Escape Journey

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I have read a lot of yaoi / shounen ai manga. Of course I haven't read all of them, but for as much as I have read, this manga tackles something others don't. The reality of being gay/ in a gay relationship. From the research I've done, I know Japan is not as progressive to the LGBT community as the USA or Canada is. Gay marriage is still not legal. This manga shows the logistics of this and even discusses the legal aspects in Japan. This taught me a lot of things I did not know about the country.
This manga's first volume was mostly just ... about the yaoi, but the second two volumes tackles so many issues LGBT individuals may face in their life, and many specifics people living in Japan suffer with. Without spoiling anything, both men in this manga are very dynamic characters from different backgrounds and families and social groups. They both struggle with not only coming out to friends, family, and strangers, and to themselves. This manga is so much deeper than your run-of-the-mill yaoi fluff. (though of course there is everything yaoi fans still enjoy in it *winkwink*)
I'm writing this as a female part of the LGBT community herself, so I can speak to some things, but not all (I'm not male nor do I live in Japan.)

I highly recommend reading this if you are a fan of the genre and would like a more realistic yaoi which conveys the life of men in a relationship in Japan.

It's ok but I think is a manga forgettable because it's not something I have never seen before. I like when those Bl mangas address issues present in sociaty nowadays like homophobia because it's a real matter that a lot of BL manga avoids and I think this is the point I liked the most. Out of that, I don't think Escape Journey have gone deep into the characters at all. I finished the manga one week ago and I really can't remember the characters apart from the main guy with glasses. I really like the fact that he is not a typical bottom but ... I find the partner really forgettable. The art style is ok, not something that I loved.
6/10 - Because it's fine, if you decide not to read it, you won't miss much.

TW: rape

I cannot for the life of me fathom why you would recommend this to anybody. I read the first volume and I kinda liked it at the start. It was mediocre and not something really that special, but I'll read anything as long as it's entertaining and fun to read. The characters where quite frustrating at times because most (if not all) of their issues could've easily been solved by a short conversation. That's far from my biggest concern, though. This could've been a quite an okay manga that I could've seen myself recommending to people that have already read most of the best ... BLs if it weren't for that one scene more than halfway through the first volume.

They have an argument which quickly turns physical and ends with Taichi pretty much raping Naoto. I don't care if he quickly realises what he's doing and stops, the fact that he started doing it in the first place is horrible enough. The reviews that are already up here don't mention it so let this be your warning to not read this if you don't want to read something with a traumatising scene that quickly gets brushed away as if they had only had an argument.