List of yaoi anime and manga
This is a list of yaoi (also known as boys' love or BL) anime, manga, OVAs, ONAs, and films.
Manga
The following yaoi titles were originally published as manga; any subsequent adaptations into other mediums are noted.
| From | To | Title | Creator(s) | Publisher | Volumes | Adaptation(s) | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 2004 | 9th Sleep | Makoto Tateno | Biblos | 1 | ||
| 2014 | 2014 | Adolescence Boy & "It" | Aya Sakyō | Tokuma Shoten | 1 | Audio drama | |
| 2007 | 2007 | After I Win | Kaname Itsuki | Houbunsha | 1 | ||
| 2008 | 2008 | Age Called Blue | Est Em | Tokyo Mangasha | 1 | ||
| 2000 | 2003 | Ai no Kotodama | Keiko Konno | Frontier Works | 2 | Live-action film | |
| 2007 | 2007 | Alcohol, Shirt and Kiss | Yuko Kuwabara | Biblos | 1 | ||
| 2008 | 2008 | All Nippon Air Line | Kei Azumaya | Magazine Magazine | 1 | ||
| 2006 | 2006 | Alley of First Love | Ellie Mamahara | Tokuma Shoten | 1 | ||
| 2008 | 2008 | Author's Pet | Deathco Cotorino | Magazine Magazine | 1 | ||
| 2004 | 2016 | Awkward Silence | Hinako Takanaga | Biblos (2004–2006), Libre (2006–2016) | 6 | Audio drama | |
| 2006 | 2006 | Barefoot Waltz | Romuko Miike | Houbunsha | 1 | ||
| 2006 | 2006 | Baseball Heaven | Ellie Mamahara | Tokuma Shoten | 1 | ||
| 2003 | 2005 | Black Knight | Kai Tsurugi | Biblos | 4 | — | |
| 2009 | 2015 | Blue Morning | Shoko Hidaka | Tokuma Shoten | 6 | ||
| 2006 | 2015 | Blue Sheep Reverie | Makoto Tateno | Nihon Bungeisha | 9 | — | |
| 2007 | 2007 | Blue Sky | Yuko Kuwabara | Biblos | 1 | ||
| 2013 | Blue Sky Complex | Kei Ichikawa | |||||
| 2004 | 2005 | Brilliant Blue | Saemi Yorita | Shinshokan | 2 | — | |
| 2008 | Bond of Dreams, Bond of Love | Yaya Sakuragi | |||||
| 2003 | Bond(z) | Toko Kawai | Biblos | 1 | — | ||
| 2004 | Brother | Yuzuha Ougi | Kaiohsha | 2 | — | ||
| 1997 | 2001 | ...But, I'm Your Teacher | Row Takakura | Biblos | 1 | — | |
| 2007 | 2007 | Candy | Satomi Sugita | Oakla Publications | 1 | ||
| 2010 | present | Candy Color Paradox | Isaku Natsume | Shinshokan | 6 | Audio drama, OVA, live-action television series | |
| 2004 | 2004 | A Capable Man | Hinako Takanaga | Kadokawa Shoten | 1 | ||
| 2014 | 2021 | Caste Heaven | Chise Ogawa | Libre | 8 | Audio drama, video game | |
| 2007 | 2007 | Cause of My Teacher | Temari Matsumoto | Libre | 1 | ||
| 2017 | Change World | Yuu Minaduki | Dear + | 2 | Audio Drama | ||
| 2018 | present | Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! | Yuu Toyota | Square Enix | 5 | Live-action television series, live-action film | |
| 2006 | present | Classmates | Asumiko Nakamura | Akane Shinsha | 6 | Anime film | |
| 1999 | Color | Eiki Eiki & Taishi Zaō | Shinshokan | 1 | — | ||
| 2006 | 2009 | The Cornered Mouse Dreams of Cheese | Setona Mizushiro | Shogakukan | 2 | Audio drama, live-action film | |
| 2006 | 2021 | Crimson Spell | Ayano Yamane | Chara | 7 | Audio drama | |
| 2013 | present | Dakaretai Otoko 1-i ni Odosarete Imasu. | Hashigo Sakurabi | Libre | 6 | Audio drama, anime television series | |
| 2018 | present | Dangerous Drugs of Sex | Yuki Mizuta | Magazine Magazine | 2 | Live-action film | |
| 2009 | Delusion Elektel | Yonezou Nekota | |||||
| 2019 | 2021 | Dick Fight Island | Reibun Ike | Libre | 2 | ||
| 2007 | 2007 | Dining Bar Akira | Tomoko Yamashita | Tokyomangasha | 1 | ||
| 2006 | 2015 | Does the Flower Blossom? | Shoko Hidaka | Gentosha | 5 | Audio drama, live-action film | |
| 2006 | present | Don't Be Cruel | Yonezou Nekota | Libre | 11 | Audio drama | |
| 2009 | present | Akiyama-kun | Aiko Nobara | Tokyo Mangasha | 3 | ||
| 2002 | 2002 | Dry Heat | Yugi Yamada | Houbunsha | 1 | ||
| 1999 | 2009 | Embracing Love | Youka Nitta | Biblos | 14 | ||
| 2006 | 2006 | Endless Rain | Yuuya | Ookura Shuppan | 1 | ||
| 2015 | 2018 | Escape Journey | Ogeretsu Tanaka | Libre | 3 | ||
| 2002 | present | Finder | Ayano Yamane | Libre | 12 | Audio drama, original video animation | |
| 2015 | Fourth Generation Head: Tatsuyuki Oyamato | Scarlet Beriko | Shinshokan | 1 | |||
| 2019 | Fudanshi Shōkan | Moe Fujisaki | Futabasha | 2 | |||
| 2002 | 2004 | Future Lovers | Saika Kunieda | Biblos | 2 | ||
| 2005 | 2006 | A Gentleman's Kiss | Shinri Fuwa | Tokuma Shoten | 2 | Audio drama | |
| 2014 | Ginger Honey | Isaku Natsume | |||||
| 2013 | present | Given | Natsuki Kizu | Shinshokan | 7 | Audio drama, anime television series, anime film, stage play | |
| 2014 | 2016 | Go For It, Nakamura! | Syundei | Akane Shinsha | 1 | ||
| 2003 | 2004 | Golden Cain | You Asagiri | Biblos | 1 | ||
| 2006 | 2006 | Golden Prince and Argent King | Kouko Agawa | Libre | 1 | ||
| 2012 | 2013 | Hana no Miyako de | Rihito Takarai | ||||
| 2003 | 2003 | Happiness Recommended | Souya Himawari | Houbunsha | 1 | ||
| 2008 | Present | His Favorite | Suzuki Tanaka | Magazine Be x Boy | 12 | ||
| 2012 | present | Hitorijime My Hero | Memeco Arii | Ichijinsha | 13 | Anime television series | |
| 2006 | 2006 | Hot Limit | Minori Shima & Akira Kanbe | Nihon Bungeisha | 1 | ||
| 2007 | How to Seduce a Vampire | Nimosaku Shimada | |||||
| 2005 | 2005 | Hybrid Child | Shungiku Nakamura | Biblos | 1 | ||
| 2013 | present | I Hear the Sunspot | Yuki Fumino | Canna Comics | 5 | ||
| 2006 | 2016 | I Want to Be Naughty | Mei Sakuraga | Houbunsha | 14 | Audio drama | |
| 2015 | Jackass! | Scarlet Beriko | Shinshokan | ||||
| 2002 | present | Junjo Romantica: Pure Romance | Shungiku Nakamura | Kadokawa Shoten | 25 | Anime television series | |
| 2010 | Kimi Note | Junko | 1 | ||||
| 1997 | 1998 | Kiss All the Boys | Shiuko Kano | Ohzora Publishing | 3 | ||
| 2006 | 2007 | Kiss Blue | Keiko Kinoshita | Taiyoh Tosho | 2 | ||
| 1992 | 2008 | Kizuna: Bonds of Love | Kazuma Kodaka | Biblos | 11 | ||
| 2012 | 2013 | Koitomo!? | Yuu Moegi | Core Magazine | 1 | Audio drama | |
| 2012 | present | Kuroneko Kareshi | Aya Sakyō | Shinshokan | 9 | Audio drama | |
| 2013 | 2014 | L'étranger de la Plage | Kanna Kii | Shodensha | 1 | Audio drama, anime film | |
| 2014 | present | L'étranger du Zéphyr | Kanna Kii | Shodensha | 4 | Audio drama | |
| 2018 | Liquor & Cigarettes | Ranmaru Zariya | |||||
| 2005 | Living For Tomorrow | Taishi Zaō | Shinshokan | 1 | — | ||
| 2018 | 2021 | Love Nest | Yuu Minaduki | Shinshokan | 2 | Audio Drama | |
| 2003 | present | Love Pistols | Tarako Kotobuki | Libre | 9 | ||
| 2005 | Love Prism | Asami Tojo | |||||
| 2010 | 2016 | Love Stage!! | Eiki Eiki & Taishi Zaō | Kadokawa Shoten | 7 | Anime television series, live-action film | |
| 2006 | 2006 | Loving Gaze | Akira Kanbe | Libre | 1 | ||
| 2006 | Maniac Shorts Shot | Miya Ousaka | |||||
| 2007 | Midnight Bloom | Rico Fukiyama | Shinshokan | 1 | — | ||
| 2019 | present | Minato's Laundromat | Yuzu Tsubaki & Sawa Kanzume | Media Factory | 4 | Live-action television series | |
| 2015 | Minori's Hand | Scarlet Beriko | |||||
| 2011 | Mr. Mini Mart | Junko | Tokuma Shoten | 1 | — | ||
| 2019 | present | Mr. Unlucky Has No Choice But to Kiss! | Gamoko Tsuyu | Libre | 1 | Live-action television series | |
| 2020 | My Personal Weatherman | Nikke Taino | NTT Solmare (digital), Libre (print) | 1 | Live-action television series, audio drama | ||
| 1995 | 1998 | New York, New York | Marimo Ragawa | Hakusensha | 4 | ||
| 2013 | 2020 | The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window | Tomoko Yamashita | Libre | 10 | Audio drama, live-action film | |
| 2007 | 2008 | No Touching At All | Kou Yoneda | Taiyoh Tosho | 1 | Audio drama, live-action film | |
| 2019 | present | Old-Fashioned Cupcake | Sagan Sagan | Taiyoh Tosho | 2 | Audio drama, live-action television series | |
| 2005 | Only You | Asami Tojo | |||||
| 2010 | Otokogokoro | Kanda Neko | |||||
| 2017 | present | Papa Datte, Shitai | Serina Seo | Suiseisha | 3 | Anime television series | |
| 2004 | Pathos | Mika Sadahiro | Oakla Publishing | 2 | |||
| 2004 | Physical Attraction | Tatsumi Kaiya | |||||
| 2010 | The Prince's Time | Junko | Taiyoh Tosho | 1 | — | ||
| 2008 | 2012 | Private Teacher! | Yuu Moegi | Core Magazine | 4 | Audio drama | |
| 2013 | Recipe no Ōji-sama | Junko | |||||
| 2006 | 2006 | Red | Sanae Rokuya | Taiyoh Tosho | 1 | ||
| 2016 | 2018 | Restart After Coming Back Home | Cocomi | France Shoin | 1 | Live-action film | |
| 2019 | present | Restart After Being Hungry | Cocomi | France Shoin | 1 | — | |
| 2009 | Rutta to Kodama | Youko Fujitani | |||||
| 2007 | 2010 | Sakura-Gari | Yuu Watase | Shogakukan | 3 | ||
| 2011 | Same Difference | Nozomu Hiiragi | Live-action short film | ||||
| 2016 | Present | Sasaki and Miyano | Shō Harusono | Pixiv Comic | 9 | Anime television series | |
| 2016 | Sayonara Game | Yuu Minaduki | Shinshokan | 1 | Audio drama | ||
| 2019 | 2020 | Senpai, This Can't Be Love! | Shinta Harekawa | Kadokawa | 2 | Audio drama, live-action television series | |
| 2016 | 2017 | Secret XXX | Meguru Hinohara | Shinshokan | 1 | Audio drama | |
| 2006 | Seduce Me After the Show | Est Em | |||||
| 2007 | 2009 | Seven Days | Venio Tachibana | Taiyoh Tosho | 2 | Live-action film | |
| 2013 | Special Delivery! | Momiji Akutagawa | |||||
| 2006 | 2007 | Steal Moon | Makoto Tateno | Nihon Bungeisha | 2 | ||
| 2005 | 2012 | A Strange and Mystifying Story | Tsuta Suzuki | Libre | 7 | ||
| 2010 | present | Super Lovers | Miyuki Abe | Kadokawa Shoten | 13 | Anime television series | |
| 2016 | Stray Bullet Baby | Kei Ichikawa | |||||
| 2013 | 2017 | Ten Count | Rihito Takarai | Shinshokan | 6 | Audio drama, video game, OVA, anime film | |
| 2017 | 2018 | Therapy Game | Meguru Hinohara | Shinshokan | 2 | Audio drama | |
| 2005 | Thunderbolt Boys Excite | Asami Tojo | |||||
| 2019 | present | The Titan's Bride | Iktz | Suiseisha | 1 | Anime television series | |
| 2018 | present | Twilight Out of Focus | Jyanome | Kodansha | 4 | Audio drama, anime television series | |
| 2008 | present | Twittering Birds Never Fly | Kou Yoneda | Taiyoh Tosho | 6 | Audio drama, anime film | |
| 2007 | 2007 | Wild Butterfly | Hiroki Kusumoto | Oakla Publishing | 1 | ||
| 2006 | present | The World's Greatest First Love | Shungiku Nakamura | Kadokawa Shoten | 16 | Anime television series, light novel, anime film | |
| 2012 | present | Yarichin Bitch Club | Ogeretsu Tanaka | Gentosha | 5 | Original video animation | |
| 2004 | 2008 | Yebisu Celebrities | Kaoru Iwamoto & Shinri Fuwa | Biblos | 6 | Original video animation | |
| 1995 | Yume no Kodomo | Shouko Hamada | |||||
| 2018 | present | Zettai BL ni Naru Sekai VS Zettai BL ni Naritakunai Otoko | Konkichi | Shodensha | 2 | Live-action television series |
Other media
The following yaoi titles were originally published in a medium that was not manga or anime, but were later adapted into a manga or anime.
| Year | Title | Creator(s) | Original medium | Adaptation(s) | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 2gether: The series | JittiRain | Novel | Live-action television series, manga | |
| 1986 | Ai no Kusabi | Rieko Yoshihara | Novel | Original video animation | |
| 2003 | Angel's Feather | BlueImpact | Video game | Manga, original video animation | |
| 2006 | Boys Love | Kaim Tachibana | Live-action film | Manga | |
| 2014 | Dramatical Murder | Nitro+chiral | Video game | Manga, anime television series | |
| 2002 | Enzai: Falsely Accused | Langmaor | Video game | Original video animation | |
| 1994 | Fujimi Orchestra | Kō Akizuki | Novel | Manga, original video animation | |
| 2002 | Gakuen Heaven | Spray | Video game | Novel, manga, anime television series | |
| 2007 | Kichiku Megane | Spray | Video game | Manga | |
| 1999 | Kiss in the Dark | Ken Nanbara | Novel | Original video animation | |
| 2002 | No Money | Tohru Kousaka & Hitoyo Shinozaki | Light novel | Manga, original video animation | |
| 2011 | Steal! | Spray | Video game | Manga, light novel | |
| 1998 | Takumi-kun | Shinobu Gotoh | Novel | Audio drama, manga, live-action film, stage play | |
| 2010 | Togainu no Chi | Nitro+chiral | Video game | Manga, novel, anime television series | |
| 2014 | Yes, No, or Maybe? | Michi Ichiho | Light novel | Anime film |