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I absolutely loved Carnival Phantasm, but its F/GO counterpart pales in comparison, and it's exactly just because of the material it's supposed to parody. As you probably know, Carnival Phantasm's cast was limited to Tsukihime and Stay Night, and thus had much more limited number of characters to feature. And as all of those characters were written by a single person, their chemistry with one another was just naturally easier to be written better.

F/GO, with each character designed and often written by a different writer, horribly fails at this premise and that's projected to Fate/Grand Carnival too.

Comedy here peaks at killing off all Cú Chulainn ... servant variants or Orion assaulting Mashu and it's pathetic. Most of the content of the episode 1 is just fanservice for gacha addicts who want to see their favourite servants animated, but it doesn't provide much else besides that.

Although they used Super Affection as ending, they didn't even manage to animate it at all, which could've been the one redeeming quality of this shitshow.

EDIT: Super Affection OP has been released. It's also basically just more fanservice for the F/GO fans, but doesn't really bring anything new if you want more than that.

Despite its cutesy look and initial premise of an otokonoko café, "Fukakai na Boku no Subete wo" isn't a fetishist manga for people who're into femboys, but rather something that I'd call CGDCT (Cute Gays Doing Cute Things), had it not been for the male self-insert.

The thing is, it focuses on the reasons why are the employees of the said café working there - or rather, what are their experiences with their own identities. It's a thoroughly LGBT work, reminiscent of Shimanami Tasogare in its setup, but very different in almost every other aspect. Unlike its artsy cousin, FukaBoku's aesthetic is extremely moe, its narrative ... way lighter, its setting less harsh on the (younger and more closeted) cast and also is a bit educational at times as its characters learn more about their own or each other's identities.

Overall, its story is pretty light, though some plotlines are more serious (as expected from the topics it's dealing with). The writing isn't the best thing ever, but it's not bad either and there's nothing that'd really bother me, so I don't have any particular problems with it. Where this manga shines, however, are the extremely cute character designs and relationships of the said characters.

FukaBoku is definitely not a perfect manga, nor it has the best or the most in-depth LGBT representation. But, it is the queer manga to pick if you're in need of something really adorable.

(also shoutout to Kimi Dake no Ponytail, the most wholesome crossdressing yaoi doujin featuring some characters that appear in FukaBoku as well)