B's-LOVEY Anthology: BL of the Dead

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Got swayed by the nice looking cover art but unfortunately this is just another basic BL manga.

I expected some smart and different stories, since the topic of zombies hasn't really been explored much in BL manga, but the stories are all really clichee and are nothing new or surprising at all. All of them are rather short so there is not much room for development anyway, but none of them left me thinking 'I'd like to read more of this'.

Since it's drawn by various artists the art differs, but all of them were nice to look at, with some better than others. Overall nothing super ... amazing though.

Most of the stories have a few drama elements (due to dealing with the topic of death).
If you are looking for some steamy zombie sex you're also in the wrong place since there is actually not a single make-out scene.

Overall, very mediocre and chlichee stories.

It would be difficult to rate this any higher than a 5 or a 6, honestly.

STORY: 5/10
Since there are only 8 chapters and each chapter is a new story it's hard to get any substance out of them.
Some of the chapters are a lot better than others, some are a lot worse... Overall taking each chapter into consideration it would a mediocre manga.
You aren't provided too much detail, but based on whats going on in each chapter its safe to assume they take place in different zombielands as well.
Due to the shortness of each chapter we don't get much detail into the characters or their ... backstories either.

ART: 7/10
The art was fairly good, nice to look at.

Character: 5/10
They were well put together in the short amount of time they each had with their own stories, but they weren't terrible or amazing.

Enjoyment: 5/10
Overall wasn't too pleased, I suppose.
However, the 8th chapter was, in my opinion, the best story of all the chapters.
(The one with Shouichi and Haruya, solid 9/10)

So overall it would be an average 5/10

Going into this manga I was initally very excited at the premise of BL and different stories surrounding a zombie take over, it's not every day you come across LGBT+ stories with underlying horror elements. Unfortunately the manga was very underwhelming and left much to be desired.
When I found out about this manga I honestly thought it was going to be a bit of a hidden gem, but it was honestly a bit more like a rock... underneath more rocks. Nothing about it stood out and the inital zombie/undead premise was hardly explored or properly intigrated into most of the stories I read excluding ... the first one.
The only saving grace of the manga were the beautiful art styles and while I acknowledge the hard work put into the anthology sadly it wasn't enough for me to get through all of the manga and I ultimately dropped it out of boredom. If you're going to read this you may as well go into it like it's a regular collection of short BL stories and not really expect anything else.