Dec 3, 2020
Do you like yaoi tropes that were stale when Junjou Romantica rolled onto the scene? I swear, the pages must be coated with some kind of eye-repellant spray, the way mine kept wandering to examine other things rather than read this. Myanimelist forums. A wikipedia tab on 'the history of hangings in the United States'. My fridge.
My principle problem with the work wasn't necessarily that it was horrible, rapey, or necessarily awfully drawn, but just that it was so godawfully boring that it felt like a chore to read. Every constituent part of it felt like it had been done better somewhere else, and it
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brought almost nothing new to the table that I could find. The top being a pornstar was perhaps its one glimmer of inspiration, in that it was a concept that felt like, in the hands of a more imaginative writer, could have been really interesting. Too bad it was buried by the three dozen handfuls of crap the author threw at the wall along with it. There's your usual stuff like yaoi hands, a mostly silent and stoic top, and some of the most banal dialogue short of conversations about the weather.
Look, if you've read anything gay in the past decade, you've effectively read this one too. Don't waste your time like I, and my partner, did. Go read something like Priapus, or Rumspringa no Jokei, if you haven't already. If you want something that's literally this, but better in almost every regard, read 'Inma-kun wa Oshigoto Dekinai', because I couldn't help wishing I was reading that instead of this tired pile of recycled yaoi tropes. Also, that one's a little underground, and could use some love.
If you like it, I mean no offence. Let's just say this one wasn't for me.
Reviewer’s Rating: 3
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