Dogeza, Shite Kudasai.
it's rated lowly which I get coz it's mostly messed up plots. BUT, I did thoroughly enjoy this, I would put it on the same categ as Harada-sensei's works which I also am really into. So there, not for everyone, but might appeal to some (like me).
Red Theatre
why the freak is this rated so looooww?!! I skipped this becoz of the rating and comments, but this is defo my cup of tea, everyone is just so messed up and demented but not messed up just to be edgy and different from other stories, the narrative for this is just bliss, sometimes it seems the pacing is too fast, but all in all I am still satisfied. This one is truly a psychological trip, a lot of possessiveness and obsession for careers, ambitions, other people. Yet another reason why I put sensei in such high regards, they're really able to pull off this kind of stories well, matter of fact I actually prefer it to their fluffy ones (tho I still enjoy those a lot too). On a different note, in the earlier chapters, the seme and uke really reminded me of the older brother and the uke from sensei's other work "Gosan no Heart" and not just the character design, the behavior too coz the uke there is also possessive and clingy, and the older bro (tho he's also an uke) is also the obsessive sort that knows how to play it cool for appearance.
Mizusoko ni Sumu Kodomotachi
psychological but not that messed up as I expected. Seme was repressed his entire life, met a student, lusted after him, but repressed it too. Then said student went AWOL, teacher wanted to help, student keeps chasing him out, then student's mom abandoned him for realsies, he wanted to off himself, teacher saves him, then rapes him in spur of the moment. Uke goes to school after that and keeps assaulting seme for what? said coz he loves him after that incident (doesn't really make sense), then uke's mom wants him back for something, uke forces seme to assault him again, then boom love, apparently. Execution was meh, couldn't care for either plot or characters. 3.5/5
Yami Bl