what plot? – The BLacklist: Yaoi Reviews

November 29, 2020August 13, 2024

POISON CHERRY DRIVE (Modoru Motoni)

I had an inkling that this book was going to be bad. Partly a premonition based on the art style, followed by an educated guess based on the fact that it’s a Kitty title. Ages ago a read a brief review of it saying it was trash, and that nugget of info apparently stayed with me as well. ‘Trash’ may be too nice a descriptor though in this case – it sounds too polite. I’m gonna slightly bump it up a level to ‘hot garbage.’ It’s terrible even by Kitty standards and makes the likes even the bottom of the barrel of BL look like Tezuka works. While reading I was on the lookout for the answer to the question of why they wanted to license this, but I never did find it. Even halfway through, this dumpster fire was still managing to go downhill with no brakes.

March 31, 2018August 13, 2024

PET ON DUTY (Nase Yamato)

So quick reader poll, when going down on a guy for the first time, what’s the first thing you should do?

A) Lick their balls
B) Eat their ass
C) Bite their frenulum
D) Give them a Lion King (Flip them over, fuck them from behind, and pull out and come on your hand – when they turn around to see what you’re doing, dip your thumb in your semen and rub it across their forehead while whispering, ‘Simba.’)

Guess which one our uke Mizuki here chooses? Not D, unfortunately, but that’s my favorite thing I’ve ever read on Urban Dictionary.

He actually picks C. Guess it doesn’t seem all that weird now compared to the last choice…

March 1, 2018April 23, 2024

THE INCREDIBLE KINTARO (Naomi Guren)

I may or may not have gotten this title just to review it. And holy fuck am I glad I did. ‘Speechless’ is a word that often gets attached to a greater number of things than it’s truly worthy of describing, but I think this manga checks that box.

Things That Grow and their Practical Applications: The Christian Summer Camp Middle School Reader, 6th ed. (alternate title idea)

VERY NSFW pictures after the jump, even by BL standards.

February 25, 2018June 7, 2024

LOVE LESSON (Hanae Sakazaki)

So, I don’t mind student-pursuing-teacher storylines, and I don’t mind younger semes with older ukes, but if those two things overlap on some kind of yaoi venn diagram it’s not really my cup of tea. Maybe I just haven’t read one I really liked yet, but I think when it gets down to it – college students are one thing, but when I think about the guys I knew at 16, and then pretend they were gay, the idea that any of them would be able to top someone older and more experienced than them, much less satisfy them, much less seduce them, much less have the confidence to try in the first place, much less put another comma in this sentence, is kind of laughable. Granted, I went to Catholic school, so that probably means diddly squat. Maybe in some public schools out there people were so used to this that when Johnny bent Mr. Smith over in the janitor’s closet after Algebra 2, they didn’t even have to shut the door – and that’s still *if* doing questionable things with the mop handle wasn’t completely off the table. You know those kids that were duller than a tan crayon yet somehow always got good test scores? You gotta wonder…

February 22, 2018June 8, 2024

CAN’T WIN WITH YOU (Honami/Takaguchi)

That awkaward moment when you try to get a kid of questionable age to do something by tying him down and giving him a hand job while making out with your friend but it doesn’t convince him to do what you want so you get forced to blow the school director’s son while his brothers watch and then the same annoying kid starts going to your school and becomes resident advisor and makes rules against no gay stuff but starts to like gay stuff because you kiss him once but really you like your roommate Miku and you get pissed because you get forced to suck that same guys’s dick again while Miku and your other friend drug the annoying kid with spiked hot chocolate and dress him up like a slutty girl while he’s unconscious complete with shampoo dripping from his mouth for blackmail and then later everyone tries to rape him and you’re like wtf all I wanted was to get my asshole rammed in peace by my roommate without getting forced to blow people as punishment for shit I didn’t do. I think we can all relate.

June 23, 2017August 13, 2024

HIS ARROGANCE (Takashi Kanzaki)

If you love sexy bishies and hot sex scenes (of course you do) and you’re willing to trade coherent dialogue and a decent plot for it (I mean, I usually am), this is a pretty good choice. That’s not really a knock, by the way. I personally could care less if the plot/dialogue makes sense if you’re replacing that page real estate with hot bishie sex scenes, and this book checks that box! It is a Kanzaki story, after all…