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alias_sqbrI decided that if I could review the game about ALGEBRA BEING FUN I could probably review some things more of you might actually be interested in. So! Off the top of my head without overthinking, let's go!
Lots of m/m, some m/f, and a little f/f and gen.
Live Action TV: Sandman, Old Fashioned Cupcake
Games: Nurse Love Syndrome, London Detetctive Mysteria
Anime: My Dress Up Darling, SpyxFamily, Sasaki and Miyano, Hirano and Kagiura, Umibe no Etranger
Prose fiction: Light Tea and Sweet Wine, The Wrong Way To A Demon Sect Leader, You Boys Play Games Very Well,![[archiveofourown.org profile]](https://p.dreamwidth.org/b164c54b26e4/-/archiveofourown.org/favicon.ico)
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Live Action TV:
Sandman: I liked it! A little slow in parts that reminded me of the cheesy BBC Shakespeare adaptations we used to watch in highschool, but overall a good adaptation of an old fave, updated enough to not feel totally stale.
Old Fashioned Cupcake: live action Japanese m/m rom-com TV show about two business men. Very cute and fluffy.
Games:
Nurse Love Syndrome: A f/f dating sim about a new nurse. Mostly ok, in a Cute Girls Doing Cute Things kinda way, though I remember finding some of the gender and bodily fluids stuff a bit squicky, but I just got bored waiting for anything to happen. Written by an actual Japanese nurse, and it did have an earnest true to life feel. Note that the sequels, Nurse Love Addiction and Nurse Love Obsession, are from all accounts much less earnest and much more Weird and Sexy.
London Detetctive Mysteria: A Japanese m/f romance visual novel about a girl in 19th century London who gets drawn into the world of Detectives. I just couldn't get into it, and there was way more fat-shaming of the not actually at all fat protagonist than I liked so I gave up. But the protagonist was enjoyably spunky and it wasn't bad, the fact I couldn't get into it was the final straw in me admitting I need to just take a break from otome for a while.
Anime:
My Dress Up Darling: male-gazey m/f anime rom-com about a guy whose hobby is sewing teaming up with a girl at his school who wants to get into cosplay but can't sew. I enjoyed it, and the couple is pretty sweet together, but while the guy is endearingly respectful the camera is REALLY into checking out the girl in sexy outfits. I can't remember if they actually get together or just have hella UST.
SpyxFamily: funny and charming but kinda heteronormative and male-gazey action-comedy about a found family of weirdos in a city based on 1960s Cold War Berlin. The "father" is a not!West German spy who needs a fake wife and kid for his cover. The "mother" is a not!East German assassin who needs a fake husband for her cover. They are both so disconnected from normality they totally miss how bizarre the other's behaviour is and think they are playing at being a Normal Couple perfectly. Meanwhile the "daughter" is an escaped psychic who knows everyone's secrets but thinks (a) spies and assassins are cool and (b)These two weirdos are the nicest guardians she's ever had and she intends on keeping them. I really like the "mother" and think the slow-burn fake dating romance is cute, but the emotional core of the story is the cute father-daughter relationship between a spy who pretends to be too cold to get attached, and the adorable but amusingly dumb 6 year old doing her best to help his mission without revealing that she's psychic.
Sasaki and Miyano: m/m anime and manga highschool rom-com about two boys who bond about being into BL. I vaguely recall thinking it was cute.
Hirano and Kagiura: Spinoff manga of Sasaki and Miyano. Ok but I didn't like it as much.
Umibe no Etranger: m/m anime movie. A sort of...slow romance and character study about a writer and a lonely young man. Didn't quite work for me but not bad.
Prose Fiction:
Light Tea and Sweet Wine: INCREDIBLY tropey and thinly written omega/omega m/m Chinese webnovel. I was recced it as an unusual take on omegaverse tropes and it is that! I'm not sure I enjoyed it per se, but it was definitely interesting.
The Wrong Way To A Demon Sect Leader: m/m rom-com Chinese webnovel about a virtuous cultivator sent to get together with a Demon Sect Leader for contrived and silly reasons. It was all a bit silly for me.
You Boys Play Games Very Well: m/m Chinese rom-com webnovel about game streamers. I vaguely recall that I found this pleasant enough and funny in parts but didn't love it.
spit_kitten: An ao3 writer with some great m/m (and one f/f) original fiction.
Lots of m/m, some m/f, and a little f/f and gen.
Live Action TV: Sandman, Old Fashioned Cupcake
Games: Nurse Love Syndrome, London Detetctive Mysteria
Anime: My Dress Up Darling, SpyxFamily, Sasaki and Miyano, Hirano and Kagiura, Umibe no Etranger
Prose fiction: Light Tea and Sweet Wine, The Wrong Way To A Demon Sect Leader, You Boys Play Games Very Well,
Live Action TV:
Sandman: I liked it! A little slow in parts that reminded me of the cheesy BBC Shakespeare adaptations we used to watch in highschool, but overall a good adaptation of an old fave, updated enough to not feel totally stale.
Old Fashioned Cupcake: live action Japanese m/m rom-com TV show about two business men. Very cute and fluffy.
Games:
Nurse Love Syndrome: A f/f dating sim about a new nurse. Mostly ok, in a Cute Girls Doing Cute Things kinda way, though I remember finding some of the gender and bodily fluids stuff a bit squicky, but I just got bored waiting for anything to happen. Written by an actual Japanese nurse, and it did have an earnest true to life feel. Note that the sequels, Nurse Love Addiction and Nurse Love Obsession, are from all accounts much less earnest and much more Weird and Sexy.
London Detetctive Mysteria: A Japanese m/f romance visual novel about a girl in 19th century London who gets drawn into the world of Detectives. I just couldn't get into it, and there was way more fat-shaming of the not actually at all fat protagonist than I liked so I gave up. But the protagonist was enjoyably spunky and it wasn't bad, the fact I couldn't get into it was the final straw in me admitting I need to just take a break from otome for a while.
Anime:
My Dress Up Darling: male-gazey m/f anime rom-com about a guy whose hobby is sewing teaming up with a girl at his school who wants to get into cosplay but can't sew. I enjoyed it, and the couple is pretty sweet together, but while the guy is endearingly respectful the camera is REALLY into checking out the girl in sexy outfits. I can't remember if they actually get together or just have hella UST.
SpyxFamily: funny and charming but kinda heteronormative and male-gazey action-comedy about a found family of weirdos in a city based on 1960s Cold War Berlin. The "father" is a not!West German spy who needs a fake wife and kid for his cover. The "mother" is a not!East German assassin who needs a fake husband for her cover. They are both so disconnected from normality they totally miss how bizarre the other's behaviour is and think they are playing at being a Normal Couple perfectly. Meanwhile the "daughter" is an escaped psychic who knows everyone's secrets but thinks (a) spies and assassins are cool and (b)These two weirdos are the nicest guardians she's ever had and she intends on keeping them. I really like the "mother" and think the slow-burn fake dating romance is cute, but the emotional core of the story is the cute father-daughter relationship between a spy who pretends to be too cold to get attached, and the adorable but amusingly dumb 6 year old doing her best to help his mission without revealing that she's psychic.
Sasaki and Miyano: m/m anime and manga highschool rom-com about two boys who bond about being into BL. I vaguely recall thinking it was cute.
Hirano and Kagiura: Spinoff manga of Sasaki and Miyano. Ok but I didn't like it as much.
Umibe no Etranger: m/m anime movie. A sort of...slow romance and character study about a writer and a lonely young man. Didn't quite work for me but not bad.
Prose Fiction:
Light Tea and Sweet Wine: INCREDIBLY tropey and thinly written omega/omega m/m Chinese webnovel. I was recced it as an unusual take on omegaverse tropes and it is that! I'm not sure I enjoyed it per se, but it was definitely interesting.
The Wrong Way To A Demon Sect Leader: m/m rom-com Chinese webnovel about a virtuous cultivator sent to get together with a Demon Sect Leader for contrived and silly reasons. It was all a bit silly for me.
You Boys Play Games Very Well: m/m Chinese rom-com webnovel about game streamers. I vaguely recall that I found this pleasant enough and funny in parts but didn't love it.
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