tsukineko's manga / #drugged(4)

I'm gonna read this to see what all the fuss is about... I'm guessing I'll think it's trash. So far I've steered well clear of this mangaka's work, as most of it seems to be either actual shota or feels like shota, (due to a baby-faced uke and much older seme), but I'm going to read at least one, (non shota), manga of this mangaka, because I don't want to be close-minded...

The seme and uke are both tortured souls, poor things, but their bittersweet, passionate love story was such fun to read *licks lips* gochisousama lol. It's on my list of manga that I want to reread. The other 2 in the series were pleasant enough to read, but were a tad too sweet for my liking. I like the way that in the second two manga, the yakuza story was interwoven with the love story, and we got to see how the group of friends/family/yakuza 'brothers' interacted, and how they were able to transition to being upstanding members of society. Ok so it's not a masterpiece or anything, but it's a relatively well crafted, entertaining story, with plenty of h scenes too. Passionate and angsty, bittersweet porn with plot - nice!

3.5 stars. This wasn't bad at all actually, although I wouldn't call it brilliant either. It was quite well drawn, and the plot retained my interest with a few twists and turns, and wasn't too cliché for the most part. (Well the anemia/low blood sugar thing was extremely cliché, but whatever.) Psycho brother notwithstanding, the characters were pretty realistic, which is probably my favourite aspect of this manga.

This is actually surprisingly good! I love dark & twisted stuff, but even I'm kind of shocked by how much I've enjoyed these first 7 chapters. It's honestly thrilling. The pacing is really good so far. That said, I prefer Warehouse, (so far).