stressedpenguin's manga / #light angst(91)

Everyone gets character development! and there are so many little funny moments. I thought I wasn't gonna like the young master kid but he turned out great after a bit of character development and Riichi learning to stop spoiling him. Art is CLEAN and the story is cute. 7/10

bigger uke. i don't remember anything. gave it a 6/10 so i guess it just wasn't memorable to me. EDIT: past me was dumb. This is adorable bro. Salaryman uke has mad anxiety about sex and has had his confidence horribly eroded by a previous boss. After he meets the outgoing call boy and starts "practicing sex" hes able to talk to his coworkers for the first time and it's really, really sweet. The seme has a bit of a possessive streak, but hes mostly just supportive and encouraging and sweet. Also shoutout to the scary boss lady for immediately apologizing for being cranky at him for her own mistake. 8/10

Last read ch 4. Uke is still cheerful and optimistic despite his shitty home life and I'm really rooting for him to get out. For whatever reason, I just wasnt that into this, but ita still sweet and heartwarming. 6/10

That... I had a really hard time processing the translation. I understand enough to get through the story (mostly on vibes) but I think I'm missing a lot of the nuance. I liked it, though it was kinda frustrating to read. 6/10. Its probably higher but I just could nor understand it, so 6/10 Prequel to 23:45 Re:

Ch 1-2: Seme and uke used to be kissing buddies until it goes a little too far and the uke runs away to tokyo. They meet 10 years later and kinda sort things out. Also lmao "trauma-source-kun" Ch 3-5: two childhood friends, one the loner type and the other the outgoing type, split after high school. It's a whole mess when they reunite 5 years later. Overall ima give this a 6/10. The art almost makes me wanna make it a 7, but the stories were too short for much development

A good ol' friends to lovers unrequited love story. Seme catches his friend masturbating while calling his name and doesnt know how to act, but slowly starts to realise his own feelings. Theres some more angst and drama as the uke straight up moves countries to avoid talking it out. The ending is kinda abrupt and I didnt really feel like they resolved the problem but overall it was good. 7/10. Id actually give it a 6, but I like this mangaka's art a lot so...

Ch 1-4. A lil weird for me that they spoke like everything was a video game. That's some immersion. I see how it can be fun and cute tho, just not for me. The plot is basically gamer guy has crush on girl. Girls brother is guy gamer guy doesnt like. They fall in love after barely any interaction. The end. Ch 6: two writers living together, polar opposites. The seme assaults the uke but we pretend it's to develop his writing through experience and not rape or anything and then for some reason that works and its happily ever after Ch 7: a cute oneshot about the side characters from the first story Over all 3/10 for me chief

Guy meets his online friend IRL, expecting a cute girl. Turns put it's the handsome but quiet popular guy at his college. They start hanging out, fall in love, do the angst avoidance thing, and have a happy ending 5/10 very standard

kudos for having a polyamorous relationship. not my thing but eh it was alright 6/10

Guy runs into his old classmate who's always been an aloof asshole. Keeps running into him and the seme keeps kinda prying into his past. Their relationship starts off very terse and almost combative. Both of them initially hope the other is more miserable than themselves. I'm sad the hamster wasn't more relevant. She's only in a few scenes but shes so ROUND. I need more hamster! Overall thoughts tho. Didn't really enjoy it. Its just not what I want to read rn I guess. I may have misread it since it was late af, but characters were all kinda nosy but with a feeling like they wanted to amuse themselves? Also the teacher was kinda a creep? Who runs I to a former student and then begs them to let you stay there? Don't you have other people closer to you? And then also prying into basically a strangers sec life? Weird. The story does feel grounded, but the characters feel isolated. It left me feeling like... depressed for some reason. Idk. This one wasn't it for me. Sorry. 4/10