Inuno Mageyuishi – rentaBLog

R-kun, king of snacks (courtesy of our friends at the **BL Brunch**)

Spooky Season is in full swing, and we’re making the most of it here at Renta! HQ. Ames and I secured our copies of Inuno Mageyuishi’s latest doujinshi, featuring sexy cosplay time (where BOTH the uke and seme are dressed up!!), among many others at J.GARDEN60, treats have been shared among the team to the point our already unhinged workplace conversations are growing even more sus than usual thanks to the added sugar rush, and our localization team group chat name (the tradition of which we infamously expounded upon at our Citrus Con Q&A panel earlier this year) is now the seasonally appropriate EJACULANTERN 🎃 — another brainchild of the sickeningly creative Takochan. So, yeah. We’re having a good time over here.

Costumes and candy are great and all, but an equally worthwhile Halloween pastime is devouring as much yaoi that can be classified as “spoopy” as humanly possible. What better way to focus your time and energy while those pesky gremlins knock at your door all night? Sorry trick-or-treaters, NOTHING gets in the way of Yaoi Time 😈.

There’s a plethora of BL manga centered around monsters, vampires, and things that go bump in the night (😏) if you’re in the mood for something hauntingly thrilling — from established fan favorites such as Monster and Ghost and FANGS to newer hits like I Wanna Savor You and Vampires Don’t Go For Party Boys. In fact, there’s so much of it that it can be overwhelming — that’s why I thought I’d write up a list of some particularly ~spooky~ releases from the past year or so, just as a starting point for your Halloween reading! Maybe you’ll find a new favorite, or discover a trope that resonates with you and sends you down a whole new rabbit hole of BL discovery.

🧛 VAMPIRE THIRST NOTICE 🧛 I do wanna preface this list with a note that the world is just too horny for vampires, and as such, there were about a billion vampire stories that would also definitely belong here… but the list would simply go on forever, and I wanted to make space for other spooky beings as well! So if you’re in the mood for some bloodsucking goodness, I recommend exploring our Vampire BL tag, which is growing by the day. I still included a few vampire recs here, though. As a treat 🍬.

Without further ado, let’s get into some spooky recs!! 🦇

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It’s never a bad time to take a moment and appreciate all that yaoi has given us…

It’s that time of year again — at least for the folks who celebrate Thanksgiving 🦃 — where we fill our bellies with all kinds of festive delights, spend just enough time with family for some sort of decades-brewing drama to surface, and promptly retreat to a secluded space to continue reading that BL you’ve been meaning to get around to.

Sou after Thanksgiving dinner, or after a large serving of big tiddy BL

Whether it be personal relationships or developments in the world at large, there’s never a shortage of sources of stress and despair. Luckily, I’ve found that BL is a reliable mood lifter in both the good times and bad — it’s just the thing I need to make me go, “Maybe this Chungus life isn’t so bad after all.” (Well, that and pumpkin pie piled high with Cool Whip, but sadly neither of those things are exactly common in our corner of Japan.)

When I proposed this post theme to my fellow BLog members, they asked whether “things to give thanks for in the BL sphere” meant BL tropes, changes in trends, specific BL series or characters, or recent BL news. I decided not to limit the theme so as to release as much BL gratitude from the depths of our hearts as possible — so get ready for our unfiltered gracious yaoi ramblings.

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