Tai's manga / #Romance(156)

the "bottom" aka submissive in the relationship is a gorgeous tan blonde haired gyaru type but a man. (is their a name for a male version of gyaru style? idk). colored nails, lots of jewelry, promiscuous and sexy. he falls in love with a buttoned up straight laced tradtional handsome salaryman and its a sweet short thoughtful (and emotional) story about two dudes who are very different trying to work thru their feelings for each other. this one actually acknowledges homophobia as the gyaru boy was horribly bullied in his past for being VERY obviously queer even as a child and its pretty traumatic stuff (no rape in this story tho thankfully), what he goes thru is awful tho so TW for that. and the black haired top does fail to do the right thing at one point but it makes his reformation into a staunch defender (and lover) of Sena (gyaru cutie) all the more satisfying imo. i want to rate it higher but i feel like the story needed a bit more space to breathe and while i liked it and recommend it i cant call it a fave and only faves get 4 and up stars. sry those r the Rules.

i dont rly have alot to say about this. this isnt an esp deep story but it does get pretty dark in spots. trigger warnings abound here. its not a thriller or psychological drama or anything horror esque. just melodrama dealing with some real intense topics sometimes. the reason i stuck with this story tho, if im honest, is the sex scenes. let me explain! the relationship has an intense-ness that actually justifies the sex scenes (like desire just kind of rolls off them in almost every scene even if they arent doing anything sexy?) but more over i like how they are drawn here. we get alot of full shots and faces are actually like..expressive. alot of webtoons just lack fluidity in their sex scenes or just chop up the scene into various body parts and close ups rather than full shots. full shots imo are more intimate and pleasing to the eye. its why manga with sex scenes tend to do more for me than a smutty webtoon tbh. this one has no real plot rather the plot IS the characters adn their relationship. so if they interest u and u like the art, this will be a good read and if u dont then there's nothing much else to see here. but ya at least none of the assaults are perpretrated by the love interest, amazing that i have to specify that but lol here we are.

i feel bad rating this one star cause the art is excellent and the (consensual) sex scenes are very hot. im fine with dubcon in an erotica story but this one goes straight to brutal gangrape of one of the leads that isnt rly handled in any serious way and is clearly there for smut reasons which is....a choice i guess. me and kevin tobidase just dont see eye to eye i guess. i just never like their work even tho their art is so good. its a SHAME. but yeah this story was...bad. not just offensive but like poorly haphazardly written as well. i want to skip it but its still worth looking at the art esp for the main couple. they arent a bad couple, its just that the army stuff and the gangraping and the handling of both those is just....someone clearly just had a fetish for gangbangs and military uniforms and made only the barest attempt at a plot to justify it. and next time dude? just dont even bother. just draw ur sexy military dudes banging it out. its ok. we wont judge u.

this wasnt very deep but i did like it enough to read all of it so that says something. i think i always like it when the top is a cute boy who is very in love and not some cold macho asshole. so many times its like THIS GUY IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN ME HOW COULD I EVER~~ and im like...no ty. this is the Friends to Lovers trope and you'd think i'd be tired of it by now...but i am not lol. this is a good friends to lovers imo. its hilarious that so many commenters thought the redhead was an evil abuser rapist when...he's nothing of the sort. there is ONE scene that is debtable-y dubcon...and that's it. the brownhaired cutie is actually able to adovcate for himself and isnt some drippy pushover. he's the less overtly affectionate of the two which i like. anyway there is alot of sex but it didnt bore me. i cant say that its esp enlightening or important to the story or characters but it was pleasing to look at and what more can i ask in my R18 webtoons? lol. so yeah if u like friends to lovers and a top that is SUPER in love (kinda like taehee from banana scandal) then this will prob be a nice way to kill 1-2 hrs. (altho this is very vanilla, there is one scene with Kink, so like school girl uniform, spanking, a blindfold, stuff like that. figured it's worth a mention). it is always amusing to me to see which men can get away with doing what to their partners in these stories, its so clearly based around just how hot the readership at large thinks the guy is otherwise this guy wouldnt be getting more shit than the leads in other popular comics in the same genre. (not naming names cause this is a review and not a callout post lol)

i remember almost none of this. anyway its not the worst TL but...its not good either tbh. disposable and problematic but not horrible is the best i can say about it. (the guy is one of the nicer male leads in a TL is the sad part. since he's nice and its 99% consensual BUT he still assaults her in the beginning to teach her to be "wary of men" which is just..so...who is this sexy for? thats my question here). he also saves her from her creepy ex (who is such a cartoon villain tbh). and...thats about what i remember...

silly and smutty. its mainly comedy with some romance and lots of sex. the main couple is pretty lovely but the other 2 couples are...dubcon is putting it nicely tbh. so yeah if u have issues with any kind of dubcon, noncon, rape adjacent sexual antics this might be a skip even if the side couples arent that big a part of the story esp in the first half where it focuses purely on the main couple (the ones on the cover). anyway i had fun with it.

the first and only chinese webtoon im reading. im kind of so so on workplace romances usually but i like this one alot. the humor is hit or miss but its not cringey. the real prize is the FL who is truly an inspiration to us all. the kind of coolheaded and competant lady we just dont get enough of. no cutesy bumbling here folks! the ML is also unconventional in some ways. he's eccentric and quiet but not icy or rude. and he def despite being her age feels younger in some ways. he's pretty but not like Cute but he's also not macho at all. i dont think thats coincidence. this is another webtoon that in a subtle thoughtful way plays a bit with gender role expectations in a love story. albeit as of 22 chpts i dont get any like...romantic or sexual chemistry off these two at all. but at the same time i DO find their dynamic interesting and it is clear why they could in the future be a good partnership and fall for each other but this isnt some swoony steamy romance by a long shot. anyway i def recommend this. esp cause it seems like we may also be getting a SUPER SHARPLY DRESSED lesbian coworker as the FL's close friend. (unlike her non coworker bff who is a spoiled annoying rich girl there for comic relief except nothing she does is funny to me but anyways~). there's also another guy with a playful attitude and a ponytail and im alrdy feelin some kinda way about him.