stressedpenguin's manga / #6/10(222)

Burnt out corporate slave finally quits and begins his pursuit of dick and love. By chance he meets a hottie at a bar they fuck. Uke is an nervous wreck the whole time, which the hottie finds super cute. Honestly 6/10 name on MAL is Boku ga Shachiku wo Yamete Kara

cool police detective alpha x independent punk private investigator omega. The two paired as part of a deal where the PI is the detective's informant. Ngl, I was kinda bored the whole time. 5 or 6/10

photographer runs into a young restaurant owner while visiting town to photograph the sunsets. he winds up working at the restaurant in return for room and board. Photographer is still haunted by the death of his past lover so we got some angst too. Some gripes: 1) romance characters need to stop kissing people without consent. 2) I was expecting the drama to be a bit more fleshed out? Seme confesses, kisses uke, uke panics and leaves. Comes back 4 pages later and they have exactly one conversation about the complicated feelings associated with losing a lover and moving on from them, and then we're done. Overall, fairly cute. It's got a good not quite melancholy not quite fluffy atmosphere. 6/10

Another tattoo artist seme, nice. I love me my tatted BL. It was pretty good in the first half but then the kinda dumb random drama happened and I was like -_-. Wasnt bad tho. Okay but someone explain to me why in every bl I've read recently someone ghosts the other. Can yall at least be like.... SAY smth first??? 6/10

Woman is in love with her boss who is married to some shitty guy who's probably cheating on her. She and her boss start an affair of their own. There's some angst, a lil bit of drama, and a cheesy happy ending. There's a bit of sexism and traditional patriarchal ideas thrown around that the characters have to deal with. Didn't really get into those, but I appreciate that they brought them up and treated them seriously This didn't really grip me much. The plot was pretty standard for an office romance. As a minor gripe: why did they not have nipples? 6/10. I felt absolutely nothing reading this but plus points for having women who look like grown adults and not children. My expectations are rock bottom.

The angst is strong with this one. Seme took advantage of uke's break up back in high school. They started a messy friends with benefits relationship until they graduated. Seme was and still is in love with the uke. Four years later, uke seeks out the seme and they have a lot of angsty back and forths. There's a fine line between understandable, character-driven drama and annoying, unrealistic miscommunication plots. This manga walks that line. It works just well enough and the characters are just forgivable enough that I could indulge in the angst without wanting to peel my face off over the fact that neither of them bothered to clarify their relationship for like, what, 1 year? 2 years? 6/10

Dropped at ch 27. Feel bad for the uke getting screwed over by like every aspect of life rn. Like great that the seme apologized for going on a power trip and bullying the uke at work, I guess but smth feels like it's missing idk. It's like, immediately after he apologizes he becomes the good guy hero saving the uke from a trashy supervisor so I dont feel like he really experienced the consequences of his actions? I dunno. Also not a fan that the seme just kept fucking the uke when the poor guy was clearly asking to stop. I hate that "you say stop but your body clearly says you're into it" like goddamn just respect their wishes I just dont care to continue 6/10 for what I read

Very sensual BDSM but I just wasnt into it. candles... not into candles

Cute! I like that the uke had to work through recognizing his feelings of jealousy and the seme was considerate of him. 6 or 7/10

Qi Shi has a scary face and scar that keeps him from getting jobs and making friends. Then he runs into an old classmate, Nan Jue, who offers to help Qi Shi fix his image. Nan Jue moves in and Qi Shi finally gets a job and starts getting along with his coworkers. It's pretty fluffy and cute. I liked watching Qi Shi gain confidence and make friends. They should've reported Nan Jue's abusive ex. I cant believe they just let hin go... :/ 6/10 name on MAL is Ke Zai Meiyan Jian