tsukineko's manga / #love/hate(23)

Ok. Kinda fun, but a golden opportunity for 4P was wasted boooo.

Waaaah! That was so sad. I have a big lump in my throat from it. The dialogue felt a bit stilted and unnatural. That could just be the translation though.

Looks relatively entertaining. I'm a sucker for the love/hate dynamic.

The stories become progressively darker and more twisted as the manga goes along. The first is the sweetest, most romantic and most poetic I've read of Ogawa Chîse. It was nice to see that she's just as capable of telling that kind of story, as the dark, twisted ones she's better known for. The last story was almost too much for me to handle, despite the fact that I'm used to reading, (and generally 'enjoy'), such levels [and even worse] of sick, twistedness. I was probably just having an emotional day, though. Art on fleek as usual. After this, read 'Ienai itami o daite iru', which is the backstory for the last couple, and is beautiful and delightfully angsty.

3.5 stars. That was actually really freaking sweet, (minus the rapey scene). The friends were really fun to read about too. I enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would, and would reread it. It's lacking a consensual sex scene, but the kissing scenes, (especially that one near the end), are really sweet and intense. The love between the mcs, as well as the platanic love between the friends, are tangible.

This was originally a yaoi, with yummy, smutty scenes, but they've all been cut out, to the point that it's now just a shounen ai. The full version is only available in Korean and one has to pay for it. I actually might well have paid for it if it was translated, but I can't read Korean - darn! This looks like a lot of fun, (despite the absence of smut)! Not only are both mcs hot, buff, beautiful bishies, they both want to be the seme, which makes for a fun power dynamic. One of them is sadistic, so that's even more fun! From what I can tell, (although of course we don't actually see it), they're a riba couple.