A Fine Line
2.6.2020 - 13.12.2023 ch 1-35 One of them who’s well off and emotionally constipated (not my words but the shoe fits) and one who has a relly low self-esteem and is poor. Makes for real contrast, and tries to show the dangers of not communicating with your partner.
Hitotsu Shikanai Mono
18.6.2020 A depressed 20-year old finds an outlet for selfharm in Niichoume as a kind-of-prostitute, and a 28-year old salaryman helps him heal and find love instead. This is one of the first yaoi I’ve read where the aftermath of rape is handled properly; as in that our protagonist actually goes to take an HIV-test (which fortunately comes back as negative).
Sayonara, Boku no Goshujin-sama
12.7.2020 Kei and Kouhei had the same sadistic ex-boyfriend. Both have psycological, but different types of, scars from that. Both also have phyical ones; Kei has whip marks, and Kouhei has those and burn marks too. Both got set aside when their ”master” got a new plaything/person, but Kei tried to help Kouhei get over his ”master programming” faster by breaking it with light bdsm and handjobs. But he got fixated on Kouhei instead, and fell in love. Kouhei also chose Kei in the end, falling hard. Now both will hopefully get better.
Stigma
6.10.2020 - A story about how violence and hate only perpetuates itself - and how ultimately love, acceptance and forgiveness is the only thing that can ever end it. Seyhun and Boris both deserve to be happy, because too msny shity things have happened to them.
Hanamachi Monogatari - Hatsuzakura Mau, Yoru No Shitone
23.11.2020
Netsuno Ori
256.2.2021 ”Clip its wings, so it won’t fly and hurt itself even if it wants to”, is the moral of the caught butterfly in the conservatory.
Bara To Lion
20.5.2021 -
Oni to Tengoku