Tonari Ni Kimi No Nukumori Wo
ch. 1-2: interesting and amusing. gullible guy who is probably just too lonely believed that this boy who suddenly pop in his window is his dead dog who became human. blew his cover sometime when they've gone out. turns out he's a stalker lolol. now they are sorta together and stalker boy wishes to be a dog all the more. ch. 3: co-workers at a shop, #opposites attract. ch. 4: my favourite. #homecoming after #10 years and his childhood crush turned out to be a guy. can't believe it but his instincts do tell him... even if somehow his crush turned out to be a GUY older and taller than him even. ch. 5: another cute one here about college friends living together. mutually fallen inlove with each other. seme feeling insecure bec. uke is being nice and generous to everyone tried to push uke away by suggesting to live together once more with his ex. make-up later with a confession. cute end. ch. 6: pastry chef fell in-love with a beautiful customer. latter claims he's not beautiful at all. fears that chef will become disillusioned if he knew what he does. ch. 7: cute story of a lovey-dovey college couple. quite effeminate and needy uke wants more TLC.. and for the seme to take of his clothes pls. but seme is a little bit of a bully and unlike semes fr. other mangas, he actually had a cute reason: to avoid claw marks made by his kitty-cat
Because Of You
Nov 2017 EDIT: OMG @ch. 20-end: It's seriously giving me a heartbreak. Ohhhh why is it so painful between them. The drama, it hurts good. I can't believe there's only one chapter left before it finishes. I can definitely feel the climax. I'm in near tears BUUUTTT I've been let down in the end. I was never a fan of bad ending for couples when there could have been reencounters and resolutions that could happened and what did the webtoon creator did? well make them breakup. Congratulations on never resolving this in the end. I think even as much as he wanted to deny it, yoo il never had gotten over it. If he REALLY did, he won't be as guarded all over the memory like what he is doing. NOPE. Not fun. #reencounter with his old crush. Old crush had a son who just looks like him, to the chargin of our MC. However, the kind of grew closer each day but like any 40-something ahjussi, is still reluctant to step in this. Especially with how awkward everything about them is. And let's not start with the age gap. However, it is interesting how the webtoon presented their relationship as a love affair that needed to be hidden. Somehow, everything about this manga make you feel the realism of the issue it wants to get across, especially the may-december romance. Gratituous scenes are a bonus, even when the smut is not explicit. The plot makes me happy enough tho. Still, I'll keep the 4* because the drama hurts so good and it's good overall, just not up to my preferences.
Backdoor Business
For some reason I can't get into it. A mysterious shop w/ unique services are a familiar concept in BL & there's a lot of great ones w/ similar format (sex therapist & minori no te among others) that I REALLY like but IDK? But don't get me wrong, IT'S NOT BAD. I read it till the end. Synopsis: An repatriate who came back to Japan for good ran an izakaya (traditional japanese restaurant) that is a little bit... unique. First, the owner is a quirky guy who acts and thinks like a weaboo despite being japanese & second, he is using it as a front to do some detective work with his mysterious, all-capable employees. And did I mention that he's gay? So yeah, in a nutshell this manga is about him helping those unfortunate gay men who stumble to his restaurant building. #reencounter romance started to develop around half of the story. Love interest is the okama that works on a gay bar that the group knew through their first job. Surprise, they actually knew each other since high school and the "amazing" owner cannot seem to recall that he actually confessed lol. Cute happy ending for the two!
Hatsukoi Counter Attack
The flow is a bit confusing BUT HELL I LOVE DAN-CHAN. This is funny plus cute artwork! Synopsis: At first he was annoyed AF with this arrogant freshman who seemed to have everything. For some reasons kohai seems to dislike him and does not recognize him as a senior. Incensed, he competed and looked for a weakness. And found one. And it's the opposite. It seems the younger man actually like him?! Time to tease the guy. However, he learned through his sisters that his first love, Chii-chan (a girl, or so he thinks) and this guy he is annoyed with is one and the same. Now, it's his turn to have confused emotions. #seme younger by two years. #hate to love. #senpai x kohai. At the last chapter, the two had a heart to heart talk about their feelings and even if it's not blatantly announced, judging from the extra they agreed to date. @chap. 5 extra: A little time jump where the seniors (including uke) have now graduated and set for college. The pair are lovey-dovey but are still bickering as always. BTW I love dan-chan and his "revolutionary way of apologizing" ROFLMAO. I also love Hakase and his pointless but genius rambling. #squad goals! Just a peeve: The art is pretty, ofc but I'm bothered with the lack of animated faces to go with the lively convos. It's especially noticeable when the face speaking is calm and the mouth is not even opened. Sets me off, ugh. #decensored smut in the extra. > 3.5*
Neko Irimasen ka?
{edit: 2015-'17 FIN}. Long living cats are cats that gained lifespan as long as humans. In this story, cats like those can have the chance to take human form with a condition: They will look like a normal human to other people but they will be seen as cats by the human they fall in love with and the human must come to love and accept that form in order for the human to see them beyond the cat form. Ch. 1: kitty requested to their elder to turn him into a long living cat because he fell in love with this college youth who has been kind to him. His (seme) friends see the cat as human so the cat immediately win their sympathy because of the seme's coldness. Finally he opened his heart to the cat and was able to see his human form. Felt embarrassed at the misunderstanding he caused when he still sees the cat as an animal. Ch 2: I love it better than the first one because it's such a bittersweet story. A brunette long living cat is waiting for the human he chose to come back in the empty apartment. Got found by the new resident, an arts student and coincidentally, the kohai of the first pair's seme. They spend their days idly w/ seme sketching the "neko" (not like he knew that the cat literally mean it) and it ended w/ them sleeping together. OMG I WANT MORE. My heart hurts at that last page like omg. Ch. 3: the two cats and studying in order to fit into society. Focused more on the first pair. --------ɫ ⬧ ɫ-------- Ch. 4: cute student's reencounter story. His younger brother has a tutor and it turned out it's the former student council president. Now, as he's been a member of the student council ever since they should have been friends but it looked like they had bad blood between them? Cue flashback. I find it adorable how the little brother and the tutor hatched a little ploy to ascertain older brother's feelings. .//. h. 5: cute uni romance. a logical phys major was ordered by his cousin to take revenge or smth at the handsome guy who spurned her. Turns out handsome guy is like an ideal girl even MC & his friend kept saying it's a waste that he's a guy (bec of "ideal girl" qualities that is). It seems like handsome guy has strange tastes & like a romcom, fell inlove with MC. Him. The very male cousin of the girl handsome guy rejected lol. .//. ch. 6: story of amusing lovey-dovey (too much that people look at them oddly lol) non-blood related brothers. older brother is such an airhead to not feel suspicious of the little brother asking for skinship. He adores the little brother that much. So little brother wanted to "rely" on him to the point of having sex. Still, older bro is such a thickhead to not notice something off about this. Um. Open-ended, and now they were going to live together. #age gap, 18yo seme x 28 yo uke. salaryman x student.
Hatsukoi no Tonari
Synopsis: Ugh my face. I can't stop smiling. It's SO cute(and healthy!). Teacher became neighbors with a college guy whom he found out to be a former student (that he can't remember) but as the days passed, he slowly noticed the boy's feelings as he get comfortable with their newlywed-like life. *I always find it interesting when an unrequited love is taken from the perspective of the person who is the subject of the unrequited love. I get to see what they are thinking and how they fell inlove with the guy attracted to them. Bonus points for seme's POV too. #age gap - 10 years
Yume Yume okirukoto nakare
This is adorable. Definitely one of the cutest childhood friend to lovers around. A BIT RAPEY THO LOL. Naughty little uke copping a feel and more. Sensitive people should be aware and try not to stir trouble. Just a oneshot tho. Still, I enjoyed it along w/ the dash of humor sprinkled in. @2017 Edit: Now concluded with a two-shot. #sleep sex
Motoyan Papa to Hitsuji-sensei
So, so fluffy. And the pacing is just perfect. I like how the story shows the dad (seme) slowly falling inlove with the uke. {Edit: FINISHED@2018} #Reencountered after 10 yrs, Hitsuji didn't even realize that his student's dad is a former friend... and crush. And try as he might, it's hard not to fall inlove all over again w/ this charming man & his cute son. I love the dad's smile too. I think both father and son are adorable. Not hard to understand why the uke-MC loves them. #my only gripe is the occasional translation problem. other than that, it's perfect.
Seikaku Kuzu De Nani Ga Warui
Edit: FIN. It's beautiful and poetic. Last chapter exceeded my expectations. Unexpectedly thought-provoking. It's like a lighthearted slice of life done in school. Some angsty highschooler who doesn't want to do anything with the world is suddenly confessed to by the most popular in class, to his unbelief. Thinking it was a prank that he doesn't want to be hassled with, he said yes.
Boku no Ano Ko