axima's manga / #BL(40)

Somewhere between a 3 and 4. Gets quite rapey about halfway through but they eventually recover and otherwise it's fairly solid. The porn works with the story instead of detracting from it.

Cute, precious, and wholesome. It almost seemed like the author wanted to succumb to the horni but backed out at the last second. I thought Seno was a pretty interesting character, he has trauma but he's still a functioning dude, not like most series where he'd be really unapproachable or straight up crazy. Anzai was nice too, I was worried he'd be too pushy but while he is very friendly he respects boundaries.

It's underwhelmingly ok. The art is decent, but design is a bit plain. The story doesn't do anything that interesting. It's basic and predictable. The reason why I still gave it a 3 is that it can be genuinely cute and knows what it's doing. There aren't any clear flaws other than it's inability to stand out.

Mostly just porn but it's somehow still low-key cute. Or maybe I just really, really like Seiji and it's blinding me. You'd expect it to feel rushed but it doesn't, although an extra epilogue chapter showing a bit more of their life as a couple would be interesting.

I don't remember bc I put off rating it for too long. Don't think it was super romantic for a bl but the plot was pretty good. Reminiscent of your standard reincarnation story that doesn't have a strong emphasis on fights.

It's a fantasy BL those are about as common as unicorns, always worth trying for yourself. MC is good, understands the situation but isn't a pushover and doesn't bother trying to stay in character when it's a detriment. Not much on ML this early on. May be a 5 in the future.

The porn tended to feel random and tacked on but they do actually use it for something with the plot eventually which is aleady way better than what you usually get. The story is fairly interesting, they really get all the use they can out of the lie count system instead of letting it fade in to the background as soon as they start dating. Considering how short it is I'm surprised they started dating in like chapter 2 but it works well that way. The ML is super cute I just wanna hug and protecc when I see him

I like esper/guide stuff and supernatural/fantasy BL in general. Normal real life gets boring after a while. Still fearing the yandere bait and switch. MC is sort of dense but he doesn't feel like it because ML becomes quite open early on and the few times it matters he actually does connect the dots.

I'd have given it a 5 for originality but the plot is just so infuriating. There's a lot of assholes that get little to no justice served and some of them are meant to be liked. The time skips aren't very graceful either. Ilya was great but of course they have to ruin it by making him secretely crazy, who tf do they think is in to this? Why are they so allergic to normal good LI's? Jerry is kinda dumb too. He can ignore everything the book says and just do his own thing when the story deviated so much already, easy enough to just treat Ilya well and teach him how to be a functioning member of society while he's still young, at this point he'd listen to Jerry even if he really is psycho, and I don't even think he's that far gone yet. He probably would go off the deep end if you suddenly distance yourself like an idiot though... EDIT: It's improved in recent chapters so I've bumped it to 5.

Ngl it's pretty bad. The story doesn't make that much sense and they've got no chemistry. You're just never given a reason to care. The bad luck curse or whatever is literally never explained and presumably doesn't go away. Tagged shounen ai but the side stories are 18+.