Rae D.'s manga / #f’ed up(28)

This here is… one of my guiltiest of guilty pleasures. This is one of my most pleasurable of guilty pleasures. Oh my goodness. I am simply smitten. My first ploy relationship in fiction ever. It makes me so happy. My heart is so full. I really needed to see that I think, like I really did. I feel like it’s opened up my worldview literally. I’ve been identifying as poly for a while now (about 3 years) but it’s always been more of a vague concept- never something I ever thought about to concretely. And that’s in large part because of how little representation there is like, anywhere. Obvi it won’t be on mainstream tv or romance anime considering the time. But the fact that I couldn’t even find it in BL really shows just how non-favorably polyamory is viewed today. So this BL here? Did something kind of revolutionary for me. Did some toxic shit happen? Hella yeah, Kou and Ginga did some truly unforgivable shit to Yuu. However, I’m quite willing to overlook it. Why? Multiple reasons. Is it because of how much I like this being poly? Yeah, that too. But also because of the way that the artist sculpted a particular tone and vibe throughout this story. It’s a tone that allows the reader to really suspend their disbelief as well as the nitty gritty parts of their morality for the sake of making this story work. She truly allowed me to grant myself a full escape from reality. It’s not just that the MC is okay with those toxic things, but it’s more so the way he responded and the way the two of them responded in he aftermath that’s made it work. Just enough condemning the bad thing, just enough them being genuinely sorry and knowing they don’t have a valid excuse, but most importantly the MC not forgiving them because is illusioned into thinking abuse = love/okay because of love. But more so him thinking “well that was horrible but I love these guys and won’t stop loving them so I will choose to forgive them and whip them into shape so that we can all move forward into a happy future that is happy not just because I have them but happy because I chose it of my own will”. Idk, I don’t think I explained that well, but that’s good enough for now. Anyway, the art was very mediocre. But the sex scenes, humour, characters, plot, and dialogue?????????????????? Waaaay up there bro!!!!! Me thinks if this BL had good art on top of that I’d pass out from joy before I could finish reading . This BL is a prime example of dirty talk done right. Oh and the characters all felt so real and I got t know and love each one of the three. The rapport they have with one another is also phenomenal. No cop outs around here bro they all loved each other dearly and I could feel it through the page. No matter which two out of three you pick to put in a separate room, the vibes in that room will be stupendous. We really denounced the idea of depending on tropes to tell the story with this one in one million ways. Were tropes present? I mean yeah, but that’s not a bad thing. So many of these tropes were tweaked slightly to really make them a new thing of its own. Instead of one trope per character and that character’s personality being based 90% on that trope with the other 10% being other quirks, each character basically got two tropes that almost directly contradicted each other to work with as groundwork and the the character was fleshed out built to fullness from there. They’re so multi-faceted, good looking, funny, and lovable. Overall, the traits of this that I like are not present only in this BL (aside from the polyamory). However, it isn’t often that I see all of those traits fall into one single BL and wrapped up so wholesomely with a smutty bow on top. This author has garnered my praise. I’m giving this a 9.4. PS: I tagged with “f’ed up” just to be honest and consistent. Even though I didn’t quite mind

Body Complex 8.85 Well... this shit sucked. I really did not like it. I know that the score was an 8.9, and so I should hav e petted it to be bad but the comments gave me the complete opposite impression. *sigh* disappointed in no one but myself I guess

I have never held this much hatred for a BL before. Scratch that, I’ve never held this much hatred for any webtoon at all before. This may be my least favorite BL and least favorite webtoon of all time right now. There were so many things wrong that I won’t list them all. Actually, I will barely list any because I’m too annoyed to want to write a real review for this. Let’s just say, that if I was a waitress and found out that the author of this story was sitting at one of my tables, I’d spit in her food before sending it out to her table. That’s pretty disgusting, right? That’s to mirror how disgusted I was while reading this story. There were good things about this story. Many. But the bad things outweigh the good so incredibly much that I will have to refrain from even mentioning those good things from the main review. I LOATHE Sungtae, heart, mind, and soul. He is actually the worst. Not on a play play way, but I’m a so deathly serious and for real way. Like actually truly and really the worst. His “bullying” went for beyond bearable within the first couple of chapters. And the “bullying l doesn’t ever actually stop, not even down to the very last chapter of the story. The love interest for the second couple is not nearly as bad in the slightest, but like Sungtae, he is undeserving of his lover. This author has a serious problem with keeping power dynamics balanced. The word “toxic” doesn’t even truly begin to cover it for this main couple’s relationship….. I view this piece of literature as dangerous to even be out on the streets lest ANYONE take anything away from this or even subconsciously take nay of it in….. Okay, I’m done. I really don’t want to say anything more. I’m so done with this. Trying to put it behind me, lol. It gets an 8.5 (NOTE: didn’t think about the score too hard). P.S.: this may already be clear from the review, but this I was reminded of my past relationship with my abuser SO many times while reading this in ALL the worst ways. P.S.: despite this story being horrible, both Jinwoo (the MC) and Minyung (the bottom of the second couple) were adorable little babies to me!!! I loved them both so much they were cute and funny! Both of them also has love interests that did not deserve them at all.

This one was extremely heavy with two things: angst and horror. Neither of those is something I usually seek out in such excess as this and in the case of the latter, I don’t seek it out even in moderation. Needless to say this story was a lot for me to take in…. The “horror” upset my stomach at worse and at best, was just unpleasant to see. I’m just not a horror person. I like angst in moderation, and at times enjoyed the angst here, but the author was truly dragging it after a while with angst that was so painful it wasn’t enjoyable anymore. Like pain just for pain’s sake? This author has an obsession with unnecessarily problematic and taboo ships. I know that (unfortunately) for a good portion of the fujos reading this, that ain’t no problem. But for me? It very much is

I have a shit ton of things to say about this story. Like, a SHIT TON. I haven’t had this much to say about a story in a good while…. So I’m going to try to take it a bit slow and get my thoughts in order so that this review is at least somewhat concise and coherent. The Good -art was pretty nice -humor was really good in the first handful of chapters -very likable and cute coworkers -MC is a very real-feeling character. He has strong morals and the conviction to stand up for them. MC is very much dedicated to his own wellbeing and happiness. -that goody goody goody (even if very short) MC x Gido pinning angst arc

Dropped this right after reading the first chapter of season 2. In the chapter before that it was made clear the love interest the MC will end up with is irredeemable trash who would rather have the MC broken than to not have him at all. And S2 starts off with us finding out this man also killed the MC’s father? lol, yeah I’m good. Ima head on out… When the girls said this was just gore/trauma porn they weren’t kidding….

Atthe time of me reading this (when the side stories of the second couple are on their 20th installment), this story has a 9.4 here on mangago…… good lord. I don’t think I’ll truly be able to trust the scores on this app ever again to be completely honest with you. The first couple was not acceptable or healthy, but the second couple???? Jesus, this was one hell of a difficult read. My stomach is disturbed and my head aches. One of the most egregious cases of repeated rape and domestic abuse I have ever seen trivialized, normalized, romanticized, and played for laughs again and again and again non-stop...and not in some fantasy setting, or in a real world one but with over-the-top spy/mafia/yakuza shit. Nah… to two very regular 23 year old college students. This might be one of the worst BL I have ever had the misfortune of laying eyes on. It gets a 8.0 (and even that feels way too high…)