Yaoi Released in 2018

2018 Releases

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This article lists the Bara, Shounen-ai and Yaoi materials that were released in 2018. The Japanese manga, Korean manhwa, Chinese manhua, to anime seasons, movies, then novels and games including visual novels are listed by the month the first entry was released. Materials that were first scheduled for this year, but postponed and released at a later date is also documented in the 'Scheduled for' section.

2018 Series[]

Unusually there was a multitude of anime released in this year. Anime came in the form of the ONA adaption for Di Wang Gong Lue, which is also known as "The Emperor's Strategy". The twenty episodes at sixteen minutes per episode adapted the Di Wang Gong Lue novel that began in 2015. There were Chinese ONA's including 2013: Dawn of the World which had twenty episodes at seventeen minutes each where that adapted the web novel which began in 2011.

August saw the release of two ONA adapting Chinese works. With eight minutes per episode the seventy two episodes of Beryl and Sapphire (which adapted the manhua released in 2015) saw the anime run into 2019. The twenty four episodes at three minutes each of Wei, Kanjian Erduo La! were also released. Both these series would be rare cases of having sequel anime available. The second season of Wei, Kanjian Erduo La! began in 2019. A sequel to Beryl and Sapphire is scheduled to begin in 2023.

On the Japanese anime side, the two OVA's for Yarichin☆Bitch-bu adapted the manga that was first started in 2012. Where the Dakaretai Otoko 1-i ni Odosarete Imasu. manga commenced in July 2014 there would be a thirteen episode at twenty three minutes each anime which aired October 2018. This is turn would be followed by a movie titled Dakaretai Otoko 1-i ni Odosarete Imasu. Movie: Spain-hen that aired three years later in October 2021. June saw the release of thirty episodes at two minutes each for the Japanese ONA Caramel Honey which adapts the manga from 2015.

For spin-off manga stories, when A Coward Falls In Love was released in 2017 it would have a spin-off series named The Guy I Hate begin in March 2018. After Asatte ni Kiss began in 2016 and was completed in 2017, the spin-off Fukigen na Kimi to Kimagure na Kiss would commence in April 2018. With Hibi mo Tsumoreba Koi to Naru starting in September 2017 a spin-off would be Hibi mo Tsumoreba Koi to Naru which started in May 2019. After Dekiai Keiyaku was released in January 2017 a spin-off would be named Eien shika Hoshikunai in November 2018.

Where Ushiro no Seki no Katou-kun was released in April of this year, a spin-off Mimasaka-kun to Mayoeru Kobuta would be released towards the end of the year after in 2019. While Tenchou, Koi desu. began in 2013 and completed in the next year, here in September 2018 there would be a spin-off story from that named SV, Koi no Shinchoku ni Tsuite.. From Hige to Suzu to Shabondama being released this year, a spin-off named Hiyoko to Yoru to Yuuenchi would be released in 2019. Notably for manga, each series contains a high chapter number count in the twenties.

There were a number of sequel stories for manga in 2018. Tactics Shinsetsu is a particularly notable sequel story which comes eighteen years after the Tactics manga which first began in the year 2000, along with the anime adaption of that in 2004. Junketsu☆Knight no Glanz Reise began in 2016 and had a sequel Junketsu☆Knight no Glanz Reise: Kaerimichi this year. While Rouge was released in January 2015, the sequel La Vie en Rose was first available to view in June 2018. Where Koi ni wa Mukanai Shokugyou was released in January 2017, the sequel Himitsu ni wa Mukanai Shokugyou would begin in August 2018. Bokura no Koi to Seishun no Subete was released in January 2017 which had a side story Bokura no Koi to Seishun no Subete: Doukyuusei no Bokura released in August 2018. After Shigeki-kei My Hero's release in 2017 there was a doujinshi spin-off release in Shigeki-kei My Hero dj - Ore no Honki wo Miseteyaru in August. Released in September 2018, the Tabetemo Oishiku Arimasen manga has reached four volumes and a drama CD released in September 2021. After Shinkon-san! began in March 2015 it would be followed by Oretachi wa Shinkon-san kamo Shirenai in February 2018 which would have drama CDs released.

Where Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?! has become a notable series, it all began here in September 2018. With eleven volumes of manga, it has also released drama CDs starting in 2019, and also has anime scheduled.

From the manhwa released, Love or Hate became a popular one which first began in September of this year. Similarly the webtoon Ennead would become a notable series. Another prominent series originating from 2018 is Dear Door. In January Love is an Illusion would begin its release, which would be published in a physical paperback format. Another series that became especially notable was Walk on Water which adapts the novel series from 2014.

Red Candy would have a drama CD released in 2023. Restless is an example of a spin-off series from Sleepless Nights in 2017 of which that was one of the stories included among others in the Seven Days of Lust: Omegaverse Anthology. The Room to Room series is connected with several others.

Beginning as a novel, the Semantic Error series would go on to have a manhwa adaption in July 2020, and then anime in March 2021. This year would see the Sweet Spot manhwa adaption of the novel released in 2016.

January[]

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Manga:[]

Can I Eat You If I Cherish You?/Let Me Eat You... Please? (Daiji ni Suru kara Tabete Ii?) 16th

I'm a hero, but nobody respects me. (Katte ni Hero Yattemasu.) 19th

Every Time We Touch, I Hear That Sound (Kimi ni wa Fureru to Naru Toko ga Atte) 19th

Omega disguises his origin in bed (Omega wa Bed de Uso wo Tsuku) 19th

The Fool's Mountain Night (Orokamono Wangel Night) 19th

I Wanna Die Before I'm 30 (30 made ni Shinitai) 25th

Gakuran no Naka made Sawatte Hoshii (Kare to Kare no Koi no Hanashi) 26th

The Good Luck Story of an Unlucky Guy (Fukou-kun no Saiwai) 30th

my lovely is Plump boy. (Ore no Oniku-chan) 30th

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