stressedpenguin's manga / #light smut(118)

Guy insta falls for his boss's hot younger brother who is adorable and has insane ninja skills just cuz he thinks ninjas are cool. Kaoru is lowkey yandere, which I'm not into. Not a fan of the "threatening to commit suicide everytime he confesses" Idk 4/10, humor was exactly things I dont find humorous, but others might ¯_(ツ)_/¯

HS boy lowkey babysits the neighborhood kids. One day a delinquent looking guy asks to join in bc he wants to get better with kids so he can learn to get along with his new step bro. Cute! I love watching the kids play and watching Kyouhei and Toono figure out their feelings and hang out. Lots of domestic fluff 7/10

Very cute domestic fluff, not a whole lot happens tbh, but that's not a bad thing. We dont get too deep into either character's personality and theres very little if any drama. 4 or 5/10. Felt like a lit of fluff with not much substance for me. Wasnt in the mood for this kinda story so maybe being a bit harsher than usual

Childhood friends, light smut, meh, college students,multiple stories, high schoolers, light drama, unrequited love Uke has been in an unrequited love with his childhood friend for 15 years. When he finally decides to give up, his other childhood friend suggests they go out. Y'all... sorry, these guys have all been friends for 15 years but they barely know anything about each other??? That kinda made all their relationships super shallow, like they only care about each other once romance has been introduced. Idk 4/10

Mmmmm...meh? Didn't feel much for that one. We didn't spend too much meaningful time with anyone, imo, and i just... didn't care. 5/10?

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

That... somehow felt like a whole lot of nothing. There's so much fluff that it feels like the story had no meaning. I dunno. Uhh the brother sucked and everyone else was generically nice? That's about the extent of my feelings on this I guess. 4/10

Pretty standard popular seme x shy otaku uke. Exactly what I read it for 5/10

All of that... because they wouldn't talk to each other huh but lowkey that's exactly why I read this so ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Very standard popular guy x sorta outcast guy where neither of them use their words and it causes problems and then they meet again a few years later and resolve everything and thaysnkinda what I was here for 5/10, just a meal decently made I guess

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