GOGOGOGO-GO-GHOST! and The BL HordeTM
7/12/2025
Haha, I was quite busy and sick lately so I decided to combine these last two weeks together. I believe this would work as I didn't read a whole lot this week... until the BL mania came to me... just two days before we would post this... haaa... Well we do enjoy writing these so I hope you would enjoy reading it too!
First! ongoing works we are caught up with, GOGOGOGO-GO-GHOST! We like the story well enough but it can get quite repetitive when it's not focused on specific stories what with the "THIS GRUDGE SHALL BE AVENGED!" as a tagline repeated again and again but we do like the small stories it tells. The last volume will focus on Masako and her regret with Asahi which would entail more on what we read the story for (transgender) so I'll be waiting late December! Another ongoing work and one we have never been happier to read is Lullaby of The Dawn. A fantastic fantasy BL with a good mystery about the island to hook you in. How the story answers these mysteries and it connects to the overall theme of colonialism, religion, child exploitation and land exploitation is something else! The mystery of the island might be more impactful to us than Alto and Elva's relationship mostly because we aren't fully invested yet in Alto's story but I'm sure that future rereads will change that. Next is in the same vein as Lullaby of The Dawn to us as we expected the work to disappoint us in fulfilling its premise. For the former we expected to for what it says and do with the theme to be partly toothless but we are surprised for it not to be the case and for Tamanokoshi Goyoui Shimashita we expected it to be very cliched and it is! but its very well written. I tried to explain my enjoyment of this series as "a modern take on a 2000s BL although we haven't read much of them but I think it's a good enough explanation. At first I dropped it on the first chapter a while back due to feeling how cliched the story would be but again as we gave it a chance it turned to be pretty good. We suppose the 2 volumes used to build the relationship allowed the characters to breath and interact in a far more natural way helped as opposed to the usual 1 volume. It's a such a simple work but that's more to our assumption of being able to like any cliched story when it's presented well. Lastly is on we have been waiting to read for ages, Omega Megaera! Good first chapter. We're interested how the "Megaera" would come into play. Yes, we did not read beyond the first chapter, Do not forgive us.
Those last four works are something we liked this week what about ones we liked a little less? Hana to Gin as BL coming from one of our favourite artists, Takahashi Hidebu, has the usual unique visual style that we absolutely love. We just can't like it and the last few of her works due to the fact it's centered around cops. I mean still good romance but I hope she has had her buddy cop story fill and pick any other backdrop for her story... no veterans. Next is something we are not sure still reading. Well I know, I want the seme to be cucked and Work Love Balance won't let it happen. We wrote about what we don't like about the story before and while I would rewrote it to be less aggressive its emblematic to the problem we have with the story. Well unless season 3 prove me wrong.
Second, Finished works we read! In advanced forgive us for this will seem more like a speed round rather than anything substantial because we don't think the story doesn't have much substance unless I dived deeper into the sexuality of each works. Well except for Kagakubu no Megane which gives us the feeling of nostalgia you have for your younger year which isn't something we could really feel for yet, instead...
So the same as before, things we like! Sunroom Nite. You can never really go wrong with Takemiya. Her visual language and story are all very beautiful and very artistically inspiring to us. We especially like the last one about when old people on their twilight years are happy they become flying children encouraging other elders to be happy in their last years. For the record when we read Rumble Rush only read the stories related to Ijima. We are charmed by this guy desire to have a cute boyfriend in spite of the world's rule of when any two men who comes in contact with him met each other they are destined to fall in love. Charmed. Nothing else to it really. Same thing with Ikenai Otoko, Renai Nenrei, and Kishi to Hakobiya all well written erotic works.
Is it a downer that the last paragraph for this week's reading roundup is for things we don't like? Well let us start with something very funny to us Gay's Anatomy: Episode Zero. The title, it is the title that is very funny to us. The story? not as funny. We're not the kind of people that has a kneejerk reaction to this kind of story anymore but we're not the kind of person who would have a preference for this kind of story, which are our biggest hurdle in liking the story. Next Nile wo Sakanobotte which can only be describe as "A very beautiful erotic orientalist work that we can't take seriously due to said orientalism." We would recommend other works by this author for the same kind of eroticism. Lastly Nichijou Sahanbi: Beautiful Life a pretty standard guy down on his luck comforted by a single dad and his daughter when you're in the right mood. Other than that its boringly twee work to a tiring degree. Iyo is cute.
See not that much of a downer you get to see a cute baby! We wish you all good readings next week and the second week of December!