July's manga / #BL(125)

Nonsensical BL about the filming/acting industry on the surface, but it's really just a prop to have the two male characters meet and have sex. Besides the smut, there's drugs and violence. It's basically a webtoon filled with all kinds of awful things since they go so well together in a nonfunctional society. Everyone is an asshole. Art is ok, but everyone looks about the same.

A bunch of doctors-in-training are living in a remote mountain village, and one of them finds a heavily injured man, whom he takes care of and nurses back to health. It sounds nice when I wrote it like that, but there's no plot and everything escalated super quickly. They fall in love (lust) and have sex nightly after they confess to each other in the third chapter. It's not really smut though since there's only one sex scene. I have no clue why everyone is in love with the frail and meek male lead, because he's ugly and useless. Calling him beautiful multiple times isn't going to change my mind. Also, no one acts like a doctor, including him, who's far too idealistic to survive as a practicing doctor, even in ancient times. The art style is not my liking, it uses very bold lines and a solid color palette that just doesn't work. Update: There's a lot more smut and gore now, which makes it really strange. The male lead is a complete and utter idiot for not knowing that his lover is a murderous psychopath who wears human faces as masks...what kind of doctor is he again? Like you'd be able to tell from the smell alone, also he touched it and couldn't tell it was real flesh...I don't know why this webtoon even exists.

I didn't expect much from this BL webtoon, but it's actually better than most BL I've read. The art is very nice, especially the character designs and the backgrounds. I am not fond of the color palette that was used though. A man living in the mountains meets an animal that transformed into a man, and plans to get him to fall for him through his stomach, feeding him delicious food everyday. But the only thing he doesn't know is that the animal man was the deer he hated so much for eating his crops, and he had thought that it was a tiger because of the fangs. It's impossible for a deer to have fangs though, so I'm scratching my head on that as well.

Really interesting webtoon with a light BL touch. There's a lot of interesting lore about ESP with a touch of mystery about what everyone's relationship with the dead twin brother of the male lead is. It's suspenseful enough to keep readers wanting more. The art is definitely above average, and the close up shots of the characters's faces are beautiful. Update: It degenerates very quickly to very poor writing, with lots of in-your-face hints dropping everywhere, but I don't know anything about what's happening to care. Romance is skipped for sex that was also skipped, so what's the point? Male lead is an idiot who knows the person he's with is a manipulative liar, and still sleeps with him. Art quality has gone down from earlier chapters. Sigh. Also what is with this author and names? Edith is apparently a guy, and Alec is apparently a girl. What the heck?

Looks like an unpromising BL so far. Also escalated too quickly. There's no proper introduction of characters, and many of them look similar. The two main characters end up kissing immediately because one of them got drunk. I don't think it's realistic for the other guy to react the way he did because he only just learned about the drunk one, and there's no emotional weight to what happened. Art is slightly below average, with sloppy lines and a boring color palate. Facial expressions need work. Too many watermarks everywhere. Doesn't seem like there will be much of a plot, with the first chapter already going for the couple to make out in front of the whole company.

Really bad Omegaverse BL webtoon. The omega male lead is framed for serial murder and sent to an all-alpha prison "by mistake". How ridiculous. That doesn't even make sense. According to the rules of Omegaverse, omegas cannot be with alphas since obviously, they'll get pregnant, and what happens in prisons? Lots of rape. There's no way there would be such a ridiculous oversight on the prison system, unless they didn't know he was an omega. But throw all of that out the window, since nothing happens in the 11 chapters that are up right now. Yeah, there's an attempted rape, but that was quickly shut down with no sense of danger, so it was a cheap writing ploy. Omegaverse begins to lose any presence in this webtoon, like the author forgot this was an Omegaverse work to begin with, because it focuses way too much on the male lead whining about how horny he is, and some trial he hasn't gone to yet. The alpha he's paired with pretends to be a bonded pair with him, but it doesn't seem like there's any threat from the other prisoners. He was hired to kill the omega male lead, but is waiting until he falls in love with him first. Uh why? If you're a hitman, you do the job quickly and vanish, why are you going through the trouble to make someone fall in love with you, kill him and be done with it! Do you even hear your own stupid logic? There's no chemistry between the two characters, so they can just go die or whatever, I don't care. The art is ok, but it's rather bland and uses an unappealing color palette. Translation becomes worse and worse with each chapter.

Unm, well this is a better BL than the smut-based BLs that are as common as weeds you'd usually find. But it just barely stands above the lot, in that it does seem to have some semblance of plot and direction. However, it's so melodramatic like a soap opera, and the time travel doesn't really work. There's too many issues with time travel if it's not in a closed loop, because changing just one person's life is not possible, unless it had already happened. So I find this problematic, because this webtoon doesn't use a closed loop concept of time travel. I mean, theoretically it could stay open if he didn't go back and forth, and just remained in the past forever, which is what some other authors have opted for. Besides that, the male lead is very immature and leads his male love interest on way too much without thoroughly considering what his actions may do. Like, if he just abruptly left him, maybe his male love interest would completely lose hope and give up on his career? They need to communicate more! I'm more interested in the secondary couple's story compared to the main couple, because the other time traveler had a clearer agenda, and he knows what his purpose in life is. The art is very below par, using the simplest of lines and colors, but it works. It's not bad, I guess it's a decent read but there is some frustration that will come with it.

This manga is utter junk. Does it even need such a ridiculously long, and even misleading, title? The male lead is definitely not straight. Just because he was married to a female doesn't make him straight. Labeling as straight in the title alone is ridiculous, because he almost immediately falls for his former school friend in the span of a couple chapters or days. That would classify him as bisexual. So screw the latter part of the title. Now, the first part. The male love interest is neither handsome and nor is he a gangster. He must be the most peaceful gangster I know. He doesn't do anything related to his yakuza activities at all, and even the dumb male lead had no clue what he did most of the time when he left the "office". Just cause you label him as a gangster, it does not make him one. They don't even beat people up or do anything remotely shady enough to be considered part of "the wrong crowd" . Sigh. The smut is crap. There is no plot. They have sex a lot. Boring sex. The rival that randomly appeared later is the gangster's cousin, and it's obvious that isn't going to go anywhere, because he's a BAD person who does drugs. Seriously, my blood pressure just kept going up when I was reading this horrendous shit. The art is also awful. It has zero saving grace.

Seems like the run-of-the-mill mediocre BL webtoon with some omegaverse sprinkled in. I have no idea who the characters are, because it jumps in too quickly without properly introducing the characters. One is a dominant omega, whatever that means. His love interest is an alpha and a CEO, seriously? Unbelievable. I thought they were college students or something. I don't know who the shady blond man is supposed to be, and why the evil woman is trying tear the couple apart. Maybe it's also because the translation is a little off. Art is below average, lacking any details and no one is good-looking. Update: Thank god this was short, because it sucked completely. The blond guy tried to rape the omega guy, but magically everything works out, and the blond guy isn't arrested for the attempted rape. It even ends with him smiling gently at the reader, like we're supposed to forgive him? Wow, disgusting.

I was hoping they'd make this a bromance thing, but it's clear that Haru likes Aki because of all the blushing, how disappointing. Is it too much to ask for a platonic roommate relationship? The art is below average for a manga. The cooking is also meh and uninspired, honestly. Not really a fan of this at all.