Tai's manga / #webtoon(48)

another fun dynamic where the guy is soft and domestic and likes to be dominated by his free spirited takes no shit female partner. its a cute but ultimately forgettable story. and the art is kinda ugly lol. but i enjoyed it. its an easy breezy read. alas there is no pegging. this guy woulda totally said yes too! (in fact he was perhaps a little too agreeable and mild mannered...) like the guy is a little too much of a pushover sometimes that he becomes pitiable. their relationship basiclaly didnt feel fully equal and it was also too short to rly delve into either character or the relationship as whole. but i did like the gender role reversal and finished it so its ok imo. not good. not bad. just ok.

this was really mediocre and yet i read all of it so idk what that says about me. it's not Bad tho. its just Fine. its a korean webtoon but makes me think of alot of the shoujo mangas i read back in the 00s. so take that as you will. i dont have too many major complaints aside from that it didnt need to be as long as it was and the Female protaganists "best friend" was a piece of shit and i didnt feel bad for him at all even when we learned his sob story. the male lead was sweet though, i thought he would be the prickly imperious aloof type but in fact he's just traumatized and lonely and shy so he grew on me p quickly. anyway i did like the female lead and her confidence but i do wish she had like even One female friend and her family didnt spend so much of the story gaslighting her "for her own good". and ofc with these kinds of stories the romance has to remain chaste. which wouldnt be annoying if not for how insanely horny this poor girl is and she never gets to have her thirst quenched until the very very last part of the story. and ofc it has to end with a wedding cause its not a proper vanilla het romance without one. just seems like a waste of the whole cool vampire conceit if you ask me. idk can lack of ambition be a valid story critique? cause if so...and my other other issue is the main antagonist isnt even a proper antagonists until the very final act and then...nothing rly comes of it? its solved almost immediately once his true evil mwahaha plan is revealed. and also! he isnt rly dealt with? the writer kind of implies at the end he'll fall in love with some weird lolita chick and suffer but its so half assed omg. and why is shitty friend blonde boy the one to give him the Read? ugh anyway. its fine i guess.

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

nice and breezy quick read. kinda sad it wasnt a bit longer but also glad it didnt drag things out unnecessarily. i didnt much care about the serial killer and his weird brother uncle dad surrogate complex so (tho i did love that burly older man was the bottom. that was refreshing) but when he reappeared in the side stories his story got alot more interesting, and it even made me feel so sad! but the main couple got an adorable happy ending so it was just the right amount of sweet n sour for me. sex scenes were sexy but alas i kinda wanted there to be more....but thats more cause im a pervert i cant rly say it was a bad storytelling choice lol. anyway i do recommend this but i wouldnt call it a must read. (demon guy was super gorgeous in his demon form i wanted to see him like that more...)

well im not bored yet. so thats a plus. its not esp sexy as far as ero BL comics go but its def more interesting than viewfinder or my suha was. two bl comics i tried in the same day as this one. whether it'll hold my attention until the end of S1 remains to be seen. but there's def potential. Edit: s1 completed and my favorite character is def Sun Yool. i decided to jump to his beautiful spin off series aka side story about him and his love story and I looooooved it. more than the main series and main couple. tho i do like heejae and jisuh as a couple. there's so much more warmth and fun in sun yool and haeyoung's romance imo. but also those two are jsut more my Type so to speak. tough strong guy whose shy and impossibly innocent and sweet and loyal? yes. and then Sun Yool is both the type of person i'd want to befriend or date. he's just adooooorable. (his temprement is similar to mine. he's such a gemini tbh). anyway, i havent finished the main series yet. im on chpt 42 there. but i did read all the side stories. if i were just rating the sides its def 4 stars but the main is more 3 stars for now. i like it but im not in love with it. and i probably wont ever be. but i def want to read it till the end. (anyway SO glad my favorite boi got his own beautiful and incredibly sexy romance. its what he deserves!). edit 2: finally finished the whole comic and it rly got me in the second half i gotta say. i do love the turning of tables on snakey types like heejae. seeing him cry his eyes out was SO satisfying holy shit. and the fact that jisuh was just petty enough to be happy about it too. *chef's kiss* but also when he said "i wanted to see you defeated by me" i was like daaaaaang. but also...i felt that. anyway this is a good one kids, definitely read. and its probably the most responsible bdsm portrayal in an adult comic ive seen so far. but ofc with the usual disclaimers (was also really impressed with the author devoting several parapgraphs in her end of season notes to clarify that if a guy like heejae appears in your life trying to manipulate u into doing kinky stuff he's "100 percent trash and should be avoided" i was like....this lady gets it. whats fun in fiction isnt for real life dont try this at home folks!) anyway i really felt the care and attention the author put into the character's motivations and relationship once i got past s1 (not it was bad before but it didnt rly shine as much). and im so glad Sunyool got to stay in the story even when his role as romantic spoiler was long gone. and his friendship with jisuh that forms after? SO PURE SO WHOLESOME. anyway Sun Yool is still my fave character but i def adored Jisuh by the end too.

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.

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~