takame's manga / #dark(64)

even if this is sad, still, i am really glad that they remain friends and how yashiro decided to treasure their friendship more than confessing. kinda rare for a BL manga to keep something like this in the friendship area so this one is beautiful and extra special.

sad, intense, dark and tragic. even if it's a short story the story is very effective. i also like the story-telling style and the art. it complements the atmosphere of the story giving it an overall noir feel. prostitute x mentally ill serial killer

debt-ridden boy just found himself alone after his father died and then out of the blue this guy living in a luxurious condo took him and made him his plaything. rape warning, stockholm syndrome warning.

multiple stores of salaryman, matured slice of life stories with some dark elements there. ./ ch. 1-56: #unrequited love he only noticed when he was #raped. was initially straight. #bittersweet. ./ ch. 57-90: boss x secretary. a bizaare, talentless yet kind company president x the poor, hardworking and loyal secretary chasing him around. #comedy #office life ./ ch. 91-132: getting #gang-raped in a seedy, south east asian town. #salaryman fell inlove with an language interpreter. #dark #bittersweet ./ ch. 133-160 : a recently widowed elite civil servant x brother inlaw, guilt, sadness and mourning. #angst #non-blood relation incest. ./ p. 161-202: beautiful, bittersweet one-way office love. bisexual (kept his gay side to his subordinate) boss who had an ailing, dying wife and his executive officer cum secretary. subordinate x boss #executive salaryman uke x president oyaji seme./

p.1-22: long-time friends. #friends to lovers. straight seme has been attracted to gay uke for a long time most probably but kept on denying it. marriage arrangement by the parents drove it home tho. #tsundere #doctor seme x carefree #airhead #lyricist uke. / p. 23-49: an actually dark drama i did not really expect. #sci-fi. #scientist, droid designer and his #spoiled brother who kept on requesting this 'sexadroids'. #group sex #slutty uke #incest but technically not incest.. ./ p.50-61: a fairytale that turned to be not a happy fairy tale after all. #drama #tragic. #apocalyptic oneshot. #shounen-ai ./ p. 62-78: a non-BL, #josei story of an old man remarrying. very devoted wife but he eventually got tired. ./ p. 79-end: a gay #pianist who bathed in fame and enjoyed his men is now a bearded, faded ojisan. he gets by floating in life along with his hopes of getting another pretty boy. fate had a different plan in him tho. #suicide plans. #no smut.

⟫ Star na koi > Star ni Ai ch.4: the very-much anticipated sequel of the bittersweet open-ended "eight episode of star na koi". the fallen rich kid x the now pro-baseball player hunk. ./ ch. 5-6: seme phobia of dark places dark, twisted story of a blind musically gifted composer and a normal salaryman who had one fateful meeting. enter yandere elder bro as villain../