[Manga] Mini Review – I Like Big Boobs, But I Got Reincarnated in a BL World Vol.1

I Like Big Boobs, But I Got Reincarnated in a BL World or Kyonyuu Sukinanoni BL-Kai ni Tensei Shimashita is a BL manga where the protagonist gets reincarnated into a world set with BL-manga rules and clichés.

The manga is written and illustrated by Nao Tsukiji. They are known for their long-running manga series “Adekan” as well as their unique but beautiful art style. I Like Big Boobs, But I Got Reincarnated in a BL World is their most recent work with one volume has been released in 2022.

I happened upon this manga while I was scrolling through twitter and liked the sample chapter so much that I decided to purchase it on amazon JP kindle and give it a read.

Be aware that this mini-review will be reviewing a manga that is entirely in Japanese, no English.

[Manga] Mini Review – Gokushufudo Vol.1

Goku Shufudo is a seinen comedy manga by Kousuke Oono about an ex-yakuza’s daily life as a “professional house husband”. The first chapter was published online on 23rd of February 2018 on kurage bunch (a comic publishing website) where it has published 18 chapters as of now. 

In August, Goku Shufudo got it’s first manga volume published, containing chapters 1 through 9 as well as bonus side stories at the end that I think is manga exclusive. I was planning to get it but at the time CD Japan didn’t have it on it’s listings and the only available place I could get it was in Amazon Japan–which, for those who don’t know, is a problem because Amazon banned all shipping to Australia from their international stores like Amazon Japan and Amazon USA. It’s a long and stupid story to explain why that’s a thing, but anyway I decided to give up but eventually I ended up getting it from CD Japan.

Originally this review was supposed to be written in October when I got it but because of being preoccupied with stuff I had to put it off until now, so please enjoy this short review!

[Manga] Mini Review – Iyagatteru Kimi ga Suki (Vol.1)

Iyagatteru Kimi ga Suki is a comic/manga initially published online at Ruelle Comics (where you can read the first chapter and latest chapter) and now has been published into a bounded manga. Art and story is by Mizuki Oniyama, you can find their pixiv but if you look into their art logs you’ll prolly get spoiled on what they have in mind for the series.

The art style Oniyama uses is reminiscent of 80’s manga, while the visuals they use are kinda macabre and really leaves an impression on you. Gonna say this outright, this isn’t a shoujo manga, actually I’m not even sure what audience this is for, but I’m gonna have to say it’s for adults or for those with mature minds. If you’re easily squeamish at either gore, vomiting, piss etc then I wouldn’t recommend you to read this 😆

It’s definitely dark but the dark comedy makes it less grim than what it should be, but guaranteed it does have it’s dark moments where it’s not joking around. Even if it is about an abusive relationship, I still find it interesting at how the manga explores the human workings of the two characters as well as their paraphilic tendencies. You’re free to call me out on being an asshole or a sick fuck for liking this manga. Also, just a heads up but this post will be discussing some stuff that may not sit well with some people and might be a bit NSFW.

I also got a bonus illustrated gift from purchasing it from Animate:

The context of this pic is explained in later chapters, don’t worry. Anyway, this is just a glimpse on how abnormal the manga can get.

[Manga] Mini Review – Mermaid Boys Vol.2

This is a little belated review of Mermaid Boys Vol.2 by Yomi Sarachi, been a bit busy lately haha. You’d think that after reviewing the first volume I wouldn’t feel the need to review the second volume because I might have the same opinion but this volume has changed a bit of my opinion on it…

Anyway, I’ll be addressing some spoilers for Volume 2 in this post so if you plan on reading it yourself and don’t want to be spoiled then don’t read the rest of this review. All I can say is that I don’t see this series going far, even if it pains me to say it. Sorry if I’m being a wet blanket, its just that I didn’t feel it in this volume… It still made me laugh but whenever I think about what it’ll provide in the next volumes I start to think that it might not last long before the conclusion.

[Manga] Mini Review – 31☆idream (Vol.1~4)

31☆idream is an on-going series by Arina Tanemura, first published back in 2013 and still going. The latest volume released was released last year in November, seeing that I tried out Akumi ni Chic x Hack, I thought I may as well try this one.

It seems like the publisher for this series, Melody, asked Tanemura to make a “magical girl manga for adult readers”, limiting Tanemura from the stuff she’s well know for and the result of all that is this series. There are subtle themes/tropes that you’d find in the magical girl genre, like having an alter ego, transforming into someone else, the dual personalities one has to balance as well as their lifestyles, but rather than being pure fantasy, it is a bit more grounded and realistic than the average ‘mahou shoujo’ manga. No talking animal mascots here lol.

There are a few moments at the first two volumes where it becomes painfully relatable, especially for me seeing that the heroine is too similar personality wise haha.

[Manga] Review – Akuma ni Chic x Hack (All volumes)

Akuma ni Chic x Hack is the latest shoujo manga by Arina Tanemura, you may know her other works such as I.O.N, Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, Full Moon o Sagashite as well as her character design work for idol app Idolish7. Its Arina’s 20th anniversary of being a mangaka and there will be an exhibition starting 17th December 2016 until 4th January 2017. What better way to celebrate than read her newest manga, which has been gathered together into 2 volumes and is complete.

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[Manga] Mini Review – Mermaid Boys Vol.1

Finally the first bounded volume of Yomi Sarachi’s Mermaid Boys has released! This volume contains the first four chapters released in Aria, according to Sarachi’s author comments at the end of the volume, it seemed like if Aria hadn’t reached out, Mermaid Boys prolly wouldn’t become a fully fledged comic/manga. It took her about 3 years later to get her short comics on twitter to evolve into something bigger and here it is.

I talked about the first chapter here, in a post where I bought an issue of Aria. I bought this manga at CD Japan for about 580 yen (tho it was hard to find it when it was listed under the title ‘Marmaid Boys’ and they misspelt Sarachi’s name as ‘Chiyomi Sara’, which ironically she addressed in her author comment at the end of the book).

[Book] Bunny talks about ARIA, Yomi Sarachi’s new manga and shopping with HMV

Just the other day my first order from HMV came in the mail, which was my first ever purchase of ARIA and wow, I never thought it’d be this big.

I thought I’d talk about it because I never thought of HMV as a shopping option but thankfully someone was kind enough to direct me to this shop when all of the copies of ARIA was sold out in the exact same day it was released on CD Japan (Curse you Model Trio, you sell a product too good it doesn’t even survive a day).