buttcruncher's Manga

the art and the character designs for the pairing dynamics are SO GOOD (jun is taller and bulkier and he's an uke!) but the story was SO BAD.

i think this rating is mostly for the last few chapters bc while jun gave himself agency in some ways, he threw it out completely in others. isshin faced literally ZERO consequences AND he didn't have any sort of redemption arc, he's just a little bitch-twat with no remorse who still got to eat his cake. jun didn't see how fucked up isshin's treatment of him was. their "relationship" (yes, in quotations bc wtf was this) isn't healthy but it's made to look like everything's supposed to be great from here on out. if the story's fucked up and it's self-aware it's one thing, but this bothered me bc we're supposed to believe that everything's resolved when it's clearly not.

a bday cake isn’t the magical cure-all for trauma js

the cover put me off for the longest time but i'm glad i gave it a shot bc it's incredible. a buff bottom demon lord under financial duress, an overly horny magical boy top, amazing.

ok i finished it and i like that it's out there, but it ended up being too out there for me, go figure.

two scary-looking dudes get into spicy cahoots with each other after a misunderstanding.

starting from v. 3 but the spicy happens in the very last chapter

honestly i feel like there are some unresolved feelings that i wish they worked thru bc mitsuki still seems to have a crush on the kid from the first couple and the manager is super professional so idk if he actually has feelings for mitsuki. huge props to him for really trying to not cross professional boundaries but in storyworld i was v ok w him giving in.

original pairing is conventional af

the uke is the uke, can't get more straightforward than that