Famiresu Iko.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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Kirakira Shite mo, Shinakute mo
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
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
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