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: Aug 8th, 2025
Created Jan 28th, 2020
Updated Aug 8th, 2025
86 Chapters Every 98.1 Day(s) 25410 Readers 467 Reviews 08-01-2025
Completed Action Adventure Comedy Drama Fantasy Mature Mystery Psychological Sci-fi Seinen Supernatural Tragedy
Really interesting combination of infinite scenario, apocalypse, transmigration, streaming, mythology, and cheat codes - unlike anything on the site. Male leads are very shippable, and... more>>
315 Chapters Every 150.7 Day(s) 11746 Readers 165 Reviews 08-16-2019
This is an excellent stone age/prehistoric setting fic! MC has a golden finger, but it isn't overdramatic. Ch. 403.
40 Chapters Every 314.9 Day(s) 7856 Readers 200 Reviews 12-14-2018
MC is reborn as an NPC. It's hilarious the way he shamelessly manipulates players with his foreknowledge and insight into player psychology. 717.
78 Chapters Every 266.9 Day(s) 6614 Readers 148 Reviews 01-19-2018
This is like 7 genres shoved into 1 novel: music composition, acting, eSports, military, animal training, space exploration, etc. It works, though! Ch. 448
253 Chapters Every 57.2 Day(s) 7147 Readers 48 Reviews 02-17-2025
No romo aside from an ex-girlfriend in the backstory. Interstellar genre with a badass allrounder MC that is 70% brainpower and 30% fighting skills. Mostly... more>>
830 Chapters Every 20.3 Day(s) 20217 Readers 237 Reviews 10-25-2024
Wow, at first the title made me think it was the same kind of empty power-leveling fantasy devoid of character development a la Solo Leveling,... more>>
181 Chapters Every 0.9 Day(s) 1713 Readers 52 Reviews 08-25-2025
MC obtains system that rewards him for losing money but ends up being a business genius. So funny to see the MC lose his soul... more>>
205 Chapters Every 177.3 Day(s) 11944 Readers 111 Reviews 06-07-2018
M/F romance only at the very last chapter of the novel, but it's done tastefully. This is an awesome action/sci-fi/apocalypse scenario story with interesting female... more>>
1152 Chapters Every 3.4 Day(s) 41922 Readers 613 Reviews 08-23-2025
MC transmigrates into a useless noble's body. MC is shippable with the prince.
101 Chapters Every 442.7 Day(s) 7290 Readers 140 Reviews 09-29-2023
Guy inherits a supernatural app that lets him expand a haunted house with real ghosts. I really like app/business management stories. Think there might be... more>>
1178 Chapters Every 32.6 Day(s) 1620 Readers 34 Reviews 04-26-2024
Cool wizard worldbuilding and an adorkable MC. The side characters (bird companion, badass female pirate, calculating mentor) are great and all have distinct personalities/goals.
87 Chapters Every 155.3 Day(s) 1131 Readers 16 Reviews 04-17-2019
Super good-looking doctor that gets a medical system. All the girls love him, but it doesn't look like there's a love interest so far. He... more>>
94 Chapters Every 111.1 Day(s) 9988 Readers 121 Reviews 03-01-2024
No romo - though a lot of joking. MC is bis*xual man who had a past life as a woman!!! How rare is that? Zombie... more>>
104 Chapters Every 322.6 Day(s) 4841 Readers 49 Reviews 01-11-2022
Cooking system with a shameless MC. Interactions between the chef MC and his customers as well as his system are so funny.
38 Chapters Every 133.2 Day(s) 1186 Readers 24 Reviews 03-08-2020
MC transmigrates into a 3rd tier God of Games and turns his worshippers into players. No romance because he's a ball of light...
2477 Chapters Every 101.5 Day(s) 10181 Readers 174 Reviews 07-01-2021
No romo, but some hints starting chapter 1000. Lots of nationalist xenophobia and the classic "female martial artists only exist to be beautiful/haughty and succumb... more>>
61 Chapters Every 127.7 Day(s) 2541 Readers 8 Reviews 07-16-2020
A skilled Adventurer becomes a manager for Adventurers.
46 Chapters Every 166.1 Day(s) 4750 Readers 26 Reviews 11-05-2018
Humanity vs beasts apocalypse. Like, zero characterization, but exciting action. COMPLETE.
1 Chapters Every 3210 Day(s) 4407 Readers 30 Reviews 11-10-2016
An unfortunate kungfu master whose friend accidentally signs him up for a VR MMORPG as a mage and becomes the most OP violent mage ever.
102 Chapters Every 66.7 Day(s) 1200 Readers 16 Reviews 08-13-2025
Grandpa-like MC who transmigrates into medieval fantasy setting. Kingdom-building and modern day concepts of HR and technology. Lighthearted.
90 Chapters Every 124.9 Day(s) 3173 Readers 18 Reviews 09-03-2020
Noel is a support class, but he wants to become the strongest adventurer. He's a pretty boy who has all the ladies and gents chasing... more>>
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97 Chapters Every 125.6 Day(s) 3299 Readers 19 Reviews 07-18-2020
Boy who can remember 2 of his past lives is reborn into a world with the power of runes. MC is a cunning 9 y.o.... more>>
37 Chapters Every 119.7 Day(s) 1587 Readers 54 Reviews 03-09-2020
Boy picks up a watch that grants him an extra 24 hrs in the day and then joins a survival game - which allows him... more>>
Comments (15)
https://www.novelupdates.info/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.info/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