velshtein: (AKAI GIN red and silver)

Hahahahah mech fights and some sexy butler BL! Merry Christmas to myself. ♥
velshtein: (SEU reflex)
I don't, probably surprisingly enough, read very much BL manga. While I'm generally always up for cute fictional men rolling around with each other, I'm a lot pickier with actual romance stories. Most of the time I prefer romance in fiction to play second to something else: adventure, action, sci-fi nonsense.

This morning though I (really randomly to be honest) read twenty-three chapters of Yuuutsu na Asa/Blue Morning and now it's honestly my favorite BL series ever. I mean there wasn't much competition but holy shit I loved it:


Upon his father's death, Akihito Kuze became a viscount at the age of 10. His smart, handsome young butler Tomoyuki Katsuragi has since managed all affairs pertaining to the viscountcy perfectly.

The talented and charismatic Katsuragi is very popular in their social circle; but as Akihito grows older, he becomes colder and more distant by the day - though still as faithful to the Kuze household as he has ever been.

Akihito is now a young man, and desperately in love with Katsuragi. He determines to discover the reason behind his butler's inexplicable behaviour, and this is where their story begins...

It's sweet and sad and I cried way too much through it and lmao it hit some of my favorite kinks ever: older uke (the butler! ♥♥♥), younger seme, age difference, butler/master dynamic and Katsuragi (black hair! the butler!) is so stupidly pretty I just want to ogle him all day. Plus the social/class issues are interesting. ♥ Warning for some noncon scenes though.



One another note, the pre-release images for the first episode of Samurai Flamenco are very cute. The MC is super adorable looking and lmao is actually looks-wise reminding me a bit of Andy from The Unlimited gheugheuh. ♥♥♥ Same studio too! 8D