July's manga / #BL(125)

Zombies x BL, oh my! I thought this was an anthology collection, but it seems all three stories are related to each other, and it's being told in reverse flashback order. The art is gritty and edgy, although sometimes it's hard to tell what's happening in the panels. It's pretty decent, although not the best that I've read. There's more scenes of zombies than scenes of sex, the latter is heavily censored by cut-aways, which is fine with me since that's the angle the mangaka was going for here.

It looks like incest, with an amnesia fake-out, where the older brother is just pretending he has amnesia to have sex with his younger brother, but then plot twist, it's not actually his older brother! It's a clone or a look-alike of the older brother who loves the younger brother who actually killed the real older brother. Jeez. So convoluted, and makes no sense. I don't care for this at all. The art is ok, but some pages seem out of order so I'm scratching my head, because that just makes it worse. Also, none of the characters are likeable.

Dark guro about a psychopath angel of death type killer who was saved by the man with epilepsy when they were children. The nurse character already displayed psychopathic tendencies when he was young, and nobody knew that by saving him, he'd be able to carry out his torture on his savior. Lots of blood and gore, including severed everything! I didn't care for this since it was jumbled and didn't make coherent sense to me when I was reading it, not sure if the panels were out of order, or it was drawn that way on purpose to be confusing. I didn't really like the characters, and even the man who was tortured was not portrayed in a sympathetic light. There's no one to root for, and you just read to see if it can get any crazier.

Pretty dark fare, which is to be expected from the mangaka who also wrote Feeding Lamb. I liked this one better, but it still had issues with pacing and plot development. There's a lot going on and it's difficult to get to know the characters. I didn't really like any of them, like Manuel was supposed to be the sympathetic one, yet I felt he was too passive. It didn't follow him entirely either, it also followed Patrick, whose story was really weird and complicated. In the end, no one was really punished for their actions, in terms of the main four characters... Everyone else died horrible deaths though. It's a lot of gore and rape and all kinds of horrible things, but it was mostly shock value and didn't add much to the overall story, so ultimately, this gets 1 star from me.

It's really trashy smut, which is typical of Coolmic webtoons. No plot, flat characters, meaningless sex. The art is not that good, since it's in black and white but lacks the detail of manga. It's basically a poor man's yaoi manga. Yep. Skip.

The art is not good, it uses blurry and faded lines which make it look washed out in a bad way. The proportions of body to head look wrong. Story is about a vampire raising a werewolf child, but plot twist is that the vampire killed his father. It looks unpromising. I would have been more interested to know how the vampire raised the kid, but nope, it skips straight to young adulthood so the BL can happen. Bleh. Not very inspiring to say the least. Also makes no sense he doesn't recall his father's killer's face.

It's short, and not great. It has lots of taboo content, but the art is atrocious, so it doesn't really do anything to help this already controversial manga. Story is basically non-existent. Seems more like a shock-factor manga than anything. It's not even the most disturbing thing I've read. Skip!

It's the male Master x Caster Gilgamesh in Fate:Grand Order. I thought this short doujinshi was cute. I've always preferred Caster Gilgamesh over Archer Gilgamesh anyway. The other two chapters that have been uploaded are not related, must be an incorrect upload.

Uhhhhhh. This is really bad. The art is poor -- the coloring and heavy solid lines are extremely unappealing to look at. The body proportions are off. People walk around half-naked or naked like it's normal, for fan service purposes, even when the drawings are atrocious and no one wants to see such abnormally drawn muscular bodies (except the rabid fangirls/boys). Anatomically speaking, more is not always better. There's a limit on how muscular a guy's body should be. Also, it's not realistic that every guy is that muscular. Unless I guess this is bara. Does it even make sense that a mage is that muscular, even more muscular than the knights and the kings? You do know that mages fight with magic and not with physical strength right? Anyway, the male lead is a passive idiot and he just goes along with everything. Not to mention he's acting completely out of character for his supposedly evil king persona, yet no one questions it. People seem to forget that he's a king sometimes, including himself. He doesn't even speak like royalty, he uses informal language. You know he's doing a bad job when his daughter sounds more like royalty than him. Even the young prince of the other kingdom sounds more formal. Also, I don't know which country would just call the King by his first name, people would always address royalty without names, since it's a title. You don't say King Kenneth directly to his face. Ugh. Also Kenneth is a terrible name. Vicar is not a name, it's a position in the church. Sigh. So awful.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of this webtoon. The art is not my taste, although I can see that it might appeal other people. It's overly simple and uses a faded palate of colors, that are pretty limited in scope. Lines are opened like they're leaking onto other objects. It's almost like a watercolor style but it's not drawn with the details of good watercolor style drawings, and lacks the bolder lines to complete the figures and objects. The plot is non-existent. A really strong prince is cursed to feel sexual pleasures every night, but he can be helped by having sex with a divine beast man. Sigh. The characters are not likeable and lack depth. The divine beast man is like a child so it bothers me to see them doing adult things, even if they're aware of what they're doing. He's also really stupid and it gets on my nerves. It's not "cute" or "adorable" to not know things and fail at learning them quickly. That's just being stupid and not adapting easily to the human world. I've read stories where non-human adapt and learn much quicker than this. The prince is supposed to be a badass but he's really not, he's so passive and weak and being a tsundere for no reason. Also I hate how they always don't communicate and that leads to "plot" or lack thereof. It's bad story writing to use forced misunderstandings constantly to advance. Like nothing else can happen? Such as external forces or internal struggles? Hating oneself for something like "Oh, I killed a bunch of people, so I don't deserve happiness" is not a valid point, especially the way it's done here. That's the same plot line that the webtoon "Truthfully, They Only Remembered Her" uses and it sucks there too. It's one thing to actually show the killing and follow the emotional turmoil after in detail, but it's another to just skip the killing and tell the readers about it. What happened to show, don't tell? It also bothers me how the prince looks so feminine with his clothes on and so masculine with his clothes off. I think that's poor drawing skills at play here, since if you know any anatomy, that's not remotely possible. That's just stupid fanservice at work. Yeah, skip this if you like good stories. If you just like sex, it sucks too since it's doubly censored with light sabers and occlusion, which makes no sense to me.