July's manga / #Smut(91)

Nonsensical BL about the filming/acting industry on the surface, but it's really just a prop to have the two male characters meet and have sex. Besides the smut, there's drugs and violence. It's basically a webtoon filled with all kinds of awful things since they go so well together in a nonfunctional society. Everyone is an asshole. Art is ok, but everyone looks about the same.

Trash webtoon about a trash bag human being who's horny as hell as well as broke, so he sleeps around with other women while trying to make money at the same time. Oh, and he has a wife and three very small kids. Instead of getting a proper job, he lies to his wife about his employment status, and he cheats on her constantly, while still trying to have sex with her without her consent. Ugh. This is just pure extremist male fantasy that shouldn't even exist.

This manga is utter junk. Does it even need such a ridiculously long, and even misleading, title? The male lead is definitely not straight. Just because he was married to a female doesn't make him straight. Labeling as straight in the title alone is ridiculous, because he almost immediately falls for his former school friend in the span of a couple chapters or days. That would classify him as bisexual. So screw the latter part of the title. Now, the first part. The male love interest is neither handsome and nor is he a gangster. He must be the most peaceful gangster I know. He doesn't do anything related to his yakuza activities at all, and even the dumb male lead had no clue what he did most of the time when he left the "office". Just cause you label him as a gangster, it does not make him one. They don't even beat people up or do anything remotely shady enough to be considered part of "the wrong crowd" . Sigh. The smut is crap. There is no plot. They have sex a lot. Boring sex. The rival that randomly appeared later is the gangster's cousin, and it's obvious that isn't going to go anywhere, because he's a BAD person who does drugs. Seriously, my blood pressure just kept going up when I was reading this horrendous shit. The art is also awful. It has zero saving grace.

The prologue seems to be hinting at a comedic relationship between the convenience store clerk and his gangster boss customer. Giving it 2 stars for now, since it doesn't quite pull me in, but there's nothing to find faults with yet. The art is alright, clean and easy to read. Update: New chapters are progressing too fast, and it skips straight to smut instead of developing proper romance. The first smut scene is blah, just the gangster guy has a big thing, since that's all it focuses on in the previous chapters, with him buying XXL condoms. Sigh. Lameeeeeeee.

Seems like the run-of-the-mill mediocre BL webtoon with some omegaverse sprinkled in. I have no idea who the characters are, because it jumps in too quickly without properly introducing the characters. One is a dominant omega, whatever that means. His love interest is an alpha and a CEO, seriously? Unbelievable. I thought they were college students or something. I don't know who the shady blond man is supposed to be, and why the evil woman is trying tear the couple apart. Maybe it's also because the translation is a little off. Art is below average, lacking any details and no one is good-looking. Update: Thank god this was short, because it sucked completely. The blond guy tried to rape the omega guy, but magically everything works out, and the blond guy isn't arrested for the attempted rape. It even ends with him smiling gently at the reader, like we're supposed to forgive him? Wow, disgusting.

A bunch of doctors-in-training are living in a remote mountain village, and one of them finds a heavily injured man, whom he takes care of and nurses back to health. It sounds nice when I wrote it like that, but there's no plot and everything escalated super quickly. They fall in love (lust) and have sex nightly after they confess to each other in the third chapter. It's not really smut though since there's only one sex scene. I have no clue why everyone is in love with the frail and meek male lead, because he's ugly and useless. Calling him beautiful multiple times isn't going to change my mind. Also, no one acts like a doctor, including him, who's far too idealistic to survive as a practicing doctor, even in ancient times. The art style is not my liking, it uses very bold lines and a solid color palette that just doesn't work. Update: There's a lot more smut and gore now, which makes it really strange. The male lead is a complete and utter idiot for not knowing that his lover is a murderous psychopath who wears human faces as masks...what kind of doctor is he again? Like you'd be able to tell from the smell alone, also he touched it and couldn't tell it was real flesh...I don't know why this webtoon even exists.

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.