Ms.Honey's manga / #Fantasy(35)

Someone put horny and a vampire together and knew damn well that after reading 'Raising a bat' and 'Mr K's secret' that we'd be on it like a half price sale. Did not disappoint. A new vampire breed to add to the mix, too.

Insert the buzz lighter meme and hair hair everywhere in big bold comic sans and you get this ridiculous masterpiece. 'I prefer the hairy ones.' Imma leave you with that quote the way an ultimate rizzer walks away from an ex. Pretty fun read for the other world lovers.

I mean, I cooouuuld add the tag for yaoi, but does a dragon really licking our protagonist and putting a scale count inside his chest count as sex? Perhaps spiritually for some of you, but I'm taking ZERO chances with that tag. It was more likely shounen ai, except no kisses were shared - and the characters just rode on the coattails of well-constructed plot, the inevitability of time passing by, and the inability to understand humans. It also focused on rising emotions rather than in other stories where kisses are the love language (because in cultures that's considered bogus and barbaric - fun fact I bet you've now learnt). This is awesome, so I'm very mad at myself I put it off for so long. Four stars, for art, story and characters. Not five, because my standard is still too damn high after all these years. For example, one story out of the four I gave five stars to is At the End of the Road, yet both of these stories are equally tremendous in storytelling and have beautiful art.

Bleach where art thou? I should've stuck to Brutal instead of getting curious about incubus.

Combining one of my favourite genres of all time - adventure - and imbuing it with a beautiful, fantastical mix of fantasy, Helck delivers in terms of action, tragedy and the author themself simply radiates positivity. This reading initially started because I borrowed Helck 1-4 at the library, but then I wished to know how it continued and how it ended. To do that, I also went on the official site (where the chapters are in better order there), where the onslaught of tragedy was intermittently broken up by orderly little character adventures. This is an all-round favourite tale for it's honest message of having continual hope, dealing with life with someone beside you, and it's blatant and unapologetic lack of overly romantic love.