Hoppe Ni Himawari
This was very cute and short! It was a wholesome sweet high school romance between two boys. A baseball player who confesses to the chubby boy who likes to eat food and garden. They have a little misunderstanding but it was resolved fast. I love stories that have chubby people in them. I was fine with the boy losing weight at the end but why no smut scene when he was chubby : (
Ase to Sekken
5/5. Omg this was soooooo cute and wholesome, but also steamy at some times. Uhh it’s def a new favorite manga for me. It honestly has set the standard high for healthy relationships in manga. There were so many times I found myself squealing because I was having a cuteness overload. They are so perfect for each other. It also touched on some real life problems, though the problems were solved fairly quick. Over all not a lot of angst and drama which is honestly refreshing. I also found it funny at some parts. They had a fast moving relationship and I think they hadn’t known each other for much more the two years maybe before they got married. Then they immediately had a child. So in some ways it was not that realistic but it was such a sweet escape. Honestly one of the first office romances I’ve enjoyed in a long time. I think my least favorite part was when natori went on a trip with his coworker that had a crush on him. They are just such an emotionally mature couple. Natori sniffs asako for their meet cute. After like a week or two they decide to date. They support each others careers and find time to make for each other. It’s a story about couples dynamics and things that come up in relationships that aren’t usually explored in romance media theses days. I think the fact that it was a seinen based off a fetish kind of put me off for a while but I am so glad I read this!
Hosik's story
4.5/5 I really liked this story. I think the beginning of their relationship was rough because of the non-con but the further into this story I got the more I lovd them! Starting off… I love an obsessed and possessive seme, add mpreg and you already have my heart! That being said I think that this was a lovely story with a mostly beautiful plot. It has a lot of slice of life so I kinda got bored at some parts but they were very cute! The author is definitely a mastermind with this love story that descends through time. I think that hosiks and sunbaes past lives are so sad but beautiful. Knowing that they eventually get their happy ending after all the pain they went through makes me happy. And while hosik and sunbae both have flawed personalities, I feel like their personalities fit them with all their history. You can see their personalities change in each timeline. Hoyeon and soyeon are so cute! A couple of the side stories got kinda weird but we can ignore that. I kind find hosiks friends annoying. While I feel bad for hosik, I eat all the drama up. Sunbae loves to gaslight but it’s funny. Hosik ends up having a one night stand with his sunbae and ends up pregnant even though he’s a man?! He tries to avoid sunbae and deal with it by himself but his overbearing sunbae won’t leave him alone. This story shows them having kids and having their ups and downs. It also has amazing side stories that show their past lives. I also used to hate the amnesia chapters but now I love them. It proves that since Will love hosik no matter what. I will say one of my critiques is that for the longest time it didn’t feel like hosik loved sunbae, he was just staying to be responsible and he only treated sunbae with respect. I also kind feel bad for soyeon because you can tell hoyeon is their favorite.
Minegishi-san wants Otsu-kun to eat!