July's manga / #Yaoi(113)

There's some good stories in there. They were all nice, not just focusing on pure smut, it tried to introduce complex elements of their various relationships with each other. Art was ok, not the best, but tolerable to read. The last story was the best in my opinion, it dealt with a boy who's been in love with his best friend for 15 years, and how they slowly accepted their new relationship as lovers.

It's ok, but the characters are extremely unlikeable. The male lead who isekai'd into this world is a stupid tsundere who is incompetent, and the male love interest is a manipulative asshole. There's no smut scenes so far, but plot development is achingly slow. Art is ok, but hard to tell what is happening sometimes. Looks like this has been dropped. Since the last chapter is Chapter 12, it's finished. Thank goodness, since it was really starting to suck, and it's good that it got cancelled when it did. Only the art was decent. The story made no sense, and characters started appearing out of nnowhere in the last few chapters

The art is really good in this manhua, it's pretty graphic in various aspects, so it's not right for everyone. There's a lot of rape and blood, etc, which will turn most people off. I like dark things like this though, so it doesn't bother me. It's too bad this has been dropped, better off reading the novel. Marking as completed since there won't be any new chapters.

Classic Stockholm Syndrome with BL and lots of smut. It was decent, I enjoyed the uncensored parts. However, the plot was all over the place and none of the characters were likeable, nor did they have any depth to them. It was a ok read, but I wouldn't read it again. Nothing new to the genre, and it's not extreme or unsettling enough to warrant extra thought on it.

This webtoon is all style and no substance. It doesn't do a good job establishing who the characters are, or what is even going on. Pacing is too fast without coherent flow. The art style is black & white Gothic but too messy to make out what is happening in the panels. I think this webtoon had potential, but it just fails to live up to it. All I got out of this is that there's a serial killer and a pedophile priest, and they have some history together. Bleh. Don't get me wrong, I love super dark stories, but there's no actual story in this.

Art is quite good, it gives a 1900's feel. Premise is male lead is in a complicated family where he's abused by his father, and he wants to bring him down by becoming a male prostitute. The man who solicits him has a grudge against the male lead's older half brother, so they join forces and have lots of sex. Convoluted plot shenanigans abound. The best part is the art, but I'm not too fond of the other stuff. It's just not compelling to read, since it's hard to sympathize with these characters.

Very dark and delicious, it shows the mental breakdown of a strong-minded character in a convincing way. Mind break is great when done right, and this is one of those rare times. It's pretty disturbing, so it won't be everyone's cup of tea.

Hijikata gets stuck in a wall and raped by a group of men. This mangaka likes to abuse Hijikata a lot, but I think it's done well. Something comedic turned dark very fast. I only wish there was more.

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.