I read few chapters of this manga in 2019 and I didn’t like it and today I decided to pick it up again. I’m having a hard time rn I’ve read 22 chapters and it’s not getting better. It’s called classic and has such a high rating but if even first 20 chapters are trash idk what to say. Let’s see if my opinion will change
No it’s horrible by today’s standards. I applauded you for trying, I encourage you to push through and realize that within the last decade this was considered peak and how far we’ve come. Theres BL now with both smut AND actual romance. I feel like same sex relationships were so mischaracterized back in the day, that “I like you enough to have sex despite being the same gender” was like, some weird deus ex machina to gloss over the non consensual aspect and quickly explain that that in isn’t self was enough of a struggle to show each other they were in love? and we all definitely accepted it in fiction. There’s definitely allure to asami, and some tension in his back and forth with takaba, but while I still hold this as a classic in my heart it’s absolute poor writing kinda all around.
You'd have to have been here back then to appreciate it
Back then there WASN'T any BL manhwas (Korean) to read... it was all BL mangas (Japanese)... and trust me Finder was one of the better options... otherwise you were left with so much questionable age-gaps and questionable family relationships
Then BL manhwas took over with BJ Alex and Killing Stalking pioneering its popularity and so on and on...
I still think Asami is one of the hottest semes out there tho...
Nothing is okay, even BJ Alex has some questionable characteristics. But it doesn't change the fact that they're all under "Yaoi" and considered M/M. Manhwas/Mangas/Mahuas can have multiple genres in one.
Also you gotta remember Killing Stalking was released 10 years ago... the internet was very different back then. Also if you look at the most viewed Yaoi right now Killing Stalking is there... did people like it? Probably not. But people did eat it up.
If you keep reading Finder, Akihito pretty much never gives consent to anything too. Again this was released 2001... you probably won't find BLs like this again in this generation and that's fine. You just got to read it through the lenses of someone from 2001.
Like anything with pop culture its hard to understand the hype unless you were in that era. How does one describe Bieber-Fever? You just can't. :(











Someone pls tell me where can I read the novel? And if there’s a whole pdf or epub file available then it’s even better
https://zlib.li/book/5D62qWaeDd/passion.html
THANK YOU SO MUCHH
can you tell me, which volume should k start to continue from here?