rainydays's manga / #psychological(37)

aishas life is thrown out of bounds after her father dies and her step mother & brothers take control of the home. the art is cool but very jarring at times, I think it matches the dark atmosphere really well. characterization of each family member was great, though I feel like the romance was rushed in the last chapter.

a retired army man is abducted and raped by the subordinate he once assaulted and pimped out. art is amazing but the story was pretty hard to get through. its a rape revenge and though i feel like the same story couldve been told with half the time (and less torture porn), the ending was interesting.

kaname meets a writer who he finds solace in after his brothers death, and learns that the writer has been having dreams about his brother. honestly a mind fuck (literally). overall a creepy story that makes me feel gross at the end, what with the incest, ghost sex and the writer fucking a literal high schooler.

hoshino has recurring dreams about a serial killer, which are somehow connected to his long time crush yamada. goosebumps the first time i finished it.... beautiful art coupled with a twisted story,, i love how things slowly fall into place as you read and then make complete sense on the re-read. phenomenal read, though i desperately wish there was more. i am just sitting here gobsmacked, NEED to buy a physical copy asap.

bran is stuck in his addiction due to the obsessive childhood friend andy that takes care of him. andys obsession later spirals out of control as he murders and tortures those around him to keep bran to himself. hands down the most blood curdling, disgusting thing ive read on this site so far! thought i could handle gore in art form but this was pretty bad, i feel bad for bran and i liked the parallelism when andy *supposedly* gets hit by a train.

child predator christ is revisited by the traumatized man he groomed as a child, throwing his life straight into hell truly a fucked up read, i feel bad for literally everyone except for christ. wish there was more for the ending, though, that felt a bit anticlimactic.

jin reanimates his dead brother lee and keeps him in his life by posing as his bride. feel like the story couldve been told to the same degree without the whole incest aspect, but a pretty good psychological read nonetheless. really liked the art here even if the twist at the end with the fiance was a bit meh.

kou kills his brother sanehiko, but wakes up in the hospital to be told that his brother saved him in a car crash. so starts a sexual relationship in which kou questions if the changed man before him is really his brother. started with an interesting premise (albeit very dark), but makes less sense as the story progresses. i understand that sanehiko was replaced by another man, but i dont understand WHY those people did it in the first place.

kanae starts to have disturbing dreams about killing her coworker and crush natsuko, to the point where she doesnt know which reality is the truth. honestly very cool, i like the setup of kanae dreaming, and the reader is supposed to guess which part is actually the dream (the murder reality or the happier reality). interestingly done!

not the worst ive seen in terms of gore n stuff but still pretty disturbing, the ml's past & current situation is interesting. not sure if there is more but it feels like a oneshot.