Does anybody have any recommendations for media similar to kemutai hanashi or koisenu futari?
I'm talking good, in-depth, fuuuun a-spec storylines of any kind. Or I guess qprs or friendships; there are a couple of webtoons I've found that revolve around a central friendship with little to no romance involved that have been amusing ('grey is...' and 'immortal and a half').
Anything similar to buddy daddies is welcome as well, though I'm not one for anything violent at the moment.
Seems I shall slowly be adding to this list mine self sooo, here is some more media readable as a-spec / platonic focus / relationship anarchy / alt kinship / is actually aroace / qpr / has minimal Romance™ etc etc:
- the first shot / snow maze (Chinese series)
- high school frenemy (Thai series)
- wu (Thai series)
- delicious divorce delivered (Japanese series)
- rodney r rodney (webtoon)
- koisenu futari (Japanese series)
- kemutai hanashi (Japanese comic)
- ikoku nikki (Japanese comic)
- my wandering warrior existence (Japanese comic)
- grey is... (webtoon/comic)
- between complete and incomplete (Korean short film)
- saint young men (comic / animated film)
- the way of the house husband (comic / animated series)
- sea run end credits (Japanese comic)
- spyxfamily (comic / animated series)
- gaus electronics (Korean series)
- young offenders (Irish series)
- my only 12% (Thai series)
- buddy daddies (Japanese animated series)
- I am what I am (Japanese film)
- konya sukiyaki dayo (Japanese series)
- an evening with beverly luff linn (American film)
- dorohedoro (Japanese comic / animated series)
- the beast of haddingley hill (Webtoon)
- black books (English series)
- spaced (English series)
- things you should have done (English series)
- this country (English series)
- 3000 years of longing (Australian? film)
- such brave girls (British series)
- nabari no ou (Japanese comic / animated series)
- merlin (English series)
- the witchfinder (English series)
- my roommate is a detective (Chinese series)
- extraordinary (British? series)
- film club (English series)
- compartment no.6 (Russian/Finnish film)
- withnail & i (English film)
- the case of hana and alice (Japanese animated film)
- inu-oh (Japanese animated film)
- back to life (English series)
- half man (Scottish series)
- lodge 49 (American series)
- jonathan creek (English series)
- ferris buellers day off (American film)
- man like mobeen (English series)
- a man who defies the world of bl (Japanese series/comic)
- i'm tee me too (Thai series)
- the best hit (Korean series)
- gelboys (Thai series)
- addicted / stay with me (Chinese series - 2 adaptations)
- mr lonely my ajusshi / loving strangers (Korean / Chinese series)
- the devil judge (Korean series)
- she likes to cook she likes to eat (Japanese comic / series)
- frog>prince (American? webcomic)
- I want to be a wall (Japanese comic)
- mob psycho 100 (Japanese animated series)
- trigun (Japanese animated series / comic)
- beauty salon in prison (Japanese comic)
- into the spiderverse (American animated films)
- arcane (French/American animated series)
- drive my car (Japanese film)
- shounen maid (Japanese animated series /comic)
- the missing link (stop-motion film)
- midnight museum (Thai series)
- leonard and hungry paul (book / Irish series)
- the outlaws (British series)
- big mood (series)
- riot women (series)
- 91 days (Japanese animated series)
- hit the road (Iranian film)
- frauds (English series)
- the player (Korean series)
- good manager (Korean series)
- hot stove league (Korean series)
- barakamon (Japanese comic / animated series)
- slow (Lithuanian? film)
- the lobster (film)
- crossing (Georgian/Turkish film)
- the summer hikaru died (Japanese comic)
- fried green tomatoes (American film)
- blue kaftan (Moroccan film)
- welcome to waikiki (Korean series)
- the fiery priest (Korean series)
- project hail mary (book / film)
And then for funsies, a documentary:
- shinjuku boys
Hmm,,, some of these will likely need to be heavily squinted at, but, hey ho. Discretion~
Just sort of throwing this together, very much not an exhaustive list by any means, not seen all of these either,,,,*sigh* there are probably so many I'll never see bwomp ueueue~
Gaugh! Not to mention - there are plenty of interactive fiction stories/games out there on Choice of Games and Itch.io to peruse !!
- honor bound ~ Harris Powell-Smith
- the dragon and the djinn ~ Athar Fikry
- when twilight strikes ~ evertides
