mincognito's manga / #third party perspective(1)

Veggie Channel

Complete | Tsugaru | 2016 released

Veggie-san is a fudanshi who manages a popular website where he posts pictures and videos of BL situations between boys in his high school. He ships Ukyo and Mizuha only to discover the secret between them...? High school romance, psychological, fudanshi narrator, third party perspective, rape, blackmail, yandere uke. The art is intriguing, specially because you don't get to see the narrators face. I think it serves the purpose of making it clear that the narrator, as we, are just spectators. It made me think "ah, there's so much more to characters than what we can actually read." The art style is fluffy, but beware, the plot is not. The seme and uke both have black hair, I thought that was curious. Sometimes there was a bit too much going on in the panels so it was overwhelming, but I didn't absolutely hate it. The characters way of thought process was simple, but the plot made their whole situation quite complicated. Besides, since you get a third party perspective, you're gonna have to do a lot more inferring than usual. I think people are gonna have to reread this series a couple of times to fully grasp them. The relationship development was... triggering... it builds up to be explosive. We get this narrator pov, so it felt very limiting. The story centers around clearing a misunderstanding rather than developing a relationship, so there's not much to say about this. The plot was well thought, very creative. However, the storytelling was a bit confusing. Dialogues between narrator and characters were unclear, and at times i'm not sure what was narrating and what was talk. Also, ch 2 fucked me up. We get this little sneak peek into the feelings of the narrator's best friend only for them to not actually develop into anything.... Ugh. Waste of time. I think it's worth a read. You're either gonna love it or hate it. I wouldn't want to miss out on this outside-the-box creative piece of work.