He Tian is working on getting his love interest to even acknowledge him as a friend after having bullied him in school.ġ9 Days is a series that has gotten its author Old Xian awards. All of the boys are appropriately masculine for their age, there's no forced sexual tension, no stupid misunderstandings that could easily be fixed by conversation, no jealousy melodrama, no one is 'the chick' in the relationship, there is no canonically clearly established seme-uke dynamic between Jian Yi & Zhan Zheng-Xi, there's a heavy emphasis on bromance, there will be no romance until the boys are at least college aged, & they've been in Jr. I have to recommend them to our Fudanshi bretherin.
I've been re-re-rereading this series for over half a decade & decided to re-re-rewrite the review, after Old Xian added a huge new plot element & also after reading several Korean & Chinese BL webtoons.įirst let me say that things gay boys tend to find annoying about Japanese BL tend to not be present in Korean & Chinese works.
