EnBogreol's manga / #Re-encounter(6)

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;

https://qmanga.net/boys-bad-romance.html Raws

Azusa, an omega, was getting bullied relentlessly back in middle school. Lucky for him though, he was saved by the cold alpha Kaede. Forever grateful for this act, Azusa has done his best to track down his saviour, whom he has since developed a huge crush on. However, Kaede is not eager to reciprocate. —- Art style is beautiful, story is meh. It’s omegaverse, so there’s pretty much garabteed to be some toxic elements somewhere, and here I’d say it’s the discrimination aspect, and also Azusa’s possessiveness. Kaede is douchy and mean, so I don’t like him much, and Azusa is kind of a creep. So yeah, the smuts pretty much the only reason I’m here lol. The second couple I don’t like at all. Hikaru seems like a fairly stereotypical “bottom” type, being childish, weak, dumb, and somewhat spoiled. Not my thing. Ren has a beautiful design, but the backstory about him assaulting Hikaru doesn’t sit right with me(like, I may not like Hikaru much, but RUN, that’s your rapist!!!!), especially since I’m not quite sure how old Hikaru was at the time of the assault... I mean, their entire storyline is: “Hey, I’m sorry I raped you, I’ve since trained my body so I’m not gonna rape you again, pls marry me lol” like what??????