Bloody + Mary

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[cia12321]

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[cia12321]

Shounen ai!!!

 

[cia12321]

AND the vampire tag!!!!!!!!!!!!!😮

 

[O-Takuni]

It's NOT Shounen Ai. I've read the whole thing and it isn't, it just has a deep brotherly relationship between two leads with nice chemistry (in that they get along). If you're a fujoshi, you're free to ship it if you want, but that doesn't mean it actually is a BL.

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What it may actually need is the romance tag (for the deuteragonists)

But anyways, it's quite an emotional read with really pretty art. There's just enough mystery to keep you reading, though it might drag at some parts. It ends strongly too.

 

[cia12321]

@O-Takuni OH! Sorry, but I think.. it was? Since myanimelist has the tag- it could be wrong though- really seemed like a romance to me when I read it- I also checked a lot of the reviews, talking about the sexuality of the characters. Annnddd the author writes a lot of BL..

 

[O-Takuni]

@cia12321 Oh, I see. I didn't check the mal page - only checked bakaupdates - so that one's on me I guess, but then again, updating series information on mal is really slow, and genre changes almost never go through (believe me, I've tried it before). This author also denotes when of work of hers is BL or not in both her website and her twitter, and she didn't have that distinction for Bloody + Mary, making me think it wasn't her intention to turn it into a BL work.

I do agree that Mary and Maria's relationship has a lot of chemistry and that it's left ambiguous, though. I think overall this is one of those series where the BL *subtext* is really strong, that it would be very tempting to consider it as such, like, say, Free! for example. I don't have anything against considering it as such; I mean, even if you consider it a romance and I don't, we could both agree that our male leads really are close

 

[cia12321]

Yeah, I guess so! It really was a pretty good manga, romance or not.