shounen-ai with blatant but completely off-screen sex?

15 years ago
Posts: 217
Okay, I know you're all thinking, "What? That makes no sense." Okay, here's what I mean: you know the couple is getting it on. It's blatantly obvious. There's no way to deny it. But the sex is never shown on-screen. At all. Period. Where most BL manga would take the opportunity to launch into a sex scene of some sort, this manga instead cuts out or fades to black before the clothes even come off. It's not the innocent, sweet shounen-ai that culminates in a kiss; it's shounen-ai where the only reason it's shounen-ai and not yaoi is because the mangaka has deliberately chosen to not show the sex.
This is how it was played in the title story of Zantei, Koibito, and I really liked it. I've seen a lot of shounen-ai with muted, tasteful sex scenes, where the naughty bits are hid by clever panel angles and such, but this is the first one I've seen where there are sex scenes that are just completely skipped. Is there any more stuff like this out there?

15 years ago
Posts: 216
It doesn't really matter, unless you're obviously reading for the sex and not the plot.
Anyway... I just read one recently New York New York.

15 years ago
Posts: 704
i still wonder if they had sex in the begining of volume 2
there is no sex scene explicitly shown, they don't even kiss.
but the emotion just develop thoughout.
it's not completely scanated
I'm a korean, so i read the whole thing. there is sex at the end volume. but again, it is not shown. it just fade into blank page

15 years ago
Posts: 10
This manga is awesome!
The story is great, and also without any sex scene in it! 😀