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MANGA: The Wize Wize Beasts Of The Wizarding Wizdoms
The Wize Wize Beasts Of The Wizarding Wizdoms – Nagabe
Deep in the forest lies a mysterious school of magic: Wizdoms, an institution attended by beastmen of all kinds. These studious fantasy creatures have come to live, learn, and perhaps even fall in love in this enchanting space. In this collection of BL stories by master mangaka Nagabe, follow the beauty and surprising humor of magical beasts with human hearts.
A mixbag of humorous inter-specie love affairs featuring, IMHO, slightly disturbing anthropomorphic animals.
Alan & Eddington: The Gifted & The Average: Hare pining for Cat concocts a love potion but flubs the forgetting spell. So Cat remembered every dirty little secret Hare confessed. Hare wished the ground would swallow him up while I died of second hand embarrassment.
Florio & Nicol: The Hunter & The Hunted: Always sleepy Wolf uses Goat as pillow. Leaves bitemarks afterwards. Goat is nervous, annoyed but also a little…exhilarated? Hmm…
Fermat & Emil: The Teacher & The Pupil: Prof Dragon tutors young Dragon on the finer points of mathematics. Young Dragon gets adorably shy and squirmy, Prof Dragon feels unexplained feelings. Proceeds to do complicated calculations. Whatever it is, all I got was pedo vibes.
Marley & Collette: The Cold-Blooded & The Warm-Blooded: Serious winter co-dependence business between roommates Deer and Lizard. Took very good advantage of cuddle weather. Let’s hope Deer gets his spring.
Doug & Huey: Courtship & Friendship: Crow stakes claims on the oblivious and ever optimistic Peacock desperate to get a girlfriend by secretly telling everyone Peacock has a girlfriend. Funny with sinister undertones.
Allhoff & Carreras: Food & Games: Mischief loving Vampire Bats share blood through mouth-to-mouth transfer learn a new way of playing with their mouths. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get past the image of regurgitated food.
Cromwell & Benjamin: The Good Talker & The Good Listener: Quiet faculty staff Unicorn, shunned by his tribe for being gay, is the go to demi-human for those needing an ear for their problems. Prof Griffin is his regular visitor. One day, Griffin notices Unicorn is in a subdued mood and tells him it’s his turn to listen. But is Unicorn ready to talk? Soft and sweet. My favorite.
Mauchly & Charles: Beast & Man: Bear and Human form a friendship after Bear rescues lost Human. Human feeds Bear blueberry pie. Bear teaches Human the art of doing nothing. Had floofy heart-to-heart talks on freckles and markings. Another favorite.
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MANGA: Blue Gray Kutsuoto
Blue Gray Kutsooto – Takanashi Naoto
Do you know about the saying, “Beautiful shoes bring happiness to the person who wears them?”
Lovely historical setting but why does he have to leave?
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MANGA: Yume Yume Shinjuu
Yume Yume Shinjuu – Kojima Lalako
Yume Yume Shinjuu From Hoshi Kuzuu: For someone who has no recollection of their childhood, Yuzuru’s been having the same dream over and over again. One where he and another boy are playing in a small shrine. But he can never figure out who the other boy is. Then one day, his brother Ryosuke brings home a classmate of his, named Takumi. Within the memories that Yuzura can not remember, he realizes that Takumi was his childhood friend and first love. Takumi reveals that he is ecstatic that Yuzuru remembers. Happy to meet his first love again, Yuzuru once again becomes attracted to him, but…
Confusing and muddled. Dark and tragic.
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MANGA: Otoko Yamome Mo Hana Wa Saku
Otoko Yamome Mo Hana Wa Saku – Yukue Moegi
Middle-aged salaryman Uematsu (40s) was surprised to learn that the restaurant part time-worker Asahikawa knows about his food habits. When Uematsu got promoted to department head he thought his life will be smooth sailing from then on but very soon his wife left him and the people assigned to him are utterly useless…
After hitting his 40s he felt like his stamina, energy, everything has been depleted, so he tries to avoid anything troublesome. But strangely he feels a sense of ease whenever he is with Asahikawa and starts warming up to him, but it’s feels like Asahikawa wants to get closer to him more than he could have ever imagined…
Nothing like new love to make an old man feel rejuvenated.
A delightful age-gap, older uke/younger seme romance that’s soft and pure. Makes the heart feel 10 times lighter.
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DREAMY COVERS BOOK TAG: Manga Edition
Today’s not a day for words as we let the covers speak for themselves. Let’s put the spotlight on my favorite manga covers.
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MANGA: Hanabatake To Wakarebanashi
Hanabatake To Wakarebanashi – Kojima Lalako
1-3. Hanabatake to Wakarebanashi, From Summer then On, Our Love
Takuya, Yuiji, and Aki are childhood friends who have always been together. Takuya secretly likes Aki, but she suddenly gets a boyfriend. Takuya nurses his broken heart with Yuiji, who suddenly confesses that he’s always liked Takuya.4-6. Bye-bye Baby
Story of Didi, his older brother, Ryoutarou, and his brother’s boyfriend, Nonoyama.Borderline saccharine stories typical of the mangaka’s happier works. The cover art’s so pretty!
Hanabatake to Wakarebanashi + From Summer then On + Our Love: Childhood-friends-to-lovers story with the usual ‘but I’m a guy!’ hesitations. Unnecessarily angsty but cute because who could resist Yuiji?
Bye-bye Baby: Established couple seen from the POV of the younger brother, Didi, a style that is particularly effective and delightful as long as it’s not a love triangle. Here, no geometries were involved so yay!
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MANGA: 3 Ban Sen No Campanella
3 Ban Sen No Campanella – Kyouyama Atsuki & Kikoenai Koe
Kanou was driven to apathy after suddenly being rejected by a boyfriend who he never doubted their mutual feelings for. Living by himself is impossible. But momentarily falling in love is more frightening. Even then, his heart fluttered when a high-schooler saved him at a station, and a course of events made him waver towards his boss at work. Just to be together with someone you love forever. Even with something so simple, why is it this hard?
A heart swayed by a train with an unknown destination.
During a local train trip, love wanders between “living” and “loving”.Beautiful and melancholy like a Wong Kar Wai film that ends happily.
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MANGA: Me Ha Kuchi Hodoni Koi Toiu
Me Ha Kuchi Hodoni Koi Toiu – Hagi
Having moved schools frequently throughout his childhood, Fujino has perfected the art of the false smile. Now his fifth school, his well-mannered smile is safely helping him make new friends, but one day, on the school roof, he finds a scarred boy sleeping there. That boy is the “Mad Dog”, the student all his classmates are afraid of. While Fujino is observing him, the boy opens his eyes, and then…
A youthful Boys love story between an unsociable yankee and a ‘good boy’ honor student.
Those ♡ Mad Dog eyes ♡!!!
With that cover art, you’d think they’re up to no good but this is very pure, wholesome and sweet.
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MANGA: Sora Kara Furumono
Sora Kara Furumono – Aki Senoo
Sweet but troubled Takagi escapes the ups and downs of his life by hiding his true feelings. But what will he do when shy, awkward Kumoi suddenly appears and seems to read his every thought? When a mysterious drawing surfaces and raises even more questions about the past, the two boys are faced with a crucial decision: do they stick together, or retreat to the safety of their secret fantasies?
When the Heavens Smile serves up seven stories full of sweet, fumbling romance and the day-to-day surprises of true friendship! Whether it’s in a noisy, nerve-wracking classroom or the book-lined rows of the library, each of these boys must come to terms with budding feelings and brand-new crushes. Which of these pairs destined to put aside their fears and stay together after the final school bell rings?
Fragment: A really bad case of last song syndrome where kohai whistles a tune and sempai made him listen to the entire song so he could do it properly. Ended up doing something unforgettable. Would kohai even remember? I wished the author gave this an epilogue.
I Love Strawberries The Most, Followed By My Dad: Ooh, shoujo-kun is the seme. A high schooler with girly interests compares his loved ones to fruits.
Absolute Condition: Mole fetish? NO, just NO. (speaking as a person with bajillion moles all over, hate these ugly dots)
Sirens: Talky age-gap romance involving lots of sex and talks of double suicide. Weird proposal at the end but it kind of worked.
I Can’t Remember Now: Alcohol-loving Kacchan tended to get sappy and kissy with Midori when drunk but couldn’t remember afterwards. Everybody thought they were boyfriends, Kacchan insists they’re just friends. But was Midori jealous when Kacchan was seen with a girl? And why does Kacchan care? Really loved this one!
That Which Falls From Heaven: Kumoi can see Takagi’s dead brother. Kumoi seriously liked Takagi. I don’t care.
Fever Mark: Don’t care about this too. Why is it in manga, when someone has fever, they tend to get frisky?
That Which Is Still Here: Student has a crush on the librarian and is willing to be his slave. Librarian used to have a crush on Takagi’s dead brother. Kumoi’s drawing gave them closure. Still don’t care.
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MANGA: Hoppe Ni Himawari
Hoppe Ni Himawari – Mita Ori
A story about a cute chubby guy in the gardening club who admires his classmate, the baseball team captain.
A rare beast in BL where the MC is chubby and loved by the seme whatever shape he’s in.
