Yaoi manga reviews and fujoshi ramblings
…In which my high school fantasy that my cute male classmates jerked each other off out of curisoity was totally confirmed as fact, you guys! A random dude in a manga said it so it must be true!
Continue reading “DESIRE (Kazumi/Honami)”
If my high school archery club had as much sexual tension between gorgeous boys as this one does, I think I most definitely would be able to get a bullseye on a moving bullet by now.
Continue reading “RIN! (Kannagi/Honami)”
Oh my God, this book. This freaking book. I never thought a shounen-ai could get my heart pounding like a schoolgirl talking to her crush. Yes a shounen-ai, as in no explicit sex – that’s a feat for someone who has spent enough time in the dark corners of the internet to have careful instructions to trusted people to destroy my hard drives upon death. And it takes a special kind of sexless BL story to get an 8+ out of me. Plus, it gets a bit hard to regress from M titles once you get far enough in the sin bin. Then again, there is lots of M-rated BL that simply slaps together a lame and unsatisfying sex scene just to reel in your eyeballs with that “explicit content” box, and they are the worst offenders in my opinion – if a book claims to be rated M, it better damn well better be. With 16+ stories, at least I know what I’m getting (or rather, not getting) – you can’t be upset about no sugar in your cornflakes if the box says there isn’t any.
Continue reading “DASH! (Isaku Natsume)”
I never thought I’d say that masturbation scenes in a yaoi book is what would bump up the rating for me, yet here I am.
Continue reading “THE ART OF LOVING, “Part 1” (EikiEiki)”
The story in Sweet Revolution was an odd one (not to mention the title itself and what it has in any way to do with the story, but that’s BL for you), it felt like the second part was a completely different story than the first but with the same two main characters…in the middle it very quickly switches from a stereotypical school setting to a mysterious otherworldly realm (if you read/watch a lot of manga/anime, one simply comes to accept isekai in any situation), and after that leap they do not mix again. Still, the pacing was good and the story fun to follow, and it unfolded in a really intriguing way.
Continue reading “SWEET REVOLUTION (Honami/Suzuki)”
The feeling I had while reading this manga was akin to hopping into a cold shower when you expected a hot one…it just *completely* threw me off guard. Not that I was expecting light cutesy BL fluff- to be honest I had no expectations and didn’t even read the summary on the back before starting it – but it sure wasn’t this.
Continue reading “CUT (Toko Kawai)”