July's manga / #Yaoi(113)

Art is horrifically bad. I was completely tricked by the cover art shown here. None of the actual art in the webtoon looks as good as the art for the cover. It's a total downgrade, with complete lack of details in almost every single panel, and very lazy art and coloring. Plot is non-existent, besides some eye patched dude picked up a half dog human, who he promptly abuses because the hybrid human looks exactly like his former lover who had stabbed him in the eye. I hate all the characters and I don't want them to exist at all. They're all either malicious or stupid. Ugh. Avoid.

I don't know why people tagged this "Omegaverse" because it's not. Just because there's Mpreg in it, doesn't make it Omegaverse... So the male lead is pregnant, but he doesn't remember who he slept with, but according to the rules of this world, only imperial male family members can impregnate other guys, so that eliminates most of the suspects. He goes to a masquerade ball to see if he can figure out who the father of the baby is. I'm not really buying that masquerade ball thing, because it's clear that everyone knows who everyone is, despite wearing a mask. Seriously, what's the point of a masquerade ball if wearing a mask doesn't hide your identity at all? Might as well make it a regular ball. The amount of characters is pretty large for just only 5 chapters released, and no one really has been properly introduced, so I think this is bad storytelling on the author's part. Readers need to be able to digest everything and process who is who, and what their relationships are to each other. I don't even know why the purpled eyed man hates the man lead so much, and vice versa. Why is he asking help from him for his serial killer investigation? Why is he being so weird, and the male lead just accepts this behavior? I do like the art though, I think the author did a good job drawing the characters in an aesthetically pleasing way, even if the art doesn't completely blow me away, it's above average, I would say.

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.

Pretty mediocre BL, but it doesn't dive straight into shameless smut after the steamy opening scene, which is good. It allows some development of the characters at the very least. It's implausible that two CEOs would fall for some plain average-looking dude like the male lead though, since he has absolutely no stand out qualities. Art is decent.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.