The only thing worse than a bad BL romance is a bad BL romance that ruins an otherwise good concept for a manga.
LOVE RECIPE, by Kirico Higashizato. First published in 2005 and first published in North America in 2007.
PLOT:
Tomonori Ozawa was hoping to get the journalist job of his dreams, but instead he's working as an editor at a BL magazine. His duties force him to cross paths with the magazine's most successful mangaka, Sakurako Kakyoin. It turns out that Kakyoin is a man using a female pen-name, one who is drawn to Ozawa's innate adorableness and determined to turn their professional relationship into a very personal one. Will Kakyoin ever get the message across to his oblivious editor? Will Ozawa ever feel comfortable with the world of gay romance?
