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literary gem
Intense psycholgical drama story of a novelist and a mysterious young man. Started w/a Shotgun marriage in the middle of a drunken stupor and this pretty boy who claimed to be his husband who suddenly turned batshit crazy in front of him
Deals with mentally-unstable young man, drugs, writer's block and the love between two sad people.

It's uncommon for me to give perfect star to a slice of life but it just happened in castle manga.
The characters are well-rounded and very much alive. The plot is masterfully handled that the readers were able to easily sympathize with the uke and the difficult life he got saddled with at his tender age. Realistic characterization too, teen acting like the teenager that he is.

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fucked-up character
ch. 3.1-2: intense bittersweet story worth mentioning.
#rape scene that had made his scared teenage self into an accomplice. #reencounter 10 years later visited his dead sempai and met with they guy they wronged.
intense #dark #psychological #suicide #rape trauma.

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literary gem
Plays on the taboo concept. the excellence of ike renbun's storytelling here is how she used time paradox to make a way for this forbidden love to happen. Realistic but fantasy-esque at the same time. there's no faulty corner in this creation. A true scandalous and intense story worth an award.
heavy drama #incest #supernatural - time travel

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literary gem
It's beautiful. Light and fluffy with a good plot structure. Moreever, for a BL manga, it's touching & heartwarming. I gotta praise the mangaka for featuring a disabled person in her story, plus the characters are well rounded too, not just some cardboard people.
disabled #college, campus romance #deep #character growth

#reencounter story, sempai-kohai, crossdressing.
#unrequited love with a very sweet ending
i've reread it a many times ago and still has not lost it's touch in getting me all happy and sappy in the end... especially with that pseudo wedding and the loving parts after.

genre: mature, yakuza.
length: completed, oneshot.
ch. 6: a seemingly kind #salaryman and his #yakuza lover. all is revealed in their twin back tattoos. #soul mates
personal fave, also a crowd fave. i love it so much it doesn't matter if it's a oneshot.

so cute. amazing drawing, hot guys. gave fluffy feels in the end.
fluffy-smutty
av actor x nerd.

age gap of 5 years. so, so cute slice of life manga with minimal yakuza-related action. seme loves dogs. uke's dog hates him tho, lol. uke's a landlord of some apartment complex and suddenly, this guy who suddenly stumbled in his life flipped his life upside down in more ways than one.

masseur x salaryman. in the end, seme became more obsessed with uke. what a scary thing jealousy is. It's amazing. This oneshot has transcended to become more than a yaoi oneshot.
It's an erotic masterpiece drawn from the mixture of pain and pleasure of body piercing.