ginhiji enthusiast's manga / #dubcon(15)

dynamic: younger, cheeky seme + Hijikata-like uke + more serious seme he doesn’t get along with at first nothing too special but i enjoyed myself! a good generic love triangle if you want something familiar. the jealousy scenes were really satisfying and my betting horse won so i’m happy :)

popular, rich and Emotionally Constipated serious seme & serious strong minded uke i adore this series. their dynamic is incredibly fun as they’re both very serious and •-•. i love the humor a lot and the end melted my heart. i wouldn’t mind reading mindless, inconsequential shenanigans of these two forever. the story is wonderful imo. the writer did a good job in giving an actual plot that would be interesting with or without their relationship. this isn’t nsfw. dubcon tag is for something else. link to my reading thread: https://twitter.com/hyoojn/status/1455534969732861961?s=21

copied from initial read: oh wow thete’s a lot to take in it’s /really/ good and went BEYOND my expectations. it’s full of drama and a plot. the thing is i did get bothered by how often the uke gets raped by other guys that rlly pissed me off probably would never reread like it’s intriguing cause of problematic and controversial themes but ehhhh it rlly is emotionally heavy the mains switch but not with each other it was kinda annoying but tolerable enough

(initial review) its. whatever? its not bad but its definitely too short which is fine bc if it went on longer i have a feeling i wouldnt have enjoyed it the uke is kinda 0.01% annoying cause i hate soft spoiled ukes but whatever yeah its tolerable the art is pretty good

to start of with: i’ve read this manga a lot and it’s been years since i first read it so honestly, the magic is completely gone. if i were reading this for the first time again, i would like it a lot. i remember being so satisfied and squirmy over the jealousy scenes. now though? not so much. i found myself just skinming. the uke’s a little boring and eyeroll-worthy. the jealousy scene has been too overplayed in my head. it’s just really boring now. it’s one of the most generic “mean seme is mean to uke who likes him till uke is with someone else” bl.so if you’re into that, eat your heart out

︎ seme is a yandere. a little lofty, but still insane. ✑ strong-willed uke who never really gives in. i enjoyed this! the sex scenes are few but despite the art not being my cup of tee, man were they hot.

https://twitter.com/hyoojn/status/1491505484427575296?s=21 okay. where to begin? let’s start with… oh god, i’m in love. this was amazing. now let’s addeess the elephant in the room and that is the relationship of the three. most people including me can agree that take and mine are the superior pairing by LEAGUES. how i currently view the dynamic is that take and hiroi are pretty platonic. they view each other as one another’s other half and can’t function without the other, but they don’t see each other in a romantic light at all. they’re just dependent. take is interested in mine. mine thinks take likes hiroi, but actually it’s him. hiroi likes mine and mine likes hiroi. take seems to be jealous of hiroi in the sense that he wants more of his share. they usually have a 50/50, maybe a 70/30, when it comes to lovers, but with mine, take isn’t completely satisfied with his share. hiroi begins to be possessive when he realizes that take and mine get along well and are INCREDIBLY SEXUALLY COMPATIBLE. in the end, they’re still happy to share. i kinda have a love-hate relationship with this outcome because i just couldn’t see an end in which they split up, but i guess i wanted a little more action with takemine as they has an interesting dynamic and clearly liked each other a lot.

(initial) tags only refer to 2nd couple let's start off with I GENUINELY DID NOT CARE FOR THE MAIN COUPLE OF SEASON 1 AKA RUM AND GINGER. holy shit. i could not stand them. they aren't actually bad. i'm just really not interested in their dynamic. maybe if ginger was the bottom, i'd care. fuck the every childhood friends pinning trope bro unless they're funny/rivals HOWEVER- THE SECOND COUPLE I LIKE. mon and mananan u r my angels season 2 focused on mon and mananan but it was rlly super dramatic and i was kinda disappointed haha i wish these 2 got together slower it was v fast and i think thats what made s2 kinda lame

few notes: — i adored this webtoon when i first read it. it’s one of those series where once you read it, it’ll never blow you away as much after. — the uke, dg, is pretty pathetic. he’s a pushover and he doesn’t have much personality other than admiring alex. the second hand embarrassment is real but that’s not what i mind: it’s that he’s a genuinely boring character alone. several times during my reread, i got irked but how pushy he was about things and the way he acted. so irritating. but, in my first read i didn’t mind as much (or rather i was too caught up in the angst to really pay a closer attention) — the ending/last chapter was incredible, well. that’s maybe too much but it was good and tugged at my heartstrings and i even teared up. it’s so cute. i’ve never been so affected by a webtoon’s ending. it’s not that it’s sad. but it’s because [spoiler] alex ceases to exist. jiwon abandons his job to live as himself and it’s just- read it. — like i said earlier, you really would lose the amazement and adoration for the series aftwr a reread or two (more like you’ll be less impressed which albeit understandable, there are multiple webtoons and mangas out there that ive reread multiple times and still enjoyed always *cough* ameiro paradox *cough*). but still, it’s a rollercoaster and i love it so much! definitely, probably, won’t reread it unless it’s been 10 years lolol

honestly, i remember this being better than it was. it’s still good, don’t get me wrong. it was just better in memory. the storytelling is kinda all over the place and i feel like a floating, invisible object to the characters sometimes lol wish we got more explanations on their wolves and fox mythology it was pretty vague and honestly this could story could still work without it and nothing would change