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"i love how we all clocked the mangaka for drawing bakugou doujins immediately"
This could have been a masterpiece - no problem: TJxIan ending. Problem: execution - promised: a unique noir gritty gang story with 3 men, both MLs have equal weight, might be a healing journey for Ian. We got: zero chara development, rushed ending, gang story and bad decisions without stakes/tradeoffs/ consequences, smut love triangle melodrama, Ian just accepting that he's "bad" for Jo and destined to be with TJ.
Majority of the narrative is about Garam’s growth as a musician and his journey of finding his place in that world --> love isn't the center of the story, it's about something more, about something else and having love in it
slow-burn relationship
School Life Seinen Shounen Ai Slice of Life
action packed first 3 chapters with a very shounen + 19 Days-adjacent art
we'll see, looks good
BL subtext
everyone and their mother are shipping them bc they are gayer than the Berlin Love Parade in the 90s
The creator's other works are also in this (the first) list.
according to some novel readers, it gives off shonen vibes (ORV vibes)
https://www.novelupdates.com/series/perennial-species/
fantasy BL with rich worldbuilding and plot twists
we'll see
Serialized in a seinen manga magazine: Comic Beam. It has also published other (mainly seinen) titles with BL subtext (that can be found in the first), seinen manga focusing on LGBT+ issues, or other definitely BL but unusual titles.
Beam comics: https://www.cmoa.jp/search/magazine/935/
Example for other manga: https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/shuumatsu_kimi_to/
Gathering Broken Shards in His Gentle Hands