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sequel to that amazing office worker one!! amazing, loved it! except art style went a little too cutesy for my tastes... this is basically a continuation/change up of that trip that was shown in the extra chapter of the previous volume. whole volume is their trip and uke coming to terms with the fact that he doesn't have to worry about the future and seme leaving him one day. it's very fluffy! he learns to take things one day at a time. he confesses so much to seme, trying to convey his feelings so he can hold onto seme. it's a very unique scene in a BL. then we see a year later they move in together and signs that they went back on a trip to the same place again!

this author is amazing!! love her characters, art, and how stories don't end on happy ever after immediately after the couple gets together. i put slow relationship for the feelings even though technically they sleep together on the first night lol. seme and uke meet cuz uke's fiancee is cheating on him with seme one night. uke walks in and then walks out. seme follows him and they drink and eventually sleep together. after that, seme offers uke to stay at his place for a while since uke isn't going to live with his fiancee anymore. they live together and it's comfortable for them both. seme has this weird thing where he feels lonely without anyone by his side, but he always puts a great distance between him and others. but slowly seme falls in love for real with uke. now he wants to date, but still keeps a huge distance instead of acting like lovers and showing his real feelings. he's just too polite and easy going about everything. uke gets mad about that and is kinda distant with seme now even though he was already happy to enter a sort of relationship with seme. but then that night seme gets stabbed by an angry ex. uke runs to his side and they reconcile. seme has learned how to express himself too from his friend who told him to just be himself and let go of past trauma. anyway it's honestly great, i just wish we could see the extra from the book version. unfortunately this is the magazine scans so it just ends. boooo

amazing, fucking love it! great depth to these characters, cute storyline involving everyday life and not just the relationship between the two! uke becomes a teacher cuz he was shy in school and got kinda picked on by students and no teacher helped him. a teacher even started joining in on the teasing... he wanted to be a teacher that would stand up for the shy kids and take care of them. he keeps a social personality in front of the kids at school cuz he doesn't want to become an outcast teacher. but it's so convincing that lots of students confess to him and everyone thinks he's a playboy. one night seme invites him out to a community bbq. uke is reluctant but can't refuse and go. he is so uncomfortable and acts through it. seme takes him home and they live next to each other in the teacher dorms. uke starts crying on the bed when seme goes to get him some water. seme asks him what's wrong and in his drunken state, uke spills out all his feelings about school and being a teacher. then seme kisses him and tries to go further, but uke says he's a virgin so seme holds back lol. next morning seme is still there, making breakfast for uke. and now seme knows uke is a huge anime fan cuz of all the merch at his house. uke is kinda bewildered by their kissing and touching last night, but thinks seme might have done it just to help him relax and fit in??? anyway at school uke starts glancing at seme more. seme sees him and invites him out to do more stuff together. uke says he's not good with crowds, so seme says ok no prob, let's just do shit with only us two lol. seme starts dragging uke all around the small town, seeing local sights. then he invites uke on a trip he's doing with his school club, the geology club. and uke is kinda interested in geology cuz of the anime he likes, so he agrees to go. after that uke says he doesn't want to go out, only wants to do stuff at home with them two lol. and seme's cool with it, but it escalates to more touching and kissing. uke asks seme what is going on like do you like me. and seme kinda stares and doesn't reply, so uke gets shy, runs out, and avoids seme. then some students come to visit them at their teacher dorms. they make them go back, but first making sure they don't take the forest path where some creeps were reported. that kinda breaks the tension between them and seme says he thought about uke's question and now he's sure he likes uke. but uke thinks seme likes a false version of himself, where he's a model teacher and uke doesn't think that's his real self, so kinda pushes seme away. last thing they do is kinda cringe imo. seme knows the teacher that kinda bullied uke back in highschool cuz that teacher was later seme's teacher. seme calls him up and they go to see him. he tries to make excuses for himself but seme pushes back and in the end he admits he only joined in on the teasing cuz he didn't want the students to hate him. so fucked... and i guess uke feels better receiving this apology and explanation from the teacher. they go back home and uke says he also likes seme in the car. they rush home to have sex..... and then they're together i guess. lots of cute moments in the extras showing them afterwards at school and their cute interactions.

SIDE STORIES STILL COMING ASDFIASIDFSAEFIASEJFS CAN'T WAIT!!!! SEME HAS A DOBIE AHASAHSHSDHFASIEASEFLI HE'S SO CUTE!!!! drawn kinda weird sometimes.... but honestly good compared to previous manhwas and this dobie gets a lot of screen time. alpha x alpha story. not much discussion of their gender status though, cuz it's just leftover from the first story in this universe. uke 30, seme 37. age gap barely mentioned in story and doesn't play a role at all imo. sometimes seme feels like a younger seme. honestly kinda confusing in the beginning cuz i think author expected ppl to know the previous story but that hasn't been translated into eng so idk..... gist is uke and seme slept together one night 9 years ago. then uke liked seme kinda, but realized seme didn't remember him cuz he was so drunk. seme got interested in uke cuz uke is a ceramics artist and seme works at a gallery. but seme says he finds uke more interesting than his works cuz he saw uke stand up to a nasty professor who makes artists sleep with him in exchange for fame. anyway, since then, they both know each other but they don't really meet again. i think they meet again for work involving uke's ex, but this part is in the previous story and just glossed over here and i'm fucking confused. main thing is in the present, uke has been in an artistic slump for 5 years since he broke up with ex and he can't get over his ex. seme is kinda in love with his step-"mother" who is an omega man. some complicated shit went down there like the mother seeing his father in seme and doing gross stuff with him?? or letting seme be abused by his father cuz the omega didn't want to do anything the father didn't like in case he's thrown away....w/e this is complicated but not that important. basically uke approaches seme with a deal. let uke be part of seme's gallery's exhibit and in return uke will sleep with him. lol am i remembering this right cuz it doesn't sound like there's anything for seme in this deal. seme decides to take it but kinda in bad faith cuz he had no intention of letting uke be in the exhibition. they sleep together a bunch and uke finds out about seme's messed up step-mother situation and horrible father. he stands up for seme in front of them and seme kinda somehow gets over his step-mother cuz he has uke now. uke also getting over his ex. things are honestly going really well. there's a bit of uke self-conflict cuz he's scared of trusting someone again after the shit with his ex. but he does and seme is so great to him. there's a last bit of misunderstanding angst where uke thinks seme never intended to let him exhibit, meaning seme never believed in him turning over a new leaf or in his abilities. but seme actually planned a solo exhibition for uke. uke is just relieved seme wasn't lying to him and still loves him. so sweet and that's the end. there's something about uke also not wanting seme to remember what happened between them 9 years ago. but idk, seme either remembered on his own and didn't care or he was told by the bartender who saw what happened and didn't care..... in the end uke was just worried about that for nothing.

ok this one is really cute and fluffy. some character death of secondary characters and crazy shit like revenge and war happening in the background, but FL and ML are lovely the whole way through. fl is reincarnated into a book she read, but it barely affects the plot at all that she started like this.... she could have been born here and it's literally the same shit..... basically ml's ancestor was cursed to think all food tastes like dirt. fl is the 6th princess of a kingdom and only half-royal. her mom was a witch who died in childbirth. while ml is about to execute all the royals, he sees fl fiddling with something and asks her to bring it forward. she shows it and stuffs it in his mouth. surprisingly he finds it tasty and he takes her to make more food for him. once he confirms he loves her food, he takes her as a spoil of war and goes back to his own empire where he's a duke. they fall in love through cooking and eating. fl's personality is refreshing. she's smart and aware of shit. knows she's having feelings for ml and that he probably likes her. no bs dumbfuck beating around the bush here. but some part of the story is dedicated to fl's sister, the first princess, and how the emperor of ml's kingdom only went to war to get her. the first princess pretends to like the emperor but is plotting revenge. then with help from a guy witch, the emperor kills himself under influence of a gas. anyway it's w/e. basically whole thing just proved fl and ml's love for each other more, holding strong past all this bs and caring for each other above all. and in the end it's a bit rushed ending, but it's been a slow burn so not bad. fl makes ml cook to lift the curse cuz he would understand the work that goes into food and appreciate it more. fl's mom appears in ml's mind and lifts his curse and they get married happily.

this is the best written manhwa i've ever fucking read. so much depth and detail it reads like a novel. but i'm not that into the damaged goods character types, so this is not exactly perfect imo. but i can recognize the good writing and brilliant art for what it is. tragic backgrounds both of them.... 25 fl 30 ml. fl grew up an orphan before being sold as a wife to an abusive nasty man. ml's parents died while he was young and then he went to military academy at age 10 and became air force commander at age 20 and spent basically all his youth fighting a war. he's known as a war hero but damaged by war. fl was inspired by ml's war hero posters and voice telling ppl it's all ok. ml was obsessed with how fl was the sole survivor of their town since she escaped prison there when the air raids happened. anyway, basically the whole story takes place over a week or so on a ship. fl is being transported to an island for prisoners. she killed her husband at 17 and has escaped from prison twice. she keeps insisting she didn't do it, but in the end we find out she did do it.... ml is the guy who's escorting her to the island prison. along the way they understand each other deeper than their initial interest from seeing each other in newspapers. and ofc fall in love. lots of shit happen on the boat. fl saves the captain's granddaughter from choking death and they all treat her really well. give her lots of perks like no shackles and taking her to nice dinners and parties. ml slowly wants fl to escape, so that's why he's being so lenient with her and kinda giving her hints about what she can do to escape. but even he thinks it might be impossible cuz they're surrounded by ocean and sea monsters. but then fl turns into a witch and the sea monsters are on her side helping her escape. so she does. with ml helping her give a sedative to everyone on board. then they confess to each other before he sends her off. that's the end of the story. in extras ml retires from military and actually gets put in exile cuz they kinda know he helped her escape, but can't do much to punish him due to hero status. the empress helps him cuz they're old school pals and he gets to pick the island he spends rest of his life on. he picks an island close to the witch island that he knows fl is at. and a year later he starts having dreams about her constantly. then she shows up at his house and they are cutely reunited. she can only come occasionally cuz she needs to follow some witch rules while learning witchery on witch island..... but they are so sweet and exchange rings and have sex and stuff. honestly great story i just dislike fl's character and ml is too much of an expressionless damaged man...... i get why the sjws all love it and it is really well made, but just not my style tbh.

THIS IS MAYBE THE BEST FUCKING ISEKAI ROMANCE I'VE EVER READ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ART IS SO FUCKING GORGEOUS, IT'S DEFINITELY THE BEST. CHARACTERS ARE FUCKING AMAZING. STORY IS SO VIBRANT AND I LOVE ALL THE SIDE CHARACTERS TOO. THEY MAKE RECURRING OCCURRENCES AND IT JUST FEELS LIKE REAL LIFE. only thing i can complain about is i wish we saw more of the romance between ml and fl. fl was so absorbed the whole time about how ml probably loves the original novel's fl that nothing happened between them for 100 chapters except some cute blushing and convo..... damn i would have loved to see more affection from them after they finally realized their feelings. it's already a lot of good affection, like fl taking initiative and openly showing love, high quality affection, but just so low quantity T-T...... anyway, this is a fucking masterpiece. both from an objective standpoint and subjectively for me it's 9/10.

honestly very good and i love the art and the plot of the story. but it just looks like she hates her father too much while he's only loved her and is just a tsundere lol. i wish she will quickly realize her father's love for her. basically she's reborn as the duke's daughter but she knows in the novel this girl turned evil over her obsession with some count and killed the princess who began to date the count. then she is taken to the dungeon by her father who also gives her a knife. the crown prince comes to see her and say he will interrogate her. she gets scared and stabs herself with the knife and dies. now reborn she wants to avoid this ending so she quickly breaks off the relationship with the count. somehow her father the duke and the crown prince max know each other as teacher and disciple. and max stays with her some days because he is off doing his own shit while someone pretends to be him in the palace lol. she doesn't know max is the crown prince, but she only knows she is scared of the crown prince and saw that a list of candidates for marriage had crown prince's name circled. actually the duke circled it to remove his name lol but she think it meant he picks max. anyway, so now it's a lot of drama about duke scaring off any guys who come near her but are not up to standard. max getting feelings for her after staying with her. her not knowing max is the crown prince but thinks he is some poor guy with nowhere to live and studying under her father. and her father also just protecting her in every way but she finds her father super scary. it is hinted that her father knows about the past? and he obviously gave her the knife with good intention. so maybe he knew it could turn back time? anyway, so she starts a marriage contract with max not knowing he is the crown prince, because she wants to avoid the arranged marriage between her and crown prince. not knowing that her dad's worst fear is her being with crown prince lol... too much misunderstanding. i wish this would all clear up soon. also it's been hinted that members of royalty have powers or something given by gods when the empire was founded idk maybe turning time is a power? but it's kinda turning into some gag manga? like repeated exaggerated jokes and expressions... OKAY THIS IS THE FUCKING BEST FANTASY ROMANCE I'VE READ IN A LOOOONG LONG TIME. JUST FINISHED AND WAITING ON THE HAPPILY EVER AFTER SIDE STORIES AHAISFALSIEJFASLEIJFSALDF EXCELLENT CHARACTERS, AMAZING PACING, HEART WRENCHING STORY. I FUCKING LOVED ALL OF IT. so quick summary. fl wakes up remembering she died before. and starts doing things to avoid that. along the way she gets into a misunderstanding that her father hates her and wants her to marry the evil crown prince. but her father actually loves her so much and didn't want her marring anyone. fl asks ml, who she thinks is just her father's pupil, to pretend to date in order to avoid anyone her father wants to set her up with. but ofc ml is actually the crown prince she wants to avoid..... they continue this way for a loong time and fall in love with each other for real. ml falling first i suppose. all is revealed when the fl kinda recognizes the ml when he's being the prince, even though ml always hides his face with a mask when he's being the prince. anyway, i like that after it's revealed, ml apologizes and fl understands and they kiss and make up. no dumbass misunderstanding angriness since they talk and love each other. and then they work to help her father. they figure out why he's always been acting cold despite loving his daughter so much. turns out the emperor controls him through a dragon that was the emperor's ancestor. the father of the first emperor. and this dragon wants to destroy the empire cuz his son wanted to kill him and he wants revenge. anyway, the rest of the story is them basically coming up with a way to get rid of the contract between father and the emperor. cuz their lives are linked through the contract. in the end it's revealed fl is actually reincarnation of goddess who originally sealed the dragon in the ring. so fl takes it upon herself to do it again. she releases the dragon from the ring. they all battle him, and then fl seals him up in another jewel and then lock it up in their vault. happily ever after. i shed so many fucking tears reading about the sad life the father had. how his wife was killed and then his daughter dying and him turning back time to reverse fl's death. fuck so sad. glad they're past it now. and this story is really cute and funny too. i just love everyone.

I LOVE THIS AUTHOR AHHHHHHHHH uke was in high school and shy. his sis gave him a makeover and he went off to a gay bar. met seme and was going to spend one night together but seme found out he's in high school and stopped. uke asked for a photo to remember this night and seme agreed. 5 years later uke is a famous idol now. he still looks at seme's photo all the time and has posters of the photo all over his room cuz he's a fan of seme lol. there's a stalker problem and seme gets hired to be uke's bodyguard. they get close and seme starts to like uke seeing how hard he's working and how cute uke is. when seme gets injured protecting uke from the stalker, they get even closer cuz seme purposely acts like his arm isn't working well and needs uke's help. uke kinda lets slip what was obvious all along, that he loves seme. and seme says ok after your concert tour let's do whatever we want. so after the tour they meet up again and have sex. i guess they're together for sure now. seme isn't uke's bodyguard anymore i think cuz the stalker thing is over. and seme went to see uke's concert which was so cute. honestly love it. i kind of wish we could better see seme's feelings develop, but it's pretty good. we do get some moments where we see seme stand up for uke cuz his feelings are changing and him getting kinda jealous of the other idol group members close with uke.

super cute shounen-ai. uke and seme start feeling things for each other after a bit of misunderstanding makes seme think uke likes him. uke starts to actually like him. and seme actually starts to like uke after seriously considering whether to return uke's feelings that he thinks uke had lol. anyway, it's a very cute light-hearted manga. no messed up drama between them. things always get solved with communication and their love for each other... also a side straight couple here. we see them graduating and going to kyoto for uni together.