Blood Bank

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Blood Bank is something any fan of yaoi should sit down and read sometime. The story starts off a bit questionably due to the power imbalance and active trauma in One's (the MC) life, but the story progression and development as it goes along massively makes up for it. The main pairing cannot be considered sunshine and roses the entire time, but they work through their issues and find each other on equal standing by the end of it all.

Please note, many deep topics are touched such as: racism, classism, internal corruption, sl@v3ry, child @buse, gr00ming, and xen0ph0bia.

Despite the numerous sensitive topics the author ... successfully addresses, you also will see a well-written romantic and sexual relationship develop between the main pair. The backstory of the world and characters is fleshed out enough while not dragging on. Many readers have recorded crying during certain parts. It is equally tragic and happy. The conclusion is very satisfactory despite the losses.

The reason it is not rated ten by me is because the ending feels complete yet simultaneously not enough. You will understand what I mean if you ever read it.

This is a case of "I came here for the smut, stayed for the story". I am really impressed with Blood Bank. Even the lack of smut still makes the story pretty solid. This is probably one of the few yaoi's I've read that really delved deeper into the plot and explored the story in its glory. Although I am quite sad that we didn't get to see more of Eric and Shell's romance through out the story, but their relationship was purely built on love, trust and honesty which I think some manhwa kinda glossed over to just focus on smut. But here I ... kinda wished there were more intimate scenes because they look so good together. Can you believe we get a sex scene around chapter 40-ish? That's one heck of a story build-up if you ask me. And that's what make Blood Bank so good! I want a hundred side stories from this because I want more Eric and Shell lovey-dovey moments!