Well, at the risk of... whatever! (Feel free to tell me if I'm completely me wrong in my assessment...)
- Wild Adapter: yakuza, guns, and drugs. And well, two male characters who are kind of very heavily implied to be in love with each other, even if neither of them is willing to admit it (each for different reasons)
- Tactics: fantasy manga about a folklorist who meets a Tengu (humanoid crow demon) and names him. Heavily implied that the folklorist is in love with the tengu, although the main focus of the manga is the fantasy aspect. (all revolving around traditional Japanese demons)
- Tokaido Hisame: fantasy manga about a demon hunter and a priest. The priest is very much in love/lust with the demon hunter; the demon hunter... is unwilling? doesn't reciprocate? Not sure. Focuses on their demon-hunting adventures. (For what it's worth, one of my gay friends really liked this manga, but he's just one person)
- Lovers and Souls: yaoi manga, so ymmv on this, but I thought it was nice. Art student falls in love with his model, but never tells him... and the model sort of takes him for granted. Until.... stuff happens that is spoilery. Obviously romance, take with a grain of salt, etc. etc. I think if you read ONLY one story by Miyamoto Kano, it's okay; if you read every story by her, then you start noticing patterns in her storytelling and characters and it gets more boring. It also seems to me that she tries a little bit harder to portray "accurate" Japanese queer life, but I am not sure how well she succeeds -- in the very least, it avoids some of the nastier tropes of yaoi manga.
- Hitomi ni Ounowa/Dear Green: I admit that I love love love this story, so I'm probably biased and don't see issues in it. Two best friends who have known each other since high school; they've both moved to tokyo and rarely see each other. But slowly, they start realizing that maybe they mean more to each other than they originally thought. And I like that it's slow; I like that there are chapters where they just hang out together and it doesn't always end in a sex scene. When they fight, they're both on equal footing. But again, I'm a hopeless romantic, and I know that this manga glosses over a lot of issues so I don't know whether this is an appropriate rec. (The gay friend who liked Tokaido also liked this one, but again, he's just one person.)
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- Wild Adapter: yakuza, guns, and drugs. And well, two male characters who are kind of very heavily implied to be in love with each other, even if neither of them is willing to admit it (each for different reasons)
- Tactics: fantasy manga about a folklorist who meets a Tengu (humanoid crow demon) and names him. Heavily implied that the folklorist is in love with the tengu, although the main focus of the manga is the fantasy aspect. (all revolving around traditional Japanese demons)
- Tokaido Hisame: fantasy manga about a demon hunter and a priest. The priest is very much in love/lust with the demon hunter; the demon hunter... is unwilling? doesn't reciprocate? Not sure. Focuses on their demon-hunting adventures. (For what it's worth, one of my gay friends really liked this manga, but he's just one person)
- Lovers and Souls: yaoi manga, so ymmv on this, but I thought it was nice. Art student falls in love with his model, but never tells him... and the model sort of takes him for granted. Until.... stuff happens that is spoilery. Obviously romance, take with a grain of salt, etc. etc. I think if you read ONLY one story by Miyamoto Kano, it's okay; if you read every story by her, then you start noticing patterns in her storytelling and characters and it gets more boring. It also seems to me that she tries a little bit harder to portray "accurate" Japanese queer life, but I am not sure how well she succeeds -- in the very least, it avoids some of the nastier tropes of yaoi manga.
- Hitomi ni Ounowa/Dear Green: I admit that I love love love this story, so I'm probably biased and don't see issues in it. Two best friends who have known each other since high school; they've both moved to tokyo and rarely see each other. But slowly, they start realizing that maybe they mean more to each other than they originally thought. And I like that it's slow; I like that there are chapters where they just hang out together and it doesn't always end in a sex scene. When they fight, they're both on equal footing. But again, I'm a hopeless romantic, and I know that this manga glosses over a lot of issues so I don't know whether this is an appropriate rec. (The gay friend who liked Tokaido also liked this one, but again, he's just one person.)