Calalaya's manga / #Three Stars(36)

Divorced from the first part, the 2nd chapter is actually pretty powerful. But it's also a followup to all that....gratuitousness, egh

Absurdist as usual. Some of them were a big turnoff, like the first one. Who wants so much sugar in a place like that, you're going to get an infection! Some of the others had decent concepts with ahem, flawed execution. I'd be interested to see someone else's interpretation of some of them

It's fine. I think a lot of it has to do with the translation and the pacing in conjunction, it's just written a bit blandly. A lot of fluff and not as much substance worth all that many chapters. It's not often I'd prefer a shorter story but this one felt a bit flabby haha

It's actually kinda refreshing to have an A/B/O story where the people aren't lovey-dovey post-bite. Really lets the concept open up to the horror it can truly be

This was...interesting I'm all about enthusiastic consent and the beginning of this one very very nearly turned me off the rest. But I kept going anyway, something about the vibe of this one is different - not to say much, but it doesn't exactly glorify what happened (like a lot of romanization), and it does genuinely turn that both physical parties want to be engaged, even in that scene. Less so for those watching but there's a kind of eye-for-an-eye mentality going on there The rest was mostly just H and a little bit of stalker fall in love. Perfectly serviceable. The whole story kinda lived up to the beginning with a strange feeling the whole way through, but I still found it enjoyable despite? because of? that feeling

Hmm. The pacing is...creative I guess you could say. The story's not too bad, and the concept is fun. A little weirded out by the snake and the pearl, separately and in conjunction. Also the fact that the author got in hot water, that fuckin' sucks. I'll be interested to see how it plays out, if I'm able to keep up, what with the odd pacing Update, post photo-shoot amnesia: It actually feels like there's a kind of establish through line now, finally. I can follow what's going on much better now that the setup's handled

Egh. Effectively a horror, written with that intention mostly but docked for framing the sexual stuff passively, not necessarily to titillate but also not to disturb. I suppose that can be disturbing in its own way. Poor Chouno

It's not very good lol, the MC is very stupid and his ex is an asshole

The internal dialogue is a little poorly handled imo, but I can appreciate a SSC play, especially since no one seems to be getting hurt. Not the best I've seen but not too bad either

Certainly better than some other works I've seen with these two - they genuinely seem to like each other and have a bit of chemistry as well. Nothing groundbreaking but decent