ChristophProtectionSquad's manga / #Yaoi(29)

6/10. Short and sweet, worth the read but wouldn't come back to.

2/10. *TRIGGER WARNING- SEXUAL ASSAULT/RAPE* Beautiful art, uke and seme were both interesting, promising premise. Poorly handled themes of sexual assault and rape, both seme's end up doing morally reprehensible things to the uke that were addressed very poorly, rushed bad ending. -SPOILER WARNING- When I initially started reading this story I enjoyed the dark themes. The uke, despite just leaving an abusive relationship, oozes confidence. He initiates a consensual sexual relationship with the seme, who is considerate and gentle. It was so lovely to see two flawed and damaged characters healing each other, I really wish that things could have continued that way. We get treated to a lovely, tasteful, on-screen rape of the uke by his ex (extreme sarcasm). When I first read it I was shocked and upset for him but had faith in the author's ability to make this plot point work. Initially, it seemed that the rape was meant to simultaneously show how bad the ex is while highlighting how good the new seme is for the main character. HOWEVER, later the seme ends up being rough and cruel to the uke AND the rapist ends up getting a strange redemption arc? This is abhorrent. Loving someone does not excuse rape or sexual assault. He is NOT sympathetic, he is a violent rapist and abuser. This author should not have even attempted to characterise him in this way and I am very disappointed that this is the way they took the story. The ending was rushed and bad. Why did the seme come back? How did all of the obstacles that kept the two apart suddenly disappear? Why is the rapist willing to give the uke up all of a sudden? Are the yakuza gonna just be chill about all of this? There are too many questions that are waived without any answers. We should have an explanation as to why the seme decided to come and find the uke. He was adamant they should stay apart. There should have been more time devoted to them coming together and less time spent on the uke and his rapist ex fucking and living together. There should have been far more caring moments of healing for the seme and uke. Their sudden love and dependency makes no real sense. I could overlook this if the story was better. I rated it a sad 2/10 only because of the beautiful art and the first few good chapters. What a damn shame.

1/10 *TRIGGER WARNING- PHYSICAL, MENTAL, AND SEXUAL ABUSE* Good art, nice secondary couple, engaging core concept. Every other character is bad or uninteresting besides the secondary couple. Awful, abusive seme. Wimpy, dull uke. Poorly handled themes of sexual, physical, and mental abuse. Constant downer and not in a good way. -SPOILER WARNING- I dropped this story pretty late into reading it. I sincerely did not enjoy my experience, the seme is an abusive arsehole for most of the story. It is not believable when he softens and tries to be good to the uke when he finally decides to leave (and he doesn't even leave until he's forced to despite the constant abuse!!!!). The seme and uke are both 'damaged' but that doesn't excuse their terrible personalities. I do not understand why authors use rape and sexual assault as plot points only to ignore the reprehensible actions of the perpetrators because they're not mean anymore. There is a *possibility* that a bad character can be redeemed, but not in this case. This is abuse that is lightly veiled by a BDSM theme. Practising BDSM requires safewords, aftercare, and CONSENT. If this was a story from the perspective of our seme rather than the uke all we'd see is a scared young man being forced upon by his boss. A man who is intimidating, strong, controlling, and has control over the uke's livelihood. What a huge misstep. I literally could not finish this story. The seme being nice now does not erase his wrongdoings in the past. I do not see how I could ever feel sympathetic towards him. Oh nooo, the serial abuser is gonna dieeee... I left this story incredibly unsatisfied and I am not surprised that some people liked it, however, I certainly did not. (Secondary couple was nice though, why couldn't we get more of them).

6/10 Nice art, (sort of?) bi-rep, and a SUPER CUTE COUPLE. Awful love triangle bullshit, smut scenes felt like they cut off too early, for a story with so few characters I felt we were starved of the main couple. *SPOILER WARNING* -MILD TRIGGER WARNING: SUICIDE- This story is both worse and better than a 6/10. The couple is adorable and their interactions are sweet and believable (at first). Honestly, if the story had entirely revolved around them being sweet together and navigating their new relationship it would have been way more satisfying. Sadly, there had to be a love triangle to ruin everything. As soon as the friend character showed up I thought 'oh no, is this an unnecessary love interest?'. Lo and behold, he was an entirely pointless barrier to this relationship. I could forgive his actions while the uke was single. He was trying to look after his friend, despite having clear ulterior motives. However, as soon as his friend was in a relationship that's where the meddling should have stopped. In my real life, I am engaged and if my partner decided to drop a holiday with me to go see a friend that had not only shown romantic interest in them and sabotaged all of my attempts to be around them- I would have done the same as the seme. Except I wouldn't have taken him back. Both the uke and his buddy got away with that WAY too easily. Not only was his suicide attempt a complete lie (disgusting) but he did it to emotionally manipulate the guy he allegedly loves and saw NO CONSEQUENCES. The uke left his boyfriend for another man who had been stopping him seeing said boyfriend for months and saw NO CONSEQUENCES. Not even a short breakup. This whole plot should have been left in the trash where it belongs. Despite the former, there is really a lot of good to be found in the real relationship in this story. The main characters have so much chemistry and are so fun to watch. I wish we had, had more of them alone just being a couple. More cute dates, more living together, working together, doing overtime together. Every scene felt like it was cut off just a bit too early. This is especially felt in the sex scenes. There are times when it's about to get good and suddenly we cut to the next scene. I love after-smut cuddles as much as the next guy but if you're giving people wank material at least give us good wank material. The art is beautiful in those scenes but they just have too little substance. Overall, a pretty average/bad story that is saved by its main couple being adorable. Read for the sweet relationship and skip the angst chapters- you will thank me. Or, honestly, just read Sign if you want a story with a cute main couple and good smut.

6.5/10 Cute couple, supernatural element was ok, art was ok. Bit short, side characters were nothing special, just an ok story. *Mild spoilers on this one cause there's nothing to really spoil, lmao* This story was- ok. The experience was- ok. The couple was sweeter than syrup but we didn't get much of their actual relationship, sadly. I'd say my absolute favourite moment was when the uke was drunk and coming on to the seme. Because the seme actually SAID NO! That made me way happier than it should, but he didn't take advantage of a drunk dude despite being showing interest in him while sober. I love consent- please take note authors. Their later sober foreplay was a little too pushy but not in an off-putting way. Overall, a cute couple in a pretty average story. This only got a 6.5/10 begrudgingly (it really should be a 6) because there wasn't much actively wrong with the story, but it's pretty skippable.

6/10 This author excels at the smut while also making characters sweet and likeable. Not as good as some of their other offerings, but not bad.

7.5/10 Cute, cute, cute! The main couple is so fucking cute! Ginger is an adorable doof and Rum is just a perfect partner for him. What a great primary couple. Furthermore, the art is pretty and I really enjoyed the way the cast interacted with each other, the dialogue was funny and felt natural. However, the secondary couple left me feeling sour at times and there were some pretty bad pacing issues. The second half of the story I didn't love and there were times where I had to re-read full chapters as things got pretty confusing. *SPOILERS AHEAD* Ok, a 7.5/10 is probably too high. If it was just the first season I'd have given this story the 8 it deserves. The main couple is so sweet and I love their dynamic, Ginger is suuuuch a doofus but he's super loveable. Plus, Rum is honestly one of my favourite characters I've had the pleasure of seeing recently. He's got the perfect balance of quiet sass and acts as the straight man (ha) to Ginger's bullshit. Despite this, I find that the final part of their arc as a couple was... dumb. Ginger did some realllly dumb shit and almost killed himself and the guy he likes because he couldn't just be honest about his feelings. However, I did leave their arc pretty satisfied. I just wish we had, had more of them as a couple. We got plenty of build-up and not much pay-off. That isn't to say we got nothing- they did have some more development later on! But the second half of the story was devoted to the secondary couple and it was... so-so. Now, I don't *hate* the secondary couple. They're fine. But the fact that I can't remember their names does not bode well. The uke was really sweet! I liked him a lot, he was compassionate, kind, and far better than the man he was paired with. I don't exactly hate the seme, he just didn't do much to interest me. I found his pushiness gross and just wanted the uke to tell him to fuck off. In the second half, the story basically revolves around their relationship and the weird *save the uke from his bad memories* plotline. It was pretty weird and confusing and I did not care for it. Why does this only drop the story to a 7.5? Because I can easily ignore it and just re-read the first season as its own story. Overall, I like this story. The characters are pretty fun! However, I was left feeling lukewarm about the secondary couple and the weird pacing. The whole concept of the heaven and hell company was interesting but really confusing at times. I just can't in good faith give it a higher score, it honestly deserves lower. I just like this main couple too much! If you want a recommendation I strongly suggest you read 'Dear Door' if you're looking for some demon flavoured smut. If you're looking for a story with angels I'd lightly recommend 'Angel Buddy', although I feel that story is pretty flawed. If you're looking for a shounen ai story I'd recommend 'Beware of Demons', the main couple is pretty cute! (Justice for Lego, shoulda given him the second season!!!)

9/10 Thoroughly enjoyable. Great characters, smut is p.nice, just lots of fun to read. The art isn't the best but I actually enjoy the minimalistic style. Not much in the way of story which is so refreshing. It just follows one relationship per season giving you time with the characters which I really enjoyed. Very solid, only drawbacks are the art and possibly the one tsundere character (but I like tsundere's sooooo). *SPOILER WARNING* I really enjoyed this story. The couples from S1 and 2 are both really fun to watch interact. There aren't very many tropes in this story that are played straight (no pun intended). I mean, in the first chapter Sunjin talks about how much he wants to fuck Wooseung. What an open. It might put people off but these characters have *funny* interactions. I genuinely spent most of S1 with a big grin on my face. Their growth from horndog and pure cinnamon roll to the middle ground they end up in is so pleasant to see. The way they fall for each other is a tad weird but I can suspend my disbelief for it. Just a really nice S1. However, there are drawbacks to this season. I touched on the art in the prologue but I do understand that many people were turned off by the art style. It is minimalist and the characters do not look like the cover used on this site. Despite this, I do believe that the art pops when it needs to and the quality noticeably gets better as time goes on (good job to the author and their assistant!). If you like beautiful/consistent art you may be disappointed with this one. Usually, art is a deal-breaker for me but this story was just too fun for it to turn me off! Another criticism is that the sex scenes (despite being well-drawn and enjoyable) were not quite as... rough(?) as I expected in S1. With Sunjin's imagination, I expected a lot more kinky/rough scenes. I'd expect them to be consensual, of course. But we got quite a lot of vanilla love. It was adorable and still more than enough, just a slight disappointment for me. Season 2 is also very good! I like the secondary couple a lot despite their differences. However, if you don't like tsundere's then you should probably skip this season. I just want to take this moment to appreciate Hyunho. He could have been an awful love triangle character like 90% of love triangles in fiction but he was such a BRO. Sure, he tried to stop Beomchul. But he was happy for him when he finally got into a relationship with Jaehee and didn't push it when it was clear he had no chance. What a great friend, dude, love you Hyunho <3 Aaaanyway. Beomchul. Biiiiig tsundere. But he experiences character growth! I like his dynamic with Jaehee and was not expecting to respect their relationship as much as I did. Jaehee is also a good boi. I like that they're able to argue and learn to open up to one another. S2 is a bit more serious than S1 but it was still funny at times and the tone was still appropriate. Even their brief split wasn't frustrating. The art was also better too! Happiness all around. (ps: the sex scenes between these two are... nice). Overall, this story deserves the 9/10 I'm giving it. I'd recommend Therapy Game if you want something more akin to S2. It's the third part in a series and the strongest in my opinion, plus if you read the first two parts you get a story that's as sweet as S1 (but not as good). Maybe try Two&Too for a shounen ai with a himbo like S1.

Dropped. I couldn't even get past the third chapter. Please, omegaverse writers, stop raping your omegas. It's awful.

9/10 I loved this story, loved the characters, liked the smut, it was a great overall package. Cons would be that the art wasn't amazing in the beginning (who cares, lmao) and for some people there may be an overabundance of smut. HOWEVER, that shouldn't put you off. Gyoon is amazing and Yohan is the most fucking sweet teddybear in all of manhwa. I loved this story and chances are you will too.