Boys Run The Riot

r/Seinen · Recommend me life changing philosophical mangas

Boys Run the Riot is one of the mangas that i'm reading right now, and it really helped me to know a lot about myself and about the person around me. Welcome Back Alice is also similar in its essence, and its one of my favorite mangas. Both focus more on the development of people around your age and how their relationships affect themselves and the people around them. I Am a Hero does a very good job at exploring in a non-expositive way how the mind of a schizphrenic(dunno how to write it) person works and how much that ends up being a weight on them along to all the >!zombies!< thing. Lan

r/mangarecommendations · Looking for BL or queer manga recs for a 12 year old.

It's not BL, but Boys Run the Riot is about a trans guy in high scool that isn't out to most people, who then bonds with a transfer student and then the two focus on opening an online fashion brand together. I haven't finished it quite yet, but I'm enjoying it so far! It's not a romance and there's no adult content, but there are some depictions of bullying (which is obviously portrayed as a bad thing, like it should be.) The story is really about people trying to figure out how to be themselves in a world that doesn't want that, which is a good message at any age but I would think especially

r/mangarecommendations · Looking for Queer romance recs

"Love Me for Who I Am"--cishet high school boy recruits his AMAB but female-presenting non-binary classmate to work at the crossdressing cafe run by the boy's transfem aunt. Romance--among other emotional complications--ensues. "Boys Run the Riot"--there's no actual romance in this, but it's about an initially closeted transmasc teenager who winds up starting a street fashion brand with an unexpectedly enlightened delinquent-appearing male classmate. The mangaka, who is transmasc himself, launched a sequel series which is apparently about some of the same characters last year. But I haven't r