolers, Ritsuki mysteriously starts to distance himself from Shuri who had always been by his side...

*“I can touch ghosts.”* Iori from Ghost Cleaning arrived at an empty apartment for an exorcism. Fully expecting no ghosts, he opened the door only to see Yukihisa: a ghost totally his type! Pretending to ignore him, Iori stayed in the haunted dwelling to perform the exorcism. Afterwards, he partied with the scaredy-cat landlord and got wasted. But Iori has a bad habit of getting horny when he drinks, and he ends up sleeping with Yukihisa. The next morning, he finds himself bound to the ghost...

On his 20th birthday, ramen shop worker Jyuri’s quiet life is upended when his estranged grandfather appears and asks him to move to Tokyo, enroll in a prestigious university, and train as the heir to his powerful corporation. Hoping to repay the family who supported him and honor his late mother’s wishes, Jyuri steps into a world of wealth and expectations far beyond his comfort zone. But his new life starts chaotically when he’s assigned a strict, intimidating caretaker, Kai, and forced to live with him in a luxurious mansion.

"Wait, why the hell am I kissing this guy right now?!!" The story is set in a certain magic school. Eve, a dog beastfolk, is excited about the "Buddy Selection Ceremony". The moment his Buddy is announced, everyone is in an uproar. That is because his Buddy is none other than "Aura", a genius wolf beastfolk who has some dark rumors surrounding him! (Just who is this guy?!) Even so, Eve approaches him to try and become friends with him, but Eve coldly rejects him with an "I don't have the energy to talk to you"! He's harsh and their magics are the polar opposites of each other, so they couldn't be a worse match... Can you really live together with someone like that...?! A fluffy, chaotic Buddy BL!! Mysterious Lone Wolf x Cheerful Puppy!!

Due to past trauma, Yanai is a high school boy who has difficulty expressing his emotions. One day, as he searches for ways to change himself, he finds out that his classmate Hasugaya's family runs a chiropractic clinic that relieves emotional stiffness. After begging Hasugaya, who is reluctant to bother, to give him a treatment, Yanai is able to cry for the first time in years, but... before his very eyes is Hasugaya's ecstatic expression!?

A story of two men who lived in the turbulent early 20th century.

One day, Arthur realizes that he’s been reincarnated as the villain in a BL game. On top of that, he remembers that based on the plot of the game, he only has endings like the “Imprisonment Ending” and “Tentacle Ending” waiting for him! With no other option to save his chastity and life, his only way out is getting his fiancée to get with the protagonist! Dragging along his trusty servant Edgar, he tries to craft up schemes to get the two of them together. But, rather than being hated as the villain, he starts raising BL flags of his own?!

"If you just want to feel the excitement of romance, why don't you date me?" Ao and Sora are polar opposites who, due to their bad grades, are forced to take extra lessons over summer break if they want to get into university. Despite their differences, they hit it off and quickly become friends. One day after class, Sora tells Ao he wants to get a girlfriend and experience that fluttery, heart-racing feeling of liking someone. Ao replies that it's a bit late to find a girlfriend to spend summer vacation with, and then suddenly asks why Sora doesn't just date him instead?!

On Christmas Eve night, college student Masuda met Kurihara, a guy bawling his eyes out at the convenience store where he worked part-time. Even though it was their first time meeting, he got stuck with his whining about being dumped right before Christmas, a real hassle. But when he learned he'd been looking forward to the date, he couldn't just leave him hanging... *"Should I go in place of your girlfriend...?"* Before he knew it, he'd offered to be a stand-in, and they ended up going on the date!? The next day, at the meeting spot, stood an intelligent-looking, sparkling Kurihara, a complete stranger compared to the crybaby from yesterdayーー!? Tearful, handsome puppy-like guy × apathetic but actually kind-hearted guy. A love story where he gets charmed!

First-year high school student Yuma Kazaoka has been troubled since childhood by his constitution, which "attracts beings that are not of this world." One day, Yuma meets a boy on the rooftop who asks him to "cooperate with me in exchange for protecting him from evil spirits"—? Yuma accepts the offer, and as a sign of their contract, he and the boy are bound together by a "red thread"...! (Translated from mynavi.jp)

Ran, who loves cute things, is caught by Haruma, the boy he has a crush on, while cross-dressed as a maid. Thinking his love is over, he braces himself for rejection, but Haruma reacts in a way he never expected...!?

Housekeeper Hasumi’s new workplace was an artist’s home that doubles as an atelier. There he was met with a bad-tempered client notorious for shooing away all the previous housekeepers — the private but popular ceramist who shows his real face, Kurose. While in a slump, Kurose began immersing himself in his creations until he pushed his body to the limit. However, touched by Hasumi’s gentle way of work, even his unsociable attitude slowly oozed out a soft sweetness… *“If you touch me like that with those palms-…”* A taciturn, handsome ceramist X A younger pure puppy-dog housekeeper. A BL that quenches your deepest thirst, a salvation to slow burn!

*Note: Originally self-published, was then licensed and compiled by Ichijinsha for commercial release.*

Luvilia, a mysterious city where the supernatural gather. Poor alchemist Alfred is risking his life to challenge is... making the "ultimate chocolate" to offer to the vampire Shin!? The key to breaking the forced master-servant contract is a "blissful sense of being alive." That is his only weakness. Will Alfred kill him first with a single, supremely sweet morsel, or will he become his servant first...? Where will this sweet, melting battle lead? "Even your murderous face is enticing, isn't it?" "Drop dead already, you shitty vampire!" An absolute master-servant Gothic sweets fantasy!

After his grandparents—the last of his family—pass away, Kariya finds himself free to discover what awaits outside the harsh confines of his remote mountain village. However, beyond its borders lies a world embroiled in the fires of war, and Kariya is conscripted into the army before he can take his first step toward freedom. It doesn’t take him long to realize the truth: this world is a near carbon copy of a game he played in his previous life. When his identity as a reincarnated player comes to light, Kariya is tasked with a perilous mission to escort Wald, a handsome prince disguised as his twin sister the princess, safely through enemy territory and back to the royal capital. But Kariya isn’t the only one who knows the secret of this world—and having the combat proficiency of a common NPC won’t keep anyone safe. Armed only with player foresight and the skills of an S-tier craftsman, he’ll need every ounce of cunning he can muster to turn the tides of battle and bring his prince home.

Kuromaikai, a tengu, was once famous as a legendary ayakashi. However, his shrine is now in ruins, and he has fallen so far into decline that even his servants have fled. "It's all humans' fault!" he says, determined to restore his former glory, he descends the mountain and visits an old demon who has made a fortune in the human world. "If you can complete the test, I'll lend you my strength," he is told, and tasked with raising a human baby with his nemesis, the fox demon Miyakineina...!?

"You barged into my life, which was as good as dead, and completely shattered everything." Shizuru Amami, a large and extremely shy caregiver, spots a young man attempting to drown himself in the sea late at night and rescues him. When he escorts the young man, Yuuri, who claims to have no money, no smartphone, and no reliable parents, back to his home, Shizuru finds a room in such disarray that it seems impossible anyone could live there. Shizuru, who sees Yuuri's extreme rejection of any concern, is reminded of his childhood friend who committed suicide. In a selfish act of atonement, he pleads with Yuuri, "I want to help you, please let me support you, ──?" *Note: Koko ni Itemo Ii desu ka is as a web manga released on the author's Twitter and pixiv accounts since July 18, 2023. The web manga was published as doujinshi on October 12, 2025, when two volumes were released at J.GARDEN 48. Official serialization started in &.Emo on December 25, 2025.