So I usually read my manga online because I'm a cheapskate college student unlike my dear friend, sylphalchemist, who buys her books to review, takes the pictures herself, and translates them (yeah she's a badass). And I find I don't really pay attention to the tags attached to Shoujo. Out of all the past manga I've reviewed, only Crush on You was tagged with Shounen Ai. Apparently I have the instincts of a BL hound dog. I sniff that shit out.
I sat down, pondering what manga I've read that doesn't have BL, and I realized that the most ridiculous ones that belong to this blog are the ones that do. This does not include crossdressing heroines with mistaken BL, the gay side characters, and BL-centric shoujos. There's just something about merging heroines with BL that turns it into a sixty minute awkward pause where you try to stop, but you can't because like a common bystander, you want to watch that train wreak hit the wall.
Renai Shinjuu is one such manga. I read it earlier this year probably while waiting for a friend (the kind who you've hung out with but haven't fully let out all your inner nerd). And it was bad. That friendship didn't last long. Oh and manga was terrible.
