❀'s manga / #yakuza(58)

Osananajimi to Hajimeru Aijin

Ongoing | Sani Syzygy | 2000 released
2022-10-01 18:21 marked

LOVED IT!! it's super cute and i love both characters, though the translations kind of suck. they're childhood friends and both in love with each other. seme is yakuza's kid and uke is son of rich parents who died. when young, uke pretended to be seme's friend when seme asked him to. cuz he wanted to show his mom a good scene before she moved away for her illness. since then seme has said he owes uke cuz uke said he didn't want anything for seme to repay him now, but he'll say when the time comes. now they're 27 and uke comes up with a plan to get seme to stop oweing him so uke can freely confess his feelings without feeling like seme will be with him just to pay him back. honestly the story is kinda dumb lol but it was sweet. he suggests he'll be seme's fuck buddy basically in exchange for money to help repair his family's mansion that's getting run down. so they do and they both secretly love the other without saying. but seme kinda slips up one time. after that it gets awkward or something cuz uke doesn't want to say it back until seme's done oweing him......idk weird fight. seme refuses to stop saying he'll not owe uke so uke says he wants to quit their fuck buddy contract. but seme gets depressed and uke goes to make up with him again and they confess and get together. honestly a mess overall looking back at all that happened, but it was sweet and enjoyable nonetheless.

Boku no Shiru Anata no Hanashi

Complete | SUZUKI Tsuta | 2000 released

bunch of stories, first and last were most memorable to me. first 3 chapters is about this high schooler who falls in love with the yakuza his mom used to date. he still goes over to see uke (yakuza) after they break up and keeps confessing. then years later he is working as a host to help pay off his mom's debt after she ran off with a man. uke then sees his mom killed by the new man and new man also suicided. he is reluctant to tell seme, but asks seme to move in with him and finally agrees to date seme. seme is super happy about all this but then finds out his mom died from the debt collector. he gets upset thinking uke only did all that to comfort him, but ofc uke wouldn't have had sex with him just to be kind lol. and so they continue to live happily. next is high school story that kind of confused me with the flashback or something idk. dude confesses to friend and they kiss and touch but then friend recommends he get a girl?? then friend is upset he is often with the girl and feels lonely, so he asks for friend to come back and break up with girl idk. chap 5 is that story about the spirit that has its own separate title here. kinda skipped it. chap 6 is also very cute. two guys working in same company. seme(?) confesses to uke and uke has flashbacks of highschool when his friend also confessed and he turned his friend down right away. friendship never same again. so now uke considers the confession seriously and thinks the guy is cute and agrees to date him. super sweet!

The Mountain Bird Cries at Dawn

Complete | Amam | 2000 released

seme is heir to yakuza group. uke is his attendant cuz he owes the boss, seme's dad, for picking him up from the streets. seme runs away from home cuz he hates being part of the yakuza and asks to sleep with uke in exchange for returning home. seme's been in love with uke all these years. uke says sure cuz he thought seme just wanted a way to let off steam like all teenage boys do. seme makes it clear later that no he actually likes uke, not just for sex. uke then gets cold feet and decides to end their sex arrangement cuz he thinks he's leading seme astray and can't face the boss anymore. at the same time seme meets his mom who divorced his dad like 10 years ago. his mom has a normal life now with a public servant husband. seme kind of wants to live with his mom but then realizes he values his yakuza family. he is suddenly kidnapped and held for random. next day boss and gang show up to save him. seme gets a hold of uke and confesses though uke tries to run away. uke then is talked around by seme and seme now wants to be the next head to stay with uke i think. anyway, all's well that ends well and it's cute and funny and lighthearted despite this grim cover and title........

Katenkouru ni wa Mada Hayai

Ongoing | Omaru | 2019 released
2023-01-17 18:29 marked

confusing a.f. i guess this author loves psychological manga but this one is just weird with the sequence of events and what exactly is happening when.......... maybe bad translations. they were classmates in high school, uke is senpai of seme's and they're in a drama club putting on a show. seme is omega, uke is alpha. seme hates alphas due to some trauma where he was thrown away for being an omega and went to live with distant relatives. uke's father is yakuza and made seme fuck omegas ever since his first rut, so uke hates being an alpha i guess.........idk on the day before their play performance, uke injures his father for buying seme's family's debt and basically buying seme. the dad said he was going to make uke fuck seme and use seme as an omega toy or something and uke got so mad. his father didn't die but went into a vegetative state. now many years later uke faked his death after that as a suicide and went to become an idol.......just a small time net idol. seme somehow happens across him and becomes his fan. uke finds out and plans for them to meet by pretending seme won in a raffle to meet uke. uke has a wig so seme is confused at first about uke's identity, but seme suspects it so much and even started liking uke just cuz he looks like his first love, uke lol. anyway they fuck right away and after that uke goes to visit seme's workplace and helps uke out with some alpha dude trying to hit on him. stuff like that and then uke comes clean with the truth of what all happened with his dad and his sister helping him fake his death and their dad's coma as an accident. then they get together and i think seme finishes the job after his dad wakes up or something???? and they frame it as an accident and now they live together. i have no fucking clue.

A One Time Mistake

Complete | Haseo | 2019 released
2023-01-27 02:56 marked

read on cn site. kinda trash, no romance. uke is a poor quality callboy. he mistakes seme as his client. runs away in the middle of sex. then seme gets stabbed by the hotel food delivery dude and suspects uke set him up. so he kidnaps uke and fucks him more. even when he confirms with uke's pimp that uke's just a dumb callboy, he says he took a liking to uke and will keep him.... uke crying out wanting to escape.......

Mania

Complete | Brothers Without a Tomorrow | 2000 released

this is really jam packed action. great concept, love the characters and art. some parts not resolved as well as i would have liked because it started to feel rushed, but i suppose any slower might have felt dragging on. basically, uke is rich and buys seme, who is in some illegal fighting ring. they both fell in love at first sight there. uke wants to use seme in a plan to hurt his father, who caused his mother's depression and suicide. it's kinda a wacky plan where he throws his own life away since he is his father's heir and what his father values, but not loves. idk honestly what is this weird rationale. along the way he starts to love seme more and more and don't know if he can continue with the plan. seme, who had originally loved his leader from his gang times, starts to realize his feelings for uke are love too. well in the end it's complicated but seme fakes uke's death and goes to jail for killing him. let out in 5 years and 3 years later finds uke again by the seaside where they last met. they get together and it's kind of bittersweet because both have become so damaged in the 8 years apart. uke is kinda paranoid anytime seme is away or slightly at risk of hurting himself. seme somehow got a limp in prison. but they still love each other and consider each other the ray of light in their sorta broken lives. some parts i didn't like were how uke lost all contact with his son. he loved his son and was great friends with his ex-wife who helped him through the plan. i guess it makes sense for the son to hate him, especially as a kid seeing his dad cheat with a man. and uke barely saw his son. and it's just too convenient at the end that somehow uke's dad dies in the years after all this went down. and i am just sad they don't have a happily ever after because they both suffered so much to be together, and you still won't give them a fairy tale ending. why the fuck did seme have to have a bad leg anyway lol like we didn't even see what happened?? so i couldn't give it a best tag even though i was anticipating it so much. i think it just got rushed at the end for some reason.

Miscreants And Mayhem

Complete | Brothers without a tomorrow | 2019 released
2023-04-30 03:56 marked

really messed up lol. uke was a step-father figure to seme for 6 years when seme was a kid. he was seme's mom's bf. but seme's mom was also with the gang leader, seme's real dad. when seme's dad found out, he punished uke by making the gang all fuck him and then continue to have these 2 guys fuck him to this day. seme is all grown up now and has come back to make uke his. he's kissing up to his real dad to get a place in the gang and then take uke. right now he and uke fuck a lot and it's kinda hot. uke is really self-deprecating about his worth. seme is yandere scary lol. chap 25

Mad Dog

Complete | Haribo | 2019 released

FUCKING SO FUCKING GOOD. FULL ON PLOT AND RELATIONSHIP DEVELOPMENT ONLY IN MAIN STORY. WAITING ON THE 19+ SIDE STORIES NOW AHAHAOSIDFJASLEF seme 28. not sure uke's age, 24? uke is mafia boss's son. now his family uses legit businesses as cover, but everyone kinda knows his family business. he got ostracized as a kid because of his family so he wanted to leave it asap when he turned into an adult. seme makes a whole plot to get a rival group to target uke to get at his father. so seme is sent to protect uke. uke and seme met a bunch before at an orphanage. seme was living there being abused and liked to see uke once a month when he came with his father. but seme thought it was not a good influence on him to like uke so he said some cruel things and pushed uke away. but seme then realized he still wanted uke, so he asked uke's father to take him in and uke's father did give him a chance. seme trained and became the father's right hand cuz of how smart and crazy good at fighting he is. anyway, whole story is basically them dealing with the other organization and trying to bring them down. i like how there's actual killing in this story instead of letting ppl go to face some police justice shit lol. there's also an evil guy who's been pretending to be uke's friend while using him to feel better about himself. uke actually liked the guy before seme came along. honestly uke is such a well written character. i love him. he can be slightly naive but he's not afraid to protect those he loves and do rough things. and seme is fucking perfect too ofc. that slightly annoying jerk type that wants to control his lover, but still gives in to uke's whims cuz he's not actually abusive and controlling. FUCKING PERFECT.

Hyanghyeon Text

Complete | Chepali, Im Ae-Ju | 2000 released

second couple only shows up properly in 2 extra chapters. bomb ass plot, but the mc is kinda dead and ml is slightly dead too lol. they are both really expressionless......typical of this author's art i guess... basically some ppl like mc and his brother have a power to read minds by seeing words coming from ppl. mc moved to countryside to avoid too many words. he meets seme there cuz seme is son of gang leader and came to get rid of some drugs masquerading as a coffee shipment to uke's cafe. somehow seme falls in love at first sight..... and somehow uke gets interested too and decides to move back to seoul to be with seme even though they've known each other like not even a week??? anyway, in seoul they do a whole investigation of some shit going down with seme's gang. while they get closer and then get together for real. then turns out the dude behind it all is uke's policeman friend who he's been helping. but this police dude got crazy jealous of uke's power and didn't like uke shielding seme. police wanted to frame seme for all the crimes he committed. kinda complicated. anyway, seme saves uke from nearly being shot by the police dude. they live happily ever after. that is a super condensed version of a very action packed 80 chapters. lots of action but honestly not clear wtf is going on with seme and uke's romantic relationship. don't know why or how they catch feelings. and it's weird uke doesn't clearly tell seme about his powers until the extra.... cuz before uke said it and seme didn't believe it and we just glossed over it......... idk this story just good for the gang aspect. the weird sad backstory of the characters is not well thought out, but ofc both have shitty parents and childhood trauma.....

Hajime no Koi (NISHIMOTO Rou)

Complete | NISHIMOTO Rou | 2022 released
2023-07-18 20:24 marked

pure bullshit. seme just quit yakuza. uke is some girly prostitute in love with a dude that's using him for money. now seme saves him from that.....like wtf so fucking fake. same trope of shy ugly with glasses and seductive without. somehow seme just finds uke's profile on the call boy website and orders him to come. then he orders uke every night.................. most dumbass part is when seme throws all his remaining money at uke's ex to make the ex go away. fucking 10 million yen, that he was going to use to buy a house, just randomly thrown away......... like wtf for?? you could have used words. ex said uke had a debt before, but you didn't even ask for how much or if it's paid off now, just throwing money to get uke? when uke was not in danger, they were literally at a subway station......... ugh hate this unrealistic exaggerated bs. also showcasing FUCKING PITBULLS. DISGUSTING. UKE STUDYING TO BE A VET. UGH HATE EVERYTHING.