July's manga / #BL(125)

Trash BL. It has lots of boring smut in nearly every chapter, with weak plot and character development, if any even exist. I can't even suspend my disbelief at the fact that the male CEO was able to whore his way to the top magically as if all other CEOs of big companies were gay, because they're not, at least in the real world. He's not even beautiful nor handsome, so I can't even pretend that straight guys would fall for him. And honestly, sleeping with the top people to make deals is a ridiculous practice, since you don't just do good business like that. Also, there's no freaking way that he hasn't been found out by someone over the past couple of years that he's been doing this. There's paparazzi and random people that can put two and two together. In real life, people have been completely destroyed with a single incident, much less this guy who's basically sleeping with everyone left and right several times a day. Then the author decides to bring him down in the end with a sex scandal. Really? Like no one ever blackmailed this CEO before? Hard to believe. The male lead who's trying to get revenge and claw his way up is completely unsympathetic as a character, and I didn't care whether he lost or won his fight. He won, if you just want to know the end, by releasing the details of the CEO's sexual history and drug use to his business partners... How uncreative, and anyone could have done so. Even the secretary character could do it easily, if he had hated his boss. There's nothing memorable about any of the characters at all, and all their motivations are so flat and boring. Art is not my cup of tea at all, it's far too rough and not aesthetically pleasing to look at. Skip!

The priest is kidnapped by one of his followers, who turns out to be in some weird religious sex cult, where they all rape the poor priest for a strange ceremony that is not made clear what it's for. I appreciate the uncensoring, but some of it looks lazy and sloppily done, unfortunately. So far, it hasn't really stood out in terms of storytelling or art, so it's in the bargain BL bin for now. This doesn't impress me currently at the moment. I think it's supposed to be dark, but it has failed to meet my expectations.

Ughhhhh this webtoon ripped open some old wounds of mine, it hit a bit too close to home. Reading the male lead's thoughts as he reflected on his past was like looking at my old self, who was always stuck in second place. It was a bitter, painful memory that I really didn't want to recall. Hopefully, it doesn't linger too long on his flashbacks, because those really hurt, at least for me. He becomes all stalker-y and obsessed with bringing down his old arch rival when he learns he's involved in some weird art scandal that I don't really get the gravity of. It seems like a minor incident, honestly. The gist of it, is something like his rival actually had his artwork stolen by his art teacher and claimed as his, and then he destroyed them? I don't think this warrants as a major scandal, since people don't really care about what happens in the art world. Maybe if he was a celebrity, it would make sense why this is so important, because the general public loves reading gossip magazines and stuff like that. But artists? Nahhhhh. Only the true art enthusiasts would give a crap. It's not worth quitting your job, and becoming a reporter, just to bring him down, because no one would care. It's also impossible to become a reporter if you've never trained or studied it. Unless by reporter, he means online blogger or something like that, and not a professional reporter. I don't know, but the male lead's plan seems stupid as hell, and a complete waste of time and effort. What does writing about his rival's high school days have to do with his current predicament? Telling the whole world he was a star student doesn't make him seem like a bad guy, which I thought he was aiming for? After reading his ridiculous scheme, I think this guy shouldn't even be in second place because he's not intelligent at all. The art is stylized in this webtoon, with the author choosing to draw in basically black and white tones, with shades of beige and yellow, but I don't really like the art style as it is, so choosing to not color it doesn't add more depth or enhance the drawings, in my opinion.

The prologue seems to be hinting at a comedic relationship between the convenience store clerk and his gangster boss customer. Giving it 2 stars for now, since it doesn't quite pull me in, but there's nothing to find faults with yet. The art is alright, clean and easy to read. Update: New chapters are progressing too fast, and it skips straight to smut instead of developing proper romance. The first smut scene is blah, just the gangster guy has a big thing, since that's all it focuses on in the previous chapters, with him buying XXL condoms. Sigh. Lameeeeeeee.

The BL author tries to get a job, due to pressure from his parents, but he accidentally submits a draft of his novel instead of a cover letter. It's not that bad, since his draft didn't have any smut material anyway. The CEO reads it and thinks it's a love letter because the male lead is pining for someone, and he's intrigued because he's never loved anyone before. The head of the team is also interested in the male lead because he's a fan of the author. From the excerpt of what he submitted, he honestly seems like an awful writer, so I don't know why apparently all of Korea is in love with his novel. If that counts for good writing, maybe that's why the story of this webtoon is crap. It makes no sense for the CEO of a successful company to be interested in an incompetent person like the male lead, because he doesn't stand out at all. All the characters are one-note and bland, and they're all stupid. Art is average level for a webtoon.

I dislike this webtoon, it's really mediocre, and you can tell immediately from how it just launches in the first chapter without proper introduction of the characters. It tries to resolve things by flashbacking in the third chapter, which boggles my mind why the author wants to tell this basically zero plot story with non-linear progression. Basically the meek guy likes the strong male model guy, and he lets him use him as a living onahole as much as he wants, until he's upset because he fell too hard for him, thinking his feelings won't be reciprocated. And there's some other guy who's a tsundere to the meek guy, but he's probably in love with him in reality, and afraid to confess, too. Also, the art is really not my style, it looks too vivid with the neon colors. Like all the characters have jaundice, with their yellow eyeballs...and yellow pupils...pink hair... Lame. Skip!

This is actually a pretty well-done Omegaverse BL. I've read several, but this one manages to balance the ABO concept with the unrequited love between a secretary and his boss pretty well. There isn't too much smut so far, and the emotions are running high in this. The male lead is not completely useless, and he has a convincing portrayal of a mental disorder which doesn't totally make light of his trauma. I hope it continues to be this promising in later chapters. The art is fine as well. Update: It becomes very meh later on. Lost all its potential and became a standard mediocre BL.

Eh. Mediocre BL that's thankfully really short, so even if you read it, it's not a huge waste of time. There's literally no plot. It's a vampire who rapes his assassin after breaking some weird curse, but then they both fall in love after sex that one time. I'm glad that's over with. I can't even imagine how crappy it would have been if it was longer. Characters have zero dimension because they just have sex and stuff. The art is alright, about average for a webtoon. It's nothing special though. The assassin's body proportions especially are out of whack to satisfy fujoshis who love men with huge chests that are physically impossible, I personally hate it. Skip.

Male lead returns cat, only to be raped by a tiger demon. That escalated quickly. Not much in terms of plot or novelty, besides the supernatural tilt. The male lead is useless and just lets the tiger monster do whatever he wants. Lots of smut. The coworker is a useless character with no personality, but that goes for everyone else here. Art is average.

No real sex scenes yet, but it's probably getting there. Still, it escalated really fast. The male lead gets lost in a mountain, and is rescued by the same wolf demon who saved him when he was a child, and they start feeling each other up. Weird as hell. The art is drawn in a very simplistic style, and while it's relatively easy to read through, I feel it's somewhat lacking. Perhaps it's the panelling and color palettes that make it feel a little subpar.