July's manga / #BL(125)

This is a wannabe Killing Stalking. It's very obvious from the character design and the way the art style tries to imitate its predecessor. However, it is in no way comparable. The characters may look like the protagonists they were copied from, but the personalities are completely different and for the worse. The main character is a male prostitute who follows all the stereotypes of the typical prostitute character -- he's horny, selfish, depressed, and melodramatic. He has no brains outside of trying to get into his kidnapper's pants, which is beyond disgusting in the manner it is portrayed. The kidnapper who is supposed to be the sadistic killer in here is just as weak, he plays along with the main character's whims almost 90% of the time, just stopping short of having penetrative sex with him, because he is in debt to a third character, a shady woman who also used to be a prostitute. The set up had potential but it just didn't deliver. The introduction of all these characters are a mess, they're all abhorrent people, and I don't care if they just all dropped dead, much less develop feelings for one another, which it is bound to lead to, since it's a BL. But hey, what can you expect from the creator of Behind the Desks, which was equally shitty, but in the complete opposite direction? Yeah, here we have an edgy pretend-psychological piece, while the former was a fluffy puppy-love with zero conflict that made my brains melt. Well, let's see if the author has any new tricks this time around.

Trash BL with an abundance of weird fetishes. Bara, inverted nipples, egg laying, breast pumps, humongous boobs for a guy. I don't see anything attractive about any of these characters, they're both annoying assholes. Just have sex already and let the webtoon end. Terrible.

This is just an average mediocre BL. Starts off with abusive relationships, doesn't really get much better, no conflicts, lack of communication, and then boom, happy ending. Smut scenes were horrible, but got better near the very end with different frame angles. It's really nothing special, and I don't recommend it.

A BL where a guy falls in love with a girl, but it turns out she was actually a guy. The couple is pretty cute, and it's rather wholesome. Not too much smut in the beginning, but there's more of it later on, and they're okay. Art is decent. Looks like it was dropped though.

A guy has an unrequited love for his senpai, but his senpai sort of treats him like trash and ignores his advances. There's some smut, which was alright. Art is below average. Looks like it was dropped.

Omegaverse yaoi manga with a love triangle revolving around the omega baseball player who ends up using a rich alpha guy to suppress his heat and being used as an onahole by another guy who's secretly in love with the rich alpha. Everyone is unlikeable and all the main characters have questionable motives and behave illogically. I did like the steamy smut scenes though. Art is alright for a BL.

Not Harada's best, I'm afraid. While the art is great, I didn't care for this plot, since both the abused and the abuser weren't sympathizable at all, and they both got what was coming to them, quite honestly. Nothing gripping about this tale. I also didn't like the drawing style here, but it goes well with this particular type of story. It uses ill-defined lines to make everything look a bit fuzzy, especially in the case of the protagonist, to add to his genderless quality, I suppose, but I personally am not a fan. Other aspects were drawn in great detail and used dark screen tones, hence it was a bit jarring to read.

Part of the "Immoral Sex" BL anthology, but out of the three stories which are currently translated, this, along with "Poison and Sex" and "Monster Throne," this is the weakest of the three. It is also the shortest and very rushed. The father lost his entire family except for his eldest son, who he believes is a result of God's curse. The son is inexplicably in love with the father and rapes him everyday. It doesn't go anywhere and there's no resolution or conclusion. Very lackluster. Even the smut was boring. Art was very simple and below average even for a BL.

The art is really nice, and some of the angles in the various sex scenes are very well done, making them especially steamy. Lots of weird fetishes here so stay away if that's not your thing. For me though, I love all the bizarreness the author comes up with, it's exciting to see as opposed to the same vanilla BL stuff that's available everywhere. No real story here, just lots of monster sex and dubious consent (or rape).

I only liked the first chapter of this series. The rest isn't that great in their concepts. Still, good art and some interesting ideas.