Never Understand
#Korean webtoon. smut as cutscenes are common in k-webtoons but the French kisses as sooo nice and long. a #hate to love manga with an unlikely pair. it's so cute. It started as fun and fully-charged tenny school life but as the manga progress, it became complicated and started unraveling how deep seme's scar ran. it hurts in a lot of scenes that I had to gloss over it so I won't feel the pain (but I came back to reread because i'm an otaku like that). I am very much satisfied with the ending except for the loose thread parts they did not conclude very well especially mentioning the minor couple who could have been an interesting pair. it left me with a small feeling of being hung on. Other than that, it's beautiful because it focused on the broken psyche of the seme.
Dorobou to Hatsukoi
⟫Black Outsider > Dorobou to Hatsukoi. 〚 Main characters who worked in the café and the story of them with their lovers. Basically, a pair of mismatched couples. Ordinary men with ordinary looks and lifestyle that are matched up with accomplished, handsome and popular men. #insecure uke #giving up #misunderstandings. 〛 café manager x elite salaryman. ch. 0-1: he is ordinary and looked older than his age. #reencounter with his high school crush but ended up getting knocked out by his crush's former lover? however it gave him a chance to relieve a dream he wished to have. and it ended up sweet! fake oyaji-uke because of the #supernatural sub-plot. destiny itself brought them together! #short #ugly uke x #tall, handsome, hunky seme. waiter (kohai) x former sempai at art school. ch. 2-5: kohai has a big crush on sempai so he stole his painting. #reencounter 10 years later. bad news is, looks like sempai actually knows he's the culprit. a series of frustrating #misunderstandings where there seems to be no way out. thankfully, first couple acted as cupids for this two fools. #insecure uke x #awkward seme. art frame maker seme x childhood friend ch. 6: this time, the other sempai of the second couple is the main. here we get to know the mystery painter that he had a one-sided love with. #childhood friends #age gap of 10 years. hurrah for the #daring uke! (bec unless he is like that, I doubt they'd had progress, honestly, that #timid seme haha)
Yokubou no Shizuku
actually dark and mysterious smutty school life. it centers around 3 students and one mysterious infirmary sensei who doesn't seem like human. #rape to love trope. main couple: #beastly seme x mousy bullied uke. uke, tbh just wanted to be left alone. he's got a sucky life and he's so scared of the infirmary sensei but no matter how /really/ scary he turned out to be, it seems that he's the only one that really accepts him for what he is. seme (demon sensei) sacrificed a lot for him and he saw that. Epilogue @page 181-end. secondary couple: #awkward (werewolf) seme x bratty uke. both of them initially targets the first seme but with how bad they were to others and each other, they are starting to like one another. their own story started @p.159-180. they developed from #hate to love. kind of cute, actually. I like them better than the first pair haha.
Hyper Love Power
This manga is ahead of it's time. Even if the falling inlove part is a bit shallow, I gotta give props to the author for a well thought-out universe and plot. Might remind you of some characteristics present in the omegaverse. This manga concept might not be too deep but it's satisfying enough for a romance-supernatural manga. It actually went as far as two volumes long. Great going! #all men cast: advantages is there's only mxm pairings, and a flood of goodlooking guys. A re-imagined world from the original myth about tengus. #school life in a school filled with "basilisks". A certain tengu race that can be quite dangerous when left alone. MC (uke) belonged to the race that keeps the balance and secrecy of their kind. Some sort of romeo-juliet thrown in there too with the seme mc belonging to the basilisk race.
Koishiteru!?
the #rape to love trope in comedic tone. set in high school. main couple: if anything, this should be called a "love at first rape" story. playboy seme who I think has several loose screws (haha) goes by the instincts... even cannot remember the face of his beloved so he goes into this sleazy Cinderella search with goes on kissing everybody. playboy seme x pretty uke. SC president x 1st uke's classmate. president served as some kind of villain for the main couple. turns out this guy and the first seme were related. #douchebag seme fells inlove with ordinary glasses boy that is really not ordinary. I like their pairing better TBH.
Hatsukoi
This ruins of an apartment who had tenant leaving one by one was solved upon the arrival of a plasterer who happen to me his childhood friend. Later, a new rumor circulated that it became a mecca for (handsome) gay couples. ch. 1: apartment manager/owner x plasterer. #reencounter after 15 years. they separated in bad terms so now they had a hard time communicating. And it doesn't help that the dorm manager has a secret #unrequited love too. seme later cleared all #misunderstanding. ch. 2: Cute story. college couple that #eloped bec they believed they won't be approved by parents. But now that they are living together, doubts and problems start to sprout. ch. 3-4: I love it! #poor guy is a guarantor of a friend so now he is in #debt, working night and day just to pay off the loan of the "friend" who ran away. he slowly fell inlove with this #yakuza guy who is receiving his payments and despite knowing that it's bad, he lied and faulted from his payment at the last month. Naturally, yakuza guy went nuts w/ him. And it's his time to wonder about what kind of "special" this man is. ch. 5: #bickering pair, #straight uke x gay seme. #former high school roommates, #reencounter @college. off all the tenants to be neighbors with, it's this guy whom he had an awkward past with. who asked him to arrive home dripping wet and all sexy? but he's straight. haha. riight, dude. and now that it seems they're repeating the same patter again, he tried escaping.
Goodnight Love Darling
⟫ Oyasumi Darling > Goodnight love Darling. Main pair: Officer (seme) is super shocked upon learning that this little runaway he picked up belongs to a super rich and influential family. Sent him back to the house but they still kept their relationship. Older brothers however appeared one by one and expressed their objections. #age gap - 15 years. Young, rash first love is so strong in this one, what with the easy-going 15yo. MC. Cute about how the insomniac divercee seme was able to sleep only when the boy is near. Homare, the second son's story. @ p. 149-179: met police-seme's friend accidentally one rainy day. Wants to fall inlove and fall he did. His little trauma kept him from confessing tho. #age gap. 31 yo seme x 19 yo uke. / #cheerful, bearded seme x #timid uke.
Love Seeker
Story of 2 couples that came to be in one company. Since they are officemates, the story bounces back and forth between the two pairs. Couple 1: (v.1, ch.1-2 V2, ch.2, 6) manga starts with the story of the first couple. popular, #handsome seme x #megane uke #cute uke #naive uke #timid uke Couple 2: (V.1, ch.3-4, V2, ch.1) started @ ch. 3 onwards: couple. the flirty third wheel met some some guy because of a favor for his friend. never had an idea that they were working at the same company. #physical relationship to love #subordinate x superior #boss seme #possessive seme #rich seme #megane seme x #flashy uke #daring uke #salaryman uke. the 2nd uke i think is a generally misunderstood character... the readers and even the company. he may act spoilt, flirty and demanding but he is actually loyal and a lot of his covert actions points to that. he's probably misinterpreted most of the time because of his frivolous looks, narcissism and flirty surface.
Manazashi No Hayagane
OMO is this a fun and cute manga about teachers. ch. 1-3.5: #reencounter after 7 yrs. #homophobia #bullying. Well, regardless of age and position, gay people are a target for bullying in the end. :( :( My heart hurts for Eri the most. He's been through a lot of hard shit since he was young. And that is only because he wanted to stay true. #openly gay. ch. 4-5.5: thankfully, the second pair is lighthearted and funny. else it will be too bad for my heart. they eased up the heavy theme of homophobia on the first couple.
The Judged