Tai's manga / #Adult(45)

this really is just porn with the barest hint of a plot but at least the romance once that creepy other guy is gone, is super sweet and wholesome. and thankfully at 45 chpt its a pretty compact story. i havent read the side stories yet and i dont know if i will. im pretty satisfied as is and dont feel need to read more. neway this has to be the least sexy bdsm and dom character i've seen so far in any comic that features it. the guy was just...fuckin horrible..also that bit at the end where they try to make us feel bad for him a little cause of his childhood? haha noooope. fuck right off with That. neway this story is a C+ at best

a comic that is entirely too long for how little there is of anything happening in it. there's quite a few hot scenes but because there isnt enough variation...nor do the scenes further the (non existent tbf) plot or rly teach us more about the characters after a while. they did at first! but by s3 we are really going in circles with the couples tho at least in the case of the secondary couple of Nari and Hannam their constant bickering followed by rough and or dirty sex is considerably more entertaining to watch albeit not esp deep Either. that said not every smutty love story can move both my heart and my lady bits so if i can get it to move at least one of those i should be grateful ya? In conclusion this webtoon is just Okay. i did enjoy it and nothing was esp offensive about it and in a genre full of problematic bullshit that is truly worth commending. it has some pretty great relationship adivce in it too for those of us whom may need such things lol. so yes i recommend it but its not rly a must read. but if u want urself some het smut that isnt written by men then you rly have few options to begin with im afraid and this is one of the better ones that is also available in english. so...yeah.

ok the setup is hella problematic but this guy is really hot ngl. and his catching feelings for her almost immediately is also very cute. anyway irl this kind of thing would be the stuff of nightmares but leave it to mangaland to turn it into a sex fantasy and a wholesome romance at the same time. is this what the female artists are doing cause apparently japanese men are too mild, passive and shy? i mean thats what i HEAR but....i mean it would explain alot about the usual male lead in those smutty josei comics.....(anyway unlike those guys who look bland af, THIS one is full Daddy and im into it). anyway i cant BELIEVE it took 13 chpt for him to realize she likes and wants foreplay but then again some men never figure it out so perhaps i should just be grateful lol. (and then this bitch doesnt confess her actual feelings until the FINAL chpt i was like ripping my hair out omg). sis get ur shit 2gether. it was a sweet ending but her bizarre internal justifications for why she cant tell him she loves him and why him saying to her MULTIPLE times is him being insincere is just....im sorry but the writing was not convincing there. it was smth that didnt need to be dragged out and the writer could've definitely found more organic ways to inject relationship angst. also the female lead's "but he could never like MEEE" despite his every single action indicating that he DOES find her both attractive and adorable is just...like...it was Alot ok. (and then there was that hella rapey beginning i mean tbf she Techinically consents but under duress so...). ultimately i liked this more than not. so ill give it a four since annoyed or not i was never bored which is rly all i ask from my comics. bad or good is fine but dont be boring ffs.

i have so many mixed feelings on this...like there's a good heartfelt theme to this story and it has alot of good characterizatioin and a very interesting setting. altho this was DEF written by a person who has never spent a notable amount of time in america cause the racial dynamics of the friendships here is...it just wouldnt go down this way irl is all im sayin but i am still glad to see all these black folks in the comic just bein regular people and not stereotypes despite being written by a native korean who prooobably hasnt interacted with a ton of them in her real life. that said i think koreans arent as rare of unicorns as she seems to think they are in this urban large city devlopment these characters seem to live in. but the racism they would go thru is def very true. whether it would go down quite like This tho....and this leads me into what my real issue is with this story. The amount of pure unmitigated torment that Sehyun goes thru in this story is just Too Much. esp when i know he is never gonna get the trauma counseling and sexual assault survivors group meetings that he truly desperately needs. but these stories are always about trauma victims being healed by Love. i do appreciate that the love Sehyun recieves is from a family and community of people and not just one guy who is his White Knight. and in fact his white knight in question is a pretty flawed complicated person himself. which i appreciated. but there's a way to indicate that sehyun went through Alot without...showing us in excruciaating detail every single fucked up thing he went thru? after a while it felt..fetishizing and sadistic in a way it didnt NEED to be. and its esp troublesome cause unlike other BL stories that overuse rape as a form of titilation in their dark smutty stories...this story is taking the abusive actions VERY seriously and grounding them in the real world. but then its also trying to treat them the way alot of darker BL involving rape would. again as a Sex Scene and not as a fuckin nightmare which is what this boy has been enduring. i dont think these scenes are meant to be very sexy but they are clearly showing more than needed to just make their point, which is why i think its being treated in a way that feels inappropriate to the actual subject matter here. like these are rapes in the realest sense that they are meant to dehumanize, to punish, to dominate, to torture etc this poor kid (and from a VERY young age)...like the fact that he is not only assaulted by his father figure...multiple times...and we see it everytime...im like...FFS. it was too much! anyway once he gets out of that environment and these men are dealt with by the police. i was hoping the rest of the story would be consensual sex and healing for sehyun. but nooope, the writer still felt she needed more fucked up rape scenes but this time with the bonus that sehyun Resists! cause he doesnt think he's trash anymore! wow growth! except...thats....so victim blamey??? like it implies that if sehyun had tried harder to resist and hadnt bought into the fucked up gaslighting and mental conditioning he was literally being raised in at one point wrt the worthlessness of his body and person...that he coudla got out sooner or smth and im like...what the fuck? idk if thats what the writer was Trying to say. but it felt HELLA sus. showing that sehyun has broken out of his self loathing mindset could've been done without being assaulted again (and Again. Tho tbf it wasnt shown and the other time he manages to get away but jfc after What??). Idk if that scene where he yells at his abuser is supposed to feel cathartic and inspiring but all i felt was sad that this kid still has to go thru this shit and have to fight this battle Alone. ffs. In conclusion, this is not a bad comic, but it is a very frustrating one. its got its heart in the right place (mostly) but the execution really tried every ounce of my patience. i dont recommend it but i also cant say its worthless trash either. just up to whether the unusual setting and distinctive characters are enough of a draw to make u stick thru this to the (genuinely sweet) ending or not. i mean i did, but i still dont know if i should have~

this is genuinely such a fun and sexy story? and once the romance aspect kicks in its also incredibly sweet. and as always i give extra points when we get some Surprise! Lesbians in the supporting cast. i highly recommend this its one of my fave omegaverse stories and i wish it was longer tbh. but like this is the ONLY omeverse i've seen where the couple switches. like it shouldnt be a big deal but imo it is. the idea that ur secondary sex determines what position u like in bed is a bit...like why does that decide ur Role? or ur personality traits? the omega in this story is macho, cool, charismatic and incredibly rich. he would be an alpha in ANY other story but not in this one! meanwhile the actual Alpha passes as a dopey beta boy who gets roped into the omega's bad boy shenanigans only to turn out to not be so hapless and harmless himself. he's still a sweetheart and a very loving doting partner. cant ask for better tbh. omegaverse done well! its rarer than you think.

i sure have mixed feelings about this one. like the main couple is rly more of a 2 star story to me. rather its the secondary couples and characters that rly make this interesting. and their story is mostly in the sides. and the main couple becomes alot more lovable in the sides as well. to the point that i felt like the story i got in the main series was not only much weaker but practically by a different author when compared to the far better written and complex relationship dynamics present in the Sides. which rly worked more like a spin off series than just addendums to the main story. anyway its weird cause ic ant rly rec this work cause of the extremely problematic main story that also traffics in alot of the usual unfortunate BL tropes (yall know the ones) and none of it is sexy enough to make me handwave or ignore the problematic af parts of it. however it IS kind of necessary to at least skim the main story to have the context and setup to fully appreciate the side stories which i DO highly recommend. tho they arent without flaws ofc. its def worth reading whereas the main story on its own would be completely disposable (and unpleasant). there's so much warmth and sweetness present in the main couple in the side stories that we never rly got in the main storyline and its baffling to me. in conclusion i liked this alot better than Love is an Illusion and this version of the main couple that makes an appearance in the sides of This comic are also alot more interesting to me than their incarnations in LIAI. in conclusion I hate some of the things she made the main couple blonde dude do in the main series but he sure was a sight to behold. which is to say very hot. too bad he was like a volatile scary bully who spent most of the main series terrorizing his love interest cause thats sexy i guess? (i guess comparatively Dojin in LIAI is less problematic...but he kinda sucks too so. at least i cant accuse this story of being boring considering what a time bomb the Top was...)

this wont be a real review, rather i just want to say that This is the kind of juicy interpersonal type drama i live for in my erotic fiction. (or rly any fiction tbh) EDIT: currently on hiatus. raws for chpts 12 and onward can be read on pixiv for free. right now there's 13 chpts in total and the comic has been on hiatus since April 26th. the author seems like she updates once a month tho. so who knows when the next chpt comes. at any rate idk when the translation team will get back to it either. so for now...its going on Already Read cuz i have no idea when ill get to resume reading it.

the story is thoughtful but a bit slow paced. the art tho? STUNNINGGG. read it just for that. the author's previous manga was alot more stimulating story but this one which focuses on tattooing and art is more visually sumptuous. (both are beautiful tho. such excellent art why doesnt this mangaka have more work available...). i think this story woulda been rated higher by me if both men were as well developed as the blonde aka the top aka the tattoo artist was. we get alot of insight into him and he's got layers but the other guy aka the living art piece aka the bottom aka ??? like i cant even think of another way to describe him? he was rly beautiful and rly delicate and rly afraid of being alone and he was never given a chance by the writing to be more than that and thats a Shame. its a 3 star story but the art is 5 stars and i wish i could rate them both separately but i cant so 4 stars it is i giss...(the sex scenes are sexy n erotic tho so thats also a plus), if u find u like it maybe just buy it off renta since the translator gets pretty aggressive about how much they dont like the story after a while...bit distracting.

im surprised this has such a low rating cause its not that bad at all? i mean its nothing great. altho i had alot of fun reading the first (and longest) story in this anthology which is about two BL CD voice over actors. this one has a nice Daddy Dom type thing going on if thats ur bag. i can take or leave it usually but i actually enjoyed the one we got here. also this woman's art is super sexy and her little lessons about BL erotica at the end of the book are actually pretty interesting and fun to read. anyway its not deep or thought provoking but it IS sexy and thats all i ask out of my smut comics ok. also like all tankoubons that contain multiple short stories or couples this can be hit or miss. most of the stories are just OK but one of them was rly....i mean the only word i have for it is GROSS. but then impregnation isnt a fetish i have...(also its full on noncon so big warning for that.). the setting was very high fantasy so i wasnt offended or horrified so much as i was confused and very much NOT aroused so lol...take that as you will. but tbh u can skip all the stories but the VA one and its fine. tho i do rec still checking out the "lessons" at the end. u know..for science ;)