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
#26Rise
462 Chapters Every 82.6 Day(s) 899 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 128.7 Day(s) 803 Readers 19 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 117.9 Day(s) 1389 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.
622 Chapters Every 1.8 Day(s) 2646 Readers 37 Reviews 08-25-2025
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 54.5 Day(s) 10310 Readers 90 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 41.5 Day(s) 3727 Readers 37 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 91.3 Day(s) 3332 Readers 61 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>>
98 Chapters Every 9.9 Day(s) 3807 Readers 7 Reviews 05-08-2025
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>>
245 Chapters Every 6.9 Day(s) 10074 Readers 65 Reviews 08-21-2025
Despite the mention of 2nd Male Lead, seems more of a found family type isekai
510 Chapters Every 1.3 Day(s) 17214 Readers 114 Reviews 08-15-2025
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>>
1293 Chapters Every 2.3 Day(s) 10400 Readers 69 Reviews 08-25-2025
Very plotty school fantasy!
20 Chapters Every 70.3 Day(s) 5550 Readers 28 Reviews 11-03-2022
Only read webnovel - strong shippy vibes between MC and everyone haha.
181 Chapters Every 25 Day(s) 2386 Readers 14 Reviews 08-31-2024
Van Gogh reborn in a Korean child's body modern-day. Nice family vibes, idk why it's tagged as mature.
333 Chapters Every 110.2 Day(s) 4235 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>>
440 Chapters Every 14.8 Day(s) 1157 Readers 8 Reviews 01-29-2025
A boy blessed with musical talents - wish another translator would pick this up!
72 Chapters Every 50.5 Day(s) 1559 Readers 12 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.
0 Chapters Every 528 Day(s) 4132 Readers 41 Reviews N/A
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 946 Day(s) 537 Readers 3 Reviews N/A
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.
367 Chapters Every 11.5 Day(s) 1799 Readers 13 Reviews 03-21-2025
Reminds me of Debut or Die, I liked it better during the survival show phase, it kind of fell off after that.
224 Chapters Every 2.9 Day(s) 2161 Readers 20 Reviews 08-25-2025
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 43.5 Day(s) 987 Readers 12 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
278 Chapters Every 3.7 Day(s) 1469 Readers 15 Reviews 07-02-2025
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.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