otakulys's manga / #Comedy(141)

I'm intrigued. Also, ew, they're that excited to eat hagfish? I can't stop thinking about how they use hagfish slime to make those artificial eggs you can buy in cartons. It's making me gag. That aside! I'm eager to see where this goes. I expect it to be the usual cliches, but I don't care, cause the art is nice, and that boss is hot as hell. Hopefully it'll be a pleasant journey with decent writing, pacing, and characterization.

The seme has good intentions, but was his personality written to come across as mentally challenged? I mean that sincerely, like I wonder if he's supposed to be kind of slow. Watching someone he cares about get raped, then running off is weird enough, but he lusts after this dude then gets confused when the guy asks him out? But maybe the uke needs a big, dumb guy like that. I guess as long as their happy. There was potential here that was wasted on weird character choices and stuff that was brushed off way too easily. Oh well.

Aww, very sweet. Two things I really liked about this: you never see blackmail with sweet or innocent intentions in yaoi, so it was so nice to see it not result in an excuse for rape; and the seme sorts never seem to really apologize like this, a genuine realization that they pushed too much. There are some typical yaoi things about it, the pushy stuff in general, but it's a sweet little story. Things are gonna be tough sometimes, but at least he doesn't have to hide himself so aggressively. I would like to see more of these guys. Very cute little story.

Lol, this manga is kind of odd, and the little hints of sexism in the culture suck, but I love the art. Yet again, this mangaka is all about gender bending. Just cause, since she won't even let the character explain why he's doing it (since it isn't a personal choice). At any rate, the short chapters are a shame. I wonder where it's gonna go. I assume it'll be the typical "I fell in love with him even though I'm straight" BS, but it's cute, so whatever.

Aw, I wanna know what happens next. Honestly, I have mixed feelings. The first half, I loved it. The alpha actually physically harms himself to prevent himself from raping the omega. That never freaking happens. And he's nice and everything. But then it's all tsundere and typical with the omega chasing after him. We all know the alpha secretly wants him, too, but I'm sure it's gonna take five chapters and thirty misunderstandings for us to get there. So annoying. I'm leaving it at four due to misplaced optimism that it'll surprise me in other ways. I just hope it goes up from chapter one and doesn't just crumple into cliches.

It's a shame because the art is gorgeous, AND it isn't incest for freaking once. This mangaka loves that stuff. But it's seven pages, haha. Just a snapshot about how looks can be deceiving.

Huh. Okay. It does sort of seem like a game between them, but there's so much inner dialogue that I'm not sure. Seems like he's afraid of facing some part of himself, and he's realizing that he is indeed a masochist. But maybe something is lost in translation. I'm not sure. This was very short.

This is a strange set of stories in that one of them is super cutesy and one of them is about child rape. But okay, whatever works for you, author. The first story is really sweet, so I rated this a four based on that story alone. The others were probably more like a three, partly because they didn't always have a natural flow from one major moment to the next. I hate stories about clones because the concept of replacing someone with a duplicate is depressing to me. Like, does the person you loved originally not even matter anymore? There's an episode of Black Mirror that touches on this very well. It's soul-crushing but it's very reflective of the issues behind the concept of creating a copy of someone. Overall, not the worst thing I've ever read. There are some weird things in the stories that don't fit, for me, but I did like elements of all of the stories included, so hey.

I have mixed feelings about this one. The art is GORGEOUS, and I love Umi, the uke. I grew to tolerate the seme, and I understood that his behavior was reflective of his own demons and inability to separate his father's behavior from what was happening with Umi. But I don't feel like there was ever a satisfying moment of accountability and remorse for how he behaved. He slapped Umi right after he was assaulted. That really needed to be addressed, and it never was. I did like the catharsis at the end, and the truth about Umi's first love. So sad and heartbreaking, so I'm glad he finds happiness in the end. However, it's so brief, you don't get much time to enjoy it. It's great that the seme realizes now that he's found his other half. And up to that point, I feel like he was primarily asexual, with even his pleased response to seeing gay sex videos coming across as scientific, more than anything. But I think they work together, and though it touched on the depressing realities of being gay in a homophobic world, it was sweet over all. I just want to squeeze Umi forever, though. I love him so much. Four stars instead of five because I find the way a lot of things with the seme were handled to be annoying. At least the end is sweet. (And bonus points for Umi's awesome mom and her perfect response to his confession!)

Haha, I love the concept of SCP to begin with, since horror, both straight and comedic, is one of my top genres, and monster horror is my fave. This is a great way of summing some of the cases up. Definitely a cute idea.