EnBogreol's manga / #Interesting(72)

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 collection of oneshots for "My next life as a villainess: All routes lead to doom!!" --- Hamefura has a special place in my heart, so this collection is great to have while waiting for more chapters to come out and be translated :D

(Spin-off to: My next life as a villainess: All routes lead to doom!) Originally, Katarina Claes regains her memories at 8 years old, allowing her time o dodge her oncoming doom. Here, she isn't quite as lucky, having regained her memories when she is 16 years old, and her doom is looming just around the corner! What to do?! --- An interesting new take on Katarina's story. I'm pretty sad that Keith had to get the short end of the stick in this universe, so I'm hoping that things can get worked through with him. Aside from him, I actually almost prefer Katarina's relationship with the other's in this universe. Paticularily Nicol and Sophia's attraction to her seems much more justified in this, compared to the original. Sienna is also a pretty interesting character, so I'm hoping to see more of her around. The art-style is also incredibly beautiful, so that's a huge plus!

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.

Needing money to repair his ship, Tatsumi takes on a well paying job. Thing is, this job has minimal details... Before he can figure out what's happening, he is pushed down by a beautiful young man. --- It wasn't too bad. Had it's issues, but was ok overall. Beginning was trash. Rape/VERY dubious consent. Only skimmed a fair amount of pages, not a fan of the whole recorded by other people thing, y'know? The plot got me suprisingly invested, was looking forward to seeing what would happen in the next chapter. Would have liked if there was a side story/spinoff about the director and Mizuki(Yuki's dad), those two have a lot of shit to work out and resolve. Tatsumi is bae. He kinda dumb, but also really sweet. Ended up quite liking Yuki too, though it was a pretty rough ride. PS: Tatsumi's friends are the best.

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;

Itsumi is a high school student with an intimidating face and style that makes people think he is a violent delinquent. In reality, he is a kind and gentle person with a soft spot for cute things. Recently though, things have become strange for him, as he is constantly approached by the handsome, adored, perfect school president, Seima. Much to his shock, the latter refers to him as his “Cinderella” and then asks him out??? What is going on?! —- Itsumi is bae, the gap between his appearance and true nature is just so cute! I have such a soft spot for delinquent bottoms lol. Seima is an example of another favourite trope of mine: the perfect prince. I think he manages to reach a good balance between being princely and “perfect”, while also still feeling suitably human. Like, he’s not a flawless robot, seen for example when he is just as flustered as Itsumi when they are romantically or sexually intimate(which is pretty rare for “top” characters). And his interactions with Itsumi are pretty entertaining. My favourite was when he came to Itsumi’s aid during the confrontation with the student council/bullies uwu. The story felt a little short, but that’s probably just me having gotten attached and wanting more lol. The art is beautiful; love the style. The story itself was simple, but sweet. Nice overall, and something that I go back to every once in a while ^^