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MANGA REVIEW: I HEAR THE SUNSPOT Vol. 1

In the immortal words ‘Somebody Touch Ma Spaghet’, I was imagining something along that border when I picked up my first Boy’s Love manga “I Hear The Sunspot” by Yuki Fumino. From outside looking in, it seemed like BL was all about getting in those pants with each other. You know what goes on in these parts of the town, you feel me? But what I got was completely different. Lets give it a little bit of introduction: IHTS is a BL that was released in 2016, I picked it up in 2018, and finally read it in 2019. I wasn’t delaying it per se, but I didn’t know what to expect. I have read enough YAOI doujin when they say, “Stop trying to do this on your own.” Instead it was a coming of age slice of life manga about a glutton and a Kaneki Ken ripoff. But you know how we do it here, so let me break it down. Masturbation Joke, Perhaps? ZE POZITIBEZ STORY: IHTS is set up in college, and follows the protagonist Taichi as he stumbles(literally) to find a bishonen boi sitting all gloomy on ...