Mayday mayday mayday!
This was so solid and pleasantly typical. Ended so neatly at 50 chapters without dragging on too long or being toooooo rushed. It was still a bit rushed, but at a minimum I’ve seen pretty much all that needed to be seen. We could have spent more time on making sure that the couple going from “I don’t trust you or like you because you used me as bait” to “I love you so so much !!!! didn’t happen so instantaneously. Meh. Cute couple, nice art, some sexy sex scenes, and pretty damn great humour in generous amounts. Plot bodied what might be my absolute fav smut/fanfic plot which is the whole becoming the mafia boss’s paramour then partner. It’s such a great one. Especiallllllly when the MC has one million other suitors that the mafia boss has to fend off of them. Eeeeeeeeeee. Can’t ever get enough of it, in any form. Viewfinder anybody? But some things that usually come with this trope were done way better here and I like that. Mafia boss was really gentle with MC, never raped or forced them. We love to see that. Something I wasn’t too keen on was the seemingly too non-chaulant manner we dealt with the cousin who raped him when he was 19.... they were not kids at the time.... I would’ve liked for us to have taken the whole thing a bit more seriously. But other than that, no other real real qualms. Most impressive thing about this? The storytelling style that was used to execute the plot. It was subtle things here and there and there that showed that the author has a talent for telling a story. Sure there were a few times that things got a bit confusing because the events were out of good order, but meh it happens. Overall though, it was super refreshing to see real-deal manga storytelling in a BL. Doesn’t happen all the time you know? Anyway, due to this being one of my fav tropes and it being a full color long form manwha (my fav BL type), as well as the storytelling golden nuggets, this was a really fucking nice time so it gets a 9.45. :3
Kashikomarimashita, Destiny
BBB is for Miyauchi I give this a 9.4 (but really more like a 9.39). I liked it but was also disappointed because it had a 9,5 rating and was very much not 9.5 material for me at all. Firstly, the main couple got like 3 chapters, while the second couple got the remaining 9...... :/. The whole thing wi5 BL culture and the two-couple-per-BL system that happens so often is like... meh hit or miss with me so emotional times depending on a lot of things (how much time each couple gets, do they compliment each other?, was the switch to the second abrupt or did it flow, do we completely abandon the first one we get 5he second or do we go in and out of both?.... etc) but for 5e most part I usually always feel even if a lil bit disappointed - and often a lot of bit - when the second couple is intruded because even if I didn’t love the first one, I still want to see the rest of their story through? Hm, I don’t know. I feel like the whole point of me reading the BL (and this is just the purpose that BL serves for me most nights) is me immersing myself in the story of one couple from start to finish. So abandoning them for another is always just... ugh. Whatevs, anyway, some BL’s handle having two couples better than others , and sometimes the first couple is trash (Banana Scandal looking at you lol), but this one didn’t do it for me so major points off. Overall I don’t have too much to say. Like, it was good and interesting and all and in typical highly-rated omegaverse fashion there were very cute kids involved, but it just didn’t really hit for me. And towards the end I felt like it dragged a bit and I just wanted it to be over kind of. If I was as invested in the second couple as many in the comments seem to have been I probs wouldn’t have felt like that but meh. I just think I wanted more fluff from this and it seemed like I was set up to get a bit more fluff than I did especially coming from the main coil,e. Whatever, this review is dragging on lol, I’ll just end it here. Overall, it was still good just not quite my cup of tea.
Kiss me, Liar
So.... where to even start.... I do not regret reading this. I was on the fence about reading it sooooo much because the comments are super hot and cold with lots of people saying don't read it is it absolute rape-romanticizing scum and the other half saying despite the toxicity it was worth the read. Which camp do I ultimately fall in? Omph, unfortunately(?) the latter lol. I very much enjoyed myself reading this multiple times throughout. Let's be clear, this is one of the most egregious romantisization of rape I have ever witnesses in a BL and by one of the worst tops I have ever seen. Like, sheeeesh, it's a bit hard to find another top in a BL of this rating who treated their bottom quite thissssssss bad. Keith was... man it don't get much worse than Keith. As for what made the portrayal of rape so bad here, it wasn't just that the top rapes the bottom and then they still get together or even that the bottom forgives the top... no no no, the bottom literally tells the top, "you did nothing wrong; I was wrong" and it's just like, ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm wtf? Lol, like big wtf? Not just rape, but all kinds of physical and emotional violence this man inflicted, man he was so horrible and you tell him he actually did nothing wrong? Yikes, why'd we have to do some shit like that? Then to make matters worse when the bottom almost gets raped by someone else the top not only does not give a hoot, but also says "ugh, you're being such an inconvenience, why didn't you just let it happen?" and blames him for it and says he was playing innocent even though he knows he really wanted it. Disgusting. So yeah, that sums up the worst part of this. Other bad parts, I get upset when bottoms don't have self-respect and simp for tops who do them consistently dirty. So that p'd me off a ton. Personally, I hate it when tops have the nerve to be trash but they not even cute enough to make up for it so that also upset me tons lol. Even if they had to get together, I absolutely hate it when tops never end up apologizing for the shit they did. Keith literally never did. Hate this man, lol. Yeah, those were all of the complaints plot/character-wise. Other complaints though? I hated how the BL would skip time in the most random places at the most random times without doing enough transition-wise to make it smooth or sometimes even enough explanation-wise to make things make sense. It was jarring and not cute at all and disrupted the flow of the BL. It also seemed hella lazy tbh. On a similar note (and this is not the author's fault), the translation was alllllll over the place and often didn't make sense and that sucks but what ya gonna do I guess? It seriously did take me out of the BL though, to have this many different translation errors and screw ups. Not to mention image quality as well, *sigh*, oh well. Now, for the good stuff..... This could be made into a series of three movies. I can literally see it. When I say that I don't mean that it could as in ti could happen because omegaverse is wildly too niche for the mainstream movie world to handle atm so no, but I mean it in a way that's like daaaamnm I'd watch these movies. I'd direct the adaptation too lol. I feel like I know exactly what needs to be cut out, added, and changed to make this work. Hahah, yeah. Bottom baby get the BBB tag because even though he was a pathetic little no-self-respect-having simp headass nigga for his abusive daddy for most of this, he also managed to be a bad bitch too. His revenge plot was PHENOMENAL. Lolololol, I'm not saying the plan itself or the execution were great from a technical standpoint because there were obviously flaws in the plan and the execution didn't go well because he didn't get away with it ultimately lol. But I mean the emotional-intent behind it, the unexpected nature of it, and the specific dialogue that occurs in the prime moments to make it happen, as well as the speed with which the situation escalated afterwards after hell broke loose. UGHHHHHH I liveeeeee for the dramaaaaaa hahahahah. Best part of the whole thing and something I don't think I'll ever forget man that was mmmmm I was eating that bitch up- living for it!!!! Hahah, as if the MC being bounty chased wasn't enough, him and top jumping out of a movie car while shooting a gun to escape from being kidnapped happening directly after? Ugh, mwha chef's kiss. There was so much blood. The MC giving his last words like he was gonna die in that helicopter scene when they were rescued?Ugh omg I'm fangirling too much I fucked heavy with this entire middle part. Also, ima keep it real theses scenes were pretty hot and heavy throughout. They were fucked like animals and we love a bottom who is active and vocal during the deed. Hahahha anyway, that's all I'll really say for now. I think I talked enough about the good and the bad. I'm truly going to give this a 9.3 which is controversial AS FUCK given the what I said about it romanticizing rape but no one has to know I'm giving it this rating but myself lolol, yikes, but hehe. It was giving big time/medium time Viewfinder vibes- which is to say it was FLAMING HOT DUMPSTER FIRE TRASH LOL. But yall know I problematically love that shit. Guilty as charrrrrrged. SO yep - a 9.3 it is :3 PS: Dane was FOINEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE AF! SWEET MERCY ME
Imperfect Pervert
I am giving this a 9.3 (but more like a 9.29). I can take a good guess as to why it is rated a 9.1 though. There is a specific list of things that the BL readers on this site do not like whatsoever, and one of those things is cheating. It's extremely weird to me and always has been that a group pf people who are okay with/desire things like rape, incest, pedophilia, and you name it.... decide to draw the line at cheating?? Like, why is that their big stance lol. But I mean it's an overwhelming ludicrous amount of them to the point where me saying this is just fact. Anyway, I am glad that I read this despite it being a 9.1, because I 1) I don't have that weird hang up about infidelity and 2) no actual cheating takes place. Even though the MC is just friends with benefits with multiple people none of whom he agreed to be in a monogamous relationship with, the poor babies on here just can't stand the idea of the MC "sleeping around" or basically having sex with anyone other than the dude they are supposed to end up with in the end. smh, kind of immature but I digress, I don't know how old these guys are so I'ma let them be. The beginning was a bit rough but not rough to get through. You know how some things are just hard to get through because you're like "damn I really don't wanna keep reading based off the things I've seen so far". People are acting like it was that kind of situation when it really was not. The beginning was just rough in a regular "I can't call the BL good yet" way. It went from being rough in the early beginning, to being mediocre throughout the entire middle which makes up at least 70% of it and then got kind of good in the last act. By good I more so mean interesting and you know kind of messy hehe. Anyway, in the very very end though, the whole BL comes together to pull off what could probably be called the best ending it could possibly have. That's pretty damn rare I think: for a BL to pull off the best possible ending given it's plot up until that point. They sometimes at best get close but still leave you going "ah, but I still wish so and such thing happened... and also this too", you know? But nah, other than us readers wanting a bit more content (and I do mean a bit- at 1-2 side stories for the lesbian side couple and for me personally one more side story for the main couple), all the other things were wrapped up just as nicely as they could possibly be wrapped up. I liked the way the story line was resolved with the uncle giving back that money, love that the blonde psycho brother went to jail, like that the company went down in flames, and the (insinuation) that the drugging, obsessive dude was also going to turn himself into the cops, and more than anything else, we love that after all this trauma, our lovely MC is both getting therapy and taking medication to heal. Like how often in BL's do the right people go to jail and then on top of that people who need it get therapy and then on top of that medication as well??????? Not often at all, that's when (BIG TIME looking at you "Love on my Terms"). (To be fair, it can and should be argued that the MC is not the only one who needed therapy and that there is no reason in hell why the love interest dude should not also be in therapy, but shhhhhh I'm going to take what I can get here...). Yeah, good ending "wrapping up the plot-wise" and good ending overall meaning-wise it didn't slap or anything, but it prevented itself quite successfully from going down the shit show rabbit hole I have seen more than enough BL of this caliber go down. It subverted expectations in that way and that was refreshing :). Okay, let's see what else... ngl some of this sex was h-o-t hot, mmmmmmmhm. I wasn't particularly attracted to any character at all during this BL at any given time and yet I still got a good handful of sex scenes that turned me on so that's a damn feat for smut am I right? Also, as always, I am all for a horny, open-about-his-sexual-desires bottom MC -- especially in this case when they're a bad bitch with at least mid-bad bitch fashion sense and piercings (double helix baby, woo!!!). Then art wasn't anything to write home about, but it was pretty darn good, a nice bit above average there. Characters not only were not particularly attractive, but also were not particularly enjoyable as people and I think both of those things together are really respectable form a BL. Like, you did not need to make your characters so hot and irresistibly psychically or psychologically to keep my attention and to get me to give a fuck about their stories and what happened to them. That is a crutch that many a BL author relies on (though I don't hate it). All the characters here just felt very real and realistic which was nice. Aside from them not being irresistibly enjoyable personality-wsie, I enjoy the MC even though he is not stereotypically enjoyable. He's ratchet and traumatized and a brat and all-around giving off HUGE Hyesung vibes and y'all know how I adooooore Hyesung :3. Okay, bad things? Small thing: story-telling was choppy enough to land this on the lower-end of the 9.3's instead of the middle. Bigger thing: ugh, the pedo vibes rolling off of this with the whole emphasis on the MC being so small like a child was distracting and upsetting to a certain extent despite me trying to look beyond it. It's not like I feel like they were unreasonable in the Bl, but I don't like the ideals we setting up/feeding into for people irl. Anyway, that's all I've got folks, not much else to say, but this is getting a 9.29.
The Beast Must Die
I love this. I love this way more than I thought I would. I love this way more than I should. By the time I got to the main story's conclusion, I was ready to give this a 9.5, but now after reading the epilogue/side stories, this is getting a solid as fuck 9.6. This... had a profound effect on me, lol. I have never neared the end of a BL and thought "I want it to end this way but I know it never ever would end that way" and then got to the ending and had it end EXACTLY the way I only wished it would in my wildest dreams. That is why this gets the unconventional oven tag. At every twist and turn in the main story my expectations were subverted time and time again. It gave me such a fucking rush/thrill!!! Author-nim was very much not afraid to against the grain within this certain sub-genre of BL. Our top was a psychopath murderer who killed multiple people in cold blood throughout the story and yet 1) stayed alive until the very end, 2) never got caught, 3) did not end up professing his love for the bottom MC, and 4) lived out the rest of his days and year with the bottom (and we got to see their happy future!!!!). Like, this was wildly unexpected to me bro. BL's of this nature usually always end on some sort of fuck shit or the other. But nah, not this one. I was so pleasantly and overwhelmingly surprised by the way this ended. I love Kirin so much because I think he is one of the only BL MC's who I thought "yeah, I'd do the exact same thing if I were in your shoes" every single time he performed an action. It's crazy how much I kin him considering the situation and all. I also don't think I have ever been so dedicated to simping for a BL love interest top who has done their bottom MC as dirty as Moo did Kirin bro. Like, never. You're boy not only raped him multiple times with no lube or condom, but also took his virginity in that same manner because they even shared a first kiss and in front of a lecherous audience full of the same guys who raped and were responsible for the death of the person he was most close to in the world. He also set up a situation for the MC to get gang raped and induced with a lethal level of drugs by injection. Like bro, I have never seen my MC be manipulated so much and so effortlessly as I did here. All of those things I said aren't even the worst part though because there are obvi some horrible tops out there in BL's. Worst part is he then felt no remorse for his actions up until the very end of the story and told the MC he did all that shit purely because it was ............ fun? like LMFAO what?!?!?!?!??!??!?!?!?!?!? At that point in time, I thought surely the chance of me supporting their relationship- let alone simping for this man myself, by the end of this story is 0.00000000% But dude..... here I am at the story's conclusion happily in full support of their relationship and simping for this man like crazy. I think that def also qualifies this to win the unconventional oven tag lol. Ugh, I am just incredibly down bad for this psycho killer bro. Like, he is MY cup of tea. His acitons, his quips, his smirk, his deadpan face, his sadisticness, his relentlessly domineering attitude, his lack of remorse, all of it I was there for it. Also, you know how I really knew I had it bad for this man? I caught myself about halfway through the story thinking, "ooooooh, I just KNOW this man has a deep ass sexy ass VOICE ".... hahaha yes, I do know I need therapy ASAP. Anyway, this BL getting my dream ending and the simp-worthiness of the top doing a complete 180 (and then some!!!), are two of my most fav things about this. The other main thing is the nature of the couple's relationship and how complex it is. Like, I haven't quite seen anything like it. What's going on between them can't be called love but it's .... _________. Yeah, lol, it's a bit too complex for me to even explain here. That's why I gave this the "let's unpack" tag lol. To one day return to this and analyze this relationship. It impresses me greatly and I find it fascinating and original. Okay anything else? The cover art is the bomb.com, author-nim is the greatest ever for leaving all of those comments, notes, jokes, and answers to fan's questions so I love them and want to return one day to throw money at them, and lastly these many of these sex scenes were on LITERAL fireeeeee bruh, like ughhghisabnosn. That's pretty much all there was left to say lol. I loved this. It was thrilling and gave me a rush that I can only hope to one day feel again. *Gordon Ramsey chef's kiss* (<- the HIGHEST of praise).
Tonari no Metaller-san
above average art frfr, super wholesome and commendably good example to set relationship-wise in a BL. not my fav thing ever but still relatively cute. 9.4 not because of how much I enjoyed it, but simply because of the production value of it overall being so high
Wolf In The House
This was incredible. I’m giving it a 9.6999. The extra decimal points that bring it so very close to being 9.7 material can be attributed to the high as quality art style— especially when it comes to coloring! But yeah, this BL was soooo ridiculously good bro ugh, it was FUNNY FUNNY. Hahahahahhaha Bex is such #1 BL himbo lololol, and Diesel is the loml for reeeeeeeeeal bro. The two go to them together though? Goofiest combo I’ve ever seen lmfaooo . Ugh, I love them both individually and together. He’s is hilarious himbo and I love that. Diesel is lovely beautiful baby angel trained assassin badass bitch who Panteen could only dream of having sponsor their conditioner line. Minsuk is funny as fuck too in his own way. He be in a silly mood often lol. I love his freedom and the way he lives his life with so much aesthetic appeal!!!! I loved his interaction with Ein when they first met hahahhhahahaha. Ein and Diesel’s relationship?!?! Omfg wth it was soooooooooooooooo *chef’s kiss*. It was soo hot and sexy in a deliciously mature and dark way. Like hot damn, the story with Bex and Minsuk was all cute hilarious and goofy it then we switched over the the meta and potatos of the Ein/Diesel story and hot damn shot got juicy!! The prose and storytellelling skyrocketed in quality and I didn’t know WHAT to do with myself! Ten we came back at the end and wrapped it up in a perfectly happy ending which, tbh, based off of the way they set things up, I did NOT think was gonna be possible!! One of the best BL’s I’ve ever read hands down. PS: alllllllll the brownie points for the unexpected hot as lesbian milf reunion couple !!!!! Bex’s birth mother is such a fine ass bad ahhhhhshfoenfkfnjdn I can’t. I’m so glad she achieved the happiness she deserved after marking her crazy ex husband!!!!
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