How funny that a series completely grounded in reality is just a work of fiction in a series not grounded in reality at all. Most items the students wear is Mosspaca brand, tying them to the Mosspaca Advertisement Department webtoon, in which 19 Days is just a comic Old Xian works on when he's not having wacky advertisement adventures. The romance is actually secondary & is a realistic slow-burn, making it popular with the same expanded audiences as Yuri on Ice. It went from a plotless comedy to a dramatic coming-of-age tale about 4 middle school boys' journey to becoming men.

Then around chapter 100, the art started getting more detailed & readers were suddenly graced with plot elements, character development, & a couple of seemingly minor cast members became secondary protagonists & regulars. For a couple of years, the series was a simple 4koma gag series. This series' humble beginning started with a one-shot in 2013 in an anthology series by the same name. She's a top tier webtoon blogger with just under 10 million fans on Weibo alone, who likes to stay in-character as her male counterpart from her Mosspaca series online & at conventions (she should invest in a blonde wig for the Cons). 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.

19 Days by Old Xian