Ghost Wife
started out weird and intriguing and ended with me in TEARS. Very funny but with an underpinning of melancholy that becomes more pronounced in the later chapters, genuinely creepy and the art is...an acquired taste. Basically if u like ito junji and sweet highschool romance with a big side of goofy comedy then i strongly rec giving this a try.
Your Eyes, My Words
just started this. its up to 20 chpts on tapas and im reading up to chpt 6 so far. the opening chpts are such a misdirect their coupling is so beautiful and reciprocal and SEXY right now i cant handle it. ofc angst will find them eventually but im hoping for a happy (ish?) ending and i do love that the bottom is this tall button up sort where the top is notably shorter but also notably more muscular has the CUTEST dimples and curely dark hair like...isnt it nice when all the male characters dont look identical to each other? lol. also jinha is very much my type srsly them curls...them DIMPLES...ahem. anyway I love how the artist draws expressions too. also it lends real eroticism to the sex scenes which are short but impactful. the coloring reminds me a bit of Wolf in the House (another great love story with a beautiful fluid art style). EDIT: finished! i loved it from start to end and its very good. all the Angst is purely based on emotions and perceptions and the main character's anxiety. i will say that holding what happened in highschool against his boyfriend well into their 20s? late 20s? seems weird. like they were kids. even if he was "toying" with him back then (and in fact jinha never really says he was? nor that he wasnt? just that those memories were precious for him and he regrets not confessing back then) what a kid does isnt rly going to feed into how an adult acts..tho part of the issue is def these guys jumped RIGHT into a romantic sexual relationship before trying to like...get to know each other at all. so i did feel that the foundation of the relationship being unstable makes perfect sense. just that his reasons were a bit odd to me. (but i like that the story emphasises how they rly havent spoken about their past or their feelings, just that they are into each other and now they are dating which allowed anxiety to fester into hwane until he freaks out and indirectly breaks up with jinha.) the breakup while frustrating felt necessary and the ending is very happy and satisfying! (i do wish we'd gotten more of jinha's inner monologue as well tho). i also like that altho it seemed like Ina, Blonde hottie and friendly Boss guy all could have been obstacles to the romance (and in fact almost seemed set up to be..) they turned out ot all be generally good people with no real malicious intentions and any issues with the couple was entirely because of themselves and no other outside force. looooved that! just a pretty mature thougthful love story and those are my fave.
The Beast Must Die
alot better than i thought it would be. Kirin the main guy is so pretty and thats why i picked this up tbh. i expected the other main guy to be far more cruel and vicious and while he is a certified psychopath and a bit (or alot lol) rough in bed...he's surprisingly one of the uh nicer Problematic Tops in the darker end of the BL genre. (hell he still cares more about consent than the leads of POTN, YTC, LTWW or even LIAI all popular BL comics with asshole ish tops obv in varying degrees of horrible and 2 of them are supposed to be like romcoms more than dramas and yet....annnnnd yet). anyway if u like ur BLs dark and ~psychological~ and very sexual then i dare say u came to the right place.
Rojiura Pussycat
this was so fuckin dumb istg. but whatever its ez to read and the guy was hot. (obv the grown guy and not the little boy could rly do without BLs that have some baby face ingenue bottom boy. tho at least this seems less common in yaoi manga these days but BL webtoons sure are picking up the slack. i guess south korean webtoon creators are where japanese ones were in like hte late 90s early 00s when it comes to BL...so basically we'll get more good stuff in another 10 years lol.) i REFUSE to tag this romance. idc if the creep falls in love with the teen boy by the end. idc!!!
Oreshika Shiranai Karada
there isnt much to this story. guy 1 is in love with guy 2. guy 1 is smitten kitten and guy 2 is like "idc bout love or commitment. lets fuk" and many beautifully illustrated spicy scenes occur. but the real highlight. the reason this has 3 stars....is Eyebrows. this man has the most stunning eyebrows....and i KNOW he fuckin tweezes them brows!! he would never admit it....but i know. i know. (this is rly a two star story but jfc that guy is so hot and the sex scenes were *chef's kiss*, anyway what were u expecting? professionalism??)
I PROMISE YOU A HAPPY ENDING
Sumomo (harada)
the truly traumatizing dark prequel to various events in yatamomo (tho it was released with the main series afaik not separately). i havent finished reading yatamomo yet but when i have ill give my thoughts on it. there's not much to say about this cause it doesnt rly say much on its own it rly is just the full picture of Momo's past that we only got to see bits of in flashbacks etc in Yatamomo main series. (but it involves child pr*stitution so....u have been warned)
Yoru To Asa No Uta EC
gonna keep this brief and just say this is a definite improvement on the first volume of this series and is also Alot funnier as well. basically the tone is more Happy Kuso Life and less Color Recipe if ur wondering where on the Harada spectrum this story falls on. (altho there's merit to both their styles of work i find the ones that trend toward dark humor are more to my taste than the outright dark or horror esque stories. but then u have Yatamomo which is kind of both at the same time? idk)
Orokamono Wangeru Naito