I picked it out of my collection to read because my friend Shinami read it and announced that “of all the 150+ BL I’ve read so far, this one is the worst.” Holy hole in donut Batman, talk about music to my ears. Of course I had to read it right away!
I was not disappointed. Golden Cain is potentially the most aggressively and grotesquely awful BL story I’ve ever read. It’s almost so bad it’s good, but while trying to turn that corner it instead flies off the cliff in flames, collides with a plane, and then crashes into a burning pit of toxic waste.
My reviews don’t usually contain spoilers, but this one will, because I have to break down the plot for you so you can seethe level of ‘bad’ we’re dealing with here. If ‘bad’ could be quantified in height, this is beyond even skyscraper-level bad, this is like pile-of-Godzillas-on-Denali bad. I need to talk about almost every plot point in this review, if for no other reason than as a form of therapy to process the trauma that’s been inflicted on me from reading this, so I’ll avoid redacting the spoilers for simplicity’s sake. Just know that there’s spoilers after the jump!
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