Neon Sign Amber

Almost every time a reception of BL manga is like „yoooo this is different, it has like, story and shit, soooo realistic“, it turns out to be just another absolutely generic and meaningless piece of smut. In those cases “realistic” usually means “not rape”. Congrats for not being a rapey story, I guess? Well, not exactly smut, as it’s literally just porn. The whole „story“ is just a foreplay for the inevitable fucking in the last (and the extra) chapter. It is a very basic story – two dudes meets in a club, one cooks meal, they fuck. There are also like two pages that mentionhow one of the dudes was bullied in school because of his orientation. Is this the “realism” that people mention? Bullying is one of the most common tropes for when you’re trying to make a dramatic portrayal of lgbt themes, if not *the* most common. And this title does just the absolute bare minimum of including it in the story. It really doesn’t deserve to be called realistic just for that. There’s a reason why there is so much yaoi manga titles, and it’s the same as why there is so much porn in general – most of it is basically the same shit again and again, and the consumer doesn’t mind. Other than reading it as porn, there is no reason for reading this at all. If you have read some average BL manga in your life, you’ve already basically read the content of this manga.