Recently finished reading Land of the Lustrous. Easy to get into, but extremely hard to finish (in more ways than one). I had to place it into my list of manga that are hard to recommend. You know, the ones in which you COULD recommend to someone, but you’d have to know that they have the right mindset and be able to identify that what they are looking at is fiction, and then be able to handle the said fiction sanely. So would I recommend it? No, not really, only if I know the person in questions mind.
I also somewhat place Forgotten Neverland in this as well as a few others. Anyone have similar experiences/mangas?
A similar manga is a dance in the vampire bund, while it’s not similar plot wise it’s hard to get into and understand unless you re-read it a couple times. Also a really long franchise, but it’ll always be one of my favorite series. The anime was easier to understand but totally different from the manga. I would reccomend it though because I found it to be deeply profound and complex.
If a yaoi is named after a food, or has some sort of food-themed name, then usually 4/5 times you can guess what type of story it is. For example:
Peach - somewhat silly
Apple - more hardcore and action packed than originally thought
Alcohol- hit or miss. Usually extremely dark in some way. Step lightly
Sweets- more family/school oriented. Lighthearted but fun
Vegetables- either weirdly slow burn or about actual farming (unless it specifically states in title, or it has eggplant in title)
Sugar- similar to the sweets one, but can be more adult-rated
Any other mentions?
I liked it, but honestly this seems like a story that would be hard to recommend to someone without personally knowing that said person has a good enough mindset to properly take it all in. Made me think deeply for a week. Holy.