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Tabenai no? Ookami san

A human child, Tarou, is abandoned in the forest as a sacrifice for the wolfman, Ul, who lives in th...

• Author: KOISHIKAWA Ao
• Genres: Fantasy / Shounen Ai

Dropped - 2/22/25 | 1.5

Hatsukoi, Catharsis

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• Author: Hatokawa nuko
• Genres: Yaoi / Romance Romance

Started - 01/05 || Paused - 01/07

Pausing, but so far it feels like a 3.5

I like Ikki, Nakanishi's pretty cool... and that's it. I didn't like being in Karakida's head. The affection he showed to Ikki was cute and all but the way his thoughts read, the way he talked about himself and how well he could read people was so Light Yagami coded and pretentious sounding. It was annoying and I'm a Light Yagami enjoyer.

Also, from the beginning to page 68, they barely touched on Ikki's asexuality. While in his POV he does talk about how he feels but it just wasn't enough. I hope it gets officially picked up or someone else retranslates this because I want to keep reading this.

Mine-kun is Asexual

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• Author: Isaki uta
• Genres: Doujinshi / Manga / Shoujo / Oneshot / Romance Doujinshi Manga Oneshot Romance

Will add to this later

Girl's Cocoon

A trilogy of beautiful, dangerous, and cruel truth between adolescent girls......

• Author: Keiko fuyumushi
• Genres: Yuri / Drama / Romance / School life

Started 01/04

Ch.1 - 3.5 || Ch.2 - 4 || Ch.3 - 4
(will add to this later)

Barefoot Angel

From Oasis Translation Group:One day, shoemaker Turner meets a mysterious young man, Benny, who call...

• Author: Nonomiya Ito
• Genres: Fantasy / Romance / Slice Of Life / Yaoi

Started Vol.1 12/28 || Ended 12/29 - 4/5
Is it weird that I'm both suspicious and I'm cautious that I've found nothing in this first vol to be mad about? If this was just it, cool. But there are 2 more volumes and I've been burned too many times. I did like it which has me very cautious.

Started Vol.2 12/29 || Ended

Started Vol.3 || Ended

Nobara (KUMOTA Haruko)

1-3) NobaraTake has been watching Kamita-san single-handedly take care of his young daughter Mone fo...

• Author: KUMOTA Haruko
• Genres: Comedy / Drama / Gender Bender / Romance / Slice of Life / Yaoi

Started 12/27

I think I understand why people kept telling me that the Wild Rose story is really sweet and the only one of the 3 to be scanlated after all these years. I'll yell about it later when I get my thoughts together.

2-Week Summer Secret

A shy boy becomes roommates with a Yankee during a 2 week homestay. How will their relationship chan...

• Author: kazao
• Genres: Ecchi / Romance / Shounen Ai / Drama / School Life

Started 12/19 || Ended 12/21

Idk, Goodreads' 2.50 kinda feels too low. It wasn't that bad and I'll add all my thoughts a lot later.

A Marked Love Match

During his third year in middle school, Yuya confesses to Ryo, a delinquent with a scary face. At fi...

• Author: Thanat
• Genres: Yaoi / Drama / Romance / School Life Drama Romance School Life

Started 12/21 || Paused 12/26

I didn't want to drop nor put this on hold especially since there's another sorry in here, but this book put me in a reading slump that's starting to piss me off. I don't like Minami, I don't care about the story, don't care about the couple, and really can't stand the art style. All of this doesn't make me want to continue, but I just dropped the manga before last and I don't want to do that again so soon.

The gang stuff is whatever. I didn't care for it but I also didn't really mind it, it wasn't the main part of the book so I can deal. What really made this difficult for me (besides the art) was just Minami himself. He's moving way too fast for Sakurada who's obviously trying to become more comfortable with being with a guy. Hell, in a relationship in general, to be honest. But it doesn't read like Minami's is considering that most of the time. It's kind of annoying and disgusting, really not making me like Minami at all. I also thought that their first couple's conflict was just fucking stupid.

I don't know, even though this is going on hold, I may just end up dropping it. This worries me because I have a couple more manga from this author on my TBR that I'm now not eager to get to.

Koi ni mo Naranai.

From Hoshikuzuu Scans:"That's the first time I've seen crying so beautiful." Taj...

• Author: Hagi
• Genres: School Life / Shounen Ai

2.25

I couldn’t. I straight couldn’t do this. This is probably a really cute story, Tajima and Koga (Kouga? I’ve seen both) are probably super cute together. In fact, I don’t think the story itself is bad, so I don’t want to give it such a low rating. However, my enjoyment was severely severed by Koga having a crush on his step-brother and I tried so hard to overlook it because that’s not the couple we’re following, it isn’t about them.

But I know how this goes.

We’re going to keep bringing up how Koga’s feelings. Even if it becomes less and less of a thing, it’s going to be talked about throughout the book, it’s going to be a conflict or a topic of discussion as he and Tajima become closer, it’s going to make me scream and throw up if I have to keep reading that.

Though I wasn’t that invested in them and I thought the first chapter was kind of boring, I was a tiny bit interested in where this would go after chapter two... and then chapter three started and I just couldn’t do it.

Try & I Love You

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• Author: Echo
• Genres: Yaoi / Mature / Childhood Friends / Romance / Slice of Life Childhood Friends Romance Slice of Life

3.5 will add to this later

Heat Place

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• Author:
• Genres: Oneshot / Shounen ai / Slice of Life Oneshot Shounen ai Slice of Life

(Ended 11/30/24)

I am giving this story 4 stars because this story was cute and I loved it. However, the whole book, Short Distance Love, was a fucking train wreck for me. The rest of my thoughts will be about the whole book and all 4 of its stories. I'm not going to add the incest and age gap tags to this story since that's not in this story, but just now that they are apart of story 2 and 3.
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Story 1: I liked this one even though I was a bit confused at the beginning. I didn't really get why Kou kept rejecting Daisuke even though it was sort of explained. It felt more like a why he said yes now instead of before, but it was still cute to see them try to work with each other. I added an extra star because they tried to “settle it in smash” who topped.. and then they never did and fell asleep.

Man, if only we had more time to send with them. Maybe, like, one more chapter specifically after this one that would show them being more of a couple instead of the last bonus chapter just telling us that they got closer... If only.

Story 2: When they showed that Michihiko was 23 I went “the other guy better not be 19 or I'm skipping"... 23 and 19 is a big age gap for me but at least they wouldn't’ve been fucking family! Or at least I hope they would’ve been fucking family. I didn’t stay, I skipped it immediately.

Story 3: I am so tired of this book. This story has an age gap that’s kind of uncomfortable at the start but only if you’re paying attention because age gaps are a sensitive subject for you. Koshika is most likely 19 when meeting Sousuke who’s an older man, at least 25+. He clearly has a crush on Sousuke, but what ew’d me out was Sousuke flirting with him. Yes, he could’ve been 20 but maybe you shouldn’t be vague about ages when one of them is in high school. The sad part is they meet years later and the rest of their story is so cute. They are so cute. But then they brought up how Sousuke knew and Koshika’s feelings and still flirted made me want to throw up. Can we get back to the first story, please?

Story 4: This book should've been about story 1 for 3 chapters and story 4 for 2 chapters. Forget chapters 2 and 3. Skip them. Story 4 is super cute and I wish it had more to its story because it ended way too soon. It made me remember that the art style in this is so good. I loved the way Miyamoto looked in general and thought Daisuke’s eyes were cool.

Let’s Eat Together

A meal with someone is…I don't know why it tastes so good--A good-natured bento shop own...

• Author: Mike nako,Chara comics
• Genres: Shounen Ai / Yaoi / Drama / Romance

(Ended 11/23/24)

... Ok, but why didn't your dad just teach you the damn recipe?

Anyway, this was fine. Just fine. But just fine in a more positive way than a low 3 “just fine". I thought Roy and Kotaro were cute together, I almost cried seeing them try to do a high five but Kotaro didn't have his glasses on so they missed and I loved everything about that bit. My only problem was how the dialogue flowed. Something about the dialogue felt off, making me feel like I was missing context. The number of times I've said “why bring that up out of nowhere" or “who asked" was a lot.

The way they brought up certain topics felt forced like they were being told their next line off-screen while also being told to stay on track. There was a part where Masuda came by to pick up the order list and, without being promoted, brought up Kotaro was down at the cafe, kicking off the conflict. That's just one of three parts that stood out to me like that, It didn't make sense for him to bring that up the way he did because it didn't feel natural to the conversation. It came off as gossip to start something for no reason, so many conversations played out that way in this story. When people talked it either felt like a tonal whiplash or or “who asked" moment.

Noraneko no Shokutaku

On his way home from work one day, Shiota, a hard-working businessman, stumbles upon a stranger who'...

• Author: Kure
• Genres: Yaoi / Romance / Slice of Life Romance Slice of Life

I'm sorry but I was really bored during the main story. I don't know, the story felt kind of stale but also cute. I just couldn't bring myself to care about either of them as much as I wanted to that when their conflict happened I didn't feel anything. It wasn't a bad story, I just didn't care.

Now as for the 2nd story, I was giddy for more of Minakami. I remember thinking to myself “man, I really like the design of the cafe owner. I really want to see more of them". But they just had to ruin it by the college guy be 19. Ugh. It's a cute story but they could've made him at least 24? Even before finding out his age I couldn't stop thinking how I would've loved it more of it was about him and the bartender from the place Suzuki worked at instead because I need more mature couples in my life. So that kind of sucked seeing that Isaki was under 20. And then they hit me with a joke like “What kind of useless adult am I, getting involved with a kid" like, ew!? Like, ew? Like, ew.

Something I do like, though, was the way this author draws mouths and eyes. Specifically their smiles, though. It makes me think of how fixated I was with another author, Kei Sumiya, who’s smiles during some genuine moments are so radiant, shiny, blinding, and warm. The :3 smiles Kure does makes me smile, I love it. It’s like when you’re talking to someone who understands the importance of emoticons and put shit like :) and -A- and (^u^) at the end of their text. I’m in love. I’m in love with the way Kure draws smiles.