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One of the best thriller/horror manhwa I've read.

Koogi masterfully handles suspense in Killing Stalking, as well as the ever evolving relationship between the two main characters. At the centre of Killing Stalking is a relationship between two very sick individuals whose fates are inexplicably intertwined.

It is not a story about how love heals everything, it's a story about how trauma can shape people for the rest of their life. It never tries to justify why things are happening. Yes, people have sad pasts. It's their choice however, how they choose to react to that. Sangwoo's trauma turned him into someone who kills to cope with ... his fear. Bum's trauma turned him into a doormat who yearns for love and acceptance, regardless of the shape it comes in. Seungbae's trauma turned him into someone who is willing to sacrifice himself for the sake of justice.

Koogi depicts the story from Yoon Bum's point of view which means the focus is on the 'good moments' as a way to forget the majority of 'bad moments'. It's truly a very accurate depiction of someone who's stuck in an abusive relationship. Regardless of what the sex scenes make you feel (and she makes sure you know the sex is actually rape once it's done with) she repeatedly shows how unhealthy and unstable the situation is, as everything could change at a second's notice.

There is no denying Sangwoo is a handsome dude, after all, this is a Yaoi manhwa too. But that is usually the case with murderers and psychos, they use their looks and charming façade to get away with anything (precisely what Sangwoo does throughout). If the fandom decides they want a Sangwoo in their life, that is their problem (please seek help lol), but where Killing Stalking truly shines is in the development of the story as we find out about Sangwoo's past little by little and how his fate was already decided long ago.

Be prepared to deal with a LOT of taboo subjects. It is not for the fainthearted and yet, despite how messed up and tense it is you can't help but keep turning the pages. It's a dark story with a fitting ending. Honestly worth a read if you're into thrillers.

“Genderless” refers to a Japanese street fashion style where men dress cute and in ways that could be defined as feminine. This manga isn’t here to make a statement about gender identity. The main character very much identifies as the gender he was assigned with at birth.

Now that’s out of the way, this is a cute slice of life story about Meguru, a man interested in fashion, and Wako, his girlfriend who works in publishing and who is his biggest fan and supports her boyfriend in every way.

They have a lovely relationship where Meguru acts as a househusband and is extremely loyal and caring ... to Wako. It’s an adult relationship with mutual support and respect. The two have an interesting dynamic but are in no way one dimensional. Through Meguru we get to see the inside of the idol/instagram idol industry as well as all the trouble he’s faced for being a fashion forward man.

If you like romantic slice of life stories, go ahead and give this a try!

Battle Royal with some shoujo-ai thrown in the middle. What could go wrong?

Everything.

The series introduces some interesting concepts in terms of assassination, scenarios, backstories and characters. All of which fall flat. The characters are badly explored as well as the relationship between our two protagonists. Each episode is about one of the enemies our duo have to battle. These characters have backstories and motives which are rushed through and that's it, they get defeated and we move onto the next one.

All could've been (maybe) forgiven if the ending hadn't been like that. If I can give you one warning is: Stay away. ... You know all the struggles, fights, drama and deaths you're going to go through these twelve episodes? The last one makes it all irrelevant, like it was all a prank.

Everything about this is average, action scenes and animation included. Please spend your time on something else.

I'm always excited by the idea of a new shoujo-ai series coming out, simply because there aren't many and within those few that exist, there aren't many good ones. So I allowed myself to get excited, only to have my expectations drop lower and lower with every episode.

Story & Characters:

warning: If you're looking for a legit gay story, this isn't gonna cut it for you. Although the material is there, after all, Yuzu does struggle with her feelings and identity, that's all there is to it.

This is the typical pseudo-incest love story, which I have no issue with at all. The protagonist Yuzu is ... likeable, she's aloof and reckless and for once found myself enjoying this personality type especially when in stark-contrast to her step-sister Mei. Mei is the girl of a few words, the silent type. But there's a fine line between writing an observant, introspective character and a bland,robot that is devoid of feelings or reason. This is where Citrus starts to falter.

There's no communication between the characters, they are both supposed to understand each other's feelings via psychic abilities (which by the way, none of them have). Instead, we have a bunch of sexual harassment scenes which will might make the viewer uncomfortable or confused. In Citrus' defense that's how such a situation should feel, so it does that well. But it does it too much as an excuse for lack of conflict.
The antagonists are both painfully annoying stereotypes, that for a lack of a better term, will make you want to claw your eyes off. The conflict which these girls bring also revolve around sexual harassment or blackmail. Surprise (!)
Finally, however, when it introduces an interesting point of conflict that differs from the distasteful tone of the story so far, it does it too late and we only have two episodes to explore this area which led to an extremely disappointing ending.

Animation:

Key frames are nice, otherwise it's bland. Typical use of ugly ass CG for cars, buildings and npcs around the world.

It has some raunchy scenes, it's love between girls and it's (pseudo) incest. It had everything to be great, but alas, it's an average watch with many frustrating moments. The very end of the last episode did something which I want to applaud, which I will not go into detail to avoid spoilers, but it is explicit in the intention that our protagonists have towards each other. That is something that many girl's love series won't do. But what a shame that it took 12 episodes and 21 minutes to get to that point.

-Disclaimer- shota is not in my category of interests. I started watching it because I was curious as to how 'horror' and 'hentai' would work together.

As I saw that the sexual object of this series way too young for my taste (lol) I wanted to turn it off more than anything, but I'm a sucker for horror (and tall women) and this legit left me tense. There is one jumpscare near the end that made the whole episode worth it for me.

Yes, what I'm saying is that this is totally worth for the story. I went looking for the manga afterwards and it ... is creepy, gross and plain weird and I can't wait for more episodes. A must for horror fans.