just_m3h's manga / #misleading appearances(60)

Chap 1: This one's about two uni students famous around the campus for their looks and stuff; Kitagawa is an airhead who comes across as mysterious, intelligent (which he is, but in a book-smart sort of way) and aloof and Shouki is a handsome, outgoing and all-around popular guy. Shouki asks Kitagawa out and they start dating while Kitagawa who's been in love with Shouki for a while tries his best to hide his clumsy, airheaded nature because he thinks Shouki will hate that part of him. But what if Shouki knew all along? 4.5 Chap 2: Now *this* is a hot one! The art and positions, that is. Childhood friends finally get together. Baseballer seme, really possessive, and uke in denial. The uke was all over the place, blowing hot then cold. The baseballer has his hands full. Story was so-so but art was so good! Chap 4: About Ayumu and his shitty playboy childhood friend Suou, whom he is in love with. Suou is kinda mean and unreasonable, kissing him, then saying it's not possible, then getting jealous and accusing Ayumu of playing around, and attacking him in the library. Not a a great story in a collection of stories that are already questionable. 3 Chap 5: The one with the mean vice president of the student council and the guys who fall in love with the dude who picked him and gave him a handkerchief when he fell. It was shallow, he didn't even know who he was in love with. It was kinda stupid. 3.5 Overall : 3.875

An assortment of shitty rape stories... is what I was going to say. But that would be extremely unfair to the last story. 1: Kei, who hated all betas because he was jealous of them, and Mei, who pretended to be a beta in highschool. Story revolves around how Mei pushed Kei into a corner by isolating him, fueling his gambling, and leaving him neck deep in debt. Mei is the epitome of a shitty, entitled seme/alpha. I hate it so much! His reasoning is defunct, man. Sure, Kei isn't the nicest character around, but he's far from terrible and certainly, has lived a sad life, and deserves better. Also, I just plain do not like mangas with gambling addicts. 3.3 12: Hyun Jung seduces his supervisor, Shi Woo, then uses nepotism to blackmail him into sleeping with him, whenever he wants. This fucker's like "I'm not raping you, just using my nepotism to blackmail you (over the time I dragged your hammered ass to a hotel for sex), and make you do something sexual that you clearly said you don't want to do”. I mean, I'm not about to take the high road after all these dubcon and noncon yaoi I've read (some of which I have even enjoyed), but let's all call a spade, a spade, yeah?! And the training abroad thing is also so lacking in body autonomy and consent, this manga is just out to rape this guy in every which way possible! I don't find this funny or entertaining. 2.2 23: This one is so intriguing and plot heavy, it feels so out of place in a collection like this. I only wish there could be a couple more fluff and switching chapters to make up for all the hardships and suspense in the bulk of the story. Min Hae-il is a gambling addict (or is he???) who gets saddled with taking care of Suh Lim, the kidnapped rich guy, who's being questioned on the whereabouts of some documents connecting his brother to multiple corruption cases (his brother is the one trying to keep Suh Lim in check, because he knows too much, and everyone is aware of the fact). The amount of little side plots and character development here amazes me, honestly. You hardly find that in a 10 chapter yaoi. I love the twists, and honestly, some the side characters were top notch as well. Suh Lim got really lucky he was surrounded by good people who cared about him. The way Suh Lim grew as a person was staggering. I love this story!! 5 Overall : 4 Edit: sequel for last story is right here!!

Hino wants Mizusawa tk marry his divorced sister and make yummy pudding for his adorable nephew Satoru, forever. Only, Mizusawa insists he'd rather marry Hino Not gunna lie, this feels a little unbalanced. Not anything dark or anything like that, but the way Hino is so dependent on Mizusawa scares me. Hope it evens out in the future 4.45*

Internet too slow, cannot load, will have to come back for the last one some other time. 1: Uke hero worships Ryu, the legendary delinquent, and works to glean every bit of information about him after he disappeared 2 years ago. Bit fucking disappointing, the way the uke glosses over the rape because it was someone he idolised. I don't like stupid ukes, anyway, and this one isn't exactly the brightest crayon in the box. Seme is trash. 3.5 2: Uke is the student council president at a prestigious private high school, but has a secret he is only too happy ro have one of his subordinates discover. This one's a bit more balanced than the forst, tbh. Though, the uke is kinda predatory and gross. But overall all right because seme held his own in some occasions. 4 3: Uke is a foreign exchange student from a tribal nation, who is staying with the Japanese seme. This obsession with the foreign 'other', the sexualisation and invention of strange cultural practices worries me a little, because it doesn't feel quite as benign as 'Mother' did. It was mostly okay, though. I'm so suprised with the way seme and uke roles tuened out. 4 4: Another foreign exchange student from the same tribe, this time the seme wants to learn about the 'dominant husband' culture in Japan and tame it back to his matriarchal society, like, wtf? Couldn't finish because of slow internet.

1: The one about Seong Chubhyang, the hottie playboy who is loved by the residents of Namwon Village. Well. Not really about him. More about the uptight governor (Byeon Hakdo) who imprisoned him, and the secret agent playboy (Lee Mingryong) friend of Seong's who comes to rescue Seong by distracting the governor, but instead falls in love with the governor, just like the governor fell in love with him. Small side story about the young man who finally gets Seong to look only at him. It was funny and I enjoyed the sex somewhat, but it's still crack and the art is not exactly to my taste 4.3 5: About prince Pyeonggang and his bet with his dad (the king) to use his knowledge (of BDSM, lol) to make someone into a useful, worthy person. Topping from the bottom kinda situation. Again, fun, but nothing special. 3.8 9: About the prince who is trapped in the castle by his overbearing father and the tailor hired to humiliate him during his coming of age ceremony, to teaxh him a lesson and mend his promiscuous ways. Twist on Emperor's Clothes. Was okay, nothing special, but enjoyed how smart the prince was. Also glad he got out. 3.8 13: Continuation of Ch 1 15: About Snow White, who covets his dead father's paramour, and threatens to bed him. The paramour is regent I the meantime and tries to get Snow white killed many times, in his fear. Some amnesia and life threatening accidents thrown in, for good measure. The whole collection is weird but this was- wowee! 3.2 23: About poor liblnely hook and Peter, who's a bit of a presumptuous dick, who definitely has some growing up to do. Also a London detective with some strong morals, a nosy merman and one smart Darling kid. This one actually made me feel something, the forst in the entire collection to do so. I felt his longing and his long wait mad me sad. Glad things worked out. And so surprised to see consent and pedophilia being addressed. Reluctantly impressed 4.4 27: Little merman, the usual stuff, no major twists. It was okay? Boring and forgettable. 3.5. 32: Spin on Beauty and the Beast, with a slutty Belle. It was really cracky, like full on, some loose ends as well. 3.6 35: A really, really strange and convoluted story about a lumberjack who stole an Asgardian warrior's cloths to sell for food, thus stranding the warrior in Earth for a while. Some bits about a peeping tom were thrown in, and some just, generally really odd plot developments. Man, what was the mangaka smoking?? Loved the ending, though 4 39: About the dragon king who is fed up with the asexual fish surrounding him at the palace of the sea, and sends for the magician on land whom he has seen in Playing Boy magazine, and is enamoured with. Only, the failing magician falls for the kind sea turtle and runs off with him. The king kinda lets them go. The couple steal some things from the treasury and open a magic performing company on land. It was crack, obviously, but not bad. I liked them together. And the turtle sure is smarter than I initially gave him credit. But I wish he hadn't swiped the entire treasury... 4.1 44: About the dragon king and the seemingly disinterested octopus. I don't know about this one. I was most looking forward to this out of the whole collection, but it was really just too short. Very disappointed. Also wish the octopus would be a bit nicer from time to time. Also want him to be jealous sometimes and have him grovel, too. 4.4 46: About warring clans (bear and tiger) who are visited by a meddling sorcerer (?) slimeball, who has an eye on the rep of the bear vlan and wants to humiliate and isolate the rep of the tiger clan (feelings were previously developing between them). This one isnt complete yet but I already can't stand it, because I just finished Rosehaven and there are just too many parallels? From the slimy fair haired villain, to tying the bottom (I think) to a tree to publicly humiliate him. Makes me so angry!! 3 Edit: So the bear came to his rescue at the last minute, but he never even apologised. Next :/ 50: Little red riding hood who is too pretty for his own good had to learn to be strong enough to ward off advances and defend himself. He meets a shy and soft wolf with a hulking figure on his walks one day. It's so bad. The writing is so shit. 2.5

I love hard working and competent ukes. Looks pretty good.

Kumagae is a dangerous looking loner at high school with tonnes of scary rumours following him. Akira gets paired with him at PE one day and Kumagae confesses. Akira rejects him immediately. Confusion and shenanigans ensue. Bet all these gossiping arseholes will come running once they realise he's a rich young master :/

Pretty standard plot of seemingly cold ice queen uke who is actually a softy in love with the seme. Yukio was very endearing, I actually feel bad for him, he endured for so long. I hope he's happy. Seems like Youichi loves him back a lot, too. Though, maybe not as much as Yukio loves him 4.5

1: Uemura is an honour student whom everyone thinks is most innocent and well behaved boy around. But secretly, he's addicted to masturbation. And the guilt from it keeps him from ever making close friends. Then one day, a delinquent from 1st year, Matsuoka, walks in on him. But instead of blackmailing him or the usual plotlines, Matsuoka just offers him a helping hand (unbelievably respectfully, at that). They fall into a friends with benefits situation, but could it be something more? I really liked it. So fluffy! While Uemura is sweet and likable, I think Matsuoka is the star of the show, for sure! He's so respectful and sweet!! The sex is a bit much, though. So much of it, like O.o 4.8 5: Minamino, a high school delinquent, does not like fellow delinquent Kitaura, who was rude to him during the entrance ceremony, then later beat him in a fight. When Minamino sees Kitaura entering a love hotel with a man, he plots with his friends to turn that against Kitaura. But as Minamino starts to get to know Kitaura better, he comes to regret his actions. It was okay, Minamino was brave in standing up to his friends later on and even chasing after Kitaura to apologise. It does make him less of a dick. Kitaura is a bloody sait, though. Taking him back despite how scary that must have been. 4.4

Dohyun (alpha) becomes enamoured with the kind Seawoo (beta) and convinces himself that the only way Seowoo would ever fall for him is if he acted like a helpless omega in heat. But Seowoo's kindness ran deeper than he had thought. A diligent and compassionate beta like Seowoo over a self important alpha, any day! Dohyun has damn good taste! 5!