Only one book this year dared to ask the question "can you make a BL manga about a man and a cyborg, much less make it good?"
BLACK BLOOD, by Hayate Kuku. First published in 2021 and first published in North America in 2025.
PLOT:
In the far-off future, a cyborg named Ethan is sent to the planet of Peridot to work as a security guard on a human terraforming project. It's there that he meets Mihail, a botanist trying to study the native plantlife of this strange planet. Ethan gets assigned to be Mihail's security on his missions, and the two soon find themselves drawn to one another. Is it love? And how does love work for a man who is no longer human, a man made more for the battlefield than romance?
