crystalvmin's manga / #Yaoi(74)

I was almost on the brink of dropping this, but the story did develop better when season 2 came; the premise of the story is also really interesting. First of all, I love how Sunwon is wild and sex-starved but I do have problems with how he gets his sex (SPOILER) through coercion and I know it’s not real, but with a story that relies on his ability to bullshit and become a god of, technically, a cult, it just feels weird and uncomfortable for me to laugh at his antics when irl there are a lot of sexual mistreatment and lack of sexual knowledge in cults and religious factions. But at the same time as the story progressed, as a person and not as an impostor god, I liked how the author tackled Sunwon’s hypersexuality with which seems like he had a past of being raped and victim-blamed and I really felt sorry for him. I don’t think topics like this are commonly fleshed out in BL too so I was surprised. It was really hard to read the panels of Vercion raping him so I didn’t read that at all and I thought was showing the rape really necessary, I’m still 50/50 on that. On a more positive note, I love Albis so so much and how he’s progressed throughout the story as I’m writing this comment and I’ll just have to say that he’s in the running for best boy along with Risa and Karl !! I’ll be waiting for updates.

Honestly I'm now only here for the MC and his story !! I love his character so much tbh super badass. I'm not rooting for his romance with the ML whatsoever though, their relationship was kind of okay at the start and I was willing to bypass the r*pe because it is common with slavery themes (not saying it's right though, but it is what it is in these types of plot), but after awhile I was like nah, let's just root for the MC (and maybe Christian lmfao). I did like how the art style on the MC improved tho he had a cleaner style + Christian cos silver/white-haired characters are always pretty to me, but I always hated the art style on the ML because his eyes were always wide open for no reason T^T Anyway I'm actually pretty invested in the plot now and I'll be waiting for the next update.

The plot is pretty good and I really appreciated the attention to detail. The MC is super smart and super badass with a cute group of friends hehe. I really thought there wouldn’t be a progression in the relationship between the MC and ML because they were so hostile towards each other, especially when MC had a thing for ML way before the current events, but it did work out in the end. For those looking for a “yaoi” BL, it doesn’t actually focus on that. Even the romance of the manhwa sets in at like 80-90% towards the end of the main story as it heavily focused on the plot. It wouldn’t say that the romance was slow burn because the BL aspect did kinda seem like an afterthought but I would say that the romance trope would be the annoyance/hater to lover type; there are mature scenes in the sides though.

Look, I loved the romantic vibes of the couple, japanese BL is good with that, but everything was going too fast, with some scenes and dialogues making me feel like “??”; the whole thing just felt very messy. Also hated the first time they had sex very dubcon and it caused the MC to cheat on his gf (even though it seemed like she did haven’t the best character).

Really was hoping that Yokoya and Hondou’s were more fleshed out cos I like crossdressing themes, but this was more a collection of one-shots aside from Yokoya and Hondou’s story so don’t expect a detailed development of their relationships. Didn’t like the teacher and student pairing tho

Idk if imma drop this one, 90% want to drop it but 10% makes me wanna stick around to see who ends up with who. But everything is just too messy idk how to explain it but it’s like not one of the characters are in any way rational and they’re all starting to become unlikeable atp (father and son are also so immature like you’re adults ffs). For some reason I was rooting for the old man but they’re all just so weird now, especially with the adoption and the three of them living together, it’s really putting me off sjdjsjdjfk (and don’t get me started on the SA/rape). Even though MC is kind of in control of jihyung, he still dumb for waiting on a cheater; though I appreciate that the MC is a switch, I have a hard time looking for switches in BLs.