SpringHaze's manga / #Interesting(21)

This is such an interesting fast-paced story, love the main characters, they are such jerks and so sweet together. Edit: Oh, man, they were so sweet and in love and devoted to each other!!! I really want some extras giving little bro his happy end.

I've been trying to get to the end of this for weeks now and I've kind of hit a slump, after a really lovely start (I'm at chapter 45 currently). It's an interesting story with pretty art and vivid colours (faces are stunning but bodies are a little stiff) and a plot that wants to keep me in the dark - I have no idea what is on with Tasara's curse anymore, the author keeps feeding me spoonfuls, but the good Tasara and bad Tasara are a little funny :). I'm stopping to write this review because it just hit me how filthy Tasara actually is whenever fucking Nara (hello, rimming) and I live for dirty talking semes, oh, man, do I ever! Nara is so horny for his Tasara and I love a slutty sweet uke. Also whatever the snake and the priest have going on, can't wait for them to get it on. It took me weeks to finish this and the plot lost me? Still, lovely colours on the art and fab dramatic poses, but very stiff movements. I think the main issue I have with this is that I couldn't connect with the characters - the only interesting one was Haga, the snake demon, and the rest were boring (especially Nara and his unconditional love for Tasara no matter how terribly he was being treated - get a grip on yourself, man). Edit: It's finally over and I say that with a sense of relief, because Tasara is so fucking unlikable - the type who is possessive of his lover and his lover is his one and only interest, to the point where he ignores or hurts everyone else. Yuck.

This is a gentle and a little unusual story, but it's totally my thing, even if the art is not particularly polished and the different cases create a somehow disjointed story line. Young man who seduces older married men into supporting him financially (even if he actually has a steady job) is rescued by detective hired to expose his affair and then partner up at his agency. He's a sweet kid who feels inadequate for a pure love he is starting to feel for the detective - who is himself disillusioned with love (his first love was a male colleague who later on married the ex-girlfriend he was lying to himself he needed in order to be happy). Very lovely manga, picked it up from the chil-chil awards nominees list.

EXCELLENT!!! This is such a neat exploration of gender roles and sexuality and actually has an open ending, so lovely! They never switch back, even after sex and marriage (sex is not explicit, just implied, with a side dish of 'it's more important that your partner accepts you as you are'). Beautiful and funny depiction of male-female friendship as well and also Mari is fabulous really: she comes around with accepting her new body much faster and even attempts a same sex relationship. I somehow thought this would be different but it turned out like such a wholesome story - the protagonist is Kento, so it qualifies as seinen rather than josei, and he comes out as such a changed man at the end.

This looks promising and the artwork is cute (as in seme doesn't look like he benchpresses elephants for fun and their looks are more aligned).

A little bit of vague story-telling here :/

I went with the all-encompassing 'interesting' tag :D, because I am fascinated with this story. Everything about it is a big no-no on paper and yet the mangaka manages to make it so damn compelling because she lulls us into the world like it's perfectly normal for a 30-year old and a high schooler to hook up and be in a relationship. She even makes the guy who calls Ryuhei on his fetish the villain of the story, since he also tries to rape him and gets a punch in the face for it. Natsuo is going through his sexuality crisis where he believes he's a pervert for wanting men to touch him on trains, even though that's actually not what he wants at all. But, kiddos, I bet you need a little more reading skills to wade through this mess without crying out 'pedo'. Even though this is exactly what this is about XD. But I am on the edge of my seat for the ending, if it ever comes (ooo, licensed by Renta).

Read this for the Gojo on the cover :)))). I see people tagging with 'creepy top' and I see you, folks, I agree - but that is just poor story-telling, a loose end left dangling, we don't actually get a follow-up to that chilling moment at the end of ch. 1, where Satomi's wall is covered with pics of Chikara (all the red flags, all of them). That is just there and then it doesn't matter anymore :/

I like this because I love rival coworkers fucking for reasons (this time, it's supernatural or prophetic or repressed, who the fuck knows anymore), but the shortness of the chapters is downright ridiculous (I can imagine how ripped off people buying off Renta feel) - it literally reads as the first chapter split into 5 parts (that's how many chapters were available to me today). I mean, come on, 5 chapters and the story barely moves an inch.

2 couples and I adore both dynamics. Ja-Wook hates pain at first but wants to keep fucking the cool Gyum, who is a Dom, and their relationship develops so beautifully, there's so much trust and intimacy between them (as of ch. 70, I'm still waiting for those sweet 'I love you's).