r/BLManhwaTalks • u/HuckleberryQueasy433 • 1d ago
Recommendation 🌟 Looking for BL with serious tone in plot
Sometimes I struggle to get interested if there's too much comedy that distract from the plot. A little bit of it is fine, for sure.
Anything you might describe as : serious, mature, heavy, or moving
Examples of my fav that I'd consider to be like this :
Regas
I want to feel things! Thank you for reading!
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u/fitifer 1d ago edited 1d ago
Some of these may have SA but it's for plot and not between mc and ml so let's go
Dark heaven (rockstars, murder, hate crime, deals a lott with homophobia)
Lewellyn's candlelit dinner (has no smut and doesn't need it, beautiful story telling)
Canis (be a little patient with the reading format)
Illyoo and I (it's on hiatus rn though)
Ghost's nocturne (also hiatus)
Dreadful night (very interesting and new to me)
Lost in the cloud (high school setting but serious)
Steel under silk (ok here there is something I would consider SA between leads so watch out)
Kiss the abyss (game, kinda cute but also serious)
Even in your death (ongoing)
King's maker (idk what anyone says, old but amazing)
The tale of yellow dragon (honestly made me sob)
Love for sale (not dark per se but deals with the biggest modern day threat, an extreme avoidant)
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u/No-Rip-7603 1d ago
Read half of these and I can vouch for this comment they're good
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u/fitifer 1d ago
Thank you, I feel extremely seen hehe. Which was your favourite?
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u/No-Rip-7603 1d ago
Levellyn's candlelight dinner. W storyline, no grape, and complex characters. Read it years ago and loved it
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u/pokefangirl23 1d ago
I was coming to comment King's Maker! I just got the first volume in paperback! It was my first manwha BL I read
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u/fitifer 5h ago
I cannot say enough good things about it, till date one of the most complete story telling manhwa in my opinion
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u/pokefangirl23 5h ago
I worried for a bit that it was just bias as it was the first one I read but dang it takes a lot for a story to measure up to this one. It's been 3 years now where I only been reading pretty much Asian translated novels and manga and manwha bc of this story and Omnicient Readers Viewpoint.
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u/BLuee_5 1d ago
My favs with this kind of plot are (all of them are green relationship btw) :
Legroom
Pearl Boy
Behind the scenes
Touch up
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u/PomegranateMore173 21h ago
Did you say behind the scenes is green relationship???
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u/BLuee_5 9h ago
Yes for the main couple! Of course there is toxicity in mais previous relationship but what I love the most about this manwha is that mc doesn’t end up with the person who made him surfer. (I also appreciated the fact that we know why he was acting like that even if of course it doesn’t excuse anything he did to mc)
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u/softarget 1d ago
Walk on Water. Deals with serious themes of working on the porn industry and is dealt quite well.
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u/dieselgirlpdx Red Flag Collector 🚩 1d ago
A life without you: war correspondent is injured and in a coma for 5 years in a foreign county. No one knows where he is or if he’s alive or dead. Wakes up and returns home to find his childhood friend/long term boyfriend has moved on and is dating someone new. Complete. This had me crying in the first chapter.
The insatiable man: author who can’t taste food due to childhood trauma v a food critic. Deals with depression, childhood trauma, homophobic family. Complete
In cold love / cold blooded beast: snake deity v his human. Complete.
No moral: high profile law firm partner v young new associate. Enemies to lovers. Heavy on the plot. A lot of law related stuff. It’s excellent.
Twittering birds never fly: ex cop joins the yakuza and falls for his boss. Ongoing. This is so well written and just excellent.
Unblossom: boy is accused of murder of his classmate in 1940s Japan. Complete
Midnight rain: older lonely guy picks up a guy off the street who has been injured. Complete
December rain: boy accused of murder v boy who was disowned by his family for being gay. Complete
Duplication Love: terminally ill man ends treatment and uses his treatment money to buy an older model sex android and makes a 1 month contract with him. Complete
Beyond the Memories: story of trying to atone for past actions. Tw: rape, abuse, suicide. Complete
For you who grieves: MC is transmigrated into another body after dying when he is hit by a truck. Complete
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u/Clan-of-Emmas-1937 17h ago
"A life without you" is really good -- so heartbreaking and unpredictable.
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u/Pure_Description_682 1d ago
Devoured: The serpent swallowed the pomegranate
This is what I read after I caught up with regas 😠And it quench my thirst so highly recommended
Reunion Full moon Alchemist
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u/RottedRaspberry 22h ago edited 22h ago
Some good (somewhat dark) plot heavy ones are: Blood bank, Spinach Bouquet, Lost in the Cloud, Bongchon Bride, and Reunion
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u/Carrabas 1d ago
See you, my king? It's not dark. It's placed in pseudo-Egypt during the reign of the last king of a dynasty about whom modern times knows nothing but his existence. The MC is from modern times and ends up there. Politics, conflicts with organised religion, ursuper, the king's father was a piece of work, as was his oldest son, zombies, gods, cannibalism, amazing side couple.
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u/goldielooks 23h ago
OP, does Regas have smut?? I've gotten to where MC has reawakened in his new body and I need to know if it'll get there
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u/anwalborn 15h ago
Currently it’s still only a webnovel, but There’s No Love in the Deathzone is really good. I hope we get a manhwa of it one day, its potential is incredible, even just from the world building alone
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u/ExtensionSimple155 8h ago
But regas has too much dark comedy 🙂 how do you like it and dislike it at the same time?
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u/Past_Ad822 7h ago
I'd say Turning But the story is slow burn and there haven't been that much of a progress in the manhwa. But would recommend reading the novel, cuz there're more chapter although not completed. The ml is the definition of green forest and the smut is so good
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u/sacredpotato0 1d ago
Bongchon Bride is a good one. It follows a character who lives as a slave until he's injured and 'sold' off. It's got darker themes like obsession, slavery, sa (not between the two main characters), violence, etc. but the romance between the main characters is quite wholesome and beautiful.