#Ten Count

[tentative-wanderer]

Recently read these manga and manhwa with gay relationships:

☀️ The Summer Hikaru Died: liked it lots, wish it were complete. The creepy art style took some getting used to, I didn’t like how unnerving even normal people looked at first but I ended up loving how the art fits its genre. Mystery + horror + a sort of love I like, occupying the twilight zone between platonic, romantic and goodness knows what*. The theme of grief is executed well, very moving, and thumbs up for the other complicated feelings the characters wrestle with. From the Chinese words/kanji, I can tell that the title is “The Summer the Light Died”, which makes me go ahhhhh. I’d like to have the reassurance that there will be a happy ending, because I feel like there could be a melancholy one.

* I like amorphous kinds of love. Qijiu from the danmei book SVSSS has that too (don’t look this pair up if you haven’t read SVSSS, it’s spoilery). The phrase that comes to mind is 犹抱琵琶半遮面, ie, (a musician) “covering half their face with the pipa in their arms”. The beauty of things only semi-revealed.

🎥 Twilight Out of Focus and its sister series: enjoyed them. My favourite character is the film director with semi-long hair who’s capable, strong-willed, outspoken, and competitive, tempered by a softer side (the thing he’s loud and passionate about besides filmmaking is BL, of all things. But I didn’t know he swung that way until he got his own manga series. Should have seen that coming). That tends to be a winning combination of physical and personality attributes in my book, I always fall for this type of character, but I’d be on edge if I had to deal with such people in real life because their cut-throat attitude would be, well, cutting.

🧼 Ten Count: can relate to the mysophobia. Interesting premise! Enjoyed it. But I feel like it was dragged down a little by the smut. I have mixed feelings about saying that, because on one hand, smut is always welcome, but on the other hand, I wish there was a greater focus on the process of overcoming the ten mysophobic points beyond the romance and smut. Another downside is pretty-boy same-face syndrome.

🪞 The Black Mirror: there are a number of imperfections but I was hooked because I like mystery.

If anyone has recommendations, I’m all ears! BL manga is new to me (previously, I think I’ve only read the comedy about the guy who realised he’s stuck in a BL world, haha).

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(Not BL)

Read a number of chapters of Liar Game. I don’t know why the author is drawing manga instead of messing with the stock market or committing fraud or financial world domination. Big-brained stuff. I tend to read comics fast/skim-read so I found it challenging to think deeply about the strategies; even following along is tough. (Edited to add: the ending was really, really bad.)

Caught up with the more recent chapters of Spy x Family and Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan. Loved both. Regarding Spy x Family, I thought I couldn’t love it more but it turns out I could; the recent arc about the old female soldier is wonderful, overturns some gender norms to an extent hardly seen in media. Also, I really like Yuri and Fiona; they’re both capable, good-looking, and—importantly—very funny. Fiona is amazing in the anime, her voice actress adds a special spark of life to the duality of her character.

[kira-mori]

Ten Count by Rihito Takarai

[rpiconblogxkitten]

Tadaomi Shirotani icons

Below you'll find 1000 icons of Tadaomi Shirotani from Ten Count. No credit is necessary.

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[yaoisex]

Ten Count movie - out in 2023.

Finally??! They first announced it’s getting an anime in 2018 or even before. So we’re getting a movie, not an anime in the end (= anime adaptation in a movie format). 

... ICE ADOLESCENCE WHEN??? 

[cloudy-woo]

dear+

[yaoielection]

[kandani]

Shirotani and genuine physical contact 💞

[smbhax]

Ten Count - Battle Arena Toshinden 3

[glosschi]

I hate people. Just the thought of being touched or, worse yet, being held by someone sends a shudder down my spine.

[yaoioioay]

[pridefulstimming]

Ola man yaoi enjoyer / Twink yaoi enjoyer

Manga in the old man Yoai box is called Ryouomoi nante Joudan ja Nai!! and the 'twinks' are from Ten count

[kira-mori]

Ten Count by Rihito Takarai

[polycraftory]

We are back on this unfortunately very Monday sort of Monday to share our Book Haul for this week: 9/10/24 - 9/16/24! Also with our Star Babies plushies from Milky Tomato as a pick me up because the sad looking ones are a whole ass vibe.

This week we managed to get a bunch of manga second hand, funded entirely by our used book sales on Pango! We already read a bunch of these this week since manga are such fun little snacks. Gabe and I particularly loved the next two volumes of Dangerous Convenience Store. Nic and Meghan also have been working our way through Secret XXX, Therapy Game, and Therapy Game Restart and we are really enjoying these sweet gay romances.

As always, you can read our reviews on Storygraph (though I must confess my manga reviews tend to be shorter than my book reviews!) If you like our taste, you can also check out our Pango where we rehome some of our older books. Find all our links in our pinned post and at polycraftory.com <3

[rpiconblogxkitten]

Tadaomi Shirotani icons

Below you'll find 100 icons of Tadaomi Shirotani from Ten Count. No credit is necessary.

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[lovestobebabied]

Ten count makes me so emotional 🥹

I don't know but media never makes me feel this way ever until rereading ten count, this is the first time I've felt emotional over any media

[cloudy-woo]