Akai Ito No Shikkou Yuuyo
i looooove the red string of fate au and this was rly cute. the seme is so adorable but the uke kinda pissed me off for being so damn stubborn. imagine wanting to deny a happy future w someone who loves and adores you to the end of the earth bc hes a guy. wild couldnt be me. he came around albeit way too late. i wish there was more tbh. seme was so cute i felt so bad for him :,) he rly does have a kicked puppy aura. 7/10
Kanawanu Koi no Musubikata
im abt to go off. this was so fucking GOOD. FINALLY SOME GOOD FUCKING FOOD. so SO good. i love the character so so much they are so sweet and in love w each other and i actually teared up like twice while reading this. kaoru has my entire heart. he is such a kind soul and i feel so bad for him. the whole soulmate thing w that woman literally crushed me and made me so upset. im so glad they were able to get past all that and haru san is the persistent puppy seme he is and was able to convince kaoru to not leave him again. it made me so sad everytime he did try to leave but i also entirely understand his insecurities and cant blame him the slightest. the art is so so lovely and development is so fucking nice and i even found the third volume on a discord page (thank GOD for that one comment) and im just so happy after reading this. i spent the better part of the day reading it but it was so worth, such a sweet story i loved to bits and pieces. 15/10
Winter Woods
damn im really glad i kept reading this one! it was really cute. i almost dropped within the first like 20 chapters but i decided to stick w it bc of the good ratings and im honestly really happy i did. the story is so endearing and i loved both the couples so much. at first i didnt really like any of the characters and even winter seemed a little bit off to me but i grew so fond of all of them over time. not so much roy tho tbh i know the most "tugs heartstrings" moment of the story was w him losing his memories and stuff but honestly i just found him annoying and untrustworthy the entire story. what he did was so selfish and even in his most human moments he put his own feelings above winter's. hes not THAT bad tho. i loved adora from the beginning and i thought she deserved so much better tbh but i love her personality and she made zoe into a somewhat likable asshole instead of just an asshole. zoe is so mf fine tho i died everytime he would show up. their scenes and the general pacing of their relationship was lovely too. like watching zoe realize his genuine feelings for her and her unwavering faith in his love for her was great. it makes me a bit sad knowing that he'll eventually have to watch her grow old and die tho. i wonder what he'll do after that. especially since winter is human too now so he won't be there either. jane was kinda meh to me at first and i think my turning point for her was when she started to fall for winter but i gotta say watching her beat the shit out sarah was fucking great. really solidified my feelings for her LOL. shes so badass. OK SO winter. hes literally baby. i love him sm. hes so innocent and kind. tbh idk if its just childlike behaviour but he kinda struck me as someone on the autism spectrum? which only made him more endearing but yeah. brought some well needed humour and innocence to the plot. he didnt deserve the things that happened to him. i attribute most of my weird feelings abt the characters and plot to the odd artstyle, since it was definitely a bit creepy in the beginning. idk if maybe i just got used to it or it really did get 10x better but i really like it now. it totally suits the vibes of the story. i cant say everything in the plot made sense tbh but like i just love the characters sm that ill look past it 9/10
Kabe no Naka no Tenshi
i love the vibes of this. beautiful angels and their respective artist and writer bfs. very pretty and very sweet. 9/10
Asagao wa Yoru kara Saku
:(((((. this was so sweet. ah man. im glad i didnt read this like a month ago i probably wouldve been a crying mess. and i still teared up this time too. i share a lot of similar thoughts as yuugen abt life and it really moved me when i saw the way his mom was dealing with the loss of her son. we take life for granted so often and push things off for some day later in the future without knowing if that day will really ever come. its normal but its definitely not how we should live. i appreciate the beauty in life and im hyperaware of the fragility of human life but i dont live my life to the fullest that i could. i want to change but i dont know where to start. im too tired to try starting tbh. oh well. as for the read, it was beautiful 9/10
Gokurakugai Sanbandori no Ken
this was so good!!!! omg i really wish it was longer. the character designs are GORGEOUS and i love the mermaid plotline. im not sure if the abusive step dad was the one nene bonked but i hope it was lol. i would looooove to see more of this. 9/10
Interview with the Vampire
definitely not completed but ok. honestly a pretty decent adaptation of the story. the art is so pretty, its giving 90s manga vibes. lestat, oh lestat. i missed that gay mf.
Dine With a Vampire
PAIN, BUT IN THE BEST WAY. man i have way too fucking much to talk abt. okay first of all - I NEED TO TALK ABT THE CUTEST CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT IVE EVER SEEN ON A MAN. chi hwan is so so so adorable now. and that is smth i never foresaw myself saying even just a few chapters ago. he goes from being a murderous, opportunistic selfish asshole (he really isnt THAT bad tho just really sketchy) to an absolutely anxious and smitten puppy. i really didnt think id ever like him at some point but tbh he really just has a tragic past. idk if that excuses the senseless murders tho. oh well, hes a gentleman to my bb so ill overlook it LMAO. hes also really great at apologizing and being considerate of sooin at a level of maturity that is really attractive. at first i was bummed that sooins saviour wasnt as willing to love sooin as vice versa, but the role reversal in the second half really stole my heart. he is so wonderful to him and the fact that he needs him just as much, if not way more, than sooin needs him is so sweet. tbh i think sooins the one who needs to figure out exactly whether he truly loves chi hwan or if hes just extremely grateful to him and likes how loved he makes him feel. bc for chihwan its just pure love baby. sigh. speaking of - the role reversal??? brilliant. breathtaking, genius, never been done before. from selfish, powerful vampire and weak pitiful human to submissive link and confident, happy vampire. what a fucking glowup. and i mean SUBMISSIVE bro. the switch in chi hwans attitude gave me whiplash but in the best way. i dont think i have ever seen a seme cry out of love and anxiety for his lover in a story before. hes so sweet and in love. and seeing sooin so confident and honestly powerful was honey for my eyes. i love sooin so much hes so lovely and he deserves only the best in the world after the absolute hell that he was dealt. im not even gonna touch on the topic of that abusive fucker - just mad that they made such an asshole exactly my type in terms of looks ugh. the choi guy was really really pretty and i honestly pitied him at first but idk at some point i started to fully dislike him. his own greed caused his downfall but idk if the amount of hate chi hwan has for him is justified. regardless, he has too much innocent blood on his hands. listen - this story sent me into a whole vampire spiral. its not often but occasionally ill come across a piece of work that captures the dark aesthetic and sultry ambience of a vampire piece so well that i just fall completely down the rabbit hole for a little while and make my life abt emitting the same vibes. this time, i made a whole vampire playlist on spotify and browsed some goth lesbian clothes/decor. the first 10ish chapters already convinced me that this was going in my favs list. theres something abt this story, especially the first half, that does such a great job of capturing the vampire essence. its so sexy and interesting. idk maybe its the inimate touches and blood, the brooding mysterious men and their lengthy misfortunate histories. whenever i fall back into this, its the most bi-curious i ever feel, which is very interesting. like i really wish i had a goth gf right about now so we could gush over this shit and make out. lots of homoeroticism in vampire lore. i love it. i havent felt like actually turned on by yaoi in a while but did the job lmaooo. the v first sex scene was really hot. yeah anyways 10/10
Digitalis
soooo. many thoughts. i love the art style and i recognized it from hate mate, truly i want to read more works w this kind of style - it kinda reminds me of bakdam's (and yeongha) art style from love or hate and fools. so like 10 for that. the characters were also great and yoosung reminds me a lot of megumi oddly enough. i liked jiwoo too v puppy seme vibes. and bro on god the reincarnating eternal lovers across lifetimes au is one of my all time faves and has been forever. they even had the red string of fate man. the humour was great and the sister was literally my fav character. honestly until chapter 15 i wouldve given this a 10/10 but like thats where the plot got really confusing? and idk if its bc of the english translation of the korean is wack but thats lezhins fault. i just dont get what jiwoo did so wrong? and why yoosung was prepared to stop liking him or whatever. idk thats pretty much it just the conflict between them. i also wish the "sister" character got more screen time like to explain her role as god or whatever. also the character she said she was gonna introduce later? never came? idk. ill still give this an 8 bc i love every other aspect but it really couldve been better. i wanted to love this so much.
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