tsukineko's manga / #Blackmail(24)

Unfortunately, forever incomplete - RIP Tohjoh Asami! I feel a bit conflicted about this one, as I found it simultaneously hot/disturbing/sad. As it's incomplete, we'll never know where sensei was taking this, so it's not clear what the mc is feeling. His words are a little ambiguous, but when he says that he wants to 'end it all', it could be interpreted as him being suicidal. Even if he is suicidal, it's also unclear whether it's because he's being raped by his bro, or whether he's a willing participant but he feels incredibly guilty about being incestuous. As we're neither in the character's mind nor in the mangaka's mind, we don't know for certain. What I can say for sure, is that, (if we imagine that the uke was a willing participant), the BDSM was pretty hot! (Well I always find Tohjoh Asami's smut hot, whether vanilla or kinky.) 4 stars for the smut, the art, and the fact that it brought out all sorts of conflicting emotions and made me think, (even if I'm not sure that that was intentional on the mangaka's part).

3.5 stars. This wasn't bad at all actually, although I wouldn't call it brilliant either. It was quite well drawn, and the plot retained my interest with a few twists and turns, and wasn't too cliché for the most part. (Well the anemia/low blood sugar thing was extremely cliché, but whatever.) Psycho brother notwithstanding, the characters were pretty realistic, which is probably my favourite aspect of this manga.