July's manga / #BL(125)

This webtoon escalated too quickly, with both guys confessing to each other in the second chapter, which is not romantic at all. According to the summary, he's supposed to get isekai'd soon so please do that, because this current story is boring as heck. Also the male lead is a total horndog, which I don't find relatable nor endearing for a character. I don't even know why they were drawing the number 5 on people's bodies, why aren't they just wearing track and field uniforms like everyone else? Art is average, nothing noteworthy about it.

Mediocre BL, with zero character introduction, just jumping straight to sex in probably the next chapter. It's pretty obvious where this is going. The male lead is going to be the sex slave of the king of the country that conquered his. It's an overused and common plotline, and although it could potentially be interesting, just from the execution in the first chapter alone, I can tell it's not going to be a detailed nor an engaging story. There's no set up, and I don't care why the male lead is being captured, etc. since there's zero emotional weight given. Also, what is it with webtoons and coming up with the longest ass names for their characters? There's no way they expect readers to memorize such ridiculous crap, when most of the time, all their characters look similar and we can't even tell who is who. The art is shockingly below average, using extremely simple colors and line work. But maybe the author will prove me wrong. So far, not impressed. Update: What the heck? He escaped the abusive king and ends up sleeping with the same guy but is completely different looking? That makes no sense whatsoever. What is the author tripping on? Update 2: Okay, so this was dropped by the artist. I don't blame them. The story made no sense whatsoever, and the pacing was out of whack. Just skip this trash.

Wow, this manga is even worse than the anime. At least the anime had some set up with how the older guy was inappropriately falling in love with someone underaged, but this manga just went nope and jumped straight to sex. It's not even well-drawn. The panels are sloppy and the art is simplistic. There's absolutely no plot of course.

I liked the analogy of England trying to fool America by telling him that growing up and becoming independent was a severe illness, a bad thing. So that America would have to rely on England forever to shave his pubic hairs and remain under his control. But then France told America that it was not a disease, and he should fight for his own way. And thus, led to the Revolutionary War for America's independence. But that analogy stops there because America and England both go batshit crazy here and all the buildup from earlier just collapses. It seems that America never really let go of England, and wants him to do whatever he wants in exchange for signing a contract to let him go. But that message went way over my head, since it focuses too much on the smut and too little on the meaning that belied their previous relationship. There was a poem at the end, which suggests a sort of significance, but it was broken uo between too many sex panels to have any real impact. That's too bad, since it seems all the prior effort of establishing the character's past history was wasted.

I don't know these characters because I've never read or watched Tiger & Bunny, but it was not too difficult to follow the story and figure out who was who, aside from the first chapter. I didn't care for the art, it varied greatly in quality between scenes and chapters. Like Chapter 3 is the best drawn, and Chapter 1 is the worst, with lack of screentones and backgrounds. The smut scenes were alright, but the story was completely dull. There's a semi-love triangle going on between Tiger, Bunny, and Keith, as well as Tiger, Bunny, and the dead wife. It's all very contrived and people need to freaking communicate, and then it wouldn't need to be 4 chapters long.

Art was below par. Smut scenes were also lackluster. Fails to achieve its intended goal of having a steamy pairing between Kirei and Gilgamesh, with a bonus of tentacles.

Hmmmm. The art is nice, but it feels wrong somehow. It's probably because the characters don't look like themselves, so it doesn't feel like this is what they're trying to pass of as. Also, there was barely any smut in the R18 scene, so that was pointless. The relationship between the two characters is also vague and doesn't settle right with me.

Well, some of the smut scenes were nice, but the flow of the panels between the confrontation and the sex was super wonky. It didn't make any sense to me. The establishment of the relationship of Lancelot and Gilgamesh was poorly done, it might as well not have been included. It also seems the chronology is off too, because one moment they'd be fighting and the next page, it's a smut scene, and then they're fighting again. Passage of time is unclear. Art is good, pity this didn't execute the entire thing as well as it could have done.

The best part of this doujinshi is the reflection of Gilgamesh and Enkidu's relationship, and how it affects him to this day. The smut was unnecessary, and not drawn well, in any case. The art was a tiny bit below average, but the characters look mostly right. Slightly better doujinshi than the others that I have read, but it's not the best.

I don't know, this doujinshi was just mediocre. The art wasn't good, with the exception of the extreme close-ups of Gilgamesh's face. The relationship between the Master and Gilgamesh was weird, I can't figure it out. Gilgamesh is somewhat bipolar here, he'd be scolding the Master and then blushing like a schoolgirl in the next panel, which is off-putting. All-around strange. Smut scene was terrible, might as well not have included it.