RoseMary's manga / #Step-brothers(17)

ch.46

A Cruel God Rules in Heaven - MASTERPIECE, an Award-winning work by Hagio Moto, one of the pioneers of BL. In fact, this deep and mature story is a valuable icon of psychological BL for me. Tragic story of Jeremy, a young boy whose life will be completely destroyed after his mother's remarriage: he'll fall into a downhill spiral, without escape. Content: Child Abuse, Sexual Abuse, Rape, Drug Abuse / Addiction, Dark Ambience, Mind Break, Sadistic Pedophile, Trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Murder, Prostitution - Maybe not everyone can take such a heavy story, it could be disturbing for someone, but I think it depicts, in an exemplary way, harsh aspects such as rape, child abuse, sexual abuse, which are serious issues that traumatize the victim and the wounds may never heal... In Jeremy's case, he was stripped of his human dignity, broken into pieces (both physically and mentally), driven to desperation! But I prefer a story like this, which portrays such aspects, cruel as they are, rather than manga where rape is treated lightly, veiled by romance as if nothing happened... Anyways, returning the the plot, Sandra was almost cruel as Greg, because she actually knew everything, but didn't do anything to help her son!! About the step-brother Ian, I actually liked him and I found interesting the development of his relationship with Jeremy. By discovering about the one who killed his father, he also finds out about the abuse Jeremy had to suffer...so he is torn on what to do: wheter to pursue the path of revenge or atone for his father's sins. Soon this dilemma becomes even more complicated when the lust for Jeremy begins to confuse him and the new question is: is this lust or love? Such a tormented story, but at the end of this thorny path, the one who truly helped Jeremy is Ian, so I want to see something good in this relationship between step-brothers!

Step-brothers // High-school Student (16) x Office Worker (25)

I loved their interaction! The setting and the vibe of the story reminded me of Natsukage Ni, Sayonara or other similar ones, which are a type of stories I always love to read! Anyway, I hope to read future works by this mangaka!

Step-brothers // Older Brother, Uni student x Younger Brother, High-school student > Tbh I think this story could have been better! I mean, it wasn't a disappointing reading, but, while I loved at the beginning (like in ch.1-2) the characters' interaction and how things were going, then my excitement kinda abated because the dynamic wasn't great later on. Anyway, I still really liked it, because I'm weak when it comes to step-bros stories!

#Half-Japanese Half-Scottish Uke x Japanese Seme

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(()) [From BangAQUA] Kaede transferred to a boarding school so that he would be able to look for his brother. They had been separated when they were still kids. There, he got to know a popular guy named Senoo Subaru (Kou). Kaede did not really like the presumptuous Senoo at first, but later on he found out that in the underground room where Senoo and his buddies usually met, clues as to his brother’s whereabouts could be found. On top of that, when Kaede’s longing for his brother was getting stronger and stronger, Senoo suddenly said the exact same things that Kaede’s brother had said… > [Spoiler / Note for myself] It turns out Tsubaki, the older brother Kaede was searching for, is dead (when he was a child, he accidentally drank water mixed with arsenic and after that he got sick frequently. When he was in high school, he was staying in that underground room. Then he got pneumonia and died). He was actually Kaede's half-brother, because his mother had him from another man, so that's why Kaede's father resented him but then he was also hoping that Kaede would bring him back to reconcile. On the other hand, Senoo is the son of the school's principal, who married Kaede's mother after she divorced Kaede's father. So Senoo and Tsubaki were step-brothers. Then, Senoo and Kaede are sort of step-brothers too, but they didn't live in the same family, as Kaede remained with his father, and they didn't know each other. They meet for the first time at school, although Tsubaki talked a lot about Kaede to Senoo, so that's why Senoo was interested in Kaede from the very start.

European Setting (England) // Foreign Uke x Japanese Seme // Transfer Student // Interracial Couple // Step-brothers // Prestigious Boarding School Ch. 5 of Caste BL Anthology - mangaupdates.com / series.html?id=147633