Neighbor's Rice Cake
To be honest, this is bad on all levels. - The translation is somewhat bad. Feels like it's done with Google translate almost, but not quite. The grammar is passable but not great, making it an unpleasant read. And you can tell that overall the translation is not accurate as many sentences are clearly not what they were meant to mean...which means the translators HAD skill to read the raws but didn't put in the extra effort of making it make sense. - The story itself was interesting at first (ca. 3 to 4 of the currently available 30 chapters), but quite honestly; both of these characters are SO utterly obnoxious (and not even in a cute way) they just make every situation annoying and never had me cheer for them even once. The characters are flat and just overall unpleasant (the uke acts like a cliche girl-like absolutely mega moron, and you can tell the author meant that to be an endearing personality trait... and the seme was supposedly a tough cool-guy but he's just a stupid jackass with no redeeming features other than being good in bed, supposedly anyway) and both are utterly unrealistic in terms of lacking regular human common sense and how they react in situations (it's like a teenager described what they vaguely think adults in a drama act like and another teenager drew up the story board for this). Overall it feels very badly amateur-ish in nature and there is nothing interesting about it past the first 3 or so chapters. - The art is so-so and cannot save this to even be recommended as a page flipper for the smut scenes. Overall, my verdict would be to not waste your time on this. There is nothing good about this unless you have little experience with works of fiction/only read shoujo stories from the early 2000s or such. Skip it, you won't miss anything. It's been ages since I've seen something so utterly boring and disappointing on every front.
The Psycho Duke And I
No Reason
Puke-worthy, rape bullshit that pretends to have some sort of appeal. The author and whoever actually enjoys this kinda shit should get therapy, seriously.
He Guanyu & Xu Xingchen
Okay: NO. This is worse than those obnoxious 4-koma style comics. This is a mixture between short comic pages and smut illustrations, all in one 'chapter' but all with ZERO connection. This feels like a shitty sketchbook collection rather than a serious comic work. And none of the content in it is anything good or special either. So it's disappointing on all fronts except for once in a millenium a chinese work has some decent art style. But that is still not enough to make this worth reading. It's not a comic, it's a sketchbook collection with some random 'story' pannels inbetween smut art. If you like that, go ahead, but if you are looking for a COMIC to READ, you know...a STORY, you'll be sorely disappointed and you shouldn't waste your time and instead go look elsewhere. 0,5 outta 10 But that small percentage is really only because it's rare for chinese works to have decent art (and with that I mean art that does NOT look like some crappy amateur sailormoon style/timeline shoujo art, mind you).
Easy to Notice
The writing of this is really utterly bad. Unfortunately, since the plot was interesting but I'm done with this constant back and forth and criss and cross of emotions/intentions. This story LITERALLY switches the MCs emotions/intentions from one pannel to the next just to fit the situation. It feels like the author had a scene in mind and couldn't be bothered to think up something cohesive to fit the facial expressions they wanted to draw and just went 'fuck it' and did it randomly. One pannel he hates him, next he likes him secretly, then he wants nothing to do with what's going on and in the next he wants to fuck. WTF is this bi-polar ass mess?? And who tf thought this made any sense. And no, this wasn't just for a short moment, this is the case from the very start, tho it gets progressively worse as you keep reading. It is certainly not a translation issue either, since even then the comic pannels do simply not match. It's just a butchered writing job. (And both the MC and the love interest are weirdly robotic in their common sense department. Like you put a AI in a skinsuit and told it to 'act human'. Also the love interest is a total jackass, but that's the least problem in this story tbh.) This is absolutely confusing and obnoxious to read. The art or base plot cannot save it, it's a waste of time if you're looking for normal human behavior. If you're fine with weird writing that makes it all seem nonsensical or bi-polar in nature; this is your thing for sure. 0 outta 10 - Not ever recommended, spare yourself the waste of time unless you're not looking for good writing or like a bi-polar writing style with no cohesiveness whatsoever.
I'll keep your secret
Another good story with amazing art butchered by a half-assed job being done. The plot is SUPER interesting, the art is AMAZING, but the way it was written is just awful. If you read it, not only is the translation work really not great and some of the writing is lost in that, but even IF I correct the mistakes made via translation (as well as context is given anyway) it still feels like there is A LOT missing. The story feels like you missed the intro chapter, it feels like an entire chapter or more is missing inbetween each chapter provided on this website, characters are being talked about like we should know who TF we are talking about (but we don't since they were never ever introduced, which is a VERY obnoxious writing flaw tbh) and all in all it feels terribly rushed with all of this coming at you combined. Such a shame. It was such a gem based on basic plotline and especially the art, but this turned into a page-flicker due to all these issues. It's not enjoyable, just confusing. It's worth looking at the artworks, but all in all I'd suggest not bothering to read it. It makes roughly some sense, but too much is missing/being left out. You'd be better of looking at the art and making up your own story to be honest. :/
Don't Eat My Cookies