This list includes Boys’ Love manhwa and manga with mafia or gang themes. In these stories, at least one BL character is either a member of a mafia/gang or someone who’s fighting against the underworld.
I personally love this mix of action and romance, so putting this list together was a real joy!
Totally Captivated
- Author(s): Yoo Ha jin
6 Volumes (Complete)
49 Chapters (Complete)
126 Chapters – Webtoon Edition (Complete)
Read on Lezhin or Buy on (Manhwa) Amazon
Totally Captivated Synopsis
The mafia threatens Ewon into working for a loan shark, where he’s forced to run dangerous errands for no pay. The culprit who doomed Ewon to this life is none other than Jiho, Ewon’s jealous ex who still burns at Ewon’s infidelity.
Their gang leader Mookyul, with movie-star good looks and the bizarre, drunken habit of biting people on the neck, takes a keen interest in his attractive new errand boy. Will Ewon be able to survive the violent underworld (not to mention the constant sexual harassment) he must endure as an underling of Mookyul? This funny, hip title by Hajin Yoo will thrill and amuse fans with plenty of intense boys love action.
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Mad Dog
- Author(s): Haribo
63 Chapters + Hiatus Special (Complete)
Read on Lezhin
Mad Dog Synopsis
Some people thirst for power while others want nothing more than to live low. Hamin has always been resentful of the label that comes with being his father’s son—he didn’t ask to be born into a mob family! After much trial and error,
Hamin finally breaks ties with his family and begins to live the life he’s dreamed about. That is, until he gets kidnapped and finds himself under the protection of a certain Kwon Sehyuk. All Hamin wants is his “normal” life back, but Sehyuk is as far from normal as a person can get…
Dangerous Convenience Store
- Author(s): 945
88 Chapters (Complete) + 12 Side Stories
Read on Lezhin
This manhwa also has an animated adaptation available on Laftel’s international app, with English subtitles in select regions. Click here if you’d like to watch it!
Dangerous Convenience Store Synopsis
Danger can come in many shapes and sizes, and the kind of danger Yeo Eui-Joon has to deal with comes in the form of buff, brash, belligerent gangsters. He knew that working nights in a shifty neighborhood wouldn’t be the safest job on the planet, but reality sure does exceed expectations.
However, Eui-Joon’s days as the neighborhood punching bag look like they’re coming to a close when Gunwoo steps into this small store. Gunwoo, gruff as he is, genuinely seems to care about Eui-joon’s well-being, so it doesn’t take long for Eui-joon to fall for this charismatic giant.
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Rose and Champagne
- Author(s): ZIG
89 Chapters (Complete)
Read on Lezhin
Rose and Champagne Synopsis
Leewon, who works as a poor lawyer in Russia, visits City Councilor Zdanov, who is in conflict over Nikolai’s commission, and there he meets the mafia boss, Caesar. Behind City Councilor Zdanov, there was a mafia involved. The meeting between the two is extraordinary. (Source: Lezhin)
Dear Benjamin
- Author(s): Ereyz
Dear Benjamin: 45 chapters
– Dear Benjamin 1.5 (Sequel): 13 chapters (Complete)
If you’ve read Dear Benjamin, you might be surprised by the change in art style. That’s because the artist has changed, although the author remains the same. The story continues with Dear Benjamin 1.5, which is considered a follow-up. It’s already completed, so you can jump right in!
You can read the first 45 chapters of Dear Benjamin on Tappytoon, and then continue the story with the sequel, Dear Benjamin 1.5, also on Tappytoon.
Dear Benjamin Synopsis
“You, you are mine since you signed the contract.”
Isaac lived his entire life as a Beta before he became a recessive Omega at the peak of his adolescence. Four years ago, he had only one relationship with a dominant Alpha, the only experience he had as an omega. Then, while Isaac was hiding his Omega identity while running a small flower shop as a Beta, the arrogant but dazzlingly beautiful dominant Alpha Felix came in…
An unfair contract is signed between Felix, a world-renowned arms dealer and a dangerous man connected to the mafia, and Isaac, an omega dreaming to live as a normal Beta as he runs from his past.
(Source: novelupdates)
Personally, I think you should definitely check out the novel too! Volume 1 is already out at BLoved Publishing, and Volume 2 is available for pre-order.
Low Tide in Twilight
- Author(s): Euja
100 Chapters + 4 Side Stories (Ongoing)
Read on Lezhin
Low Tide in Twilight Synopsis
Kim Euihyun has decided he doesn’t want to live. He feels nothing anymore. He has no future to look forward to. Now, he’s looking into the abyss, holding in his arms the only thing that was keeping him alive. It’ll all be over soon.
But someone grabs him from the water’s edge, and pulls him from the darkness. Euihyun, whose sole possession is a mountain of debt, has been rescued by Taeju. Now Taeju has offered Euihyun money, a house, and a job to help him out of his mess. But what will Taeju, who is intoxicated by Euihyun’s smell, ask for in return? Could Taeju be the person that finally brings Euihyun out of his eternal twilight…?
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A Thousand Cranes
- Author(s): Jeong Seok Chan
34 Chapters + Review + 3 Side Story (Complete)
Read on Tapas
A Thousand Cranes Synopsis
After finishing his part-time job, Oon Hak witnesses Ga Hyun murder someone. He immediately runs away, but accidentally drops his phone near the crime scene, which worries him. On the other hand, Ga Hyun orders his “underling” to get rid of Oon Hak. What will happen to Oon Hak and Ga Hyun?
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Under the Green Light
- Author(s): Yoo Ha jin
78 Chapters + Character Special (Complete)
Under the Green Light Synopsis
Jin is the most perfectly beautiful man Matthew’s ever seen. He’s also a high-ranking and violent criminal full of frustrated ambitions and equally frustrated appetites. But Matthew, a sculpture student prodigy, can only see the beauty—not the darkness. One way or another, Matthew will pay the price for his muse, with his body… or with something far more costly.
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Max Mojave Case Files
- Author(s): Summer Forest
81 Chapters (Complete)
Read on Tappytoon
Max Mojave Case Files Synopsis
“The moment I first saw him, I thought I was really going to die.” A boy who had to kill a man and a boy who watched the scene by mistake. Max is a criminal and Chris is the one who is chasing his trail. The moment that changed their lives have reunited them now as roommates, but… What is this feeling emerging from the growing tension?
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Miscreants and Mayhem
- Author(s): Brothers Without A Tomorrow
71 Chapters + Hiatus Special (Complete)
Read on Lezhin
Miscreants and Mayhem Synopsis
“I missed you, Dad. Did you miss me too?”
Gang member Ryu Nanmu may be one of the top dogs in his “organization,” but in life he’s hit rock bottom. He dreamed of building a family once, with his boss’ mistress and her son Pil-gyun, but he’s had to pay dearly for coveting something that could never be his. After several long years, the hope for a family had become barely anything more than a nostalgic memory for Nanmu…until a grown-up Pil-gyun dramatically reappears in Nanmu’s life. Except, this isn’t the child that Nanmu remembers. Pil-gyun is calculated, deadly, and obsessively in love with him. Although Nanmu knows he should put an end to this futile relationship, Pil-gyun’s tender words of love can’t help but tug at his heartstrings…
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The Words In Your Snare
- Author(s): Chaepali
77 Chapters + 5 Side Stories (Complete)
Read on Tappytoon
The Words In Your Snare Synopsis
A recluse by choice, young cafe owner, Lee Jooin, has fled the hustle and bustle of Seoul to live in the countryside in peace. His peculiar ability to read people’s thoughts as text left him unable to trust or face the words left behind in his broken home. But, his peaceful new life is suddenly interrupted when a sack of drugs winds up on his doorstep. With that, he finds himself tangled up with an unusual new customer, the right-hand man to the infamous Sa Gang, Mookya. Besides Mookya’s adorable quirks, there’s one thing about him that Jooin can’t ignore; the fact that he can’t see Mookya’s thoughts.
After longing to find someone with whom he can have a normal relationship, Jooin follows Mookya back to Seoul. But, with an incestuous brother who’s been waiting for Jooin’s return, life-threatening investigations with the police, and other mind readers to worry about, their relationship ends up being anything but normal. As both of these mysterious men become more and more infatuated with each other, their hidden pasts begin to unravel and they find their social circles overlap more than they realized. But, how long before they are torn apart by the words they never wanted the other to hear?
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Minmotion Syndrome
- Author(s): Niji
93 Chapters (Complete)
Read on Lezhin
Minmotion Syndrome Synopsis
“I’ll repay that 450 thousand for you…but in exchange, you’re mine.” Due to the debt left behind by his father, alpha Seo Taeyoon is at the mercy of Park Jae-in, a mob boss with a penchant for violence. But when Taeyoon is able to identify Jae-in as an omega by scent alone, the ruthless criminal is taken aback – because nobody should be able to smell his pheromones.
Seeing this as his opportunity to regain what once was lost, Jae-in offers to pay off Taeyoon’s father’s loan in exchange for a life of servitude. Now Jae-in holds the key to both the physical and metaphorical locks around Taeyoon’s neck. And so begins their relationship as master and slave…but there’s no telling how it will end.
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Honto Yajuu
- Author(s): YAMAMOTO Kotetsuko
18 Volumes (Ongoing)
Read on Manga Planet
Honto Yajuu Synopsis
Tomoharu Ueda is content being a police officer in his neighborhood. He likes helping people, and in return, people like him. One night, he gets visited by a yakuza who turned to be the victim of the underwear thief he caught the previous night.
The yakuza is Aki Gotouda, the heir of the Gotouda group, who thanked him for catching the thief. To Tomoharu’s surprise, Aki confesses that he has feelings for him. Thus starts a forbidden relationship between a police officer and a yakuza. (Source: Manga Planet)
Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai
- Author(s): YONEDA Kou
9 Volumes (Ongoing)
Buy on June Manga
Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai Synopsis
Yashiro is the young leader of Shinseikai and the president of the Shinseikai Enterprise, but like so many powerful men, he leads a double life as a deviant and a masochist. Chikara Doumeki comes to work as a bodyguard for him and, although Yashiro had decided that he would never lay a hand on his own men, he finds there’s something about Doumeki that he can’t resist.
Yashiro makes advances toward Doumeki, but Doumeki has mysterious reasons for denying. Yashiro, who abuses his power just to abuse himself, and Doumeki, who faithfully obeys his every command, begin the tumultuous affair of two men with songs in their hearts and no wings to fly.
(Source: Juné Manga)
Afterglow
- Author(s): WAGASE Wagimoko
1 Volume // 5 Chapters + 2 Extra
Buy on Amazon
Afterglow Synopsis
Higuchi Kiyotaka has hit rock bottom. Once a promising doctor on his way to becoming a cardiovascular surgeon, a traumatic incident has forced him to relocate to a rural town in Kyushu where he’s relegated to practicing general medicine.
Each day is a struggle to communicate with his heavily accented patients and overcome his intense feelings of guilt and depression. After an evening spent drinking himself into a stupor, he has a fateful encounter with a mysterious yakuza named Tenju, who promises to help the young doctor forget all his troubles for a night.
As Higuchi finds himself drowning in unknown pleasures, he can’t help but wonder—just who exactly is Tenju? And what does he want from him?
(Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
A Kiss for Each Face
- Author(s): Yanase Seno
1 Volume (Complete)
A Kiss for Each Face Synopsis
Alex Lowe, a young but ruthless mafia boss falls in love at first sight with Shirai Kanata, a quiet student. However, Kanata is actually the skilled assassin known as “Black Swan” and his next target is Alex! Unlike his previous targets, Alex gives him genuine and sincere love and Kanata’s heart is in turmoil…
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Majo to Neko
- Author(s): Kuroi yodaka
1 Volume (Complete)
Majo to Neko Synopsis
Outwardly, Sudo is a delivery man, but at night he is a “courier” for the underworld. By chance, he gets together with his neighbor Uno, whom he has been interested in, over a potluck.
The next day, he sleeps with Uno, who is drunk, and the next day, Uno becomes very distant from him. While he is worried that he might be onto his ulterior motives, he sees Uno being tangled up with some unscrupulous men on the street, and he reflexively takes Uno by the hand and runs away. The dying Sudo, under attack from the enemy, is saved by a contract with Uno, a descendant of witches.
Sudo learns that Uno has been living in hiding from the world because he is a witch. To escape his pursuers, Sudo returns to his home to retrieve money for his escape, only to find his pursuers waiting for him…?
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