#Aga Naomi

[mangaworld]

[blushingguy]

Oni to Tengoku by Aga Naomi

[yaoi-reading]

Akane-kun Destiny

[spirit-of-anime]

Lie Cry Like

[le-trash-prince]

Oni to Tengoku

[hatsumishinogu]

Sono Me de Shikkari Daite oke [Last Volume]

[animangabwedit]

Oni to Tengoku by Aga Naomi & Oyoshikawa Kyoko

[not-poignant]

I almost never post recs but: 2023 breakdown:

TOP 5 MANHUA

Define the Relationship by Flona & Chada

XXX Buddy by Lash & Daki

Aporia by Seontae

Steel Under Silk by snob

Checkmate by TAN

Honourable mention: Semantic Error

TOP 5 OTHER WRITING

Given Vols 7 & 8 by Natsuki Kizu

System Collapse by Martha Wells

Classmates (Blanc) by Asumiko Nakamura

Tonari Ni by Basso (Natsume Ono)

Oni no Tengoku by Aga Naomi (-Reread)

Note, I almost exclusively read manhua (Korean webcomics/webtoons) this year, consuming well over 200 titles. And I read a paltry amount of manga, published fiction and published non-fiction, and I didn’t like a lot of it, honestly.

TOP 5 ANIME

Jujutsu Kaisen

Demon Slayer

Bungou Stray Dogs

March Comes in Like a Lion (-Rewatch)

Fruits Basket (2019 series)

Honourable mention, because almost no one else has seen it: Play it Cool, Guys.

TOP 5 TV SHOWS

Loki (S2)

Bridgerton (S2)

Deadloch (S1)

Sandman (S1)

Ted Lasso (S3)

TOP 5 VIDEO GAMES

Baldur’s Gate 3

Stardew Valley

AFK Arena

PowerWash Simulator

Dorfromantik

[thirdset]

cannot even say wta is in its straight era because technically it is not but the vibes are so weird. not necessarily bad. but weird. i think it's because there is no balance. what do i mean by that? i don't even know. am i rewriting history in my head? maybe. i think the "old era" of like...serena/maria/caro/angie/aga/ana/vika were so...not necessarily messy but so different? the rotations were better somehow. you could group them together easily and they played each other more often.

but now i feel like im lying!!! like aryna/iga, aryna/elena, elena/iga in theory have a similar sort of dynamic that can translate from on court to off but i cannot make it work...coco's rotational abilities are interesting to me because there is potential. i think jess is so....straight married boring and maria fell off the face of the earth. even tho i still think they're fun mirrors of each other meaning...it's a flop fest. you understand me etc. iga is just like....you can't even have messy (fake!!!!!) fun with her psychologist or whatever. that video of her inviting jasmine over for pierogies for CHRISTMAS like girl...i was thinking. and then NAOMI who i thought was the centre of the wta universe is like...where are you? iga/naomi is still interesting to me but their lives SEEM so opposite that i find it hard to like. just ignore the fact that naomi has an entire baby. even tho rpf is FAKE fake fake. and just using them as pre-tense for stories. like i get that i am not really a tinhatter in any sense of it. but idk. i think that's part of why m/m rpf is more popular because it's like. easier to forget about the rest of their lives where with women it is still so much more centred? idk. maybe i've lost my marbles. who else even is there. i know i wrote a dreamwidth post with all my potential pairings i'd write but...that is under lock and key. aryna is def, imo, the most rotatable because she is the most extroverted and in everyone else's business. i thought emma had so much potential but now i'm like...mhm. karo is like. ok dyke but also ? mhm. doubles is so...i could make it work but the effort vs. reward of writing it stresses me out too much. bianca is my favourite "no homo" "im not lesbian just to clear that up" remix but she's so isolated from the tour that it's hard to make it work. absolutely NOBODY cared about emma/bianca even though i still think it works and is interesting. jannik/carlos does nothing for me i'm so sorry. holger/anyone i can be into. i keep starting and deleting a very dumb and indulgent denis/domi fic where domi decides to coach denis and it is a mess that's kind of successful except it ends up with a v weird sexual dynamic ¯_(ツ)_/¯. if i am being honest i am still thinking about dyke novak. sorry. other pairings i just...idk. i don't even think the current crop of players are boring but there's just less content and they feel more media trained/resistant to saying anything interesting? but then i read transcripts and watch interviews and i don't know if that's true. even in trophy speeches...it's like i see. i think i still just have brain blockage of how f/f is perceived vs. m/m and i'm not...trying to be like well you must read/write f/f to be a good person because that's...stupid. it is just...i do not care about men nearly as much as i do women in any facet! it is not on purpose! or to prove anything or out of any sense of ~activism. i just cannot find men that interesting and i do not want to come across as standing on a soapbox or whatever. but idk. the difference is interesting to me? i felt like it was SO easy to come up with random tidbits of ideas/stories/pwp vague ideas for the like....2012-2018 era and now i'm stuck half the time and everything feels so repetitive. maybe there's just less...grounded in reality and the season is so jumpy without consistency (not of results but just of repetitive match ups or like...they are in the same place. and talk to each other off court) or whatever. i thought the olympics was going to be ripe with rpf happenings but no! it was just this weird "qinwen isn't friendly" bullshit. tho i guess that did result in one v good fic so there's that. idk. i have no point here.

already on AO3 pairings (* indicates ive written them already, from only this season, restricted from dec 2023 to now)

jannik/carlos (192)

roger/rafa (46)

holger/casper* (39)

daniil/stefanos (34)

karen/andrey (16)

novak/rafa (15)

grigor/andrey* (12)

daniil/andrey (11)

novak/andy (10)

flavio/ben(12)

jannik/sonego (8)

stefanos/zverev (7)

hubert/iga (6)

carlos/ferrero (6)

nikola/mate (5)

fritz/zverev (5)

jess/maria* (4)

iga/qinwen* (4)

draper/jannik (4)

novak/roger (3)

aryna/iga* (3)

karo/iga (3)

andrey/zverev (2)

daniil/daria (3)

paula/aryna* (2)

holger/jannik (2)

elena/aryna* (2)

carlos/novak

grigor/hubert

novak/holger* (2)

emma/bianca* (2)

iga/elena* (1)

qinwen/li na* (1)

naomi/iga*

maria/serena

jannik/carlos is soooo dominant it's crazy...good for them etc. the gap between m/m and f/f is wiiiiild but not really surprising. other pairings i've written but before this year angie/andrea, caro/serena, caro/alizé, caro/kristina, borna/donna.

potential pairings (that i would write, probably)

iga/bianca

novak/denis

aryna/jess

madi/sloane

jess/madi

coco/iga

jasmine/iga

donna/maria (technically already wrote this but)

elena/qinwen

holger/denis (spider man meme basically)

retirement fic still has a hold on me...which is so dumb but it does. but it never hits the way i want it to. maria/serena/caro/angie and any iteration of them....you have my attention. there's other pairings that i'd never write but think are interesting. jess/taylor, emma/qinwen is like...i can see the vision and i deeply respect it but i cannot make it work. reading it, hell yes. idk. i am back at a point where writing feels very useless and too self-indulgent and the payoff isn't really worth it but. who knows. off-season is a great time to make shit up.

[skyanimewrites]

Oni to Tengoku Sai I Aga Naomi/Oyoshikawa Kyouko

[mangaworld]

[blushingguy]

Oni to Tengoku by Aga Naomi

[yaoi-reading]

Akane-kun Destiny

[spirit-of-anime]

Lie Cry Like - by Aga Naomi & Yoshi

[kishiiiro]

Name: Oni to Tengoku | 鬼と天国 | Heaven and Demon

Author: Aga Naomi

Aoki is a minimum-effort, unmotivated high school teacher.

After being scolded by a senior teacher, he goes to the nurse’s office to check on a student who’s been skipping classes.

There he talks for the first time to Tengoku, a school nurse he’s unable to grasp, and who ends up laughing at Aoki after exposing him for pretending to be a keen teacher. Although Aoki has reaffirmed that he hates Tengoku with this event, Tengoku comes out and tells him “I’ve always been watching you since my appointment”.

Moreover, Aoki suddenly gets kissed by Tengoku after being called “pure-hearted”…?

Perverted Nurse x Worn-out Pure-hearted Teacher. Is it heaven or hell that awaits the cowardly Aoki? A top who brings about an adult sexuality. Aga Naomi’s best original work of an elaborate psychological portrayal.

oooh two broken souls that can only be mended through each other's presence I'M HERE FOR IT! i didn't think this would be deep when i started it, but i am NOT complaining. i love how their relationship progressed. i love how at first it appears as if one is being ruined by the other, but soon it gets clear that both are damaged, and healing can only be attained if they actually see each other.

and i mean... younger seme? IM IMMEDIATELY SOLD. tengoku acts as if he's got everything under control but he's actually the baby of the relationship. aoki's more mature, considering he's older, but he still needs the tengoku to keep him stable. they're just both so cute and so in love with each other. 😩

[hatsumishinogu]

Sono Me de Shikkari Daite oke [First Volume]