Comments of Bara no Hitomi wa Bakudan

p.1: a photojourmalist's experience in the middle east. tragedy.
p.58-73: suffering and the process of suffering once more because you admitted to it. it displays the bittersweet moment of getting cured from the pain
p.76-100: an amazingly horrible no-good playboy of a guy like wow... you're the pits.
p.104-masochist uke, bad taste in men. straight x air-headed prince seme who had an unconventional taste/type.
p.148-179: a deep, introspective story (which is unique in the bl world) of an odd and carefree novelist whose got too much of an imagination for his own benefit.

it's obvious yamashita has an amazing sense for psychological thrill, tragedy, and the telling of unconventional stories - BUT - at her worst most of these vignettes aren't properly developed, and fixate on very tangential or senseless moments

the flagship story was brilliant. the rest feel far too secondary.

BRILLIANT. The first story plays with/references Tomoi http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/tomoi/ and its prequel-- AIDS, war, loss. The tone gets lighter from there... Slowly. After some murder and betrayal. There's even some fluff. I'm just blown away, frankly. These are subtle, clever, raw stories, with hard endings. Not romance. Not smut. Smart and with a broad spectrum of the feels.

Interesting. Not quite sure what to think, to be honest. I liked the first story best. Had kind of a hard time keeping up with the narratives and I'm a writer, so I am not dense and I can usually understand the situation.

Please read these. They're art.

Meh, all the stories are meh

Well, I didn't get most of the chapter

TW: (not main story) tragedy, character death, violence

01 julio 2020 done... Strange. Dont like the art

It had some good stories but there was one that i rly rly hated. Hence the only 3 stars. Compilation of one shots
1chap

Omg okay so this gay reporter goes overseas to like Afghanistan or something and one of the guys there is really nice to him but theN :,(

Ethereal and beautiful stories, although the one where the handsome seme is shooting arrows at all the patrons in the restaurant with his charismatic looks was just plain funny.

Except for the first 2 stories the rest are quiet happy. The first story is interesting tho it's sad, the second story is well f*cked up lol

wish they were longer