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I felt like I was dropped right into the middle of the story. I didn't understand what was going on and the first sex scene was pathetic. He just straight out tells the other guy that he's going to rape him for like no reason. The characters were cliche and boring. I just couldn't make it through any more. I seriously doubt it ever gets better and while sometimes I'm willing to try to and make it through I wasn't willing in this case.

The art was very pretty. The story was decent and probably would have been pretty good if anything had been resolved. Instead it ends on a pretty big cliffhanger and only resolves the relationship between the two main characters and leaves everything else unresolved. The uke was pretty annoying but all the other characters were decent. Overall, this manga was just decent, not great.

I can't say I cared much for the first story. It felt awkward and forced. The continuation chapter for the first story was a bit better but I still didn't care for the characters much. The uke was very weak and girly and the seme was, dare I say it, too stoic. I mean, I like stoic semes but this uke and seme were just a bad match. But honestly, I felt it was all worth it when I got to the second story. The second story is great and I wish there was more of it. It focuses on body image issues in a ... cute and funny way. The characters are a much better match than in the first story as well. The uke is pretty stereotypical in the way he acts but not so much in the way in he looks, which the first part deals with. The seme is a usual cool seme, who is desperately trying to keep his cool image in the second part of the story. I felt the author hit a good middle ground with those two and they and the art are really the only reasons I even rated this a 4.

Angel Dust is a cute story with great characters and beautiful artwork. Unfortunately the story, while a great concept, suffers greatly from a lack of pacing. The story is just too rushed and felt incomplete. I've had a lot of series where I felt they dragged on for far too long and stories where I was left wanting more because it was just so good but in this case I felt like Angel Dust needed more substance introduced over a longer period of time. Reading this story left me feeling like I had just ran through a museum, only taking a cursory glance at all ... the objects.

I did enjoy this yaoi novel very much but I know it's definitely not for everyone. For as many things as this novel has going for it it also has several things detracting for it. The first thing I would mention that I don't necessarily consider a negative is that I wouldn't exactly venture to call this novel very romantic. It was mostly a very silly romcom. I enjoy those sorts of things though but I know that not everyone does. Now to move on to the more negative factors.

Despite how well written this story was and how funny it was the novel did suffer ... from some minor negatives. The translation had some errors and if you're very particular about typos and such in novels this may be a bit difficult to get over. Also, if you're looking for smut this is not the book for you. The author starts in on sex scenes but generally does not get very explicit. The other problem with this novel was that it did get a bit repetitive at times. Despite those drawbacks it was a very well written story with interesting characters.

I would say overall as long as you're not looking for anything serious or smutty you should definitely give this one a try.