The theme for this issue of Shousetsu Bang*Bang was Anyway, Here’s Wonderwall. And it came out on my birthday! Which is my excuse for not getting these summaries/reviews out earlier, and I’m sticking to it. Now, let’s see if I can remember what any of the stories were…
Figgy duff and spotted dick: A pair of boyfriends who are opening a coffee shop are nearly there. We get just a small slice of their life as they take a brief break from working to fulfill their dream.
know your meme, but, like, in the biblical sense: A secret from the new co-worker’s past comes back to haunt him, but the MC doesn’t really see it as a bad thing.
Eight to Five (twenty-two and a half inches): A football guy and a band guy. While still being short and sweet, this one took some time to deal with the closetedness (or not) of the two guys. Also, they were very…human, I guess, in that they had some clear, yet simple flaws–like the one guy was a bit of a jerk. Not to any extreme, just a forgivable amount that’s enough to be human without being super-humanly flawed.
The Scene is Dead: A really interesting take on a ghost story. At least one of the Big Things was skipped over (The Big Reveal, if you will), but then again, I didn’t feel betrayed by that, just mildly miffed, since it’s clear what happened, and that it wouldn’t have been a very dramatic scene to begin with.
Anyway, I’m Not That Wonderful: A man and his sometimes-hookup, and how that changes. It’s a simple story, but also sweet, and it had a very good use of name-reveals that I totally approve of.
Savior (tfw maybe bf): This was the only 2-part story in the bunch. It was…interesting. There was some drug-use, although not by the MC (and it was more referred to afterwards as explanation than explicit during the story). I’m uncomfortable with the events of the story, because I’m always uncomfortable with things like people shacking up with strangers and putting themselves socially on the line for looking like an idiot, but if you put that aside, it’s a very interesting story. It traced the tipping point for one young man’s life; the moment when it goes from being carefully planned to being much more wild, yet what he wants. So it’s sweet with a hopeful ending, yet not without its rough patches.
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