Yen Press has introduced it’s going to publish the Boys Love gentle novel You Can Have My Back, finest recognized for its stunning illustrations and heartbreaking drama, for its Yen On imprint in 2023.
Yen Press introduced an acquisition becoming a member of its Summer 2023 lineup: You Can Have My Back, a Boys Love fantasy gentle novel finest recognized for its stunning illustrations and heartbreaking drama. With Boys Love gentle novels having seen few releases in English, You Can Have My Back is a welcome and refreshing addition to the Yen On imprint.
You Can Have My Back
Original Story by Minami Kotsuna
Illustrated by Hitomi Hitoyo
Leorino, the fourth son of a margrave and blessed with the face of an angel, is the reincarnation of Ionia, a knight of the dominion who died within the line of responsibility. At night time, he desires of his previous life, his ill-fated love for Prince Gravis, and his dying by the hands of an enemy agent. But when he confronts the traitor as Leorino, he finally ends up arrested as a substitute! His life at risk, he shouts the title of an outdated pal and his solely hope…
The Boys Love (BL) style, which options romances between bishonen (translation: stunning boys), largely within the type of flirting and kissing, is a well-liked style throughout Asia that started formally in Japanese manga however has since unfold to Korean comics and even Chinese on-line serialized gentle novels and comics. The main viewers for Boys Love tales tends to be feminine, and the writers and artists are additionally often feminine. It typically intersects with slash fiction, the subset of fan fiction primarily based on standard reveals and books that characteristic male characters from these collection in romances with one another, as you would possibly discover on A03, aka Archive of Our Own.
Yen Press is glad to add to its rising catalog of Boys Love titles, which incorporates the bestselling manga Sasaki and Miyano and its upcoming spin-off novel Hirano and Kagiura. You Can Have My Back, Vol. 1 will probably be accessible in print and digital in July 2023.
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