Tai's manga / #Romance(156)

like most manga of this genre. this was incredibly silly and not nearly as smutty as i'd prefer BUT it was fairly light and fun. i liked it alright. it wasnt more offensive to read than alot of other TL mangas out there. its Fine basically what more can i say~

the japanese furries are at it again yall (and the amount of stupid puns omg. i bet the original japanese is full of way mroe than the localization team even bothered to try to translate tho i dont blame them.) anyway even tho its SUPER silly. it is also Problematic. lots of dubcon. so u know...be aware of that. its hard to be too mad about it when the reasoning is SO absurd and the setting so fantastical and unlike our world. but some people have hard lines about that either way. anyway, as far as TL mangas go its not so bad so far and i appreciate it doesnt take itself seriously at all. and if u like urself some gap moe in ur dude leads well he's got two modes. sweet obediant and very helpful husband material and then wild red eyed beast who fucks and fucks hard lol. seems to be a common kink in these kinds of mangas....

if you can overlook the part where he's her student and thus not even 20 years old yet....then this is actually a cute little romance with decent sex scenes...but thats a big If isnt it lol. that said i'd rather roll my eyes at the impossibly smooth and devoted and good at giving orgasms literal TEEN BOY male lead in this than i do at having to handwave myself thru a female lead going "NUUU PLS DONT~~" for the 100th time during a sex scene and then going "but how does he FEEL about me?" bitch rly? anyway there's none of that here so its a different kind of problematic. i do love me some variety in my questionable smut mangas. also japan has a rly weird fascination with teacherxstudent that i will just never understand...(also WHAT is with all the public fucking in these TL mangas? yall dont have houses? there's nothing sexy about getting fingered in a smelly broom closet with the ambient sounds of school children in the background)

the art is....the proportions of the guys is just giving me rly old school yaoi manga vibes and it may be that this korean artist who drew these was influenced by those mangas. koreans like manga too! lol. anyway, the story is fine and altho the proprotions are weird the expressions can be very evocative and beautifully illustrated. and i do look the coloring style as well. there's something very soft focus and dreamy about it at times. as always with these the vampire is a cute soft boy bottom im left wondering why they dont have any vampire abilities, albeit in this case he's a "half" vampire so...ya. (but like srsly no special strength nothing to show for vampirism but optional blood sucking?). anyway its a case where the paranormal aspects are hamstrung by the more mundane office life type aspects that i do NOT care for. also i almost admire the writer for just not even pretending like a boss fucking his employee isnt wildly unethical and having him flat out threaten to fire him if he doesnt date him (yikes but i guess he was only saying it to scare the guy and wouldnt Actually fire him but...nope still gross. lol). anyway the fantasy elements make this problematic start tolerable. edit: finally finished it. that was...underwhelming. like cute enough and had a few properly intense scenes but for the most part i was just like "meh" about this comic so thats the rating im giving it.

HIGHLY recommend this. its a short read u can finish in one sitting but it didnt feel like frustratingly short. its a very simple conflict thats solved relatively easily and at that midpoint and the rest is just cute fluff and fluff and insanely hot sex scenes. like if u like lots of affection and romance in ur sex scenes my goodness u will be pleased. i like how it was both incredibly filthy yet still so sweet? gah. and Shiro (lmao at the dark skin boy being named "white") is goooorgeous and i love how brown he is. totally my type from looks to personality. altho Makoto is very soft he doesnt feel like a bland "uke" archtype character but more like a shy awkward kid and thats in part because he feels uncomfortable with expressing his sexuality. (when he said he worried he wouldnt be able to find love and have sex cause of his being gay i was like "MY POOR SWEET BABYYY" like i totally know how he feels damn). In conclusion Sakana Tojo (i hope thats not her real name otherwise the amount of fish puns she'd have to hear...) ends her beautiful manga by calling herself a Sappy Sloppy Slow Moving Safe Romance Fetishist and thats really all you need to know!

just finshed it and holy shit it is SO SO GOOD. Just such a well written sophisticated story with actually erotic sex scenes? and genuinely moving love story? and its like incredibly funny and full of ADORABLE dogs and SURPRISE LESBIAN MOMS???gaaaaah. i cant wait for this woman's next project. this really just hit every one of its marks. from art, to story, to characters just A+++ (there's really only two other BL stories that rly moved and impressed me as much as this one and its Blood Bank and Man of Virtue, tho imo i think i was most impressed with the artwork from Wolf in the House. like BB is prettier to look at but when it came to conveying things like atmosphere and emotion there was just something so cinematic and evoccative about the way the artist used color and the lack of color and shadow in the comic. whereas BB is more anime style. Wolf almost had this great neo noir vibe half the time. this rly was somehow two genre of romance in ONE story and it actually WORKS. instead of one feeling out of place? like part neo noir, part paranormal romance, part romcom and part dog meme this comic truly does have it All. (also where is my Khalifa spin off? just waaaat a gorgeous lady holy shit!)

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 cute and light but not exactly a must read. everyone in it is very beautiful tho. and i do enjoy it when i read it but i also dont feel compelled to keep reading it after a few chpts. its so short at 35 chpts but i've been reading this thing for over a month now cause every few chpts im distracted by something else much more interesting. that said it feels wrong rating it only 2 stars when its so genuinely sweet and wholesome and there isnt anything in particular that bothers me about it? unlike when i rate stuff 2 stars its usually cause i kept reading it in spite of my better judgement lol. but this one rly is quite pleasant. i just wish i cared more about anything that was going on in it at any given time.... (also for a comic named Make me Bark with a guy in a collar on the promo image...there is not neaaarly enough pet play going on. this is false advertising ill have you know!!)

another short and sweet (and smutty!) one for the archives. this one coulda been longer, since one of the leads is implied to be kind of a...sociopath? not in the secret serial killer super scary way. but more like he cant process or feel emotion the way neurotypical people do. i thought this take was very refreshing cause no every human being with this kind of psychology automatically becomes a monster. (and there's PLENTY of peope who arent DSM certified sociopaths that ARE monstrous.) anyway this is not even a big factor in their dynamic nor do we even find out about it until the second to last chpt. but there's def plenty of signs that he's kinda....Off before that reveal. anyway he's a sadist in the way i like, rather than enjoying causing pain both physical and mental, he more just likes to play games and takes alot of enjoyment out of the reactions he can elicit in others. he's also gorgeous tbqh! hes got both the Typical "seme" traits and some more distinctive traits that makes him more than a cliche. same with the one occupying the "uke" role in this story. i will say it seems like it'll be some kind of psychological thriller briefly or at least involve alot of fucked up sex but instead its mostly kind of eccentric? and ultimately pretty...wholesome? it was def not what i expected! and in such a popular genre full of boring cliches and overused tropes. its always nice to read something thats not quite like anything else you've read prior. so i rec this but i do have a caveat which is that once the dark haired guy's true self is revealed to our blonde cocky rich boy bottom...he is like OMG...and then just accepts it. i mean he's more open minded than i would be in his position lol. maybe if the series was longer we would've gotten actual fallout from that reveal but anyway it was still a fun read tbh.

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.