No Romo (reviews included)
No Romo (reviews included)
Get that harem sh*t out of here.
A BL reader's curated guide (with comments) to exciting non-BL stories with either no M/F romance or very little late romance. And NO idiotic, horndog MCs!!!
A BL reader's curated guide (with comments) to exciting non-BL stories with either no M/F romance or very little late romance. And NO idiotic, horndog MCs!!!
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Created: Jan 28th, 2020, Updated: Mar 5th, 2024
Created Jan 28th, 2020
Updated Mar 5th, 2024
#26Rise
462 Chapters Every 50.5 Day(s) 878 Readers 36 Reviews 10-17-2022
The MC is kind of like a Luffy-esque character - his relationship with his female friends is refreshingly platonic! eSports - return of an old... more>>
39 Chapters Every 96.7 Day(s) 699 Readers 20 Reviews 05-13-2020
A medical student in a world where eldritch abominations are encroaching on his world joins a special organization to defend it. Fast-paced, mystery, action. Romance... more>>
67 Chapters Every 85.8 Day(s) 1290 Readers 29 Reviews 02-21-2021
A man thinks he's just a normal bookshop owner but he's actually an eldritch god that can invite people from different dimensions into his shop.
375 Chapters Every 1.6 Day(s) 1422 Readers 30 Reviews 04-30-2024
A man transmigrates into a Goddess who must revive the race of Elves who used to worship her. He does so by turning his world... more>>
#30Debut or Die
211 Chapters Every 22.5 Day(s) 7406 Readers 78 Reviews 06-12-2023
Boy transmigrates and gets a system that forces him to debut as an idol and joins a Produce 101 type show. He is hilariously Machiavellian... more>>
360 Chapters Every 9.4 Day(s) 3606 Readers 29 Reviews 01-06-2024
Evil capitalist lands in the medieval fantasy world as a commoner and builds his fortune up from scratch.
20 Chapters Every 59.2 Day(s) 3141 Readers 58 Reviews 12-09-2021
Decent acting/celebrity career upgrade novel so far - it is very heteros*xual in terms of the MC having chemistry with all of his costars but... more>>
50 Chapters Every 33.5 Day(s) 2945 Readers 9 Reviews 05-28-2023
Engineer isekai into medieval fantasy book - nice dual male lead thing going on with the book's MC, a la ORV. Only read manhua so... more>>
178 Chapters Every 6.5 Day(s) 8367 Readers 62 Reviews 05-02-2024
Despite the mention of 2nd Male Lead, seems more of a found family type isekai
53 Chapters Every 3.5 Day(s) 14436 Readers 103 Reviews 04-18-2024
LOL, some brocon vibes but seems non-romance. I like the manhua better than the novel. Rebirth to have a special power to identify and improve... more>>
1039 Chapters Every 1 Day(s) 8446 Readers 56 Reviews 05-01-2024
Very plotty school fantasy!
20 Chapters Every 38.3 Day(s) 4807 Readers 25 Reviews 11-03-2022
Only read webnovel - strong shippy vibes between MC and everyone haha.
201 Chapters Every 5 Day(s) 2117 Readers 14 Reviews 04-27-2024
Van Gogh reborn in a Korean child's body modern-day. Nice family vibes, idk why it's tagged as mature.
333 Chapters Every 78.1 Day(s) 4114 Readers 17 Reviews 02-10-2022
Only read the manhua - it's about a boy who has a disorder that causes him to never feel full who satisfies his foodie urges... more>>
168 Chapters Every 0.9 Day(s) 877 Readers 7 Reviews 05-02-2024
A boy blessed with musical talents - wish another translator would pick this up!
72 Chapters Every 18.4 Day(s) 1271 Readers 10 Reviews 08-21-2023
70% of the world has gone insane, and MC is both very sane and very insane. He has a very special power.
438 Chapters Every 1.5 Day(s) 3830 Readers 32 Reviews 04-24-2024
Apathetic MC that wanders through life like a jellyfish with the sole desire of learning interesting black magic, but he's still fair and keeps his... more>>
0 Chapters Every 52 Day(s) 365 Readers 1 Reviews 09-28-2023
Child actor with tragic backstory, one of the few Korean novels I've managed to read all the way to the current updates, so very interesting.
82 Chapters Every 1 Day(s) 523 Readers 2 Reviews 05-02-2024
Reminds me of Debut or Die, I liked it better during the survival show phase, it kind of fell off after that.
68 Chapters Every 4.9 Day(s) 962 Readers 7 Reviews 05-01-2024
Morally grey MC from dystopian world transmigrates into an apocalyptic novel world with san values. He has the ability to regress along with the novel... more>>
20 Chapters Every 11.4 Day(s) 416 Readers 5 Reviews 11-14-2023
Former trainee turned novelist gets the chance to go back in time and save the members of his idol group from a car accident. Similar... more>>
#50Damn Idol
28 Chapters Every 2.8 Day(s) 309 Readers 2 Reviews 04-27-2024
Singer makes a deal with the devil to revive his family if he sells more than 200 million albums and has failed repeatedly and loops... more>>
Comments (15)
https://www.novelupdates.com/viewlist/3797/
Here a list that i found just after yours, i didn't check so i don't know about the novels, but maybe you'll like some
Thx for your list (and your comments !! Very usefull
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Hello~
I really like your list, and it's really similar to mine (the one that brother/sister upstairs recommend u to check). I just hope there are more "no romance/harem/ecchi non-bl" novels on this site *sigh* recently it's so hard to find this kind of novel, i even searched on chinese qidian, syosetu, etc. *sigh again*
But bcs you're a person of culture i will recommend you this novel "Start with contracting sprites" that you can check on Webnovel (but it's on hiatus so u can just check the raw 從契約精靈開始). It's like pokemon but better hahahaha, hope u like it~
@ria.green what happened to second male lead if power up korean novel.
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/what-happens-when-the-second-male-lead-powers-up/
Wooaahhh~ I love your list so much because it had helped me find a ton of things that I'm interested in reading, and as fellow fujoshi/fudanshi's I've always been looking for a list made by someone who loves BL.
Ever since I was introduced to the world of yaoi, I fell so hard that I ended up dreading most romance novels and mangas, leaving me with nothing to read, now that I've found this list, I can stack up on a bunch of great and promising novels~
[Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint] is a novel I've been wanting to read for the longest time because it's author is the same on as [The World After The Fall], but knowing the writer's style, it's going to have a very angsty and tear jerking ending, even though the male leads are such a perfect match for each other!
By the way, have you tried [Gourmet of Another World]? There's no romance, but the MC is quite shippable with some male characters, that is, if you have a very big imagination~
Sorry for making you read all this
and thank you for creating this list~! 
A nice guide, completely approved by yours truly
I'm sure that if we were to search a bit more we could find more of this kind of novels. I hope so at least
Thanks, now I have a couple more novels in my "waiting for enough time" list