axima's manga / #esper x guide(4)

Ordinary Person A

Ongoing | Geumbich yeonghon | 2022 released

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.

A Guide Out to Succeed

Ongoing | Park Bo Yul,Ttuttubangbang,Lee Sona | 2024 released

Love how they mixed regression with guide verse and how much more grounded it is compared to normal. You see them deal with the fallout of natural disasters, bombs, heck possibly war. MC is interesting, he really was a "villain" in his past life and now he wants to do better because as he was dying he realized that his actions never got him what he wanted and just made everybody more miserable. So he decides to spend his second life atoning by preventing major tragedies and doing what he can to make his love happy even if he knows it's unrequited.

Senza Replica

Ongoing | Ham,hayan, seoneedyou | 2022 released

Not bad. Concept is solid and I like how they deal with ML not having any memory of his superpowers, he's not immediately perfect he does get scared and confused. There's something wrong with the art though I kept thinking he was up to something shifty because his smiles look fake af but they're just drawn badly. The other characters don't seem to have this problem though. So far no smut since the preview in the first chapter, which I appreciate because coming up with random excuses for them to start boning would blur the line between their professional/personal lives too much and would get in the way of them developing an actual relationship when one is convinced the other hates him and will regret it and the other is an amnesiac which is at least a little dubcon.

Approximal Guide

Ongoing | Argon 18, Pih | 2024 released

It's reincarnation and guide verse, what more do you want? I like the more realistic military style. It's cool to see MC immediately go tell somebody when he realises he's in someone else's body. Not planning on telling his close partner that he's not dead isn't great but keeping secrets and running away is basically a requirement in the romance genre it seems and his reasons at least make sense since he doesn't totally want to leave him out to dry.