Looking for Dark BL Romance suggestions

I recently watched Papa to Kiss in the dark and Junjo Romantica. And I’ve gone through pretty much all the popular anime’s that are similar. I know these titles can be controversial but if anyone has any suggestions please let me know.

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Livid_Palpitation_462026-01-20 05:43

I’m only a few episodes into “the summer hikaru died”, but it seems like a dark BL so far.

Specialist_Wish39482026-01-20 06:02

Thank you!

banditjing_2026-01-20 05:45

Have you seen the OG doomed yaoi [Kaze to Ki no Uta?](https://anilist.co/anime/1637/Kaze-to-Ki-no-Uta-SANCTUS-Sei-Naru-Kana/)

Specialist_Wish39482026-01-20 06:01

No I haven’t! I’ll take a look thank you.

AngelicaSpain2026-01-20 06:17

"Mirage of Blaze" is an older series about a high school student who discovers that he's one of a group of reincarnated warriors from the Warring States period who keep getting reborn to fight ancient spirits that prey on humanity. Unfortunately for him, there's some pretty twisted past history between his original incarnation (which he, unlike most of the others, can't remember) and some of his supposed allies.

Dull_Spot_82132026-01-20 06:21

Twitter Birds Never Fly: The Clouds Gather.

duncandun2026-01-20 06:24

Yukikaze

AngelicaSpain2026-01-20 06:57

"Yami no Matsuei"/"Descendents of Darkness" is an often deceptively lighthearted anime about a bunch of good-looking male shinigami (more or less the Japanese equivalent of grim reapers) who get sent out to deal with the problems created when people who weren't supposed to die yet get murdered. There are pronounced homoerotic vibes between the main protagonists, twentysomething-looking Tsuzuki and his new partner Hisoka, who died at age sixteen. The main villain, Dr. Muraki, is actually human, but has some sort of evil supernatural powers that have enabled him to escape detection as a serial killer for years. Muraki is also gay and obsessively fixated on Tsuzuki.

"Boku no Sexual Harassment"/"My Sexual Harassment" is a movie-length anime about a junior executive who's seduced by his boss, who then persuades him to seduce various clients and business rivals as a means of getting ahead careerwise. This anime features a notorious corncob scene.

Both of these were released sometime around the early 2000's. Blatantly evil and/or shamelessly unscrupulous gay characters seem to be a lot less common in more recent anime and manga.

The current series "The Summer Hikaru Died" has dark themes that become increasingly inextricable from the developing relationship between closeted gay teenager Yoshiki and what initially appears to be his missing-for-a-week best friend Hikaru. But at least up through volume five of the manga (I haven't seen the anime yet), it seems as if even the dangerous supernatural beings (including the one with same-sex\[?\] romantic tendencies) are more sympathetic than some of the long-ago human villagers who helped create the potentially Lovecraftian-horror-type situation their descendants are facing in the present.