Yaoi manga reviews and fujoshi ramblings
Although this is one of the more obscure June titles it’s not that pricey, it’s pretty decent! I might even say it’s a hidden gem.
“X, are you sure you’re not just saying that because it has random scenario you find really hot, like clothed handjobs?”
Man, ya’ll know me too well…
Continue reading “LOVE SONG FOR THE MISERABLE (Yukimura)”
Oh, oh! Finally, a good one! I feel like a dude who’s been fishing the whole day and the only thing that’s been biting is tiny lightsaber-dick-largemouth-bass and man-rape-mackerel, or a strange deformed mystery fish like Tomcats that looked like it swam out of the number four reactor at Chernobyl. But I suddenly I finally reeled in a decent fish – it’s no lunker but I’ll eat tonight at least. Perhaps next time I should move to a lake that’s actually been stocked with fish past 2008…
Continue reading “SIGHING KISS (Riyu Yamakami)”
One of the first BL I ever read was Same Cell Organism, also by this mangaka, and I was struck by her unique stories and soft artstyle. Having a lot more BL under my belt now, I was curious if I would still like her work. I can happily say that even after becoming considerably more jaded about BL, Yumeka is like a soft, fresh breeze in a world of lightsaber dicks, oversized hands, dorito chins, and rape tropes.
Continue reading “THE DAY I BECAME A BUTTERFLY (Sumomo Yumeka)”
In which Taishi Zaou, who often finds drawing sex scenes to be a hassle, has found a new way to take a shortcut – just have one guy dry hump the other and cum in his pants! Genius!
Continue reading “LIVING FOR TOMORROW (Taishi Zaou)”
Do you like 12 year olds topping their high school stepbrothers? No? Well too bad, says Taishi Zaou, you thought you were just getting a story about a guy with sexy hands but then ZAP, surprise shota semes. Thankfully everyone having sex is here is past puberty, if that makes you feel better.
Continue reading “ELECTRIC HANDS (Taishi Zaou)”
You may have noticed I’ve been reviewing a lot of Yamada titles lately, in fact I think I’ve pretty much reviewed all her stuff we have in English at this point except for Close the Last Door. The second volume of that is sort of valuable so I’m saving it for last, because that means it might actually be good. Not that the rest of her stuff I’ve read is awful, it’s turned out to be a pretty mixed bag – generally she has good characters and thoughtful stories, but not super appealing art (It is worth mentioning again though that her more recent work is decidedly better-looking, although we don’t have any in English).
Continue reading “GLASS SKY (Yugi Yamada)”
This manga is from 2007, but it seriously feels like Kuwabara leapt forward in time and prompted ChatGPT to ‘write me a three-part BL story about high school boys that’s wholesome and cute’ and this is what it generated.
Continue reading “BLUE SKY (Yuko Kuwabara)”
It must just be luck of the draw, but the last three BL I’ve reviewed have all pretty much been scored somewhere in the 5-6 range out of 10. It almost makes me not want to give this manga that score just because of that, even though that is how I’d rate this one too. 5 is a “good” score to me, it’s like if it was just average but still had things to like about it. Some may say I am a hard rater, but if you’re a veteran manga reader too you’ve probably also come to realize over time just how good or how bad a manga can be. When I first started reading BL, everything got a good score, because I just didn’t have as much to compare it to – perhaps you were the same?
Continue reading “LOVER’S PLEDGE (Kae Maruya)”
Kaori Monchi notes in the beginning of this manga that her little brother pasted the screentones. I’m not sure how old this kid is but I wonder if his friends at school know that he helps his older sister out with her gay porn stories?
Continue reading “WAGAMAMA KITCHEN (Kaori Monchi)”
Tfw you were raised as an only child by your grandfather because you dont have any other family and he dies but turns out he was actually lying to you about not having family it’s just that your parents were pieces of shit who left your six younger brothers to raise themselves in poverty in a hovel somewhere and you finally go to meet and live with them but they all hate you and one of them always has to suck the neighbor’s dick for money.
