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I DIDNT REALIZE HOW OBNOXIOUSLY LONG THIS WAS BEFORE POSTING, SO JUST AN APOLOGY IN ADVANCE. IMSORRY.
Haha yes, there are so many manhwa and manga that are bland and cheap. I was worried when reading the premise that this would be another one with a cheap gimmick, but it's done really well!
(Skip, to the end for just a bullet list of stuff I liked, I ranted longer than I thought I would)
Aahhhhhh!!! This is one of the best BL smuts I’ve read in a while. I’ve just been skimming boring slice of life BL plots or plots that has some kind of gimmick (e.g. this one with: Yohan is deaf) but the characters are uninteresting and/or unlikeable with little motivation outside of their relationship with each other, or for the appeal of a drawn out plot common in Manhua a barely developed relationship for a majority of the story, and the smut is usually bland :/.
While this is a highly subjective matter, an opinion just from myself, I honestly think these characters are likable, and the fact it reveals little about their lives (at least so far) outside of work (especially for the main character) doesn’t bother me because their whole relationship basically stems from their jobs at the cafe. This is different in BLs in a school setting, where the main characters are usually friends who would do a lot of things together outside of school and are often even childhood friends, relationships that stem from just the time they spend with each other and their personalities and with a definite future ahead of them, meaning they at least have some sense of a life goal that doesn’t involve romance. In this BL their relationship is mostly around the fact that they are sexually attracted to each other, and they only know each other at all because of the accident that pushed them to work together. And their goals, (as far as The story has told us) is to simply keep working, (the main character is even already established to be not very well off and needing a job after all) although because of this I do wish the state of the shop (e.g. type of customers, how well it is doing financially) was a bit more fleshed out, tho I don’t want it to become an issue used for a plot device because I kinda just want good smut and fun characters from a story like this.
To talk about the gimmick of the story (tho, I hate to call it that because it’s on yohans disability, it basically is a gimmick) it really works. Yohans deafness is handled well, in the aspect of how much detail is put into his disability is actually more than I’ve seen in a more serious BL manga that had a character with a hearing disablility. Also, in all of the BL I have read I haven’t seen, or cant really remember, a gimmick on someone’s voice (that didn’t have to do with singing) before.
I’m really tired and lazy, and this is already rlly long for a manhwa like this so imma shorten some of my points to
~ I like the characters
~ the plot is simple, interesting, and straightforward
~ it has a very very small setting and cast of characters allowing it to focus on the main characters without any side bs (this is mainly just a smut story after all)
~ the gimmicks of the story are used well
~ the smut is good spicy
~ its really really well paced, making the smut spicier (๑•ㅂ•)و✧
~ the art is rlly good for the tone of the story (and the hands are well drawn and that’s especially good for this story)
~ YOHAN IS RLLY ADORABLE AHHHHHHHH (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
Anyways, I just rlly love this manhwa so far, its really interesting, fun, and most importantly spicy ;) and I had to get that off my chest because I’ve only been reading Yaoi that is mediocre at best and that’s always bleh.
Anyways imma reread this now (lol) thanks for reading if u did! Gn! (￣∇￣")