Yaoi manga reviews and fujoshi ramblings
Yoshiyuki is a middle-school art teacher who visits the hospital often to see his dying mother. Also there is furniture designer Kaoru, there to visit his dying grandmother, and when he runs into Yoshiyuki he is instantly captivated.
“So how did you guys meet?”
“Well it was thanks to our relatives dying…”
Continue reading “SHY INTENTIONS (Syouko Takaku)”
In which the uke, while getting raped, feels sorry for his rapist. Yes that’s right, while actively having his ass unwillingly penetrated by his boss while at work, he thinks to himself, “aw gee, I feel so bad for this guy, for not having enough chances to blow off steam.” Where can this possibly go from here? Take a guess! Did you guess love? Ah, I see you have also read a lot of old yaoi…
Continue reading “WHERE HAS LOVE GONE? (Ryoku Tsunoda)”
This was one of the first BL I ever had in my collection and at the time it was kind of rare. It’s still not all that common but when collecting old BL the general rule of thumb is that the ‘rare stuff is usually good stuff.’
Let me just say that this rule does NOT apply here…
Continue reading “LIVE FOR LOVE (Jun Mayama)”
This was an early title in my collection and I read like part of it or something and remember liking it ok. Reading it again I’m not sure it’s so good that I have to hold onto it still but it’s a cute one-shot compilation for 2008. I guess nowdays we’re just spoiled with such super good BL that this older ‘ok’ BL just pales in comparison.
Continue reading “BAREFOOT WALTZ (Romuco Miike)”
It’s been a while since I read a Nastumizu title – Love Bus Stop – but this one is similar in a lot of ways; the most important one being that it features mostly older men having sex in button-up shirts. All aboard the hot salarymen fucktrain lfg
Continue reading “CRUSHING LOVE (Ritsu Natsumizu)”
The author calls the main couples in this story a ‘yuri-ple’ and I’d never heard that term in my life so I’m glad she explained it – my idea of yuri is lesbian manga but apparently she means it to be ‘the pairing of two uke-like characters.’ Ah, so that’s why they both act so dumb! It’s like a wall meeting a wall despite them dating on page 1, neither will take the lead and their relationship just sort of stagnates until one of them finally grows a pair out of sheer horniness and tries to get things moving. Hey guys, I know you want to jerk off alone and wax poetic about your inner feelings but we’ve got a page limit so piss or get off the pot…
Continue reading “AFTER I WIN (Kaname Itsuki)”
This is probably one of the worst-looking BL books I have, the inner cover is literally held together by tape and it has suspicious-looking stains on some of the inner pages that look kind of like cum. I think of it as an added bonus feature to make the stories more realistic 🙃
But really, this was a pretty decent BL with three good stories, so you can always judge a book by its suspicious-looking jizz stains, as the saying goes.
Continue reading “RESTART (Shouko Hidaka)”
Invisible love more like invisible weiners badum tischhh
My expectations of anything by Momoko Tenzen are now so low that all she has to do is draw something marginally ok at this point for me to think positively of it. This is her 8th title, and it seems she finally figured out how not to suck by now.
Continue reading “LA SATANICA (Momoko Tenzen)”
From the title alone you might think this is an exciting drama about a rock band but actually the band breaks up in the opening chapter over some unmentioned petty drama and we never even learn what they were called. It’s a slice of life manga about the four former members and their struggles, conflicts, and romances following the band’s breakup. The title is a little misleading, but for a slice of life it’s actually pretty good.
Continue reading “HARD ROCK (Akane Abe)”