rainydays's manga / #Yaoi(99)

the art is really nice and unique in the realm of manga, even if the story was a bit simplistic and got muddled for me a bit halfway through. cute ending tho!

i liked this, though i do feel like this wasnt fleshed out nearly enough within 5 chapters. it had all of the right story beats but i feel like the romance didnt have an adequate chance to develop. other than that, i loved the art, the character designs (THE TATTOOS UGHH) and how painfully respectful the ml was.

gotta say, of all kuroi's works, this was probably the weakest and least compelling to me. i dont know if its just because i am not used to subverse (ive never read one before this) so the inherent power imbalance is throwing me off, but the blackmail aspect turned me off from ml from the beginning, and he didnt really redeem himself after, it was more just mc giving in. just kind of an odd dynamic.

akabeko really knows RANGE, i loved this slice of life-type deal with this work, the snippets of the trio's lives were really enjoyable and i loved kota, he was so cute. does address complexities and struggles of parenthood.

sorry guys im a total sucker for cliches like this, obviously the situation was reprehensible but i liked the delving into emotion perspective and reconcilation.

this wouldve been flawless if ch1 wasn't nearly entirely non-con. i liked that ml does acknowledge his wrongdoing in the beginning but it was saddening to read his repeated attempts. aside from all that, i liked the trope of found family among 'freaks' and the way th two were able to open up to eachother on an intimate level.

wow, i dont think ive been more disappointed in a manga in a while. gorgeous art and cover drew me in and the ml being a dilf piqued my interest, but things went downhill very quickly and very tragically. legrand is basically just a child predator and groomer, who ended up getting to marry his victim and impregnating him. didnt feel like love between 'mates' at all, instead just felt like a weird obsession.

plot is interesting and reminiscent of titan's bride, but the actual pacing and storytelling aspect was ass, especially at the end (wtf even happened?). nice art but a shame the story was so poorly done.

first of all: art was fab. 2nd of all: character design was fab, especially the tattoos and piercings. 3rd of all: story was simultaneously so sad yet so nice, i loved the relationship development between the two main characters, so happy they got their good ending. only complaint is that i dont see why the yakuza guy had to turn up at the hospital one last time to rape blondie, just give my man a break fr.

silly oneshot by an author with great art style and funny concep