pidgeonreads's manga / #pretty bottom(49)

Hands down one of my top ten favorite comics of all time. It has the perfect balance of isekai fantasy with romance and angst. Abyss is loveable and his character arc is approached perfectly and well paced, something that I rarely see in isekai bl’s. I didn’t expect to open up a creator x creation isekai and love it as much as I have, but there’s just something about these two that bring me nothing but joy.

By the same author as Kiss the Abyss, this comic takes the a very different approach. Our leading man is a pink haired sadist by nature and likely an undiagnosed sociopath with a good heart. After accidentally causing the death of his highschool classmates he is recruited by a system to travel worlds and stand in as the villainous characters. Cue: the love interest. In the original world they meet brothers but after living out his roll as the villain, the lead is perturbed to discover that this ‘brother’ of his has been able to read his mind all along and has developed a strange penchant for being bullied by him.

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.

Although this story has an interesting concept and paced itself fairly well, I actually found myself preferring the side character’s story more. Overall a fairly nice read. Not a lot of depth, but a fun take on the supernatural side of things.

This is one story where you really, truly have the just ‘hear me out …’ In the beginning, it reads as a smutty and comedic BDSM webcomic with fun reverse power play dynamics and a spicy dash of horny hatred covered in a gorgeous art style. I actually nearly stopped reading early on. But the author did a great job of following their three act plan. The original chapter ‘Blood Bank’ is this exactly. As you leave the original chapter and delve into ‘Carnival’ and later ‘Masquerade’ a touching and heart aching back story is revealed. The main couple is in fact the product of more than one generation of hardship, suffering and dreams that never saw fruition. The interpersonal relationships explored are painful and raw and I found myself falling in love with them more and more every page. For a story with less than a hundred chapters, I truly can’t believe the author managed to so gracefully build a world, follow a plot and explore a relationship.

Interesting concept with gorgeous art, but the story is simply too big to be told in 6 chapters. Overall felt rushed and unfulfilling. Also kinda boring that the pair switch over to the bottom being bratty rather than being dominant after they get together.

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

I nearly didn’t read it after the initial synopsis of their relationship and though I’m glad I decided to stick it out (as it was a funny little read) this wasn’t a story that particularly stuck out to me or interested me. I do love that they were able to communicate and properly understand one another in their second life, but I mostly just found the characters to be bland and annoying.

Super cute!! My favorites pairings are always the classic himbo sunshine doggy x tsundere moon kitty types and these two were perfect. The story itself doesn’t have much depth past being a raunchy little comic feeding the catboy addictions, but it was light hearted and funny and overall a very enjoyable read <3