Aiko's manga / #College Life(13)

3.5, I’ll be honest. I will NOT lie. The smut scenes are very well drawn, the style is a sparkly work of art, and I think the main couple can be cute at times. But I feel pure irritation when Akira continued to mislead, bully, and technically grape Hotaru. Hotaru felt pain when Akira felt jealousy and took it out on him, not cool. I don’t care of Hotaru is okay with it, it doesn’t make it okay, and that makes me sad because I know that Akira has a real love for him and genuinely wants to make him happy. I just wish the plots of these BLs could assent past the weak, helpless, basically rug of a person trope that allows these Ukes to get so easily pushed around. There’s flaws in both characters that I feel like could be developed better and more drawn out. Hotaru matures to stand for himself, Akira lives with guilt for his actions and makes up for it somehow with them both learning to communicate and express better. The typical issues that would upgrade a manga but never is present. But the uploader is a gem <3 best meme annotations ever.

3.0, this one is worse than Window to Window for the following: 1) if you're peeved thinking window to window is all sex minimal plot, this one is gonna blow your brains out because it’s a longer manga with, yes, more sex than plot. 2) for some reason there’s a point in which it seems Dowan forgets that Chamin has sexomnia and I understand it’s extremely hard to distinguish when Chamin is awake vs asleep but once he discovers this sleeping disorder— he still misunderstands. How? We established the disorder. And it really think his misunderstanding was unnecessary motivation to prolong the discussion he has to admitting what’s been happening between them at night. 3) The warning says SA but it seems like plausible r@pe, I really hate that in BLs. 4) the sexual acts continued even after it was discovered that Chamin had been SAed, how is that okay? I get it, he tried to be considerate and honestly Dowan is a green flag but there’s some misguided moments of coitus that I feel don’t match the characters personality. 5) im sorry to say that while it is creative, sexomnia is a bit ridiculous of a plot catalyst. And why does it seem it wasn’t a problem until after they learned about it in class, as if it manifested upon discovery. On the bright side? The art is beautiful really and there were moments included where Chamin was mindful of Dowan, he felt bad that he had been doing things at night that misled Dowans feelings. That’s quite nice. And they had cute moments closer to them officiating their relationship. Plus, Dowan is pretty fine ngl. Don’t know if I’d read again tho ʅ（◞‿◟）ʃ

10.99, I love love LOVE this one it’s so darn cute. I absolutely love by the way a Uke that’s so extremely soft and in love with their Seme but can still kick ass. And I love how level headed and green flag the Seme is. I feel like reality would’ve been that the twins could’ve guessed how the Uke was feeling by the time the Uke refused to admit to the prank or at least try to talk to the Uke one-on-one about why he wanted to refuse but in the end their contribution didn’t matter much anyway I suppose. Would reread it again since the climax wasn’t too bad, there wasn’t a long-drawn out resolve so I’d reread this one again for sure. Such cute art style too.

4.5, I’m conflicted. Technically speaking, all kisses were consensual, all coitus was consensual. Additionally, the art is beautiful and very clean. I just feel some sorta way about the recovery, I feel like there could be more robust dialogue between the two where they have a heart to heart before confessing. That discussion felt a bit like unfired clay. It’s not terrible, I just think it’s missing something I can put my finger on, and ofc something that involves the stalker trait of the Seme being addressed as NOT okay rather than overlooked. I will say I could reread this though because he’s more of a stalker like friendly observer, he never mentioned hurting the Uke which is better than most BL Semes overall.

2.0, as to why over 60% of readers who’ve rated have rated it at 5 is beyond me, 2 chapters in and the Seme is already unbearable. I have a tendency to be irritated at Ukes that are complete rugs, no fight back, nothing, but I’ll give some credit on the fact that he does try to voice his opinions and resist. With that said, the Seme is even more discerning because of this, he chooses to push himself onto the Uke like most red flag tops of this genre and continues to disregard the Ukes wishes yet I’m supposed to think it’s cute that the Uke begins developing feelings for the Seme because he’s using a technique of making the Uke think about him constantly? That’s not cute. The art has so much promise but this plot is not it. Not rereading.

3.0, I give one star for creativity. Having a Seme Omega and a Uke Alpha is original and unique. I give another star for art style, very beautiful. And I give a final star for its potential. Unfortunately, I still detest plots that have a primary climax of r@pe. Was it a nice change to see the dynamics shift? Yes but what’s the difference between this and just another average omegaverse manga if they both are “r@ped but forgiven” tropes. I stopped at Chapter 5 because of this awful development, the whole forgiveness redemption plot doesn’t even make sense, what does being sweet when he was younger have to do with his CONSCIOUS choice to force the Uke Alpha into something with NO consent. My mentally unwell readers, I couldn’t even finish reading it, anything after chapter 5 is unnecessary. I don’t need to read more “happy” ever after side stories with a toxic dynamic couple lmao. Not rereading again. Jail bruh.

5.0, it’s not excelling simply because a lot of the physical affection is forced upon and therefore not consensual but I’ll not put a SA tag since it’s outlined in chapters that it’s an instinctive trait of the wolf breeds. I really love this manga overall though, first off the art was top tier and I knew it would be based off the first panel. Second of all, the plot is really sweet getting down to it, the calm natured human friend of a susceptible hybrid breed protecting his susceptible friend from danger and finding love in the process by changing said danger into a lover is actually quite wholesome. Plus the development felt perfectly sequential, it wasn’t rushed or over complicated, the human did research and took his time to learn his feelings alongside the reader until it came to a head with a communicative understanding between the two lovers. Def would reread again.

5.2, I really like this one actually despite the abruptness of it all within the first two chapters where they essentially were neighbors with benefits catalyzed by their straight friends/the couple that’s friends with Sora doing a deed next door. I don’t really care for the causality of it all because it many times is non consensual but Sora the Seme really did ask for comfortability and was fairly gentle with hanging out eating together etc. The art is beautiful actually and my favorite feature of this story is despite the run-away/push-away plot, they actually had a sit down conversation before continuing into any intimacy which I feel gives validity to their confessions. In addition, we even got an extra sort of chapter that shows they have support ally friends which was a cherry on top. I’d reread again for surez

4.8, not bad! It’s actually sweet in the moments that they fall for one another, I especially love a Seme that falls hard and deeply for the Uke without being toxic in a forceful SA type of way. In a way, I actually understood the Uke a lot more down to the resistance type of ways esp with his past traumas, I just didn’t care for the multiple themes wherein the Uke is misled into things (going back to his home town, believing he’d have to explain himself to the Seme when his brother answers the door, etc.). But the Uke dealt with it all well plus he’s a power bottom, I can’t be mad, it’s a dynamic I actually love to see in BLs sometimes. Could reread.

1.8, I can tell this manga attempted dry humor but failed because to make dry humor it has to be funny. It’s not funny at all. The most it was is light hearted when there’d be a pure break like an admission of the Uke wanting to remain friends or the granny taking the side characters out. Even then, the method of cutting a scene by abruptly ending it with the Uke being teased + storming out is over used throughout the entire manga. Additionally, there is repetitive SA of the Seme to the Uke and the side character to the Uke. And these types of manga that mainly make a foundation of teasing the Uke just don’t have much depth to them, it’s hard to stay interested. It perhaps would’ve been cute when feelings started to come out IF they went on any dates at all and put any effort at all into their new found love, but no, they just have smut and say they love eachother. Disappointing, but at least the art is nice and the granny is adorable. Wouldn’t reread.