just_m3h's manga / #bully(102)

Boss and subordinate, the sub is an m but the boss is the bottom. The first one was so meh. Boring, no real chemistry, and the story was all over the place. 3.5 Tarou confesses to the barista at the café he frequents and it's mutual! But the barista is hiding something... I really really liked them together and the uke was so lovely, especially. He's so gentle, and I love how the seme can't keep his hands off of him. They are super ultra cute together!! 5 42.5

Sequel 2 of Voice series 1: Continuation of Takafumi and Kazumi's story, where Kazumi doesn't express his wants yet again and misunderstands by himself and gets made at Takafumi, yet again. Really tired of this, tbh. 3.8 4: Continuation of Norihisa and Wataru, where Wataru misunderstands something Norihisa said, and takes it to heart. Ngl, kinda feel bad for both of them here. Glad it got resolved. 4 5: Continuation of Inaba and Mizushima's story, where Mizushima pretends to break up with Inaba, just to try and get a rise out of him. He's just such an arsehole, I wish the uke would become incredibly famous and desirable and make him super jealous!!! At least, Inaba does seem to have him handled, more or less. 4

Fuckin Harada, man. When they get it right, they *reeeeally* get it right, yeah?

Sequel 5 of Voice series 1: Continuation of Mizushima and Inaba's story. Mizushima is obsessed with teasing the people he loves and making them cry. When he finally succeeds with the unflappable Inaba, it doesn't really feel good. Ffs! Not in a million years would this dude deserve Inaba!! I get so mad at how callous and mean he is, sometimes. And the nerve! To mistrust him like that! But at the same time, this guy is so gone on Inaba. It's hard to hate someone whi clearly lives Inaba so much. Ah, the conundrum. 4.3 3: Continuation of Kazumi and Takafumi's story. Rather, telling us how they met and became sex friends. This story certainly does not endear Kazumi to me. He's so quick to judge and distrust. I don't like that. But he's certainly had character growth to some extent, so ther eis that. 4 5: Continuation of Norihisa and Wataru's story. About Wataru praising how kind Yu is and Norihisa trying to copy Yu's mannerisms and style, so that Wataru doesn't get bored of him. But Wataru reassures him that all he needs to be is himself. Was okay, one more chapter would have been nice. 4.3

A collection of stories that are silly, fluffy, smutty and mindlessly fun. 1: An amanojaku yokai who has always been isolated and alone due to his yokai nature of being unable to speak the truth, finds himself being protected and cherished by a karasutengu yokai who has never had a problem reading amanojaku yokai's true feelings. Smut, but cute smut. We stan cute smut in this house. 4.7 3: Retelling of Momotarou, the folklore story. Momotarou goes on a wild rampage to defeat all the devils in Devil Island and his troubled companions hurry him back home with the riches to prevent for carnage. Most of them go their own ways but the dog remains by his side, because he has ulterior motives. Kinda meh, ngl. Also, the fact that he drugged him without knowing Momo's feelings, bruh. 3 4: Inoue is in love with his cute coworker Minami, but he keeps getting thwarted by the licentious Section Chief, Tagami. Seems, though, that Minami doesn't seem to mind the intrusion, or Inoue's reactions to Tagami at all. Inoue finds himself in the middle of an unexpected sandwich. Hmm. Was okay. Hot. Shallow and mindless. But hot. 4.4 5: Follows Yuuki around his first attempt to give his boyfriend Tadayoshi chocolate on Valentine's day. Fluffy and cute. 4.4 6: Koutarou is targeted by Takutou, who cleans the windows of the building where he works. Koutarou finds Takutou's intense gaze leaving him more and more flustered. Hmm. Didn't really see how their attraction could have developed. Was hard to get into. And why was that chief such a loose and shady dude. Really puts me off. 3.5

So engaging and interesting. Not even sure who I want him to end up with. The uke is likable and headstrong. Personal aphrodisiacs are my jam. Both semes are dicks. But these dicks, I don't mind reading about. EDIT: okay! Seriously! What was I thinking?!!? Ivan, all the fucking way!!! Edit: Every sucker doesn't get their come uppance but everyone who deserves to be happy, are! I mean, I'll definitely take it Edit: Re-reading it knowing what I now know, it's kind of heartbreaking to see Noah sometimes. He's so strong, though. He endured so much, shit, to still come out the other end standing. I'm so proud of him. Alessandro too, to be fair. Definitely. But poor baby Noah, damn.

Bisexual dude who enjoys playing the field a bit too much gets transferred to his first posting as a police officer, into the boonies. The only person his age seems to be the laundry shop heir, who despite being plain, catches his attention. Title has nothing to do with the story. He just happens to work there. I personally do not think seme really redeemed himself, he's not the absolute worst either, towards the end, I guess. I just think the uke is so precious and could do so much better. It's kind of a shame? But he's happy, so :/ And the ending was abrupt. Overall, 4.4/5

This story is fucking annoying. Why are so many shoujo/josei/yaoi full of shitty third parties and ridiculous misunderstandings. Ugh. 3.8

As with the first time I read this and didn't review because I found it quite disturbing, I still think there are a lot of issues to unpack here. The lack of consent is unpalatable but not unexpected in a prison based bl manga. Regardless, I need to keep reading because I need to know about the murder charge. Was the asshole seme framed? Because it's looking more and more like that.

Sure, they're both consenting adults, but bdsm relationships should really have well-negotiated boundaries. This could get dangerous.