tsukineko's manga / #dub con(2)

These were sweet. All revolve around the theme of 'impatient, low EQ seme, forces himself onto uke, and messes things up, instead of waiting for the right moment/reading the mood/wooing him properly - thankfully, uke loves him back, and is able to overlook seme's oafishness, and they live happily ever after'. Well it's as cheesy and cliché as it sounds, but they're relatively well executed, and the seme and uke are all pretty hot, so it's a pleasant enough read. In a few words: sweet and hot, (relatively). Even the otaku story was ok. (I almost stopped reading it, but it got more interesting after a while.) My faves were the student council story, and the illustrator × publisher story. There's a particularly sweet moment in the illustrator × publisher one. What's nice with these stories, is that the seme do apologise for their oafishness, and genuinely regret hurting their uke, which is so often not the case in yaoi.

The seme and uke are both tortured souls, poor things, but their bittersweet, passionate love story was such fun to read *licks lips* gochisousama lol. It's on my list of manga that I want to reread. The other 2 in the series were pleasant enough to read, but were a tad too sweet for my liking. I like the way that in the second two manga, the yakuza story was interwoven with the love story, and we got to see how the group of friends/family/yakuza 'brothers' interacted, and how they were able to transition to being upstanding members of society. Ok so it's not a masterpiece or anything, but it's a relatively well crafted, entertaining story, with plenty of h scenes too. Passionate and angsty, bittersweet porn with plot - nice!