The BLacklist: Yaoi Reviews – Page 15 – Yaoi manga reviews and fujoshi ramblings

August 5, 2017November 28, 2024

MILLENIUM DARLING 2006 (Maki Naruto)

I really want to like June as a publishing company more than I do, considering the amount of money I give them. They have an enormous library of some really great titles (well, they did anyway, before they lost their contract with Libre). However, they 1) Can’t keep most of them in print without asking for money on Kickstarter, and 2) Do shit like only license/publish the third book of a series. What kind of shiitake are they smoking over there where they think this a good idea?

July 14, 2017January 10, 2025

THE COLOR OF LOVE (Kiyo Ueda)

This is a nice collection of BL stories, and it does a decent job of establishing and developing characters for being a 5-story one-shot compilation. Ueda is pretty good with short stories and I felt like they all delivered

June 27, 2017June 8, 2024

THE ART OF LOVING, “Part 1” (EikiEiki)

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.

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…

May 29, 2017August 13, 2024

SWEET REVOLUTION (Honami/Suzuki)

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.

May 9, 2017June 8, 2024

CUT (Toko Kawai)

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.