stressedpenguin's manga / #3/10(128)

Ch 1-2: delinquent who's trying very hard not to be a delinquent falls for a guy with a cute face. They both suck at communicating and it takes several meetings (and several slaps) for them to figure out they like each other. The uke turns out is super into the seme but also a mega tsundere Ch 3-5: uke's lover ditched him five years ago. During those five years, uke had a kid with a woman who then died. Uke's shitty ex lover returns and forced his way into uke's life again. I cannot stand the seme. He completely disregards the ukes wants and feelings in every conversation. He's manipulative and a bum too. He's got zero respect for the uke. This guy sucks Ch 6-7: Vocalist for a band is suddenly kissed by the bassist and freaks out. Vocalist is also obsessed with the bassists playing, so even though he'd freaked out by the kiss, he winds up getting together with the bassist in the end. The bassist has a pretty shitty, cold, manipulative attitude, so wasnt a fan Overall 3 or 4/10

Uh lowkey no idea what I just read. They sped ran a reencounter unrequited love story for the first half and then a persist pushy seme chasing after the same guy's ass for... apparently multiple months?? years?? Idk theres no build up. Characters react like something dramatic just happened but I dont see the drama in it. This was kinda a mess 3/10

This really is oops all fake dating where both couples play pretend lovers and of course wind up really lovers. Was pretty meh for me but I'm knocking it down a few points out of spite for sending the message that romance is more important than healthy sibling or other platonic relationships and another point for drawing Blond Uke like an actual child in their attempt to get across that hes naive and childish. ....maybe I'm just in a real grumpy mood today 3/10

Mm. Yeah. I was really enjoying it until the fucking snake and suddenly Miharu just totally caters to his every whim, let's him destroy things he cares about and chase away the actual ray is sunshine we've been hanging out with??? That reallllly soured the otherwise okay experience. Basically, cute guy is saved by hot guy who runs a shop. Cute guy is head over heels, starts working therez and watches as hot guy goes around sleeping every other dude's problems away. Was fine. Was expecting hot guy to grow past his trauma thanks to being around our cute sunshine... but then in the end literally everyone sucked. 3/10

Dropped at ch 53. I cant explain it, but it's like the story is hiding... Characters sometimes reference moments or past drama that I've been expecting to be revealed, but I'm 50 chapters in and it's only ever been hinted at and it feels like at going to be a long long time before anything is clearly explained, if that ever happens. People keep dropping hints and hints and hints that *something* has or is happening, but it's not quite enough. The mystery is good and fun but not at the expense of actually getting to know anyone in this story. Despite supposedly spending all this time in Hyunsoo's head, we still barely know anything about him other than he's got a temper and has violent outbursts. Hyunsoo and Youngchan haven't had a real, in depth conversation despite the number of times they've fought, physically and verbally. I like slow burn relationships where the two characters have to work out their own inner turmoil, but I don't feel like I'm even getting that. The story seems afraid to outright show too much about any of the characters. I dunno. I'm 50 chapters in, and I'd rather just watch everyone here get hit by a bus. I don't like angry, violent, arrogant characters, and I'm talking about Hyunsoo AND Youngchan here, and if we're not going to get any deeper into their heads and pasts (or even presents), then I don't see a reason to stick around. 3/10, for promising me an interesting dynamic and character study but refusing to actually give me those things after FIFTY GODDAMN CHAPTERS

Basically an excuse to do a classic bully x slave dynamic with no charisma. Also for being in an erotic BL game I high key thought there'd be way more fucking Just boring for me so I'll pass 3/10

Nope! His friend rapes him and we pretend that's not a crime??? Also they're fake dating whole the uke is actually dating someone else? Also, maybe it's just me, but it seems like the uke's hearing loss is pretty inconsistent?? Sometimes he can't hear himself singing and others he can hear someone calling his name from far away? Idk if he just didn't have his hearing aids for the singing thing or smth. I don't know how hearing impairments work, I'm so sorry if this is wildly ignorant Overall, pretty standard. 3/10

Yeesh these guys were a mess. Ummm okay young dad with a teen son meets a young hot guy at a mixer. Shenanigans happen, they fuck. Seme had a weird dad and dog fetish thing going on that absolutely no one has addressed yet and idk if I'm here for that or what Anyway that was meh for me. Very cliche drama 3/10?

Nahhhhhh dude everything about that sucked. The relationship is cliche--gloomy uke with a shit job getting lowkey tricked into sex with a selfish, manipulative seme. But hey the seme eventually feels bad for the cute uke and starts being somewhat better. So yay? And the story was unsatisfying for me. Grandma deserved better. Idk man this just wasn't it for me 3/10

Man I dont have any tags for this. Everyone's yelling about the uke sleeping with literally everyone so I'm not gonna touch that. What DID annoy me was the uke's constant self deprecation. Through no fault of his own really, the story turned into the uke going "oh no I suck I'm so dirty I'm so selfish" and everyone else jumping to reassure him that he's not. But he kinda... was? Purely from his POV, he calls the seme home from a 7 year study abroad--which isn't even a study abroad at that point, that's just where he lives now--with zero regard to the seme's established life and expects him to take over a restaurant because the uke wants to. To be fair, we do get that memory at the end that the seme promised to come back. But because it came at the end, I was already annoyed at him. Imagine how much more dramatic irony we could have gotten if we knew the uke wanted the seme to fulfill his promise while the seme was dealing with all the changes he was thrown into (not that that... is what hes actually trying to cope with, gosh everyone sucks) Also it just kinda pissed me off that the uke literally pushes the seme away the first time they hug and says they're complete strangers???? No???? YOU called HIM back to his hometown. You've been yearning for him and you're finally getting close. Why the fuck-- SPEAKING OF the seme.. SIR. I wish he spent more time thinking about all the ways his hometown had changed and not JUST that his cute childhood friend had slept with 100 guys I dunno man. This story suffered a lot from characters refusing to introspect and then communicate. They have to be told their own feelings by their neighbors who can see instantly what they're thinking. It makes them seem flat, avoidant, and melodramatic. I don't know why this story pissed me off in particular because I read so much crap like it, but it seriously got to me 3/10 for making me spend like 5 hours post-reading trying to parse out my own feelings