His House
kinda strange plot where things get dramatic but nothing actually happens cuz it's all resolved so fast. basically guy and his half-uncle, who shares a dad with his dad. no sex cuz uncle/uke is kinda disabled from knees down. seme is in college and trying to get money as a rental bf. uke originally hired him as part of some evil plan to get his inheritance cuz seme didn't know his rich family background. but they fall in love as uke is being cared for by seme and uke decides to give up this plan. uke's half brother who was threatening him and working with him gets mad uke is giving up the plan and tells seme the truth of the evil plan. seme kinda gets scared uke only pretended to love him for the plan and runs away to think. evil half brother attacks uke but uke saves himself. after that evil guy is gone and the couple re-unites. nothing special happening but not a bad story i guess. liked the manly art. interesting to have a disabled guy.
Trap City
honestly this is one of the best manhwas i've read. great art and a competent well-paced story and likable side characters who don't show up too much!! only taking a star off cuz the uke used to prostitute himself and i'm not into that. small age gap of 5 years. the child does not really show up in the story, but she motivates a lot of uke's actions. uke used to sleep with a gang leader to get money and a good life and stuff. he was supporting his "sister" who i don't think is his real sister? just a younger girl from his orphanage. anyway he runs away one day cuz he's tired of that life of being drugged up and fucked everyday. he's picked up by the leader of a rival gang. this rival gang leader wants to get revenge on the other leader for killing his twin brother 13 years ago. anyway, so uke stays with seme as bait for other gang leader to come. slowly feelings develop cuz seme remembers uke saved him 13 years ago and old him a great life lesson. then there is showdown with the other gang leader, ofc seme and uke win, though seme gets shot. then like typical in these stories, uke suddenly leaves right before the ending lol..... but then while seme is telling the bar owner his feelings about uke, uke stands up from behind bar and they are reunited. ofc uke takes his "sister" to live with seme too and happily ever after.
Papa Is A Bride?
just a basic story of an older dad with child and younger guy. no sex. 10 year age gap or around there. they meet cuz the younger guy is a toy company salesman and he calms down the older guy's daughter. after that he helps older guy out with cooking and how to handle kids and also when older guy can't get in contact with his divorced wife who has his daughter, younger guy sees them on the street and brings them home. nothing much happens.
See You at the Crosswalk
police officer and elementary school nurse. officer uke is 24 and nurse seme is nearing 30. they meet when officer mistakes nurse for a flasher. nurse immediately starts playing around with him cuz officer is so kind and gullible. nurse makes officer treat him to food and i guess nurse starts liking officer cuz nurse likes cute things and never lets go. but the story is a little all over the place. reason for nurse liking officer is pretty wishy washy and officer doesn't show why like nurse back. actually it feels like the author doesn't know how to get them together, so she took a break and after the break she just said their kinda obligated kiss before was the start of the relationship.............but ok if she really intended that from the beginning. anyway then we just see some random shits happening in their lives while we wait for 3 months to pass maybe? cuz officer said they'll have sex in 3 months.... so there's picking up an injured cat, a love rival kinda homophobic and kinda into the officer, a kidnapper, and just seme spazzing to his friends about uke. no coherent march towards an end goal and too many random characters that seem unnecessary. funny and good but definitely messy. in the end suddenly seme gets mad seeing a text the love rival sent to uke and walks out of uke's home. but he literally just got there with food. anyway uke chases after but seme waves like no, bye. but then uke yells today is 3 months (implying they'll have sex) and that makes seme stop. just weird situations all around.......so i guess they have sex and the story kinda ends. good art though. characters just kinda lack depth and story messy.
I Am Beautiful
very sweet and cute story. they have a slight age gap like maybe 5 years. uke loved this guy, but that guy got a gf. one time he meets guy's older bro, the seme, cuz the guy told bro that he's living alone and pretended uke's apartment was his. anyway after that they all met to eat dinner and probably the seme realized the truth of the matter. he thinks uke looks familiar and remembered seeing uke when uke was crying in junior high. then when they're going home later, seme rushes back with ice cream as thanks for uke's troubles with the younger brother. finds uke crying. cuz uke was sad about the guy having a gf. seme kinda hits on uke and exchanges numbers, then leaves. some time later uke is going to seme's village to volunteer. seme is a farmer, his younger bro also helping out. anyway seme and uke kiss pretty fast in seme's sleepiness and after that seme is just full on assaulting uke with flirtation. uke switches over to seme pretty fast too but has some misunderstandings about seme liking another guy. there's also some drama about cows being stolen. turns out other guy was a cop and stuff. anyway seme and uke get together in the midst of all this. cow thieves get caught. they are cutely together. uke gives up his summer job and switches to online summer courses to stay in the village with seme. they fuck and enjoy each other. i guess story has a lot of character growth. from uke accepting he's gay to giving up his feelings for his friend. and seme learning to forgive himself for things he couldn't control in the past and not having regrets for things he really couldn't change. he had some regrets about his grandmother's depression and suicide. seme kept up nice personality after that cuz didn't want it to happen to anyone else. did some nice initiative in the village for other elder ladies. honestly a lot of depth to this story and everything is woven together well. just don't really like how their feelings developed so fast and a lot of backstory is probably missing cuz these characters first showed up in another manhwa, but it's a straight story so i'm not gonna read it lol
Film Emperor's Reincarnation Script
a lot of chapters but many of them in the middle are super short. also some quality issues with confusing sudden plot injections and changes and very poor translations lol but overall well rounded story and i really liked it. so there is an actor 32 years old, killed by his lover and the guy his lover was cheating with. guy reincarnates into uke's body who is ~21. uke is sleeping with seme to get money. seme picked uke cuz uke looks like the dead guy and seme loved that guy. seme is a little younger than dead guy, so age gap between uke's new body and seme. uke came back to life and he is trying to be a successful actor. luckily he's got skills from his previous life experiences. also he's trying to get revenge on the people who killed him. 3 people, the ex-lover, the ex-lover's new guy, and an assistant to the new guy. lots of story about the uke's new acting career before there's progress on the revenge part. first the assistant gets caught and executed. then the other two get caught for drugs and confess to everything. alongside all this drama is the romance of seme and uke. seme eventually starts suspecting uke is the reincarnation of the other actor guy and uke confirms it. then they pretty much get together for real cuz uke is also developing real feelings for seme now while he used to hate/jealous of seme in past life. typical tall rich handsome chinese seme lead. they win a bunch of film awards for best actor and go overseas with plans to get married. too bad the censorship came in the second half of this story and we got like no more kisses and nakedness.......
My Younger Childhood Friend is Just my Type
guy comes home from uni to find his childhood friend totally his type. they have 3 years age gap. that night the uke stays over being all friendly and cuz uke had been using seme's room. uke asks seme about a gay magazine he found. seme gets made cuz he thinks uke is making fun of him? and forcefully jerks uke off. after that things become clear that uke likes seme and seme obviously is attracted to uke and they fuck for real. nothing really happens. but they suddenly promise to start dating......
Papa Wolf and the Puppy
story kind of all over the place. started as animals. wolf pack picking up a golden retriever. then everyone turned human and they are part of some secret mafia or something. and boss in hiding after picking up a kid idk. and he was a kid but not an adult..... there's like a huge 20+ year age gap between them. very cute moments and love the characters, but no overarching plot? or just a lot of side shit? like 19 days so can't really give 5 stars.
Toritan
pretty cute story all around, but nothing too spectacular and the falling in love seemed to happen out of nowhere for both. uke has ability to understand and talk to birds. seme can take over the mind of birds. one day seme as bird randomly sees uke and says his food looks good offhandedly. uke actually replies and seme is surprised. some days later uke helping a baby bird who fell out of the nest. he can't climb the tree to put it back and seme shows up to help put it back. after that somehow uke is in love with seme........... and it's later revealed that seme fell upon first sight when uke talked to him back............. anyway, uke acts awkward around seme's crow form now and kinda reveals to seme he's in love with the bird......... seme is like oh crap and leaves cuz he's feeling awkward, not cuz he's against it. anyway uke kinda gets over this love and redirects his feelings to seme's human form, an 18 year old guy. uke is 23 btw. so uke likes human seme now and completely over bird seme. since seme knows uke's feelings, he just asks uke out and uke agrees ofc. they start dating and pretty quickly kiss and touch each other and go on a date to an aviary even though uke hates birds (kinda weird seme pushed him into it. but author needed some plot device to make uke reveal powers). there's a fire at the aviary and uke uses power to tell birds to come to safety. after that seme takes it into stride he can talk to birds and uke is like wut why you not surprised. and seme reveals he also has a secret. uke guesses he was that bird and seme confirms it's true. seme stays over and they touch but not all the way. story basically ends there, but we get to see a cute snap of a year later or so when seme has started uni. they're still basically the same and spending time together. seme always popular with the ladies. then we see an extra of their first time when seme received acceptance letter to uni. overall cute read!
Our First Day