Manga Recommendation: Shout Out Loud!

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Shout Out Loud! (Sakende Yaruze)
by Satosumi Takaguchi

genre tags: boy's love, drama, comedy, real life

I really enjoyed this manga so far. It's quite uncommon in the BL genre to find a story with believable, adult characters having mundane, real life problems in addition to the genre specific issues. Takaguchi-san's subdued but realistically proportioned drawing style only adds to this appeal.

An unmarried 33-year-old voice actor, whose teenage son with his girlfriend from school after the death of his mother moves in with him, and
his divorced 35-year old colleague, whose wife moves with their daughter to another town,
are hardly your standard BL-couple after all!

The BL aspects are fairly light in the first books and if you look for fast paced, hard action scenes (BL or otherwise), you're likely going to be disappointed aside from a few ice hockey matches. But I found these books to be a truly enjoyable read and a nice change from the fast paced, dark stories (X/1999 for example) that I usually read.

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If you like this kind of domestic type thing, you might want to try Haru wo Daite Ita. The protagonists aren't quite as normal as these ones (they're not voice actors, they're... uh, other actors... *g*) but the manga quickly turns into a story of their day-to-day, real-life issues.

[Personally, I find it boring, but quite a few people I know like it a lot!]

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I know Haru wo...
...and frankly, it got on my nerves, esp. it's slightly distorted drawing style and the whiny attitudes one of them had for quite a while. It was... grating, to put it nicely. Certainly not something I'd spend money on.