Tai's manga / #BL(107)

Its Good and You should READ IT. Anyway the relationship is actually properly developed. the sex is Hot and the guys are each interesting characters in their own right and not 2D cliches. their problems are like Real relationship problems and their happy ending feels so earned. all the sex is consensual and often enthusiastically so. we love 2 see it! (if you end up liking this one i also recommend 24 Hour Kiss, and Kore Mo Shigoto Desu aka Another Hard Day at Work because these 3 have a shared theme of workplace couples with a younger light haired top x an older dark haired Salaryman bottom. with the light haired top either being an engineer, a makeup designer or programmer. like...its like they exist in this very specific genre but they are all pretty distinct from each other and all of them are sexy and good. but anyway thats an essay for another day~ this one def has the coolest more "otokomae" style bottom of the 3 tho. with the other Ossan (uncle type) bottoms being more uncle-y lol. but in a sexy way! sexy uncles! anyway i havent written up my reviews for those two yet cause im lazy. i will eventually tho!)

i think i just love Scarlet Beriko like she gets how to make things EROTIC not just sexual. this actually has very little sex in it. like so little it hurts. because it is overflowing with sensuality and eroticism. and the Top and Bottom dont fall into boring usual archtypes and tropes. they feel like real dudes who just happen to have certain preferences of position. altho one of them is a virgin going in. anyway the catalyst for this Friends to Lovers romance (i will never get sick of friends to lovers u can fight me) is based around a very intense pantyhose fetish but as somoene who loves pretty legs and legwear (i have a ton of thigh high stockings, over the knee socks, tights and back seamed pantyhose myself...) i totally sympahtized with that black haired pervert. and some dudes rly do have gorgeous legs and its a CRIME more dont wear tights. but i digress! this was just a rly good story. about friends navigating their friendship, their desires, their eventual romance. and yes it is all very consensual, tho there is some of the usual Partner A is very enthusiastic about sex and Partner B is less enthusiastic but will go along with it anyway cause they love each other but people dont always have the same level of sex drive or feel the need to express their love sexually as frequently. the bits set after they graduate and start living together as an adult couple is very interesting and Realistic. which means its not all that romantic but it worked for me and i liked it. ymmv ofc.

zariya ranmaru strikes again with the sexy couples and the beautiful art. now with beautifully tanned bottom boy. but there isnt much to this story tbh. its very much all Atmosphere. pretty setting, pretty drawings, sweet but straightforward love story. the usual im in love with my straight bff what do i doooo? dilemma. basically an inverse of the situation in Sleeping Man where the long haired lanky babe is the straight one, this time its the short haired muscle bottom thats the straight one. (zariya has a Type and she will stick to it so help her god lol.)

really loved this one. that great mix of wholesome and super sexy that manga seems to do best.

short but actually good omegaverse. doesnt traffic in the usual shitty tropes but still clearly exists in the Verse. (decently hot too)

this was....so stupid lol. but SO serious? like it was so Intense and Dramatic and had those artful panels meant to evoke like this grand thoughtful imagery and deep symbolism and im like....m'am, u just wrote a scene where two dudes had raw sex on a bus seat. like...the amount of DISEASES they both would've caught...so like basically this story hinges on rape, rape and more rape. like again its the kind of Sexy Intense Dubcon rape we see in these kinds of BL stories. but the reasoning for it so...and that ALL their sex scenes happen in the same dirty ass bus...i mean yes i read all of it but because i was like...baffled and curious as to hwo it would work. and ofc this guy managed to magically shove his dick into an asshole that very much did not want to be penetrated without ANY lube or stretching and like...idk how to tell u this author but it legit wouldnt go in, its not that it would it would be Impossible and mans woulda got his dick broken mid way like cmon now lol. like this is offensive yes but i mostly found it...laughable? like i just couldnt take it seriously at all and it was taking itself SO SO seriously. like this bitch didnt just try to write porn but wanted to make it deep but instead of actually making it deep...just makes this. i dont recommend it but i also...dont not recommend it? like its kinda worth it just to read how like absurd it is. the final sex scene is kinda hot too but after WHAT i ask u. (but seriously! a bus! gross!) also the guys reason for blackmailing him and the other ones reason for going along with it and also how this leads to the acceptance of a decade long deferred love (and also how the other dude managed to rape his classmate back in HS in the middle of like a hallway, again without...any prep...and then was like "ugh whatever" and left him there and...MAKE IT MAKE SENSE!)

oldschool and fairly sweet. (could not STAND the sister. wtf was her problem? yikes and also reminds me why i hate fujoshis). but yeah its another Friends to Lovers manga, so if thats ur jam then get some toast yall and spread it all on...i lost the metaphor my point is this is good and there's no rape or dubcon or anything of the sort for those of u who prefer ur smutty BL to be pure and wholesome. (ok wait actually, the weird short glasses guy's er "romance"? does have alot of dubcon in it but maybe not the kind you'd expect? like...idk how to categorize his whole Thing except as Ridiculous and unncessary. it didnt offend me or anything but it bother some of u so im mentioning it)

i actually have alot to say about this (and also its prequel slash sequel series Jealousy) but it will have to wait until i can better gather my thoughts.

sexy and wholesome af. i can say more about it and i prob will some day but for now i say Read It!