stressedpenguin's manga / #meh(446)

They're a bit of a mess but a cute mess. It's a fluffy vampire x werewolf story. 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

VA uke thirsting over the hot actor he'll be starring in a live action film with. Mr. Hot Actor seems interested too (¬‿¬) especially when he catches the uke masturbating on video call and initiates some phone sex. Ths drama is kinda contrived. Makes no sense and relies on these most typical BL misunderstanding. 5/10

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.

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

That's not a child, that's a blob. Anyway, ngl I kinda skimmed rather than read this one after ch 2. There wasn't a lot of substance. The romantic drama was repetitive. The child was more of a prop than a real person, which is typical but still lame. And the sister only exists in theory. This wasnt it for me. 3/10 name on MAL is Danshikousei-teki Kazoku Keikaku

Dropped at ch 2. Was expecting the demon to be like.. actually scary and, y'know, competent? Useless puppy semes are fine, just not my cup of tea. I'll pass on this one -/10, cant rate

Dropped at ch 27. Uke can see auras and apparently plays match maker for other people based on the aura compatibility and then the token hot guy shows up and ooh he has a special aura or whatever. The drama feels so manufactured. Like the story goes out of its way to keep the main couple from talking when there needs to be drama. Tbh I was kinda bored the whole time. Idk. 4/10