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➤ hagio moto's magnum opus. a long-read of the most psychological BL work ever made.
a boy suffers lengthy and horrific sexual and psychological abuse by his step-father, as the story dives into the terrible effects on his psyche from the early stages of his first sexual experience to much later in life
≫ contains extremely distressing and difficult content
≫ deep lore, deep metaphor, and layers of complexity
≫ mindblow moments
≫ complicated explorations of characters
➤ several boys in this story have to navigate their lives and feelings in a society that punishes any one of them from veering from the norm, and explores how they handle their world where being gay or feminine has severe consequences, not only physically but psychologically
≫ psychological themes into toxic masculinity
≫ extreme difficult and distressing content
≫ complicated characters
➤ a long-read about a boy and his complex life exploring sexuality and gender which sweeps up and consumes every character that becomes involved
≫ extremely difficult and distressing content
≫ complicated characters
≫ psychological themes
➤ a boy falls in love with an extremely violent boy in profound ways that have swept both of them in a romance that neither can control
≫ deep metaphor, and layers of complexity
≫ complicated characters
≫ extreme difficult and distressing content
➤ a man deeply in love with another man who can't stop cheating on his girlfriends desperately holds on to an unhealthy and sexual connection with him in a tangled and barely functional relationship where they just can't get enough of each other
≫ complicated characters
≫ layers of complexity
➤ a self-destructive boy starts a relationship with a man who takes his abuse, until he becomes so self-reliant on his obedience that he doesn't know how to handle his disappearance
≫ psychological content with thriller themes
≫ mindblow moments
≫ complicated explorations of characters
≫ may contain difficult and distressing content
➤ a plain looking boy with a complex against handsome men starts off with a bad relationship with a handsome classmate as they gradually fall in love and tackle societal discrimination and expectation when two boys date with extremely different appearances
≫ psychological themes around beauty standards
≫ difficult and some distressing content
➤ a man who has lost his memories wakes up to find out he's in a mysteriously incomprehensible relationship with a man who claims to be his lover
≫ psychological content with thriller themes
≫ deep lore and layers of complexity
≫ mindblow moments
≫ complicated explorations of characters
➤ a boy in an abusive relationship with his father meets with another boy with deep wounds of his own, and they both find connection to each other by their broken pasts
≫ contains difficult and distressing content
≫ complex characters
➤ a stylist works alongside a hairdresser he fell in love with and resorts to the most extreme actions to try to win his love and affection, and if that fails, he takes it by force
≫ psychological content with thriller/horror themes
≫ mindblow moments
≫ contains distressing content
Zankoku Na Kami Ga Shihai Suru