Shounen No Kyoukai
2.9.2020 A longer story about three high school boys (two alphas and one omega) that experience heartbreak and gender problems because of the ”fated mates” concept, but in the end chooses to go against it and choose their mates based on love.
Incidentally Living Together
6.9.2020 16.7.2023 J lost his parents, and with it also slowly his will to live. His childhood friend H (also J’s first ever crush and actually only friend) tried to keep J alive, but almost lost himself because of an illness. W lost his longtime best friend and lover to blood cancer, and has been trying his best to get back to living after that. All three men, each in their own way, have to learn how to get better and start living again. And that’s where we start this story - when they all come together. And it was a really great and dark story, and hopefully their lives will be lots happier after it.
Legs That Won't Walk
10.9.2020 The protagonist in this story is a young(ish) man with a leg injury that came from him being a boxer. So far in the story (ch 17) life has really dealt him a shitty hand: his old lover since his high school graduation has suddenly turned into one who does domestic violence and rapes him in bed, and apparently his dad ran foul of some korean mafia debt collectors. There’s a lot of dark things happening, and so far no character is either white or black but instead all sorts of grey. His new boss, who’s attracted to him, kinda goes berserk on the old lover, and one of his ’new coworkers’ is just really yandere. I want to know what’ll happen next, but so far this is Korean version of a yaoi yakuza-rape trope. 24.4.2024 ch 92 The yakuza finally offers to help our boxer get his leg fixed.
Sagatte Omachi Kudasai
16.9.2020 The second story about the two coworkers is the far better relationship story. They just (finally...) dare to admit to one another that they actually would want to have sex and a more intimate relationship with one another. Consent all the way there. This is what someone else wrote: This manga does something really special, it walks this fine line between realism and fantasy, and yet doesn't truly feel like either. The trope doesn't feel like a trope because the MC is actually traumatised and it shows, not always, but it's there, and it's respected in a way other real life problems aren't usually (see rape culture, abuse, CONSENT, rape culture, C O N S E N T, etc.). And yet there's still this fantasy to it, in that it's a BL; that wonderful meet-cute, saviour-of-your-life, love-of-your-life thing that we come here for. Yet because this is BL, it obviously brushes over a lot of the real consequences of living with this trauma, which is frustrating, even as the story uses it so well (also how everything is so tidy when we know life is a flaming hot cheeto, defcon 1, kaijin level mess) I love the way Doujima tries so hard and wears his heart on his sleeve (I would have hated him if he weren't like this, will discuss if asked, but nobody will), the way the mangaka shows how Tanaka is feeling every step of the way so we feel with him, not just for him, the respect there is between them, how they're both so humanly flawed, yet perfect at the same time. I don't know. It's like the realism sucks me in, but it doesn't truly satisfy me on that level, instead it makes me love it as a fantasy only, which is confusing because the circumstances actually exist.
Nichijousahan Bi - Beautiful Life
16.9.2020
Knife (CHIBA Ryouko)