mochidays's manga / #Romance(364)

what i really enjoyed about the story was that the character was very flawed. the male love interest was a very flawed person, and we got to see how his relationship with himself and with his partners was able to change because of the main character. at first, it’s really hard to empathize with him because we see him in a very negative light—someone who’s always telling his partners that he cannot love them. he can give them everything, but he cannot give them love. over time we learn this is because he had a very rough childhood and feels unlovable because of it. he believes that if the person he’s with isn’t happy, it’s better to let them go rather than force them to stay with him. so it’s like a coping mechanism for him to never love them. then comes the main character, who shows him that he is worthy of love. the two of them have a very big age gap, but they handle it really well, and ultimately they are very cute. i’m also a sucker for when the top is shorter than the bottom, because you don’t get to see that a lot, so it was a really cute dynamic. the top was older—which is rare—and also shorter—which is rare too—so i had a lot of fun with that. i really enjoyed the author’s points. it was funny at times, it was serious at times, and i just really enjoyed this one. it was really good.

when i first started this, i was honestly kind of put off by how the story began. the fact that the main character was still a minor at the start and the male lead just pulled up, decided this kid should live with him, and expected trust right away felt so strange. for like the first 40 chapters i really couldn’t figure out the direction of the plot or what was actually going on. but honestly… the story turned out to be really fucking good. the art at the beginning felt amateur, you could tell the artist was uncomfortable with certain poses and the lighting wasn’t very advanced. but then halfway through season two i was like wow—the art started to improve so much. by season three and the epilogue it was gorgeous. the growth in both the art and the storytelling was phenomenal. what i really appreciated about this story is how it handled the age gap dynamic. the younger person was actually treated like someone younger, instead of being written as if they were the same age. usually in these stories the older character ends up acting immature or dismissing the younger one, but here the older partner actually acted mature, acknowledged the weirdness of their situation, and treated the dynamic with care. another thing i loved was the rare inclusion of adoption in korea to signify marriage. since gay marriage isn’t legal, a lot of same-sex couples have gone the adoption route so they could be considered family. i think it’s such an important and realistic detail that should show up more in stories, because it highlights the genuine struggles of being in a same-sex relationship and navigating the legal side of it. overall, i fucking loved this story. you really get to watch a damaged person grow into someone completely different, and the execution was amazing. is it one of my all-time favorites? probably not. but would i recommend it? absolutely. early on i would’ve rated it like 4/5 because i felt so lost, but by the end it was a solid 5/5. i adored it and i definitely think it’s worth reading.

this was a short and sweet story. I enjoyed it a lot.

freak 4 freak!! i love when they both crazy. genuinely my favorite subgenre of any romance is this trope. the stalker obsessive type x the needs insane amounts of attention type. so good!

honestly, this was enjoyable but nothing too unique. it really felt kind of like a corporate story — very systematic and almost emotionless at times. the start was very basic, and i feel like the entire premise was too. we have a female lead who’s broke and abused, and the only thing that really makes her stand out is that she’s hardheaded and strong. i don’t mind clichés, but i like them better when there’s a twist. almost everything in this story felt predictable, not because it was written particularly well, but because it’s a plot we’ve all seen before. the art was pretty, but nothing special. i liked both characters’ designs, but i’ve read so many stories with more impressive art that this didn’t stand out as unique in that sense either. surprisingly, i found myself really enjoying the main villain. he felt like the only truly three-dimensional character in the whole story. we get to understand why he is the way he is and how he thinks, which made him really compelling. even when he makes horrible decisions and interferes with the love between the leads, it’s hard to hate him because he’s written with such depth. i love characters with angst, so reading about him was definitely my favorite part. this is a very “feel-good” story overall — even when there’s abuse or bad situations, you can tell it’s heading down a straight path from happiness to happiness. you’re never really questioning what’s going to happen next. that’s why the villain stood out so much to me; he felt different and gave the story a little more life. overall, the story was fine. nothing special, nothing terrible. i put off reading it because i thought it would be really good, but in the end, it’s not show-stopping — just… fine.

this is one of the most beautiful art I’ve ever seen so insanely stunning. The story was sweet too, but I have to say I spent so long just staring at the panels because of how stunning they were.

this was the one shot of the other one. I just finished so once again the Art is gorgeous and I loved desperate progression fantastic

I thought I was done reading stories for a while because everything I’d read had board me, but this one immediately drew me in and it was so entertaining and so good. The artist is fantastic. The story is so entertaining everything about this is so good. I highly recommend this to most people. I also love guideverse!! one of my favorite sub genres right now so so so good love everything about these two I love how the blonde guy is so professional and then like loses it towards the end also, I finished at the end of season two

wow, this is quite the age gap but I still really enjoyed it. It made me kind of uncomfortable when he was a kid like he was only 10. I don’t know. I understand that it’s realistic, but it does make someone a bit uncomfortable to look at I have to say, but I did still really like it.

I love romance and zombie apocalypse, so good. There’s something very romantic about the world ending but being protected by that special person this was really well done. I liked reading this quite a bit.