EnBogreol's manga / #Beautiful Art(106)

After Eiji’s younger brother, Seiji, gets into trouble with some school delinquents, he asks him for help. At the confrontation, Eiji meets Aisu, the current leader(a position that Eiji also held back in high school). After things get sorted out, Aisu seeks out Eiji and corners him with a love confession??? —- The art work is wonderful, just my taste. However, the story is... not great. Aisu is(was) a complete douche. Selfish and uncaring, aka, not relationship material. He does seem to change in the end, but still... it was a bad start. Worst was when he, let’s just say it, raped Eiji. Just, bruh... Eiji is much more likeable and enjoyable to read about. But the story seemed too short for me to really get to know the characters. I find that it ended pretty abruptly, with threads like Aisu and Eiji’s past encounter not being exapanded upon at at all, which I think is a shame. I also agree with many other commenters, that a side story about Seiji and Hachidori would have been really good lol.

Rina recently lost her entire family in an accident. As a result, she has gained weight and become a target for harassment. One day while walking home from school, she suddenly feels faint and passes out. When she wakes again, she finds herself transported into another and magical world? Where everyone is claiming her to be "the saint"??? Not believing this in the slightest, Rina decides to instead reside in the kitchen and improve on this worlds subpar cuisine.

A security guard with dreams of becoming an archaeologist, suddenly finds himself pretending to be the fiancee of a foreign prince. --- Generally cute; art looks nice, character dynamic is interesting. Seme is a bit too young imo though, and the story feels a little rushed.

After getting shot and killed in a fight over some shady business, Gozu finds himself isekai-ed into his favourite videogame. In addition to that, he is soon introduced to his favourite character from that said game: Evelogia, the Demon King himself. --- An interesting story so far. Like the mismatched roles of Gozu and Eve, and Gozu is just an entertaining character all around. Eve's attachment to him is also kinda cute. There is the question of just how old Eve actually is, but lEt'S NoT ThiNk aBoUt thAT.

Heartbroken after not getting to be with Minori-sensei (a massage therapist who seduced him), the fourth head of the yakuza, Tatsuyuki, drinks his feelings away. After passing out on a park bench, he is carried away by a stranger; a stranger who seems to know exactly who he is... —- A close to 5 star story for me; only thing that breaks it is the dubious consent after Nozomi carries Tatsuyuki home with him in chapter 1. It’s not cool to sleep with people who are completely wasted, when you are sober, Nozomi-sensei. Other then that, I very much enjoyed this manga. Story is interesting, art is beautiful, and I cared about that characters. Tatsuyuki is a good example of an unconventional “yaoi bottom”, and I like that he feels like a strong character, without being cartoonishly intimidating. His design is also just soooo fucking beautiful. Nozomi was not too bad either, though his initial methods of getting closer to Tatsuyuki were... questionable. Stalking is not cool. I found the pages featuring Nozomi’s backstory highly disturbing, so I skip those. But in regards to his backstory, I really liked that after learning about it, Tatsuyuki was very careful about not triggering Nozomi when they slept together. It was very cute, and showed that the author took the care to not gloss over the abuse, like is unfortunately the case in many other smutty manga. Side characters were fun as well, Reika was my favourite. It’s nice to see positive depictions of female characters in BL. I still feels it’s a shame that I won’t be giving it 5 stars; it was sooo close ;W;