❀'s manga / #university(339)

they like each other, and one guy turns into a cat by a witch. cuz of some convoluted reasoning about him hiding his emotions or something i didn't get it, maybe poor translation. anyway only way to break the curse is to confess to the guy he likes and who likes him back. but the other person will lose all memories of the cat guy. well cat guy does it anyway and other guy loses memories. but they meet again at uni and cat guy calls out to the other guy who easily falls in love cuz cat guy is super hot and cat guy says this time he'll try hard to win other guy over. but it's not like either of them tried to win the other over much before? maybe cat guy talking about his previous relationships where he was kinda fakely friendly and just went with the flow of whoever liked him. anyway nice art. but confusing and no real romance. lol they only just met after the memory erase........

super cute fluffy short story. the sunbae has a rumour about how he's gay and asks do you want to go surfing as a way to pick up guys. the hoobae is curious about this after seeing guys keep away from sunbae, so accepts sunbae's offer. turns out it's really just surfing lol. then at the beach he tells sunbae about this rumour and sunbae confirms he's gay accidentally. things get a little awkward, but it's mostly cuz the hoobae starts having feelings for the sunbae. sunbae thinks hoobae is uncomfortable with him being gay and says they should separately go back home. hoobae stops sunbae and confesses and they kiss and it's just cuteness!!

uke said some reassuring words to seme in high school when he saw seme crying on his parents' death anniversary. uke was third year, seme second year. some time later, like 2 years maybe, uke visited the cafe seme worked at and noticed how handsome seme is. seme also acted a little awkward cuz he recognized uke but didn't acknowledge it. now another year or so later both are in uni and neighbours. they kind of get closer as neighbours cuz seme makes some small advances. uke just broke up with a bf and seme went to interfere when he saw uke crying meeting the bf again. but it's fine uke's moved on. then at the end it's just seme proposing uke gives him a chance too. and uke says to try it, so no relationship at all in his story... seme is indeed hot, but honestly both character look so typical and boring.

they are roommates cuz seme asked to be. uke likes seme and has been jerking off to seme every night. seme finds out and has always liked uke anyway. one night after drinking seme offers a hand job. they do it and uke cums though he says he usually has trouble finishing. next day he overhears seme talking with some friends and it's revealed seme has always liked someone. uke so disappointed, goes home and jerks off again lol, saying it's the last time. seme comes home and uke doesn't hear until seme right in front of him. seme offers to help again but uke is like no we shouldn't do that again. cuz uke thinks seme has someone he likes already. seme is like what, but i like you and they kiss and fuck. after uke asks again to clear up the whole misunderstanding of the overheard convo. kinda confusing cuz they mention other ppl, but basically seme has always only liked uke. end.

very confusing, maybe poor translation or just confusing. basically uke can make ppl forget him with a kiss. seme can read ppl's emotions with a touch. they used to know each other in high school but uke made seme forget him. now getting close again in uni and uke does it again but seme kinda remembers stuff when seeing/hearing about uke. uke comes clean about their past, and i am confused if he tells seme he likes seme or not. cuz we see this happen in the flashback, but seme doesn't react to anything? he just tries to get close like good friends. and uke keeps avoiding his touch like trying to avoid seme finding out his feelings, just like in high school. but after that ofc seme finds out and seme falls in love back and they start dating or just doing dating things without being official. then seme loses his powers cuz he apparently doesn't need them anymore. and after that uke kisses seme to see if he lost his powers. but no he didn't. seme forgets a little but apparently not all?? and remembers everything back or not?? but some time later uke loses powers too once he truly believes he doesn't need them. and then they date normally... confusing and not good. cute art i guess, but weird storytelling.......

uke has a problem where he periodically forgets happy memories. this is not really well explained like why he just suddenly forgets? but basically he forgot all his memories with seme cuz they were all happy. uke does remember some other ppl cuz i guess they weren't happy memories lol..... so when seme and uke first met, seme pursued uke cuz uke is hot. uke was hesitant at first but agreed to date. there was a bit of good misunderstanding angst where uke thought the bad rumours about him being mentally ill and gay turned seme off, but seme was just not sure what to say after finding out about uke's trauma in the past. anyway, so uke told seme about his memory problem and why he was scared he would forget and hurt seme. but seme said it's okay, even if you forget i'll just come back over and over. and one day i guess uke did forget. not explained how he forgot at all... just suddenly seme goes to find uke and uke doesn't recognize him. seme super depressed for a while. but then goes to find uke at his workplace, a cafe. slowly get to know each other and seme reveals they used to date. uke's friend is super cray and tries to prevent them from getting close again. actually this friend was the one who spread bad rumours about uke and laughed about uke behind his back. anyway, friend's shit doesn't work and seme and uke quickly start dating again. one night friend calls uke over after self-harming and uke goes to help. while there the friend forcefully kiss and pins uke down. uke starts to remember the past. he slaps the friend and gets up to escape but faints. friend takes him to ER. when uke wakes up he remembers pretty much all the past about seme and rushes out to find him. there's some random scene of them standing out in the street that's here and also in the very beginning of this story, but i don't think it actually fits anywhere. author probably had a cool scene in mind but then couldn't work it in lol. let's just say it's some past memory but doesn't make sense in any context. anyway, so uke runs out of ER to find seme. seme keeps calling and eventually uke calls him back. they meet on the street and embrace. uke says he remembers it all and it's a great epic reunion. then we get to see a little bit of their cute future together! so domestic but also sexy and flirty. this story is really great at balancing shounen-ai with implied sex and ample skinship.

good art and 3 couples. surprisingly i fricken love all of them!! so main couple is about this uke who thinks he's in love with a girl. the girl is fujoshi and actually cheering for him to end with seme lol. anyway uke gets a master (seme) to teach him how to seduce girls. master actually falls for him and kinda hinders him in his goal. while on a trip to seme's private island, seme keeps seeing uke get close with the girl and is upset. seme confesses and at first uke rejects it and thinks it's weird. but he quickly comes around. honestly i think it's too fast how uke's feelings change from liking the girl to realizing he actually likes seme. but he realizes he likes seme and goes to find seme to confess his feelings back. and they get together after that pretty easily. seme is from a rich family that doesn't pay much attention, so he just wanted someone honest to always stay with him, which uke promises to do. cute, but honestly the uke's feelings changed too fast! second couple is about the uke1's other "master," a computer science graduate student, and this student's friend from undergrad, who's a rich young master. so uke2 was helping uke1 get the girl and along the way uke1 wanted to help uke2 back cuz uke2 was getting ostracized by his classmates. someone had framed him for stealing other people's computer code. seme2 had to come back to uni from his ceo position at his family's business to help out uke2. he provided proof that it was all framed and uke2 got an apology from the bitch who did it. uke2 is really oblivious to seme2's feelings. they were roommates and great friends during undergrad, but seme2 thought they were kinda dating the whole time cuz of a misunderstanding. when he realized uke2 didn't see him in that way, he said he never wanted to see uke2 again. but now seme2 is back and willing to restart their relationship, even just as friends. seme2 floods his own house to have an excuse to stay at uke2's house. they slowly get even closer and uke2 begins to realize his feelings are not just friendship cuz seme2 helps him out so much. their confession scene is so unique and lovely, they might honestly be my fav couple! so they're talking about how good each other are and how they'll both be jealous of whoever got to be with the other in the future. and they look at each other and realize what it means lol, or at least uke finally realizes, seme always knew. then seme proposes they date each other to see what they had to be jealous of. i think this line wasn't translated properly, but i get what they were trying to say. very cute, love oblivious ukes! last couple is an art teacher at the uni and the model he knows. they knew each other for a long time and the model always wanted to prove his worth to the art teacher. but prof always super cold and unwilling to say any compliments or acknowledge the model's beauty. model actually became a model just to show prof that he is indeed beautiful and that other people agree or something like this. anyway whole time we see just model appealing to super cold prof, but at the end we see that prof actually told model that he was perfect one time. and model was drunk that time so he totally forgot and thought it was a dream. after prof told model this, model went overseas to start his modelling career and prof was hurt. thought that once model got validation, he would just leave prof. but model realizes this happened and comes to confront prof just before he always gives up their relationship entirely and goes overseas again. prof confirms it and they make up and get together. their ending seems kinda forced like author couldn't think of a way to make the always super cold guy suddenly change his mind, so gave him some sad backstory reason hmm idk. anyway overall a good read despite the weird title!

the complexity and depth and seriousness in this manhua is literally like nothing i've ever seen before, and for that i have to say it's BEST, though the story was seriously disturbing to me at times due to rape, suicide attempts, and tons of self-harm and depression. there's no way this retelling does it any justice, but it's a masterpiece in its own way. i would say it veers on the side of babying mentally ill characters, always portraying them as in the right and deserving of help. but i think that's the message of this manhua. to bring attention to depression and mental illness and telling us that we need to treasure those people as well. even when people sink to their darkest moments, they can be saved. good art too, a definite plus! so basically seme hates uke cuz he thinks uke's sister and his dad were having an affair and that's why they both died in a car accident together. honestly it's never revealed clearly why they were together that day, but it seems it was not because they were romantically together. i suspect the author changed plots midway. the focus seems to initially be a hate to love relationship, but somewhere in the middle the author went into full mental illness stuff... so seme and uke have to start living in a dorm with 2 other people. seme super hostile to uke, but uke kinda dead and just taking it cuz he's so depressed and has no feelings, all drugged up too. first big event is a school trip and they are rooming together. seme gets super angry and attempts to rape uke. seme pulls back but uke is like i'm used to it and implies that he sells his body to this doctor guy. uke then says it's ok if seme wants to do it cuz he doesn't care either way? at this point seme already has some unhealthy obsession with uke that's turning from hate to desire, so he does fuck uke. then he takes off uke's wet clothes and sees uke's self harm scars all up and down both arms. uke is so upset and this is where the story turns to mental health. for some reason after this happens uke is like completely broken and he can't go to school anymore. the issue i have with this story is that so much focus is given to the mental health awareness that big plot points in the story aren't given enough attention. like things just suddenly happen and you only realize later like what that's it? it was a major plot point but they aren't going to talk about it anymore? and major events are kinda just glossed over.... after uke stops coming to school seme goes to find uke. finds out uke is somehow connected to his past as the boy who called him one time or many times as a child. confusing here and it should have been a big deal that the author just glossed. author also shows them both realizing this fact, but they never get together and actually discuss them finding out their past connection. seems weird we would not see them discuss it, but we do see them acknowledge it later so i guess they spoke about it more off screen?! just didn't feel like enough was communicated about their past reveal. anyway, while this was unravelling, seme found uke at his childhood rundown house and brought him to a new apartment that seme started renting cuz he's the son of a rich family. he brought uke there and promised to heal uke from his trauma and stuff. but honestly kind of weird cuz uke seemed relatively okay, just dead inside before. the rape thing might have set him off even more but idk. another confusing point cuz uke was not so bad but i guess he was hiding it. there's some serious drama about uke's old doctor being an ex-bf of uke's dead sister. and the doctor being obsessed with the dead sis and kidnapping uke to dress him up as her and pretending to live domestic life with him as her replacement. then seme comes to the rescue and the doctor tries to jump off the balcony but seme saves him. thank god never see him again. then we see uke opening up to seme some more after that and seme going to talk to doctors to get help for uke. once uke feels a bit better he goes to the hospital himself and starts a new round of medications. after this the next big drama is seme's family. cuz seme's mom is already kinda mental from way back due to various factors in an unhappy marriage and then the dad died and she just was upset everywhere idk. i guess it's hard to pinpoint the exact causes of mental illness. so seme brings uke to family spring break gathering and family doesn't know uke's identity so it's okay. but some time later the mom randomly shows up at their apartment. seme is out but uke sits with the mom in silence and waiting. uke knows some shit about to go down and mom saw the hickeys on uke's neck. seme comes back and uke's mom goes crazy seeing them act domestic and stabs for uke but hits seme. seme goes into hospital unconscious for like a week. during this time uke decides to just up and leave?!?!? like ofc we've seen a lot of good mental development from him during this time, but such a weird real life choice. to leave your partner after he is stabbed. but i think the author wanted to show the uke be independent and not always just relying on seme so ok makes sense in the story... so this apparently all happened during their first year of uni, though uke was a bit older and held back cuz of his sister's death and stuff for 1 year or so. seme's mother was forgiven by seme eventually cuz apparently we're supposed to forgive all mental illness shit... and now jump forward 3 years to uni graduation of seme. uke had dropped out. seme has decided to move out and stop relying on his parents for money and stuff. and with that he shows he is free to love uke and be with him cuz he is fully independent now. they had originally promised to keep the relationship a secret until after graduation anyway. in a way this was kinda fulfilling the original plan of fully being together only after graduation. so seme graduating and uke comes to see him with flowers to congratulate him. seme hugs him right away and they go back to uke's house. uke actually bought the apartment they stayed at together before. so happily ever after from now on i suppose. there was a side doctor couple that's also not well explained. probably a lot got cut if this was adapted, and it would be worth checking for an original though idk if i can stomach it. at least not right now. ok so there are some very cute extras in chinese that were not translated. read them and it was worth! very cute normal couply stuff. so sad for all the shit this couple has gone through, i hope they can be together in peace forever.

this had an interesting premise of meeting in dreams, but the characters, especially uke, got a little annoying and the plot went crazy. so these guys were friends in childhood, always playing at the park near their apartment, but one day seme's mother committed suicide and seme went to the hospital. then his father took him away and uke never saw him again and never knew what happened to him. seme was actually in china and there he met the antagonist, a rich and kinda crazy guy who was lonely cuz people only hung with him for money and power. seme and rich guy became good friends cuz rich guy knew korean and taught seme chinese. but then rich guy wanted seme all to himself so he paid other kids to bully seme. seme only had rich guy for a while, but then found out that it was all rich guy's schemes and that ended the friendship. so now in university seme and uke meet again and seme recognizes uke but not the other way around. one night at a first year student retreat, seme tells drunk uke who he is and uke kisses him. but after that uke doesn't remember anything and ignores seme like before. seme thinks this means uke regrets what happened and wants to pretend nothing happened. so they go on kinda not knowing each other for 3 years. now present day is third year in uni and uke starts having dreams where seme shows up. through the dreams he sees what they did in first year and thinks seme was forcing him. uke is so rude to seme this whole time and cussing him out and shit. i really dislike uke cuz he is so cold to seme and just a dumbass making dumb decisions and saying dumb shit all throughout this series. through more dreams uke sees that it was him who kissed first and is kinda okay with it. they almost get into a relationship cuz uke sees his future without seme and is so sad and prevents it. but still uke refuses to say he fucking likes seme. then the rich guy comes from china to find seme. and he can also mess with dreams. there's some drama about uke's friend liking uke and rich guy using that to mess with the dreams, but that passes pretty fast. this is where it gets so confusing and messed up and crazy. so rich guy wants the seme and tries to come between them. but then he gets close to uke and likes uke. seme can't say anything about rich guy's real identity cuz rich guy has a photo of them kissing. but then rich guy gets bored of seme i guess and just posts the photo. rich guy starts going after uke. he takes him to some private island and traps him there. they start getting kinda close but seme then comes in to stop it by pretending he likes the rich guy. there's a ton of weird confusing scenes of bdsm between rich guy and uke and rich guy and seme... feels like these fake relationships got more screen time than the main couple seriously. well in the end basically rich guy is so lonely and that's why he was scared to love and instead just wanted to control people, something like that. and nothing happens to him, they all kinda remain friendly. seme and uke finally have sex and they lose the power to do the dream things. the end. ugh started off great but annoying ass uke kept being rude and tsun. then the weird shit with all the scenes involving rich guy. i started wishing for rich guy and seme to be together but ofc impossible. i'm a sucker for seme on seme though...

shitty relationship, shitty uke. uke has dead face and only seems to care about sex. he is not satisfied that seme sometimes avoids his advances. seme just doesn't want the relationship to be all about sex. but uke makes these gross plans to make seme jealous by hanging out with his ex, who is seme's good friend. seme gets jealous and confused about what they're doing so he wants to possess uke and they have sex. uke is satisfied and does it again, playing with both the seme and his ex. really annoying uke. in the end seme says to just say shit clearly instead of pulling this crap. uke also buys some sex toys for them to use together.