❀'s manga / #shounen ai(356)

light story about an esper and guide. lots of drama but all easily solved. seme and uke are from different factions of espers and guides. kinda like from different countries. uke was sent on a mission out in the wilderness like no man's land. there he meets seme's group. a monster attacks them and uke is separated from his group. he follows seme cuz he can't do anything by himself. at first seme doesn't like uke, but then he realizes uke can properly guide him. seme is s-class and nobody could guide him properly before. so after that they go along together and finally get to a village. seme calls his faction and they rescue them. seme makes uke pretend to be a random villager from the wilderness and not say he's from another faction. at first uke is not happy and wants to leave, but he starts feeling like it's okay living with seme. but then an SOS signal he sent before reaches his faction and they coordinate with seme's faction to get him back. he doesn't really know what he wants, whether to stay or go. he just goes and seme is mad he even sent out an SOS signal. on the helicopter ride back, there's an accident and his mentor pushes uke out the helicopter and tells him to run and never come back. uke is so confused why. he's wandering there in the outer villages again. almost dies but seme comes in clutch to save uke from monsters. then they are just living out in the wilderness and both are happy about it. uke realizes his feelings for seme. they kiss and have sex. not shown. but then uke's faction comes to find him again. this time uke tells them clearly no he doesn't want to go back. but they just kidnap him in the night. then seme has to go rescue uke from his faction. he finds out from uke's mentor that they are going to kill uke and use his body for science cuz he can guide anyone, no issues with compatibility at all. so ofc seme needs to get him out. with the mentor's help and another esper who likes the mentor, their mission is easily successful. in the end uke and seme live out in the woods forever i suppose. not sure what happened to mentor, cuz maybe he will be used in the machine instead of uke.... he has same ability. anyway, short and to the point story.

it's a nice story and setup, but kept making random twists and turns and never seemed to end lol. it was so hard to know wtf was the direction of the ending.... i guess ending is fine, but doesnt really match up to initial expectations about how the world works.... uke grows up breaking stuff all the time and doesn't know why. one day while he's drunk he accidentally meets seme by breaking into seme's barrier. seme thinks uke is working for a demon to find him. but uke really did it accidentally..... from then on seme keeps an eye on uke. then tons of confusing shit.... like at first uke thinks he might be a demon and can't control his powers. so he goes to this demon training centre but he never improves. then ppl say he's the king of monsters and not a demon. so now the demons are out to get him... then they find out he's some scepter, so the demon king wants to possess him in order to be ruler of all the worlds of demons, angels, and humans. and apparently being king of monsters makes uke also king of humans.... and there's some final battle where uke comes out on top above king of angels and king of demons. now there's no 1 ruler over the 3 worlds. maybe it's kind of him since he is now master of the other kings, but somehow he has not accepted the position of ruler........ and seme is still there this whole time helping him and shit. their relationship started just randomly one day when uke was vulnerable and holding onto seme and they fucked. this manga is like pg-13 so no hard sex scenes, we just see them fucking but no nudity... idk just too convoluted for me... i'm giving 4 stars for the effort of the author, but my enjoyment of it is just 3 stars. cute ending where they get married though.

main story is kinda fucked up. fucked up section chief lusting over his worker who he then seduces and they get together. but the worker uke doesn't like that they only have sex. but section chief seme keeps doing things uke hates just to test him......wtf but in the end they're together cuz seme is like don't leave me...... the additional short story is actually pretty cute despite involving a foreigner. but he does not have te foreigner stereotypes so it's cool. japanese exchange student goes to study in italy and lives with italian man who is very serious and not like italian stereotypes. they start liking each other but nothing for sure. japanese guy goes back to japan and italian dude is sad but then japanese guy turns up again and end.

3 stories. first is kinda meh. just a dude randomly falling in love with the only dude he's interested in but isn't interested back in him.... and then slowly uke falls for him too.... second story is childhood friends who kissed when in grade 6. both still remember it and kinda like each other. reunited again and begin dating. third story is a cute dog turned human to help his master run the shop and cuz he has some romantic feelings for his master. his master also thinks the human-dog is his type lol but unwilling to accept him at first. dude turns back to dog. then master is sad about it and kisses dog wishing he will come back. dog does and now they're together i suppose, or just living as well as before.

2 fudanshi boys. seme has liked uke since childhood. uke recently finds out seme is also a fudanshi and starts being conscious of seme. too much focus on the fudanshi and humour and not much good romance story. even their confession scene is so awkward and disappointing. like seme just turns down a girl in front of uke's face by saying he likes uke and that's how uke hears seme's confession..... then afterwards seme just says he wants to fuck??

best friends since high school who lived together all through uni as well. they lost contact when seme moved away after uni for work. but 3 years later he is back in tokyo and he immediately says he wants uke to move in with him. uke says no cuz even though he likes seme, he is worried about their relationship progressing to romance and then ending and he loses his best friend. they both only realized they loved each other when they had to separate after uni. it's a cute story and i like the expressionless seme and expressive uke match. shounen-ai so there's barely any kisses and definitely no sex.

another high school friends to lovers a decade later story. this time they keep in touch all though uni and work, but neither admit their feelings for each other all this time. but uke knew seme liked him since high school, he just wasn't ready to acknowledge it yet and i guess seme was not going to say it directly either?? idk i'm kinda confused with the resolution like why did nobody say anything for so long..... seme is a cute baby-type seme lol.

all short one-shorts. shounen-ai. too short to really get into much. some are cute, but it's like half and half what's good and not good.

No visible sex, just implied since it's shounen-ai. This was generally a great story in terms of pacing, but the uke is annoying cuz he's too tsundere and his fucking last line is he'll never tell the seme how much he loves him wtfffff it's a pretty well developed story tbh. there's a game they both play and seme is super good, one of the best players and he streams playing the game online, earning lots of money. one day he destroys uke's clan and humiliates uke in his video, so uke quits. some time later, uke's game friend persuades him to play again and this time he happens to get recruited into seme's clan. uke now wants revenge on seme for the defeat before. he's playing as a girl and wants to pretend to like seme and make seme fall for him and then dump seme. but seme knows what's up and doesn't believe uke is just an innocent newbie. he can tell uke has played before so seme is just messing with uke most of the time, but still unknowingly falling in love along the way. uke starts liking seme too, though he never fucking admits it. he gets a super powerful item from seme and sells it for literally 18k real dollars. but he feels bad so he quits the game and gives the money from the sale to seme. seme is so mad uke left, cuz he's got trauma related to being abandoned as a child by his parents. so he does everything to track uke down in real life. and he does, cuz the person who bought uke's item got his ID card to prove he's not a scam. after that seme visits uke's house and uke is freaked out. seme now wants revenge by making uke fall for him and plans to dump uke after that. but he literally falls for uke more and more and realizes his feelings. so now he just really wants uke to fall for him. and he kinda knows uke likes him and just needs more pushing. in the end they get together and everything is pretty well explained. the art of the uke improves a lot too cuz in the first chapter he literally looks like a background character, that's how ugly and to the role of nerdy gamer he is. also i don't think it's realistic uke is ony 24?? his job and life seem too mature for 24, but i guess being older doesn't make sense for gamers. seme is 21.

cute stories. first is uke hiring seme to be his pretend bf to stave off loneliness during uni. uke falls in love with seme and seme feels the same way back, but neither say anything. uke stops hiring seme cuz he doesn't want his feelings to progress more i guess. seme is sad and when he sees uke on the streets, he pulls uke aside and kisses him and confesses. uke is happy too and they get together. contains a oneshot about a fox guy transferring to a human school to find a mate.