dub-con – Page 2 – The BLacklist: Yaoi Reviews

January 7, 2024March 28, 2024

YOU MAKE MY HEAD SPIN (Kazuhiko Mishima)

We’re back-to-back with Kazuhiko Mishima books today, and thankfully this one is a bit better than First Stage of Love, but not by much. Oh but there’s sex! Great right? Well, it feels completely out of place and there’s no dick…in 2008, June was still slowly dipping its toes in the dick pool. Also the art isn’t great. But the characters are ok. Can’t have your yaoi cookies and eat them too with this one, but it’s an ok snack, even if it’s a tad stale and the frosting is too hard.

January 2, 2024March 28, 2024

MANIC LOVE + FAKE FUR (Satomi Yamagata)

Guys, get ready for a surprise – two obscure old June titles from the mid 00s that DON’T suck. I don’t say that lightly either, ya’ll know I’m a cynic. If you like serious stories and don’t mind some minimalistic art, these two books with linked stories are easy to find cheap copies of and nice little reads. There’s also slutty sex, in case you needed a little push.

September 15, 2023April 25, 2024

RUFF LOVE (Tamaki Kirishima)

I was just talking to my friends about furries the other day. This is old news but there’s a subset of furries that dress up like Nazis that made headlines in a Rolling Stones article some years back, and I still get a kick out of how ridiculous the idea of Nazi furries is (oh, and there’s Soviet furries too of course). This kind of thing makes me wish we had a time machine so we could send Nazi furries back to 1940s Germany and see Hitler’s reaction. Do you think the US presidential election will one day be the furries vs the bronies? If not, well, I guess that’s what AI is for…

Well that’s a weird segway into talking about this manga…”Ruff Love” is a somewhat uncommon Deux Press title with a dog kemonomini theme. Though the characters make jokes and references to being being furries or having a furry fetish, I don’t think kemonomini really falls under the furry label, I mean plenty of people can get into characters with animal ears without being into full anthro – and their dick and balls are still human ones for what it’s worth.

January 28, 2023August 13, 2024

SHINOBU KOKORO (Temari Matsumoto)

I need to start by mentioning that there is a hand job on page 2 of this book. Now THIS is my kind of yaoi! If only all books were like this. Think how much better Harry Potter would improve if Harry and Malfoy just whipped their “wands” out and got it over with in the first book. “That doesn’t make any sense, those characters weren’t gay,” you may be thinking. Well, a lot of fanfiction would disagree. See, you just have to read between the lines! Try it the next time you watch a Marvel movie, you’ll get all kinds of plot points…

So uh, this is basically gay softcore PWP ninja porn for girls. And call me a sucker but I might as well have a bullseye on my back in terms of the people who make up the target market for this sort of stuff, so naturally I loved it and was inclined to ignore some of its flaws (“some” being the keyword). What can I say, I am an easy customer when it comes to hot bishies porking each other in ninja garb despite what might be something like a 25+ year age gap in the first story with dubious consent. ✋ Ay-yai-yai…

December 6, 2022April 23, 2024

TITAN’S BRIDE VOL 1 (ITKZ)

So, my friend Shinami gave me this for Christmas, and I have to say, it is one of the most fun and enjoyable Christmas presents I’ve ever gotten, possibly *the* most fun and enjoyable one – and my sister and I got a trampoline once. This is uncensored BL to boot, so it’s like Santa came twice in a row. ~~He has a big sack after all.~~

And oh boy was this a treat. If the odd premise of a bishounen who we will pretend is 18 getting whisked away to another world and then pile-driven by a comically massive titan cock for 150+ pages doesn’t really appeal to you now, I have a suggestion: it just might not appeal to you yet. The protagonist had the same realization, you know.

Warning: Uncensored dick after the jump.

July 18, 2022April 23, 2024

CANDY (Satomi Sugiya)

This was one of the most boring yaoi I’ve read in recent memory; I may as well have been reading a school textbook. I was thinking about the most mundane shit during it, like that I need more granola when I go to the store tomorrow and if I should really cancel Funimation yet (I should have like 2 years ago probably, but they really are taking their sweetass time porting everything over to Crunchyroll). My eyes were glazing over even during the steamy bits. The story was so predictable and trite and the art was passable but not really to my liking. I’ve certainly read worse, but I just really struggled to get through this one. Maybe I’ve just read so much bad yaoi that mediocre yaoi is now dead on arrival, who knows.

April 20, 2022April 23, 2024

HAPPY YAOI YUM YUM (Yaoi Press)

We have (fucking finally) reached the end of the Yaoi Press pile, and I purposely saved the best for last – so if Yaoi Press titles are too offensive to your eyesight to finish more than one review, make it this one. And if you’ve read them all so far and are ready to tap out due to early onset degenerative eyesight damage , it’s too late to turn back now, my friend. We’re nearing the summit and that last avalanche blocked our descent path. Plus, do you have any idea how many Yaoi Press titles there are?! There’s like 60 of them, think how merciful I am! This isn’t Everest, this is a bunny slope! Don’t you want to see what’s at the top of the mounta…errr…large snowy hill? There’s a lot going on up there but just from this low vantage point, I can see we’ve got dudes getting fucked with corn, tentacle kemonomimi rape, and a trap porn parody of Goldilocks and Three Bears. Woo-wee! Tighten up your boots and let’s get a move on. Those people above us on the ski lift are just pussies . Oh, look, there’s a sign:

“This sounds like a great book for my 8-year-old, I just want to make sure it’s censored?”

Warning: Very NSFW images after the jump.

December 11, 2021August 13, 2024

AUTHOR’S PET (Deathco Cotorino)

If there was a such a thing as cheap, no-frills takeout in yaoi form, this would be it. Made from a standard recipe with no surprises, and maybe a little bland at spice level 2-3 , but it meets your expectations and satisfies your appetite. Plus you didn’t have to cook. No leftovers though, they didn’t give you any more ~~sex~~ extra rice than was required 🥡 sad panda…🐼

May 9, 2019August 13, 2024

HEAVENLY BODY (Takashi Kanzaki)

So, I read this book on a six-hour plane ride. I happened to be sitting next to an elderly couple and the woman wanted to make small talk with me, and asked what I was reading (the dreaded question). “Oh, this?” I nonchalantly flipped it shut so that the back was facing and realized it had ‘Angelic sex or demonic sex?’ emblazoned on the back in large and bright enough lettering that you’d half to be half-blind not to notice, so quickly turned it over to the front instead. I studied the cover to buy a few seconds to think of something, which I later realized made it look like I had no idea what I’d been reading for the last 20 minutes. I almost went with that, actually, maybe something like, “oh, I found it in the back of the seat pocket in front of me,” but that would have made her more curious. Damn, X, think think think….ok, so the cover makes it look like it might be a nice story about three brothers that got turned into a made-for-TV movie on be Hallmark channel in the 90s, I should say that.

“Oh, it’s a…romance novel.”

She looked at the cover again in this new context. She frowned. The flight is almost landing and she hasn’t said anything to me for the last five hours.

I guess that’s one way to end small talk with elderly strangers…

October 18, 2018December 9, 2022

BLurb: The Boku no Pico Controversey

Well, it happened. I approached the cliff, looked down into the yawning abyss of no return, and took a running jump.

That’s right, I finally watched Boku no Pico. In my defense I was looking for Boku no Hero Academia, but I just…uh…clicked the wrong thing. They look a bit similar, you know? They both have…blonde protagonists. Easy to mix up. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.