otakulys's manga / #school life(205)

Only one chapter translated, unfortunately. I want to know what the rest says, but it's all so sad anyway. The meta, dark humor of it has me intrigued. I already know how it ends, but I'd like to know more about what's happening in the meantime. That final shot is so damn abrupt though, and... I kind of like that the bully top gets to lose something in such an awful way. Maybe you shouldn't have treated him so badly.

With all of the rinse-and-repeat, boring, rapey webtoon crap that's been saturating the market, this is a refreshing little taste of simple and sweet high school romance. I actually was super over it for a long time because ALL yaoi/shounen ai was high school romance, and it was all the freaking same. Lately I've been craving it again, but a very specific kind, and it's been tricky. I'm just a little over the excessive smut in everything else. I want a good story, not two minutes of an awful, pushy top, then 3000 pages of a dick stretching out an asshole while the other person whimpers and says "stop" over and over, then they live happily ever after. Like wtf. Anyway, that has nothing to do with this, I'm just annoyed. I hope this ends up being as sweet as it started. Just a simple story, back to the basics.

It's really a shame that this started with rape. It wasn't perfect throughout, but I would have liked the story so much more if it didn't start with violent sexual assault and another stupid uke who somehow logics his way into getting repeatedly fucked when he doesn't want to. I hate those tropes SO damn much. If this story had been about two consensual fuck buddies from the start, it would have been so satisfying. Watching the cold seme show that he's falling in other ways, that scene where he beats the crap out of those guys... It all would have meant so much more if their own beginning hadn't been super gross. Especially all of the emphasis on him being a kid. It was just weird. But somehow I didn't completely hate it. Maybe because I pretended the first chapter or so wasn't real.

Unfinished. But I would like to see more stories with bullying where the bullies suffer.

Just a little snapshot, not too much here. But it's sweet enough, and even though it's unfinished, we can gauge where it goes.