takame's manga / #+ gen sorta(22)

A manga with Fireworks concept. Hmmmmm interestiing. The narrations are poetic. At times like these i wish i could totally read nihongo. The artwork is pretty too. HOWEVER, it got crippled by the romance part. It's very much lacking. I wish they just focused on the fireworks creation with little BL because the love story seemed so rushed. DOcking one star for the rating because of the romance.

#ramen manga + manly couple. What's there not to love? Ramen master Yoruji has reached his plateau and is quite stressed about it. He suddenly remembered the ramen enthusiast he met 5 years ago and coincidetally met the man. He didn't waste any time to take ahold of this guys tongue (LITERALLY!) to assist him in improving his shop. btw, i love the #sexual tension. they were not enemies but... but... the mangaka was able to put sexual tension between them somehow? it's sexy. 2018-02-17 20:44 marked

(#webtoon in manwha format.) LMAO title reminds me of game of thrones. Totally digging this magic-summon thing. Koreans should do more of this in BL, they excel in the fantasy trope. King of Fire Elemental, Bismuth woke up to see he was summoned by this scrawny, dumb-looking guy who turned out to be a flunkie mage-in-training. Later, he saw how people kept on underestimating his summoner and he just snapped. Circa, the flunkie mage fell inlove at first sight but Bismuth needed to go back to the spirit world. In order to summon him back, Circa became a changed man and started to study the magic arts seriously.

Nothing's more sexy than man in a kimono or suits. Put them together and BOOM! Eye candy manga. Not only that, the story is sweet, nice and peacefull too. Childhood friends are now grown up and is working at their respective tailor shop somehow, they don't get along like they used to. #hate-love, business rivalry. #decensored. The character design is interesting. It's like they suit the other's getup more. And that made it cute. I was floored when they created clothes for each other. Biracial seme is dapper in his suit and uke with his striking Japanese looks looked stunning in a traditional kimono. I wish there was more. It's nice that the whole volume is about how they got together but I also wanted to see how his grandparents react about them and what they look like when they are together. 3.5

For some reason I can't get into it. A mysterious shop w/ unique services are a familiar concept in BL & there's a lot of great ones w/ similar format (sex therapist & minori no te among others) that I REALLY like but IDK? But don't get me wrong, IT'S NOT BAD. I read it till the end. Synopsis: An repatriate who came back to Japan for good ran an izakaya (traditional japanese restaurant) that is a little bit... unique. First, the owner is a quirky guy who acts and thinks like a weaboo despite being japanese & second, he is using it as a front to do some detective work with his mysterious, all-capable employees. And did I mention that he's gay? So yeah, in a nutshell this manga is about him helping those unfortunate gay men who stumble to his restaurant building. #reencounter romance started to develop around half of the story. Love interest is the okama that works on a gay bar that the group knew through their first job. Surprise, they actually knew each other since high school and the "amazing" owner cannot seem to recall that he actually confessed lol. Cute happy ending for the two!

⟫ Fake > Ra-I. 〚 Rai's solo manga set around volume 3 or 4 of Fake. Rai starts at 13 yo here.〛 It's nice of the author to create this spin-off for rai and rathe despite being a non-BL couple. Actually, this is more of a gen manga featuring a few characters and their pair instead of a romantic one. They are cute and amusing especially that ESP part. This is an action-packed detective story with a "kidnap the rich kids" subplot. Kind of wished there was an episode where Bikky and Carol is present to but having all three Spencer siblings are fine on it's own I guess. Low-key wishes for the eldest bro to be gay LOL. #cameo of NYPD 27th's chief.

⟫ I: Episode 0 > Itou-san This is some sort of prequel that features Itou-san's POV so we get a glimpse of life on his side of the world. I like the comparison of the cat drawn throughout the story. Here we see how he was raised as a mere machine for killing and how his owner gloats the perfection of his creation. However, karma would bit e him hard as he understand what "love" is the hard way. In the end, even someone as "perfect" as "I" is susceptible to love. And that made him learn how to be human. It's amazing. #foreigner "I" and his assassin group went to japan for business. #reencountered the boy he saved after 10 years. #sensitive topics like shota, child trafficking and violence. Read at your own risk.

⟫ Hana to Ryuu > Sessa Takuma > Kizuna > Gun and Heaven. 〚 3 years after Kizuna, the tashiro x j.b. couple settled down in some foreign country. 〛 Assassin couple returns. The many-faced, #half-japanese tashiro roy and his mentor and older lover j.b and their dangerous life together. Separate story, no appearance of prequel main cast. @CH. 6: shu hua cameo (the brat who chases j.b from kizuna). Kodaka sense's artwork has improved leaps and bounds in this volume. I was on a kizuna series binge and it's a nice treat to see how aside from sensei's artwork, you can clearly see the evolution in taste, fashion sense and architecture from sessa's 90's backdrop to GnH's latest 2016 fad.

⟫ Hana to Ryuu > Sessa Takuma > Kizuna 〚 Samejima Siblings focus, more about the younger sister. This happened at least 2-3 years before Kizuna.〛 (*Kizuna's Ran x Kei pair will be featured in chap.6 ) Fun classic. It's so random lol. From the author of kizuna and hana to ryuu, (i've always ended back to this author's work i don't even know why but time and time and again i get this pleasant surprise that it's her work lol). Kizuma is quite popular in the 90s, it has an OVA for those who watches BL animes. @ch 6 and it's BL theme: In the end, Kodaka-sensei got contracted by a BL fanzine so after this she became a Boy's Love mangaka. So since the rest of the chaps and the tankoubon ended up published by Be-boy comics, I recognize this manga as a BL one. Too bad we won't be seeing more of her ranma-esqe stories but this manga open up a series of great yakuza yaoi stories so all is well with the world. Most memorable moment: That supposed deathmatch with potato as a weapon. I CAN'T.

⟫ I: Episode 0 > Itou-san (EDIT:@2017 FIN. EDIT2@2018: Eh? Extra chap? YAY!) Even the art execution matches the mood of the story. It's well made. I have no other words other than I like it so much. It has all my favourite tropes in. All the while I'm thinking john wick hahahaha. I just love how these two people who has lived in a cruel and cold world has found each other and fell inlove. ch. 7.5 Extra, the real epilogue. It's heart clenching. And the most beautiful of all is how they turned kyosuke's memory loss not as something to feel pain for but a blessing for the both of them. And that made them completely separate from their terrible past and embrace their pure, happy ending. It's beautiful.