This is the best BWAT story and one of my favorite BLs ever. It’s hard to describe how t...

PatrickStar August 12, 2024 11:22 am

This is the best BWAT story and one of my favorite BLs ever. It’s hard to describe how this casts its own sort of mania over me. It’s perfect in every way and accomplishes everything it seeks to accomplish. The toxicity is painfully beautiful and the plot was perfectly paced and executed. All the side plots and characters were resolved and it’s the most complete story in terms of story telling which is shockingly rare.

The most precious thing about Mania is the main romance. I loved that we get to see how they were feeling and thinking. It avoids tropes of prolonged misunderstandings, SA and an unbalanced dynamic. Their desperation for each other and their chemistry, Urgh it makes my heart clench at the beauty. I don’t think there are many other BLs that manages to tell such a magnetic relationship as Munhyeok and YeonJin. I love that scene where Yeon Jin looks so desperately at his wife talking about how Mun Hyeok tied his tie for him. That single panel kills me.

The ending too was just so good. Meeting after 8 years, time eating and making all of Yeonjins insecurities and obsession worse. How they are clearly flawed but the ray of happiness they cast on each other and how they fight for it. It’s just perfect.

I adore this work and consider it one of the best of the bests. Light years better than 90% of other BLs.

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