stressedpenguin's manga / #angst(93)

Yall I was bawling when they took the photos with Jisoo's dad and then again at the end. I love that this story wanted to tell you how important photos are without ever saying it out loud. I loved this one. Only two gripes honestly: 1) Jin Yi Kwon was very pushy about sex. Although they did say Jisoo liked it, it did start out feeling like he just couldn't say no. Still better than 80% of manhwa anyway. Shout out to consensual sex. 2) like 80% of the story, Jisoo and Kwon only interact with each other. I always wanna see more friendships so we know these two aren't reliant on just each other. But again this was better that 80% of manhwa on that front too. Super sweet albeit very painful. You know how it's going to end but that doesnt make it less painful. But I'm happy for them all. I bawled like a baby 7 or 8/10

Hold up. What was that flashback from the shinigami??? Was he the uke's dad?!??! Or am I dumb?? EDIT yeah I'm just dumb Guy nearly dies on the daily but theres a mysterious black shadow that seems to save him. Turns out shadow is a shinigami who's protecting him from death. Guy and shinigami fall in love and fuck and theres some angst. 6/10?

Dude the alpha sucked, just be honest about your feelings and stop saying misleading things. The omega too was pretty annoying and very helpless as is thpvual for omegaverse stories. This was the most basic story you could tell about an alpha omega pairing ¯_(ツ)_/¯ 4/10 its whatever.

Aww~~~~ that was adorable! MC is stuck in a time loop and realizes it's because of his childhood friend whom he hasn't been close with in years. I love these sorts of ground hog day stories haha 7/10

Guy moves out to the country to take care of a family house for a bit. Gets attacked by a yokai, gets saved by a komainu (dog statue) spirit, gets raped by the komainu for protection or whatever. Komainu then moves into his house and now they're gonna live together. There's a theme of loneliness, and the art is very pretty. Coulda seriously done without the rape and this would be good.... Update ch 5. Wow. That ending was sad. Didn't really feel like a resolution to me since it was so abrupt. It's like the story didn't consider anything but the romance, so once that was done, so was the character's life... I dunno. Hit exactly the type of angst I love, but also left me feeling a bit slighted (for whatever reason, this is the emotion I am left with) 6/10? 4/10? Not sure

Ow my heart. The cheerful popular guy at school dies suddenly and only the loner uke can see his ghost. Uke helps helps him cross off his checklist of unfinished business including reconciling with his mom The ending was inevitable but it still hurt Its bittersweet but I'm happy he makes friends 7/10

There was... a lot of pain and angst in this one that just... didn't feel great. MC rapes his teacher, immediately regrets it and spends the rest of the story kinda haunted by it, which is a million times better than most stories. There's a lot to unpack with this one, but it's like... late and I dont have the brain power 4/10, just left me feeling not great name on MAL is 17

Uke is getting thirsty over his new coworkers muscles lol. Hoping this ones good There's a bit of angst and a smidge of delicious drama and a LOT of pining and sexual tension. The seme is a sweetheart beefcake, which we love, and the uke is struggling not to ogle him 7/10

Fluffy uke had been in love with this guy from high school and even followed him to the same college. Because of reasons, they become sex friends and the uke tries his darndest to be the seme's friend. Then the seme's shitty ex from the past shows up, does some mental damage and inadvertently solves all their problems Kinda... sucked? 4/10

Ow. Kakeru is generally a loner, but he makes friends with these two idiot boys only to fall in love with one of them, Yudai. But Yudai is in love with the other friend, Ryo, and it's a whole mess and a lot of pain and the class is so homophobic I hate it The feelings and secrets are a mess and I'm in pain and that ending was not quite satisfying for me 7/10