pidgeonreads's manga / #red flag top(8)

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

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.

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

tldr; surprisingly alright story? … for a manga with a completely unnecessary graphic rape scene ️ This manga is going to have me sitting up in bed for a few nights going ??? because I’m so confused how it was so good. I throughly enjoyed it despite the fact that it somehow also awful and disgusting. This could so easy have been a top ten favorites 5 star manga for me if the author had just ?? Not decided to include the vocalist getting raped and tortured. Like it wasn’t at all a needed plot point and contributed literally nothing. And it was so weird that my guy literally had to be nursed back to health and canonically developed ptsd symptoms from the trauma but the event was still treated kinda as a joke like ‘haha that was crazy’ and the mob boss guy still came to shows that they were pretty cordial. It didn’t really even make sense for the mob boss guy to do it. Up to that point he’d been presented as a die hard yuru fan so it made zero sense for him to throw that all aside just because the guy slapped his sister. Completely unnecessary and weird. Don’t get me wrong, the top in this manga was unlikable from the start and treated the bottom horribly but it made sense for the story and the bottom never complained. His whole thing was that he was happy to receive attention from the guy even if it was bad. The plot could easily have leveraged using the slap and how it made the top feel about himself as the thing that broke the barrier and brought them together. Could have even went with the mob boss hurting the top physically. But the inclusion of the rape was unnecessary and gross and ruined what should have been a solidly good story. Like I liked this pairing. They’re both stupid and insanely full of faults but they were funny and silly and a little adorable at times. I genuinely found myself laughing at the top struggling with being shorter and the honest realness of that last blowjob.