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[Oshi No Ko], Vol. 4 by Aka Akasaka, Mengo Yokoyari

dark emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

5.0

[Oshi No Ko], Vol. 3 by Aka Akasaka, Mengo Yokoyari

adventurous dark emotional funny mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

[Oshi No Ko], Vol. 2 by Aka Akasaka, Mengo Yokoyari

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I LOVE YOU KANA ARIMA!!!

[Oshi No Ko], Vol. 1 by Aka Akasaka, Mengo Yokoyari

dark emotional funny inspiring mysterious sad tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Started reading this right after finishing the first season of the anime. Such a solid set up for the story, and the art style is impeccable. So excited to keep reading.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

Turning Point by Bexless

emotional funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I like it when they're together and happyyyyyy. 

Unholyverse by Bexless

dark emotional funny mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.5

During Working Hours by Bexless

funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Short and simple and funny as hell

Heaven Help Us by Bexless

dark emotional funny tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Genuinely made me go insane at certain points, really solid ending to the trilogy.

The Tragedy of King Richard II by William Shakespeare

challenging dark emotional tense slow-paced

4.0

Yet I well remember 
The favours of these men: were they not mine? 
Did they not sometime cry, 'all hail!' to me? 
So Judas did to Christ: but he, in twelve, 
Found truth in all but one: I, in twelve thousand, none. 
God save the king! Will no man say amen? 
Am I both priest and clerk? well then, amen. 
God save the king! although I be not he; 
And yet, amen, if heaven do think him me.

This was a slow read for a design job I have, but it has some of the best verse and monologues that I've read in Shakespeare. This is the first history play I've read from him, so it definitely took me a while to get into the groove of its rhythm but the language is so rich and brilliant, I truly enjoyed many parts of it.

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams

emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shut- ting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of for- getting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant. ...

Read this at a play-reading meeting, and it was a craaaazy experience. This was my second Tennessee Williams play and even though his flawed philosophies infiltrate his work, he is great at writing a solid conflict and great dialogue.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Homophobia