The BLacklist: Yaoi Reviews – Page 6 – Yaoi manga reviews and fujoshi ramblings

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.

August 5, 2023August 13, 2024

MAID IN HEAVEN (Hisami Shimada)

The maid fetish is much more popular over at Uncle Hentai’s Loli Lake rather than here at Cousin Yaoi’s Buttsex Beach, where it’s just one of many tropes in the crossdressing category and can really only be found scattered in a few English titles (DMP’s Project-H hentai imprint put out some crossdressing manga, and although they’re technically yaoi they seem to be more designed for straight men who like femboys in costumes and there’s no actual sex). There are certainly not many yaoi in English solely dedicated to maid outfits, mainly this one and….well, this one. So get out your canoe and ‘yaoi’ paddle, go down yonder on Rimjob River to Ye Olde Cock Cabin, stand on the ‘Bears Only’ welcome mat and use the testicle door knocker, and come inside to watch…a rich dude pound the asshole of a servant boy crossdressing as a French maid. Hey, it’s probably better than half the shows being shat onto streaming at the moment…

May 8, 2023August 13, 2024

PART-TIME PETS (Reno Amagi)

The back of the books calls this ‘one of the hottest, silliest yaoi manga ever written!’ Well me set the record straight right now, this has about as much truth to it as Epstein having killed himself. Not that most people actually take the marketing lines on book covers with anything but a grain of salt, but I’m seriously doubtful that whoever wrote that actually read this because it should, without a doubt, have a little official-looking seal somewhere on the cover that says ‘Certified Crap.’ I mean, that would probably only appeal to people like me who think it’s fun to play on the garbage pile, but least it wouldn’t be false advertising.

April 25, 2023July 4, 2024

THIRSTY FOR LOVE (Honami/Takaguchi)

As soon as I finished this book I yelled to my fiancee in the other room ‘babe, you wouldn’t believe the premise of this yaoi I just read,’ and when I told him, I heard a a hearty chortle in reply. It’s so ridiculous I just can’t believe it was a serious story and not a comedy: three high schoolers are all dating the same girl, and when they lose her they all start fucking each other instead. (Just to reiterate, this is NOT a comedy). And when I imagined where I’d come across the first honest-to-God threesome in a physical title, I certainly didn’t think it would be in an old June book drawn by the same artist who did ‘Rin!’ Well, here we are.

March 10, 2023April 23, 2024

IDOL PLEASURES (Fuhri Misasagi)

This was a random blind pick off my shelf, which is a great way to dig up forgotten surprises. Usually they’re subpar surprises consisting of light saber dicks wrapped in yaoi hands on a soft bed of bad cliches, but hey, you gotta sift the dirt to find the gold. I skimmed the back of this and saw the pairing is an idol and his manager, which didn’t really excite me because one kind of pairing I find annoying in yaoi is famous actor/author/entertainer/whatever with random dude who ‘sees the real him’ under his famous exterior. And this one definitely ticks that box.

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…

January 26, 2023July 4, 2024

KISSING (Sasaki/Takaku)

‘Can you still call someone ‘just a friend’ after kissing?’ this book asks. Why yes, you can do exactly that – surely they know what friends with benefits are? Or, you can kiss someone and decide ‘yeah, no,’ which was the experience of my first kiss. I was 14 and he was 16 which I remember mattering (oh, he’s a ‘junior and you’re a freshman!’ my friends cooed). He invited me to the movies after class and we went to see the terrible sequel of an already-terrible romcom and then we sat there watching the credits roll kind of waiting in anticipation to see if the other was interested in this mouth touching thing people seemed to like. We were both shy naturally but finally the whole theater was empty so we went for it. I don’t think he knew it was my first kiss and for that I am very grateful. I remember hating it – eww, boy tongue – and watching a guy who worked there sweeping popcorn out of the corner of my eye and I felt weirded out that he was smiling at us and then it occurred to me that maybe I was supposed to close my eyes anyway. Don’t worry, the kissing in here is much hotter than that…

January 11, 2023April 23, 2024

BEYOND MY TOUCH (Tomo Maeda)

I have a tag on this blog for books that are “good for beginners,” and this is one of those that’s ideal for the innocent BL virgins among us looking to dip their toes into the genre. Although it’s an older title, the stories are cute and the art doesn’t feel too dated; I think even a Catholic priest would have a hard time being offended by a shounen-ai this wholesome. They may even ask to borrow it and leave it around for the altar boys to find…you know, to get a second opinion.

December 9, 2022April 23, 2024

LOVE TRAINING (Tatsumi Kaiya)

I’m in the middle of burning through everything I have by this mangaka because after Party and Hot Steamy Glasses were both very bleh, I expected this to also be bleh, and I really need the shelf space for other stuff. And it was very…well, bleh. This manga almost epitomizes mid 00s mediocre yaoi. Art was bleh. Stories were bleh. Sex was bleh. Everything was just…bleh? Bleh. Try not to be too impressed by my creative use of adjectives here…

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.