— but the uploader covering up the bunny girl watermark with the smiling lady in pink is hilarious to me. Like, way to make it obvious something was stolen.
This one was decent, unrequited love, from childhood friends to f*** buddies to lovers in a framework of their creative pursuits as a cobbler and tailor. But chapter 4? A jealousy arc that turned into such a dumb plot twist just so these two would admit their feelings. It was like the author ran out of ideas so of course let’s throw in some sexual harassment and bodily harm. Just gonna ignore chapter 4 completely.
Is it even a proper Japanese bl if they don’t somehow end up at an onsen and have sex in yukatas?
Ummm wtf. Based on author's other work I thought this was gonna be lighthearted but with most BL for some reason (especially when one of your leads is 'easy') it takes a dark turn. By chapter 3 out of nowhere suddenly blondie is a sex worker with a sugar daddy (NOT MC) and by Chapter 4, the dude forces blondie to service him and his friends. So gross. Imma pretend this ended when Blondie won the t-shirt design contest and ran off to a better life.
The story premise is shady BUT I think the author did a great job exploring the nuance of a complicated situation-- the grief, the guilt and the denial. Even though there are some love scenes, the whole thing is never seedy or tawdry.
If you love a man with walls so high you’d need Batman-grade grappling hook to scale them, then this story is for you. Luckily for us, Yoonshin said ‘Alexa play ‘Wrecking Ball’ and did his best Miley impression and got under Mr. Kang’s skin. Having said that— this is a story that takes patience, its a slow burn but artist and writer did a good job with the character designs (they’re sooo pretty) and build up of sexual tension that when they do finally kiss, it’s honestly more satisfying than a lot BLs that have the mains cavorting like rabbits from page one.
It’s refreshing that these two talk to each other like your average dudebro but their emotional bandwidth is narrower than a g-string. The smut is meh, and the stealthing is a red flag, not to mention the ‘while you were sleeping’ bit. If I hadn’t seen their totally adorable [redacted] I’d have probably dropped this already.
Just finished reading ch. 29ish— gonna be that person and say— getting permission for future all-out sex (to cash in his vcard no less) while said person is in the throes of pleasure is not proper consent. The same way you don’t take it seriously if they say ‘I love you’ for the first time pre, post or mid coitus. Or the same way you don’t ask for consent when a person is high or drunk.
Okay but the translator saying ‘Asscape’ when the egg flew out in chapter 2 is top-tier. Gj translators.