After reviewing so many tube sites, image boards, and search engines for gay anime, I was honestly getting tired. Too much bleed, too many fake numbers, too many damn straight ads in a gay section. Then I opened MyReadingManga, and for the first time in a while, I actually sat up in my chair. This is not a tube site. This is not a feed. This is a full-blown library made for people who love reading gay manga, and holy shit, is it big.
MyReadingManga, or MRM if you want to sound like a regular, is all about yaoi and bara comics. You get doujinshi, full manga series, one-shots, CG art sets, and even some animations. Everything is sorted, tagged, and labeled in a way that most porn sites could only dream of. If you like a bit of story with your drawn dudes, buckle up. This one is a treat.
A gay anime library that never seems to end
The design is dark and simple. A dark gray background, a thin orange line under the menu, and a big search bar right in the middle of the page. The menu up top has MRM, Bara, Manga, Video, Hot, Rand, Ask, Upload, and a blue BL Doujin link. That is it. No flashing live cam buttons, no AI girlfriend, no "meet singles near you." Just manga, manhwa, and comics. I could cry from happiness with this one.
The homepage shows the newest posts in a grid, four per row. Each one has a cover, a title with the artist or circle name in brackets, and a little language tag like [Eng], [JP], or [Spa] at the end. If a series has multiple chapters, you get page numbers right under the cover, sometimes going all the way up to 23. Some titles even say "update c.5" so you know a new chapter just dropped. Animation posts get purple titles, so you can spot them right away.
Now the numbers, and they are kind of insane. The homepage goes for 3.596 pages. Three thousand five hundred and ninety-six! The filters tell an even crazier story. The yaoi genre alone has over 51.000 titles, bara and muscle have over 17.000, and there are thousands more in romance, comedy, and drama. You could read one title a day for the rest of your life and still not get through it all. Honestly, I am not even exaggerating this time.
The language options are a big deal too. English has over 32.800 titles, Japanese is close to 15.000, and Korean has over 6.300. Then you get Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese, Thai, French, Vietnamese, Russian, and a few more. So even if English is not your first language, there is a good chance you will find something in yours. That is really rare for a site like this, and I love it.
Bara legends, yaoi romance, and filters that actually work
Let's talk about the content, because this is where MRM really shines. On the bara side, you get big, beefy, hairy men drawn by some of the best artists out there. Gengoroh Tagame has over 270 titles on here, which is honestly a legend's catalog all by itself. There are tons of muscle daddies, bearded hunks with wine glasses, and guys with chests you could serve dinner on. Bara fans, you are going to lose your fucking mind here, in the best way.
The yaoi side is softer, with more romance, more blushing, and more drama. You get full manga series with ongoing chapters, short one-shots you can finish in a few minutes, and fan-made doujinshi of popular anime and games. There is a ton of comedy too, which I did not expect. One cover I found was a Five Nights at Freddy's parody with a terrified security guard, and I laughed way harder than I should have at a porn comic.
There is also a video section, with over 2.400 animations, plus a CG and art section with over 6.600 sets. So if you are not in the mood to read, you can still find animated stuff and single illustrations. Some of these animations come from well-known artists, and they look really good.
Now, here is the thing. MRM is huge, and not everything on it is going to be your cup of tea. Some tags and categories go places I personally would not touch with a ten-foot pole, and there is a lot of fan content based on series with questionable characters. That is exactly why the filters are so important here. Use them, stick to grown men, and you will have a really great time.
Speaking of filters, they are hidden. You will not find them on the homepage. You have to click Rand in the menu, and only then does the full filter panel show up on the side. Took me a damn minute to figure that out, and I bet it will take you a minute too. Why the fuck would you hide the best part of your site behind a button called Rand? Once you find it, however…oh boy.
You can sort by random and a few other options, and then filter by language, genre, category, tag, circle or artist, pairing, and even status. Genres include yaoi, bara, and muscle, romance, comedy, drama, fantasy, supernatural, and furry. Categories cover one-shots, CG art, manga, and videos. Tags let you pick stuff like uncensored, full color, big penis, blowjob, threesome, and western. Status lets you choose completed, ongoing, or even dropped and on hiatus. Every single option shows how many titles it has next to it.
You can also filter by pairing, which is honestly genius for fans of specific ships. Want Erwin and Levi? There are over 470 titles. Barnaby and Kotetsu? Over 540. Gintoki and Hijikata? Over 440. Zoro and Sanji? Over 420. If you have a favorite couple of grown-up characters, there is a good chance someone already drew a few hundred comics about them. In my opinion, this is the best filtering system of any site on this whole list. Nothing else even comes close. Not even fucking close.
The circle and artist filter is great too. Once you find an artist you like, you can click their name and see everything they have on the site. Since a lot of these artists have dozens or even hundreds of titles, that is a really easy way to binge a style you love without digging through the whole library.
Quality depends on the upload, but most of what I saw looked really good. Covers are sharp, scans are clean, and the full color stuff looks great. Some older titles are scanned in black and white with a bit of grain, which is normal for manga. Translations vary too, since a lot of them are fan-made, but most of the English ones I checked read just fine.
Free to read, with a few things to know
Reading on MRM is free, and you do not need an account to browse. There is an Upload link if you want to contribute, and an Ask section where people can request stuff or ask questions, which gives the whole site a real community feel. It feels less like a porn site and more like a giant fan library run by people who actually care about this stuff.
Some of the covers you will see are promos for artists' Patreon pages, with stuff like "only for $49+ patrons" on them. That is not MRM charging you. That is the artist plugging their own page. If you really love someone's work, supporting them is not a bad idea. These people put a ton of work into their comics, and the good ones deserve it.
My tip? Click Rand, pick your language, choose bara or yaoi, set status to completed if you hate waiting for new chapters, and sort by random. You will find something new every single time. If you find an artist you like, use the circle filter and binge their whole catalog. Trust me, your evening is going to disappear, and you will not regret a damn second of it.
Is MyReadingManga worth it for gay anime?
Honestly? Yes, and it is not even close.
MyReadingManga is a goldmine for anyone who loves reading gay anime and manga. You get over 51.000 yaoi titles, over 17.000 bara titles, thousands of videos and art sets, and support for a ton of languages. The filters are the best on this whole list, with genres, tags, artists, pairings, and status all in one place. The design is clean, the community is active, and reading is free.
It is not perfect. The filters are weirdly hidden behind the Rand button, and some of the content goes places that are definitely not for everyone. Translations can be hit or miss too, and some of them read like shit. Still, if you want story, quality, and more gay manga than you could ever read, MRM is where you should be.
