stressedpenguin's manga / #Reencounter(85)

The women in this one suck, but I guess that's common in BL. Lame. The relationship was very cute. Both seme and uke had massive insecurities. The semes stems from his codependent, over attached mom. I wasnt expecting that tbh. Also, the cover scammed me. I thought there would be more cats. This one was a 5/10. Didn't quite flow and spent more time in the past than I liked

Best friends since high school and lovers of photography, although Minato ends up pursuing a different career. After 5 years of living together, Minato leaves and Wataru is lonely. Then Minato returns and stubbornly asks Wataru to live together again. They both love each other, and they both know it, but Wataru is terrified of changing their relationship so he refuses Minato's proposal over and over Very sweet! 7/10 name on MAL is Countdown to Yes

Ch 1-2: flower researcher is sponsored by a beautiful rich man who eats nothing but flowers. It's a bit melodramatic but I still liked it. 7/10 Ch 3-4: pushy top chases cute classmate. Classmate assumes hes just teasing and is hurt. Top finally realizes hes serious. Didn't vibe with this one much. 4/10 Ch 5-6: a prequel of sorts for another story that I haven't read, and I wasn't very interested in the characters. 4/10 Overall, wound up being a 6/10 for me

Ngl, thought the scent kink would be.... more. Goes to show how much pwp I've been reading. They're cute. I have no real thoughts 5/10

Really clunky writing. I get what they were going for (reencoubter I've loved you this whole time but external homophobia and a traumatic experience created internal phobia and now I'm a wreck but will you love me anyway) BUT I don't think the execution was very good. The story clumsily hints at the broader story because it wants to do a dramatic reveal, so it has to spend all its screen time with the confused seme. But the seme isn't all that interesting bc his entire character revolves around the uke, but we cant tell you anything about the uke because he has to be a mystery, so we cant tell you anything at all. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ 2/10, minus a point for annoying me

Playboy seme encounters a seemingly innocent uke who turns out to be more devilish in bed than he anticipated. He gets a lil pissed off and tries to get back at the uke only to fall in love and also find out they've met before in the past. Personally, I'm not big into "i actually loved you all along" plots. But that's personal preference. We stan an uke who knows what he wants and goes for it, and can also be a cute, shy bean. Relationship was a little spontaneous for me, but I did like the characters so 6 or 7/10

Wow that took them longer than I expected and also they were fwb for as long as I was expecting. Either way, cute and a lil angsty 5/10

Mixed feelings on this one. Teacher x former student. Former student blackmails the teach into letting him stay at his house. They start a pretty imbalanced relationship and it just continues from there. Idk. 6/10

Very idiots to lovers and very goofy lol. Tbh its almost a pwp with how much they're fucking uhhhhhhhhhh 5/10

Hm. That ending was kinda unsatisfying. The manga just didn't have enough room to handle all the things it brought up. You've got a complex failing music career yakuza plot, reencounter of two people with some interesting history, and raising a kid with her own inferiority all trying to occupy the same space and none of it really got the focus it needed. Dunno 6/10