takame's manga / #hunter/mercenary(11)

A series about wandering gods meeting their love interest. Ch.1: wandering #dragon god #young boy #mpreg #soul mates ch. 2: white snake x high school boy, adorable plushie-worthy local #chibi followers ch. 3: god of spring, singing sparrow x hunter. best story. cameo of shiromane (from ch 2) after settling down and became the place's land god. #cool seme x naive uke ch. 4: horse, some wind god x nomad. met this cute cheeky kid. sad #bittersweet end.

〚 A series of related stories of man-beast who could transform into a powerful werecreature and the men they met.〛 ⟫ Wild Wind > Wild Rose > Wild Fangs 〚 This is set in the post-war era. At this time, man-beasts were believed to have gone extinct. 〛The younger brother decided to brave the scary outside world and look for his brother as well and decided to go travel with a hunter for several reasons.

unfortunately dropped. damn, my kind of manga!

⟫ 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.

⟫ Hana to Ryuu > Sessa Takuma > Kizuna 〚 The Sagano brothers side of story focusing on Ran x Kei (older brother)'s college life〛 main couple: enjouji kei(22), seme - the elder sagano brother. x samejima ranmaru(22), uke. minor couple: masanori araki (37), seme. - sagano group wakagashira x sagano kai(20), uke - the younger brother and young master of the yakuza sagano group. other couple: roy (toshiro) x j.b the kickass assassin pain. #oyaji seme x handsome uke. #age gap. Vol. 1: The arrival of the younger step brother whose infatuated with his bf. Turns out kei's estranged father is a yakuza. I was actually mad at the rape part it almost spoiled the rest of the story for me. Fortunately, younger step bro had a character growth. Vol. 2a: kei x ran backstory in high school. #car accident #childhood friends #school life #kendo Vol. 2b: masa x kai backstory. bodyguard seme x spoiled yakuza young master uke. #kidnapping/rape #saved by seme. Vol. 3a: continuation of recent story. kei x ran lover's quarrel. seme's #host life. Vol. 3b: kai x masa. violent school life of a yakuza bocchama. masa got hurt again from saving kai. Vol. 4-6: this gotta be my fave vol. yakuza politics brewing, kai in danger and the main couple got involved in the ugly situation. Vol. 6, page 49-96: tashiro x j.b. the hired assasin pair's back story. How they met and fell inlove. 8 yrs ago, #bi-racial japanese, 20-year old tashiro is still an innocent orphan in a foreign land. met this guy who kills people for living still fell inlove with him regardless. Vol. 7: we finally get to meet the two's father. lol moments. i thought he'd be some stiff strong aura guy. after the previous heart-stopping action, but he actually looks like a nice old man when he's not in yakuza mode. it's vacation time for the two couples. kai x masa had a long serious talk, figuring out their feelings. AND. till the end they never get to resolve it. even the readers would shrivel up from their super slow progression. they even only reached the first base and haven't done anything since the last. FOUR. VOLUMES. c'mon masa, you old coward. #yukata #fireworks festival. Vol. 8: #kendo. the white masked demon rises again. Ahh, touching to see ranmaru picking up his shinai after the terrible accident. everbody believed it's impossible for hiim to take up a sword once more. national-level kendo fight bet. kai x ran. Vol. 9: masa x kai #omiai. The super slow paced couple strikes again. Vol. 9, chap 4-5: roy x j.b. tashiro's real name is actually roy. matured pairing. #oyaji seme #age gap. since he's stuck to stay outside japan and he and j.b. were now going out, he went with him and his assassination jobs. he gets to see some unsightly view like ex-lovers in this latest project tho. Vol. 9, chap 6: two couple's valentines special. Vol. 10: masa x kai finally started getting progress lol. kei x ran - #samejima family issues. kizuna's essence. Vol. 11, chap 1-3: kei x ran #. #samejima family issues. #inheritance #reunion Vol. 11, chap 4-6: masa x kai FINALLY consummated their relationship. phew. btw, i love how masa started getting more handsome since vol. 10. this manga started in the 90s but by half of the story, the art is getting better and better. I've actually watched the OVA but it was so long ago I needed a revisit of the whole story. Ended up reading the entire family of spin-offs haha.

#assassin.#mafia #daddy long legs. boy's parents died so he gets passed around by relatives but there's this anonymous person that is sending him money. fell inlove like a shoujo heroine and even when he learned that it's the seme who killed his parents, he still chose the seme. ┑(￣Д ￣)┍ hhmm, an okay action manga... not that bad but not that excellent either. story is not profound but enough for one volume. the pacing is a little too fast too. i prefer other mangaka's works more. she's got a lot of works way better than this.

⟫ 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.

⟫ 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.

Got picked up by a scanlarot (thank goodness!!) Will be watching now since I expect for this to get continued. https://azandynofansub.tumblr.com/post/177351064547/darkness-hound-35