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The story is simple and nothing unique, but in 6 chapters it manages to include a lot things that I want from yaoi but rarely get. Two queer MCs, a seme who, despite being a “playboy,” is more patient, considerate, and gentle than 99% of others, and an outspoken, proactive uke. While I'm sure the specifics aren't exactly correct, we get actual discussion of prep and lube and listening to your partner instead of just jackhammering them with a two liter soda bottle until they pass out. In most yaoi you're lucky if they spit on their finger and poke the uke's ass once before going full fwop fwop, so that's significantly more than we usually see and I really appreciate it when I find it.

I re-read this every once in a while becayse it's just so fucking sweet. I love their relationship. It’s really the ideal friends to lovers story, they just adore each other. Definitely skip 6.5, it's super creepy and I don't know why on earth the author went there in such an otherwise wholesome story. Tbh chapter 6 is also kinda annoying with the whiny bartender but sei and bunny are still so cute.

This was cute but it felt way too long considering the plot. Like the main story was 30-something chapters but if these two idiots stopped fucking and had ONE conversation this could've been cut in half. I enjoyed it but it definitely dragged in the middle and I don't think I'd read it again. BUT points for enthusiastic consent and no gross red flags. Well, the redhead was a bit predatory but he fucked off in the end and didn't really cross any major lines. By yaoi standards. The side story with him and the grimy guy was... odd.

Really underrated IMO. Chaotic, funny, and free from any real drama or toxicity. Mr. Baek is one of my favorite male leads, and his relationship with Iro is actually pretty healthy. They communicate (!!!) and consider the other person's perspective, and they both have enough self-awareness to recognize when they've made mistakes. I feel like there could have been a few extra chapters to wrap up some plot points, but the end wasn't unsatisfying as is. The art does change a bit over the course of the story - I prefer the earlier style but don't dislike the later one.
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Special acknowledgements to Iro's surprisingly amazing ass, the bunny costume, the fact that Mr. Baek's dick isn't the size of a fire extinguisher, and Laurel, the owner of the lesbian bar who can step on my neck whenever she wants.

I was mostly enjoying this until about 2/3 of the way through, then I had to drop it. Calling this sweet or cute is wild IMO. They were both at fault for the breakup, but people kept treating JJ like some kind of victim even when his response to Leo pissing him off was to violently rape* the man he claimed to love and leave him half naked on a warehouse floor. It was honestly really fucked up. I’m so sick of yaoi taking this route, what a waste of a potential and great art.

*I have a low tolerance for consent issues and can't and don't want to gloss over it just because it's so common in this genre. If you don't consider what happened rape, I'm not going to argue with you. It's fiction, read what you want. But from my perspective, I couldn't read it as anything BUT rape.

This is a really lovely little story - absolutely gorgeous art and some really beautiful writing. Their relationship is sweet and natural and they communicate like they’ve both had therapy.

It's very unbalanced plot-wise though. The majority of time was spent on Sunwoo’s story, and by the time we started to get into Youngwon’s background, it was over. I wouldn’t want to condense Sunwoo’s part, so instead I feel like it needed another 10-15 chapters to give Youngwon’s experience a satisfying amount of coverage. We don’t ever even find out what happened to make him quit swimming - we just get some cryptic flashbacks. Considering that their respective histories are part of why they understand each other so well, it just seems like an odd choice to leave his side unexplored. It would’ve been really nice to see Sunwoo be the one encouraging Youngwon as he tried to reconnect with that part of himself.

The whole thing with Sunwoo staying back a year seemed way overblown IMO. Lying about it was shitty and the wrong way to go, I would definitely be mad about that, but his motivation was just to stay with his friends and I don't think that's a bad thing if it's what's important to him. Taking it as some kind of superiority thing or mocking their hard work says way more about his friends than it does about him.

This seems hugely underrated IMO, people are missing out.The writing is beautiful, and it felt very real. The MCs are good people but not perfect. They don’t immediately fall in love and move in together three days after meeting. They’re important to each other but they’re also adults with their own lives and dreams. They support each other but can’t fix each other’s problems. The main angst point hurt and was frustrating, but I also understood it. It’s uncensored but feels intimate rather than smutty, and there are ZERO consent issues. Bonus points for both MCs being established gay men - none of that “I don’t like guys but it’s okay if it’s you” bs. And god Seung-woo slapping that piece of shit and calling him a homophobe in front of a bar full of people was so fucking satisfying.

One of my favorites. The art is great, the plot is fun, there’s no huge drama. Se-eun is an adorable little pervert, and Jeongwoo is the definition of a puppy seme (while also being HOT AS FUCK, that cosplay robe??). As with 99% of of BL, I do wish he’d listen slightly better during sex, but you can definitely tell they’re both into it. I really want Gyusik to get his own spin-off, he and his goat son are precious and his story would be so fun.

This was actually pretty toxic. I was surprised since everyone says it's so healthy, because I low key felt like I was watching sweet baby Jun get into an abusive relationship. Calling Yoonseul a green flag is fucking WILD. He's awful and Jun deserved so much better.

Yoonseul is an aggressively manipulative asshole who gaslights his partner and only cares about his own pleasure. The first season is cute-ish, I guess, but tbh in my notes I started calling Yoonseul trash in chapter 7 and never stopped. I think it's obvious that he starts out as an asshole, but is he actually supposed to get better? Because people gush about the character development and I just don't see it. Even once you get to the chasing arc, he's still a self-centered narcissist who doesn’t actually want Jun to be happy if it’s not with him.

What finally made me drop it was their first time having sex - it was really upsetting tbh. After cornering Jun into penetrative sex despite knowing he was still nervous about it, Yooneul proceeds to be so aggressuve it almost seemed violent, completely ignoring everything Jun says and just jackhammering on and on despite the fact that Jun is CLEARLY not enjoying it. Having a character think “is it finally over” is NOT HOT or cute or wholesome. It makes me really fucking sad.

Idk man, I might be the only person on earth who didn't like this. I gave it a shot because it's universally praised, but dropped it about halfway through. I feel like I was reading a different story or something, because I was promised a green flag top and smut with no consent issues and I personally don't feel like that was the case. The sex scenes really ruined it for me - they made me super uncomfortable and tbh I really don't understand why everyone likes Gunwoo so much. He's not all bad but I will never call a guy who tells his partner to "quit whining" and "tough it out" when they're in pain and ignores them literally saying "please get off, let me go, I want to go home" a green flag. The one time Eui Joon turned down sex because he was so sore Gunwoo's thought process was "would it kill the brat to do it once?" Not cute.