stressedpenguin's manga / #unrequited love(138)

Kinda sucks that it's one or the other but I get it. It was very sweet in the end tho. They worked things out together healthily rather than dragging out some angsty drama plot. It was very sweet watching Motoki cry bc he's so happy. Solid 6 or 7/10

Okay that was pretty dumb. Dark haired guy is in love with blonde. Blonde gets but realised he's in love with dark haired guy and then turns out gf also likes dark haired guy and used blonde to get close to him and then threatens to out blonde if he doesn't help her which results in a dumb contrived drama plot and I guess this review is oops all spoilers. Nothing about this one reeeeally stood out. 5/10

Last read ch 4. Interesting~ two ex policeman who originally dealt with organized crime meet again some years later. One is a PI and the other has joined the yakuza. Yakuza man staring to catch feelings is he?

Bright and friendly tall guy x kinda socially awkward handsome mellow guy. I do like the sunshine x anxious dynamic. They were cute! The relationship progresses slowly and naturally and they both figure out how to voice what they want. 7/10

First story is very cute. Some light angst and a lil bit of unrequited love friends to lovers. The two are roommates. The seme goes jogging early in the morning and the uke always wakes up just to see him off. It was sweet. Second story uke was a lil but pathetic but I guess that contributed to his cuteness. Uke is a naive transfer student and seme is a laid back guy who cant help but take care of him Third story was meh. There's an age gap, the uke is a pushover and the seme takes advantage of that. It's a bit more melodramatic but its fine Overall 6 or 7/10

It's alright. No substance just kinda stuff happening and bam their love is mutual and then bam they have sex and yeah. Kinda speed ran some tropes and didn't establish any real connection considering their basically strangers. 5/10?

Dropped at ch 14. The "my crush has a crush on me but I'm too dumb to notice" scenario was more interesting than the characters for me so once that was resolved I lost interest. 4/10

Collection of short stories, all pretty cute but kinda unsatisfying to me. Also didnt really feel like the zodiac part was relevant most of the time but tbh I know nothing about astrology so im assuming all these characters were their astrology stereotypes. Idk. 5/10

Police man's senpai gets shot and shows up at his house as a wandering spirit. The art is so unique its refreshing af. The story spends the entire time just letting the two men talk, reflect, and panic internally (on the seme's part) until the confession and subsequent get together. I wasnt THAT into the story or even the characters just bc personal preference, but the art and storytelling is so good... Totally missed the COVID setting bit cuz Japan wears masks all the time anyway. ^_^; Personally a 6/10 but objectively like an 8/10.

WARNING: depictions of suicide I.... ???? Okay so maybe I'm just dumb but I didnt understand even half of what happened. Everyone was always yelling and cutting each other off. I think there was one coherent conversation in all of 72 chapters. There was so much back and forth with the two love interests. Okay we want Lucius. Now we want Chance. Now we want Lucius again but Chance wants Henry all of a sudden. Everyone's stories sucked. Nothing was ever clear about who knew what and why and how. This is pretty much everything I hate in a story and holy heck did this DRAAAAAAG. Yeah that's on me for reading it but I wanted to give it a chance and BOY DO I REGRET DOING THAT (‡▼益▼) This was a horrible read and not just because the story was just convoluted, unintelligible drama but also the paneling, pacing, dialogue, art direction, writing--it was a whole mess. 2/10. Might even be a 1/10 if I think too much about it