Smell

by Nagabe

En un instituto de perros antropomorfos, el risueño border collie Josef se encuentra un día con que Noi, un reservado compañero de clase bloodhound, está olisqueando su ropa. ¿Es posible que le atraiga su olor? Cautivados por el tema de los olores, Josef y Noi se aficionan a olfatearse el uno al otro, y cada vez tienen más y más ganas de hacerlo. ¡Que empiece el BL de instituto entre chicos perro con un fetiche que te pondrá los pelos de punta!

Genres: Manga, LGBT, Romance, Queer, Yaoi, Comics, Graphic Novels

178 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2024

About the author

Please also see ながべ.

He studied Fine Arts at Musashino University. At first, he was more interested in illustration, printmaking, and painting than in manga. However, when he considered the best way to make a living from his art, he decided to focus on the world of Japanese comics and trained himself, rather than the usual approach of working for several years as an apprentice to an experienced manga artist.

He was still a student when his first work, The Boss Is an Onee, was published. He soon attracted attention for his distinctive drawing style, his fantastical and melancholic plots, and his use of fantasy characters and anthropomorphic animals.

Reviews

[Ran · Rating 4 out of 5]

Soy oficialmente furro

[Sergio · Rating 5 out of 5]

Murakami está muy calladito desde que se publicó esta pieza de la literatura nipona

[Peppa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Listen…I’m not really a furry Typ or anything like that but wow this one here I enjoyed it so much!!
it’s really something different, new, definitely unique and the smell kink absolutely makes sense here, since both MCs are actually dogs!
I loved how this was portrait here it had a slight innocent touch to it even if it was really kinky. I love it!
I also loved both characters! Both were so cute and sweet, I loved how their dynamic here worked out.

All the happy wiggling tails made this even more better haha it was really adorable.

I‘m actually so sad that there isn’t a second volume about them I would eat it right up😭💓

[Becca Maree · Rating 2 out of 5]

Dogs sniffin' butt, but it's gay.

[Clover Saunders · Rating 3 out of 5]

I'm a big fan of Nagabe, so I love reading his works. This was, like, an amp up NSFW-wise compared to his other works. I mean well, yeah, the title is self-explanatory, it's a story based on a scent fetish. If you're going into it thinking "oh cute furry boyfriends" sure, but be aware of its content :')

[marcia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Compared to Eat, this manga is more straightforward. Given this is a oneshot, I don't expect the characters to be extremely well-developed. However, all we know about Noy and Joseph is that they're attracted to each other's scent, which isn't that compelling by itself.

[Ani Martinez · Rating 3 out of 5]

A manga about olfactophilia fetish 👀 oh pheromones, what a lovely thing you are. Anyways, for being a pornographic BL, this is a mix of cute yet kinky.

[Orion · Rating 3 out of 5]

thank you mr Nagabe for carrying the "perverts who are weird and possibly a little fucked up about bodies " community 🙏

[chris · Rating 5 out of 5]

NOW THIS IS WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!!!!!!! nagabe you have been redeemed.

[Robin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lo leí en un sentón luego de que se me cruzara mientras investigaba algo y no puedo mentir: lo amé un montón.

[Jessica Walsh · Rating 5 out of 5]

It all started when Joseph caught him red-handed, sniffing his shirt in a deserted classroom. His bloodhound nose-deep in his shirt, taking a long, enjoyable sniff...

Nagabe is one of those mangaka that I pickup immediately, because no matter what I’m guaranteed a unique story with memorable characters and a thread or two of stuff I’m not really going to find in any other titles. If you’re unfamiliar, Nagabe is well known for his wholesomely creepy series The Girl From the Other Side, but he also occasionally dabbles in the world of BL. And when he does, they’re always beastmen with particular tastes. Check out the recommendations at the bottom of the review for a list of his others...

Read the full review at Well, Are They? A Queer Review Blog:
https://wellarethey.blogspot.com/2025...

[Andrew · Rating 3 out of 5]

i do like nagabe's art style a lot but it will never not be funny to me that the guy who made a super cottagecore, eldritch horror, ~*~*aesthetic~*~* manga series just did a 180 pivot and decided "yeah, now i can make all the gay furry smut i want". good for him

[Annalaura · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nagabe, grazie. È perfetto.
La tua vocazione per il furry la condivido pienamente. Ho bisogno di altre cose così chic.

[Din0 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Es muy gracioso y simple, chill. Si esto pasará en la vida real a lo mejor pondría una denuncia.

Me habría gustado que hubieran hablado más de sus sentimientos pero tampoco me ralla mucho. Muy wtf, me gusta 🧐

[Ana Karenina · Rating 3 out of 5]

No sé cómo llegué hasta aquí.

Me gusta mucho el estilo de Nagabe, ¿Acaso soy furro?

Bueno... Ahm... Supongo que he leído cosas más raras... Tal vez.

[Madam Sorbet · Rating 4 out of 5]

Muy cute tiooo me he quedado con ganas de más 😞😞😞

[Salem MoonSeer · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love it, gimme a whole series 40 volumes

[Álex · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gais, Furros, Kinks

[Alex Jiménez · Rating 4 out of 5]

better than EAT but I wish he would write longer stories

[WDB · Rating 5 out of 5]

gelezen met de bf, was cute en leuk

[Morgan ♓︎]

unfortunately this made me realize anthropomorphic dogs give me the ick… I thought Monotone Blue was cute though

[Courtney Tizard · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gay dogs. 5/5 stars ✔️

[poet · Rating 5 out of 5]

Damn what a sweet and real story. Maybe be more careful at school kids!!! But I'm glad you found each other!!!

[Lefty · Rating 4 out of 5]

The first time I read something where I felt like it was specifically tailored to me and my freaky gay autist furry mind. Because of that, this is an immediate all-time favorite!

You can read it here: https://archive.org/details/img-4973_...

[Mari · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wasn't expecting certain things to be DRAWN after reading the author's other BL titles 😳 Def kinky...kinda wholesome lol

[beenis]

love how this guy who drew some of the best manga of all time also draws furry yaoi smut. the range of this diva!

[rafy! · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thank you Nagabe for feeding us once again.

[jupiter:)]

my bf found this for us based on an image and we started to read it blind and thought it was some cute fluffy bl .. WRONG

[Miosz · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well, I didn't think I will be reading gay furry manga this year but hey! There's a first time for everything!
I did not expect it to be so sexual. I started reading it based on one panel I saw on twitter and it wasn't at all explicit. Well....I was mistaken. And I loved being mistaken. This one shot had a really interesting premis, which is the smell, or the act of smelling. It is intriguing to read a story about anthropomorphic animals that yeah do sexual stuff but they do it in a way that stems from the fact they are animals. In this case, dogs. That small thing makes this manga far more interesting than it would be if the main characters were written as just humans but animals.
When it comes to characters and story itself it is just a simple story about finding out you like boyyyyyysssss and experimenting with sexuality. It's not revolutionary but making the smelling plot the main point makes this manga far more engaging. Of course, it can be read as a simple fetish story. I won't say it can't be that. But I found it to be more than just that. It intrigued me.
When it comes to art Nagabe is a great artist and I can't wait to read more from him. Also I found out he wrote The Girl From the Other Side only after reading SMELL. Now I have to read it. No more excuses.

[Sol · Rating 3 out of 5]

Tagline missed the opportunity to say "Started off with a sniff, how could it end up like this? It was only a sniff, it was only a sniff!!"

This was very cute <:) I found these two's budding relationship very charming. I feel like Nagabe uses the characters being dogs + smelling pheromones as a metaphor for clicking instantly with someone for no particular reason. In this book, Noi, the bloodhound, enjoys the different scents of his classmates, but Joseph is his favorite -- for no stated reason. In the same way, once they get closer, Joseph realizes all he wants to do is be surrounded by Noi's scent. I just find that precious.

I thought the art was very cute! I read the ebook but would like to flip through a printed version someday to see how it compares. The only thing about the story that I feel is a downside is the fact that Noi doesn't talk. It would have been nice to see his words from his own mouth as opposed to Joseph doing the talking for him, in order to make everything feel more two-sided, and for Noi to feel more like an active character.

That's all. Other than that, very sweet little story!