's manga / #Tragedy(13)

Pain

I come back to this every now and then just to relive the story. It's one of the few soul transmigration manhwas that I've appreciated, and it's BL nonetheless. Our MC tries to get by in his piss poor everyday life, until one day, on his way to his dingy apartment, he gets hit by the classic soul-transmigrating truck. He finds himself in the body of a young, feeble high school boy who seems to have survived an attempted suicide. He tries to navigate his way in this new life, but he's in for a treat once he meets his childhood friend, who's now paying an oddly excessive amount of attention to him. The story, along with how the artist worked with the panels really did wonders with the pacing. The mutual pining, prolonged moments of sexual tension hanging by a thin thread--ah, chef's kiss. That said, I felt that it ended without tying some loose ends, like the redemption of the main villain being somewhat lenient. Don't get me wrong though, I did love how it ended: not too stretched out nor too abrupt. Overlal a BL worth the read, and every damn reread. This is an author I'm definitely going to be keen on.

thank you tofu for recommending this to me I'm crying now

A young man is sent to therapy by his rich, dysfunctional family to cope with his mother's death. There he meets a psychiatrist with dubious intentions and has quite a different approach in unraveling his troubled past. This was an engaging read for me, although I do think that the doctor was the only character left unexplored. The author left the story open-ended perhaps for the express purpose of leaving it up to the reader's interpretation, thus making it 'the third perspective.'

The art will be the death of me