July's manga / #BL(125)

Eh. This manga tries to portray everything in a somber, gritty way, but honestly, I'm not buying it. The fake war going on is a prop to make this yaoi manga seem more unique, but that's all it is. The characters don't act like they're actually military material, and it seems more like they're all in prison instead, due to the lack of rule enforcement and rampant abuse of power by fellow officers. The male love interest is raped in public open space, without getting punished for it, and when the two of them beat up their abusers, they manage to not get discharged for their actions, like what? Seriously, if this was a prison environment, it would make more sense. You don't even see them rigorously training or doing military exercises, and they still have energy to have sex while the fake war is going on. So unrealistic. I don't buy the romance between the two characters either, so I'm not tagging it as such. The male lead is a total tsundere and I want to punch him. The art is not aesthetically pleasing, but that may be due to the setting to make it seem like a war period piece.

I didn't like the art for this yaoi manga. The characters were drawn very unappealing-ly, so it made it hard to read. The smut was bland. No plot, of course. Werewolf falls in love with a fellow human who loves sweets and they have sex when the moon is full. Skip.

Really stupid concept. The male lead deserted the army, and the army sent a top rated assassin to kill him, but the assassin is weak to cat noises, so when the target goes "Meow," he falls down and is raped by the target. Then they have lots of sex and end up falling for each other, blah blah. During this whole thing, he still claims he's going to kill him. Yeah right, if you were actually a competent assassin, you could have killed him easily. Seriously, it's neither funny nor executed well. This is just trash yaoi manga. Also, the art is bleh, and they make really disgusting looking faces in the smut scenes. Skip.

Although I like this mangaka's other works, I didn't like this one. Maybe it's because it dragged on too much, and I just came to hate the characters. There's so much drama in one hair salon, and you wonder how dense the owner can be to not notice all this crap happening under his roof. So the grouchy hairstylist is being stalked by the handsome princely one, who turns out to be a sociopath, because he wants the grouchy one to come join him in his own hair salon. He does all sorts of twisted, sick things to him to make him crumble, and when he almost finally breaks him, he realizes that's not what he really wanted. But he still doesn't let him go. Even when he's opened his own salon, he's manipulating the other guy the whole time using passive aggressive tactics. I feel like if it were shorter, I would be somewhat more accepting of the plot, but because of how long and draggy it got, it became boring and less believable. The execution really wasn't there for me. Also, the characters all look very similar, so that didn't help. Seriously, there's three people in the salon staff that look about the same, including the stalker one, so I had trouble distinguishing people. There was so much hair styling jargon, but it made me believe that the mangaka has no idea how hair stylists actually work, because I just don't see it being such a complicated profession as it is portrayed here. It's just cutting and dyeing hair, but they make it seem like hardcore rocket science or something, like what the hell? I would avoid this. There's supposed to be a drama CD for this manga, and I think that might be better than reading it since at least you can enjoy the seiyuu's voice acting.

Weird premise of having the purple haired boy make pearls whenever he ejaculates. Both he and the male lead are broke, so I guess that will come into play? The art is so-so, but the characters are drawn in a really unappealing manner. Plot and characters haven't been properly introduced in a well-thought out way. So far, not impressed.

This webtoon is utter trash. I can't even tag this as smut because the smut is crap. It's censored by complete obscuration, so honestly, this webtoon has no reason for existing. Why draw a BL if you're not going to either focus on the smut or on the romance? Those are the two main reasons to read BL, aren't they? Either people want to read a porn without plot or a plot without porn, or some balance of those two. This one has no plot and terrible porn, it's so softcore, there's no point of drawing it out. I wouldn't have a problem with this if the romance or plot was good, but even that is non-existent, so I'm just mad in general. I'm not even sure about the translation, since it says the white haired guy is a nightmare, then a monk, then a succubus, I don't even know what he's supposed to be at this point. Then the translation goes from alright to awful in the latest chapters. This webtoon is basically just asking to be let go or to end its misery at this point. There's nothing happening between each chapter. The art is at least tolerable, but it's nowhere good enough to save it from itself. Hopefully, the author will learn from this experience and do a better job in their next work. Maybe this is just a drawing exercise, because if this was supposed to be a serious thing, it really failed.

Not too certain about this BL webtoon. It presents itself as dark and serious, but the pacing is too slow. Not much happens between each chapter, feels like filler so far. There isn't a lot of real depth, and people do things for uncertain reasons. The male lead is seeing a psychiatrist for his mental health issues, but he's also in love with him too. The psychiatrist is clearly abusing his doctor-patient rights here by having a physical relationship here, and manipulating him emotionally. Not sure what his end goal is. He also has another male lover on the side who might also be his patient. I have no idea what kind of injectable drugs a psychiatrist might need to use for this guy (since it doesn't seem like he has schizophrenia or bipolar disorder, which are the main injectables for psychiatry), like I feel like this author doesn't know how psychiatry works in real life and is just using it as a prop. You most certainly don't need some random non-medically trained person to hold someone down during an injection, either. Sigh. Well, it's not as bad as other BL out there so far, we'll see what happens. Art is so-so. Update: It ended. Hooray. Done with this trash. The last part of the story was rushed and made zero sense.

Seems like a BL version of Boys over Flowers, except with less handsome guys as potential love interests. The male lead has two jerk male schoolmate who are interested in him. The first chapter didn't make much sense in establishing everyone and why the male lead is in and out of school. I don't know why he was screaming at one of the guys and then it skips to him in school. Flow of time is incoherent. Translation is crap after the first chapter, so I haven't read past that. Art is alright, but nothing special. Update: Ok, this is one of the few webtoons that get better after a while. I'm genuinely interested in how the plot will develop with each chapter. One of the better BLs I've read.

Looks promising, but the plot shown so far seems a little contrived, maybe the execution would be great, we'll have to see. The art is very good, I'm giving it higher marks because of how beautiful the art is. Hopefully, this doesn't disappoint.

This is one of the weirdest webtoons I've seen so far. There's no plot, but there's a bunch of somewhat interesting random lore and stuff which seems so out of place, because at its core, this is a cross between A Little Mermaid and BL. The art is awful. It might be intentional though, since the artist is drawing inspiration from Japanese woodcarvings, but it's incredibly unappealing to look at. The strange ideas that haven't been fully executed are unique. I don't like the relationship between the fisherman and the merman, not sure if it will get better, but I don't have high hopes for it. Update: Latest chapter turned into a weird history lecture for no reason. I understand the author is trying to educate readers, but it's so out of place with the previous chapters that it just doesn't belong here. Maybe if the two characters had started off getting to know each other before the smut, it would have worked. And the rape was just brushed off so casually. Priorities!