lilithespark's manga / #Slice of Life(676)

Let's Go Karaoke

Complete | wayama yama | 2019 released

This is really good! A true depiction of a wholesome friendship. It illustrates Satom’s struggles with his changing voice and just youth in general pretty well. I don’t think I could see their relationship as anything other than platonic because let’s be for real… Most of the time they spend together are as a middle schooler and a middle aged man lmao. Anyway, loved the comedy! Kyouji is a silly yakuza. Their relationship is quite realistic with the pacing and everything. This is a short but also extremely immersive read.

Famiresu Iko.

Ongoing | Wayama Yama | 2022 released

Great continuation! Love that Satomi’s feelings are being explored. His dynamic with Kyouji is quite interesting. I also love that the other characters HAVE character as well. The storytelling is just so well done and unique. I don’t know if this will go in a romantic direction, but we’ll see.

Hanamonogatari

Ongoing | schwinn | 2022 released

7 Man, don’t you just love old women yuri. I think does an excellent job at capturing being sapphic in a world where heteronormativity is the expectation. Where marrying and serving a man is the only path for the most part

Onna no Sono no Hoshi

Ongoing | Wayama yama | 2019 released

This manga has such good humor LMAO. I love this mangaka’s comedic timing and the use of humor even in the more mundane settings like a school. it’s also heartwarming that hoshi cares so much about his students + the students’ friendships with each other. the characters are just really relatable, which adds the comedy and story. love the art ofc. i like that the characters look realistic. off topic BUT i ship hoshi and kobayashi so hard even tho hoshi canonically has a wife and daughter XD blame ch 4… anyway, this manga is gold in a sea of mediocrity

I Wanna Die Before I'm 30

Complete | Anji seina | 2019 released

This was definitely an experience…. The two MLs actually have quite sad backstories. They were yakuza sex slaves, criminals, and all they ever wanted was a home, which they find in the MC. The MC doesn’t want to live beyond the age of the thirty. Like others have said, it’s kind of disguised as a happy-go-lucky story when it’s really not. Their first sex being drunk sex is really not it for me. Besides that, this manga is actually pretty thought provoking. One of the best polyamorous relationship I’ve ever read in BL. And…. **SPOILER** the ending is also not giving…. For five years, Ryo and Aya screw around and do drugs and then go back to Ai?? That is just not realistic especially considering the rest of the story.

Literature Boy

Complete | Kim Son,Lee Younggo | 2000 released

7/10 Very realistic, relatable manhwa. You can really connect to the two leads and identify with their struggles. From that standpoint, it’s well written. As a romance, this is pretty lacking. It feels like we’re being told that the leads are romantic, they’re this or that, etc, but I don’t think the author sufficiently expresses their supposed chemistry. Like the leads’ relationship, the story also feels unstable with the constant switching back and forth from the present to the past. It’s not the worst execution I’ve seen. I personally DESPISED the second couple like you will never convince to feed into the teacher x high schooler bull. They were just unneeded. This story gave me mixed emotions and had a bland aftertaste. Ending is also kind of abrupt and offered no resolution to Sunwoo’s major plagiarism conflict. I sound harsh, but it’s ultimately because I think this could’ve been so much more than it is.

Family, Now and Forever

Ongoing | Hakase | 2019 released

This was great!! I loved how lowkey and realistic it was. The plot isn’t the most developed, but I think that’s kind of the point. You see the two leads and their child living as a family and going about their day to day lives. I rly like like the idea that they are “meant for each other,” that they are each other’s home, and are full of love. anyway, sobbing

Rookie but One-in-a-Million Actor

Ongoing | Choi lot,Ji bin | 2022 released

55 Wholesome story! Acting elements are quite good

Kirakira Shite mo, Shinakute mo

Ongoing | KOIKE Sadaji | 2022 released

I love this! It’s so refreshing how this manga shows the other side of being gay, where the characters aren’t super handsome ikemen—liking someone and having things not end up like a picture perfect fairy tale. maybe a love goes unfulfilled. ACK but i just thoroughly appreciate how realistic this is. it explores a different side of BL that definitely should be expressed more often imo

At the Northern Fort

Ongoing | mikuni tsukasa,akaya tawa | 2019 released

So cute! All the characters fawn over Milfiria. I like the found family vibes there. The MC is also the daughter of two pretty powerful spirits. Even though she’s reincarnated, her mind is that of a child’s, so you can throw that setting out the window. Otherwise, this is a pleasant, healing manga. 33