pidgeonreads's manga / #manipulation(11)

I don’t even know what the say about this one. ‘twas a wild read

I really enjoyed the premise of the story in the first couple of chapters as well as the characters, but I feel like the story got away from the author and it shows. There’s more violence than romance and I extremely disliked the decision to have the main love interest also harm the protagonist. They should not have ended up together. It sits at 3 stars solely based on how beautiful the art is.

These two are the epitome of being batshit crazy but also made for each other. I have never before seen a pair where if you look at everything they’ve done to each other outside of the relationship, it’d be easy to say they need to go to jail and never see each other again. But instead my heart was physically aching every time they got split up. The writing for this story was spot on with a perfect mix of comedy and sexy. The pink and black haired combos are always a personal favorite and these two will forever be in the top of the list <3

Absolutely hands down the funniest explicit comic I’ve ever read. Especially considering each pair gets only three chapters to cover an entire story, the two tales manage to combine really well and even the extra goofy bonus chapter made it all more enjoyable by showing the extreme contrast between everyone’s personalities.

Kieran deserved better

dnf. Bad plot unlikable characters. The top literally says he only wanted to help the bottom because he was attracted to his illness tf

Normally, I’m not a fan of psychological/mystery thrillers. Especially not when it appears that the relationship is toxic. But something told me to keep reading and I’m so glad I did. This story isn’t perfect and neither are it’s characters, but somehow that made it even better. This is one of the few stories I’ve read that managed to display how a healthy relationship dynamic can function between two individuals with unhealthy tendencies. L literally kills people and has an extremely possessive side, but his steadfast loyalty and strangely silly personality made him so loveable. In the same sense, S is lackluster and unlikeable even. He can’t make up his mind and has emotional outbursts on top of pushing people away. But he’s honest and hardworking with a passion that L lacks. They’re both so authentically flawed for characters from a story leaning toward fantasy. The plot itself managed to come together in a perfect way. That last shot of their dinner filled with onions really got me. Onions are disgusting. Raw onions even worse. No one in their right mind would want them in every single meal. But neither of these two are perfectly sane. The onions are such a perfect and understated representation of their relationship and it brought me great joy to see it come to its conclusion.