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A BL manga about men who love BL manga... and also each other. Fun, heartwarming and tantalizingly sexy, this is a boys love romance series about the world of making boys love comics!

Raizo and TOS are two men who also write BL in their spare time. Raizo is a cool, laidback and handsome guy whose dark BL style is popular, while TOS has a light and fluffy writing style, but is less popular due to his social awkwardness and difficulty communicating. Even though they are complete opposites in everything, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to one another...

My Rate: 8 (amzn.to/464wwdd)

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When his first love breaks his heart， college student Fusuke goes to a bar to drown his sorrows， where he meets a guy named Seri and drunkenly tumbles into bed with him. Now， Fusuke’s no stranger to one-night stands， but it was always with girls before! Struggling to process everything the morning after， he bails out of the hotel room...only to find out later that Seri is his new stepbrother?! And what’s worse， his dad’s being transferred overseas and taking his new wife along， so now Fusuke has to live with Seri?! To Fusuke’s dismay， Seri clearly has no plans of keeping his hands to himself， but despite all appearances also won’t admit to having romantic intentions...and soon enough Fusuke is at his wit’s end just trying to keep his head on straight!
You’ll love this smutty romance between a carefree playboy and a hottie who’s used to getting whatever he wants.

My Rate: 7 (amzn.to/44hjyaJ)

If I have to tell the true, I wasn't expecting to enjoy this manga much. But the first surprise is that the graphic is very nice, more than what the cover let you think. Second, the story is very cute and funny, maybe not very realistic, but it makes you smile and that is a big bonus. Actually, if we want to find a realistic side, both Fusuke and Seri have dysfunctional families, and, in the end, they create their own little family to be happy. I like that Fusuke, after the first little disconcernment over being attracted by a guy, is soon fully devoted to their story; Fusuke is like that, he is a happy and basic guy, not worried about other people prejudice, and if something makes you happy and is not hurting anyone, then just enjoy it. The turn of event of Seri's father is sort of unexpected, and again, unrealistic, but I suppose they had to find a way for them to have an happily ever after.

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A Boys’ Love sci-fi manga that pushes the boundaries on the meaning of love.

Ethan, a battle-weary cyborg soldier, retreats to a tranquil planet in search of peace. There, he meets Mikhail, a gentle botanist whose warm smile and delicate touch seem almost fragile. Ethan finds himself inexplicably drawn to Mikhail, experiencing a restless unease whenever they’re together. He longs to touch, to cherish—feelings that are undeniably human. Bewildered by the feelings stirring within him, Ethan begins to question if he truly has a heart after all.

My Rate: 8 (amzn.to/44FvRxu)

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Cool, confident, and topping the idol charts, Ao is the picture of perfection on stage, but off-camera, he's actually a shy, soft-hearted puppy. Former idol Shinji agrees to coach him on fan service in exchange for a no-strings-attached fling, but Ao keeps holding himself back by being too serious,leaving Shinji increasingly frustrated.

Then everything shifts when Ao realizes he's falling in love.
But afraid of getting hurt, Shinji tries to walk away before it's too late...

Includes steamy, never-before-seen bonus chapters bursting with love!!

My Rate: 8 (amzn.to/44pZpOq)

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Love hits the right notes in this Boys' Love manga about two unlikely dance partners who make the perfect pair.

When Minobe Chihiro is admitted to a private arts academy to study ballet, the last person he expects to train with is the surly second year Ichinomiya Shun. Yet by some stroke of luck, the two have been paired up for their school’s mandatory pas de deux practice. While Minobe has fallen at first sight for Ichinomiya’s superior dance sense, the second-year’s attitude leaves a lot to be desired. For Ichinomiya, paired with Minobe as a dance partner is not how he’d like to be spending his time. The grumpy upperclassman has his walls up, but Minobe’s puppy-like affection might be just what he needs!

My Rate: 8 (amzn.to/4kxB4fL)

After School Etude is quite beautiful graphically speaking, and I had the wrong impression it was some sort of esthetically beautiful piece of art with little feeling, but I was wrong. It's also quite cute, and strange enough very sexy at the beginning, some sort as to set off the mood, the slowly move more to being cute and romantic. Ichinomiya is this strong core in a litlle man body (little = short). The body contrast between Ichinomiya and Minobe is quite clear, but it's doesn't give you the feeling that Ichinomiya is forced by Minobe, on the contrary Minobe is very attentive and tender and caring... the perfect boyfriend. I also like that there is no drama in their relationship, they understand each other and the people around them too. I would have only liked that the ballet professor who is basically a pedophile suffered some consequences...

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Mr. Doyun Kim's a pretty quiet, unassuming guy at the office — with a big secret. He's actually half vampire! But without full vamp status, he can't drink blood and has to seek out some human essence (read: sex! and more sex!) to live. Drained and desperate, he finds a "special" companion but everything goes wrong. Now he's caught up in a one-sided office relationship, and most importantly, it's not working!!! Will Doyun survive and keep his secret intact?

My Rate: 9 (www.lezhinus.com/en/comic/unquenchable_kim)

Lets start immediately with the obvious: the artwork in The Unquenchable Mr. Kim is pretty much awesome. It concentrates mainly on the characters, not only the main ones, also the side characters are very well designed, up to the most insignificant ones, like Doyun and Gangwoo's coworkers. Actually at the beginning, they are sort of like alien, with these big eyes and strange features, but it seems like the artists got the sense of the story after few chapters and from then on they are perfect (or maybe it's me that got used to it). Anyway, the story has some holes, like what is the essence that Doyun has to feed from human during sex? it's something impalpable like life force (like succubus or incubus) or it's semen? I know it's a trivial details but makes me wonder. And then how is that, if you drink the blood of a pureblood you become a vampire that doesn't need to feed on human blood? So the one drinking a pureblood blood in the story why hasn't become a vampire? But trust me, these are all trivial details that don't defect the story as a whole.

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Seonho in an artist, who draws adult webcomics. It started as an easy way to make money, but it’s caused some unexpected side effects: he hasn’t been aroused for over two years! Exhausted, he hires an assistant. It’s just that, he didn’t expect him to be so cute! Muyeong is clean, talented, and apparently loaded so...why does he want to work under Seonho? Turns out, Muyeong is Seonho’s number one fan…

My Rate: 9

Oh! My Assistant has many pro and some cons: I like the character of Muyeong, his aloofness is perfectly explained by the artist's graphic; I also like that this is a romantic comedy with some drama, but not too much, and maybe this is also one of the cons: I had the feeling Seonho and Muyeong had it too easy, like they really didn't fight for their love... but in the end, sometime it's refreshing not to have to worry for the happy ending. Actually the above synopsis is a little wrong, it seems Muyeong is sort of a stan of Seonho and instead it's just that he likes Seonho's artwork, but with a sort of average attachment. I felt that he chose Seonho just cause it was the easiest option. Moreover the adaptation of this manhwa has some turn of events that are not in the original story, so don't search for them.

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Fandom 50 #21

Untitled Ouizzy Vampire AU by

derekstilinski
Fandom: Our Flag Means Death
Relationship: Frenchie/Izzy Hands
Medium: Gifset
Length: 3 gifs
Rating: SFW
My Bookmark Tags: dark/horror, ambiguous ending, constructed reality, au: supernatural, infatuation, temptation, fear play, bloodplay (distantly implied)

Description:

In the first gif, Izzy steps uncertainly through the doorway of an abandoned church and stops in front of a flight of stairs. Frenchie jumps out at him theatrically onto the landing above, grinning in front of a full-length panel of stained glass. In the second, Frenchie's eyes glow and his lips part in the dark confines of a confessional. In the shadows on the other side, we glimpse Izzy's rapt and frightened eyes. In the third, Frenchie says something tensely and then flashes a persuasive fanged smile in the vestibule of the church, intercut with Izzy staring at him and swallowing hard, one hand pressed to the side of his face and neck.

This is my second rec for a constructed reality graphic from this same creator, and this one uses some absolutely brilliant editing to bring together what I'm pretty sure is Vengeance Is Mine and an episode of the TV show Bedlam (neither of which involve vampires) to create an AU where vampire!Frenchie and human!Izzy have a charged encounter in an abandoned church. The application of colour, the selection of eyelines, and the addition of other small edits all make this incredibly convincing, and the concept itself is very, very good to me.

I imagine this Izzy having some sort of protective interest in the church—a paid caretaker, a nosy neighbour, maybe a former vicar or member of the congregation who lost his faith after some tragic event. Whatever it is, he intends to roust out whoever's been squatting there, only to slide straight through "Oh no, he's hot" to "Oh fuck, that's a vampire" and into a dark and hot standoff between charmed predator and captivated prey.

Seriously, this is the gift of

derekstilinski's work. Three gifs and a fully formed universe full of potential stories pops into existence.

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A human, lycan, or a vampire - what am I?! Completely unaware of the existence of these predators, Hwa Gok goes about his everyday life... That is, until Lee Bin turns his life upside down by biting him on the neck, setting off a whirlwind of events neither of them could foresee.

My Rate: 9 (www.lezhinus.com/en/comic/bloodlink)

Blood Link caught me by surprise for different reasons: first of all I wasn't expecting a mpreg romance; it's not at all an omegaverse story, since there is no talking about alpha and omega and their stereotyped roles, and instead here the "female" lycan (can be both a woman or a man) is the strongest species, sort of a praying mantis who can kill the male if it's not satisfied. Now it seems quite a dark story, and instead it is, again unexpectedly, quite cute and even funny: lot of romance and babies to both. Lastly it's a story by Brothers without a tomorrow, and so it's a given that the graphic is nice, even if I can tell this is probably one of their first stories, since the graphic, while good, is somehow more basic than their mature works. Overall I plenty enjoyed this story, and the 135 episode are basically two different books, one about Hwa Gok and Lee Bin, and the second about their son.

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Comic Party Wonder Love by Deco Yamano

Brotherhood Failed Successfully by Kaneko Nakagawa

Black Blood by Hayate Kuku

All the Way With Idol-kun! by Nawako Mineshima

After School Etude by Hirune Cyan

The Unquenchable Mr. Kim by Morak

Oh! My Assistant by Angrymonster and Mila

REC: Untitled Ouizzy Vampire AU Gifset by by emilee (Our Flag Means Death, Frenchie/Izzy Hands)

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