sadslime's manga / #Historical(42)

Girl troubled by succubus powers meets count who studies ghosts and they fall in love. I'm not fond of any plot that needs to use attempted rape to move the story forward. Also, her relationship with her friend deserved closure. Trigger warning: attempted rape (a lot)

A boy fell in love with a priest who saved him as a child, so now that the priest has come back, he's ready to follow him anywhere. A really cute shounen ai with a decent adventure story as they seek out yokai.

Ch.1-5 - An omega girl gets raped by an alpha as a young girl and thinks she's in love (as does the story, but I think that's BS). As an older woman and oiran (Japanese prostitute), she finally meets him again. Trigger warnings: rape, sex trafficking. Ch.6-9 - A tough girl omega and wimpy boy alpha are childhood friends who separate after her first heat and are finally reunited as adults. No trigger warnings. Ch.10-11 - In an animal omegaverse world, alphas are expected to have many wives so they can bear a lot of children, and a goat beta girl can't admit she loves her cat alpha childhood friend because she wants him all to herself. No trigger warnings, except secondhand embarrassment.

In post-war Japan, Aoi spends his time working as a translator for the Americans and waiting at the docks for returned soldiers. It's been three years since the end of the war, but without a killed in action notice, he can't help but hold out hope that his best friend, Takahiko, could one day return. But when Takahiko does finally come back, he's his usual, grinning, carefree self with no explanation for the three years without so much as a letter. Aoi is enraged and punches him, but he still lets Takahiko stay at his house in the meantime. Now as Takahiko seeks employment as a screen actor and Aoi tries to figure out his muddled feelings, will they be able to overcome the pain and trauma of the war? Really beautiful and bittersweet story that encapsulates the way war destroys lives, yet life moves on. Trigger warnings: wartime violence, racism.

Tamao is a prostitute in post-war Japan, but one day while totally smashed, he thinks he sees his dead lover returned to him! When he wakes up, he later finds it was actually his lover's younger brother Gorou, who has come to find him and declare his love. Though Tamao is hesitant, Gorou takes him up on the challenge to "make me fall in love with you," and starts coming to Tamao's part of town every day until he's won over. Tamao is beautiful and believable, and his story is heartbreaking. Trigger warnings: sex work, rape, violence/gore.

Luka is an orphan who's known for helping everyone in the village until one day he manifests as an omega, meaning he's the next sacrifice to the god in order to ensure better harvests. But the god who comes to get Luka isn't what he expected. He meets Kuro, a somewhat distant god who gives him suppressants and tells him he'll stay until spring when Kuro will send him to live with other omegas. But when Luka loses his suppressants, their relationship begins to change. Honestly this one has a cool concept but I have trouble following it after the first few chapters. Trigger warning: attempted assault.

Toushiro(omega) was sent to serve the foreign beastman Alex while he visits Japan, but when Alex realizes Toushiro is an omega, he becomes deeply invested in the unfair situation that Toushiro and other omegas face. He treats Toushiro humanely and gently cares for him through his heat cycles, but unfortunately it turns out that the alpha instinct has been suppressed in his species, and when it begins to come out, it can cause him to lose his control and revert into a beast. Realizing this, Alex and Toushiro both recognize they should go their separate ways, but it's difficult to let go. Trigger warnings: mention of rape, attempted rape, discrimination, mention of suicide.

Tama is a servant who has come with her lady, Kikuko, for Kikuko's marriage into her husband Touma's house. However, Kikuko is frail, so her family has arranged for Tama to meet Touma in bed without his knowledge and bear his heir on Kikuko's behalf. But as Tama gets closer to Touma, the sense of betrayal she feels for both Kikuko and Touma starts to become too much. Trigger warnings: coercion, lying, sex work.

Rita was the only survivor in his family of a plague and after that he was considered a cursed child, so when the time came to offer a bride to the dragon of the mountains, he thought this could be a place for him to belong. But when the dragon, Ignat, found Rita with a broken leg, Ignat took him in but said he had no need of a bride and Rita could only stay into it healed. But Rita is desperate to find a place to belong, even if it means risking his life to become a dragon, himself. Trigger warning: discrimination.

Ch.1-2 - Villainess Alexia suddenly remembers her past life and that not only is she about to get killed by the demon she's tricking into sex to get his magic power, he's also her bias. But when she expresses her feelings, they live happily ever after. No trigger warnings. Ch.3-7 - Butler Hal isekaied into a game and found himself working for the villainess (and his bias) Laetitia who will go insane after a god grants her magic on her 20th birthday because of her purity. To save her, he tries to set her up with the male leads so that she can have sex with one of them, but failing that, he'll offer up himself. My favorite of the bunch. Trigger warning: mention of rape. Ch.8-9 - Isekaied into the role of the villain Sayuri, the FL has no choice but to let go of her love for her ex-fiance, Second Lieutenant Toba. But when a mysterious figure saves her from a freaky monster, she learns maybe Toba cared more than she thought. Trigger warning: noncon(monster).