punchline: existential dread's Manga

Maybe a little too madcap for me. Laugh-out-loud funny, but by chapter two the uke's clingy nature and total lack of appropriate boundaries soured it for me.

Gratuitously smutty and dehumanizing—classic hallmarks of more bara-oriented sensibilities, and therefore decidedly not my thing. The reporter's lack of eyes isn't so jarring when you realize it's literally meant to remove his humanity and individuality and make him an everyman rapist, an insurmountable predatorial force. If you're into that, give this one a go. Otherwise, avoid it like the plague.

A boy with a stutter spends his days puzzling out words and composing haikus, until one day he crashes headlong into a girl wearing braces, and the word "braces" rises unbidden to his mouth, much to her mortification (and his). Cute and vibrant.

Serial pump-and-dumper finds himself wrong-footed by a woman who foils his expectations.

Pleasant, if not entirely novel. I don't think erotica is her forte, though. She makes it look so wooden.

Playboy meets ice queen, unstoppable force meets immovable object, until, out of nowhere, she reciprocates. There's very little character development here.

One more for the back catalogues.

Another one for the back catalogues.

A jumbled, confused mess of concepts—author is a known plagiarist, so quelle surprise. Much more palatable than the last several shoujo entries I skimmed, though, even if the whole psychosomatic womb pain thing was a little... contrived.