tsukineko's manga / #otaku(3)

These were sweet. All revolve around the theme of 'impatient, low EQ seme, forces himself onto uke, and messes things up, instead of waiting for the right moment/reading the mood/wooing him properly - thankfully, uke loves him back, and is able to overlook seme's oafishness, and they live happily ever after'. Well it's as cheesy and cliché as it sounds, but they're relatively well executed, and the seme and uke are all pretty hot, so it's a pleasant enough read. In a few words: sweet and hot, (relatively). Even the otaku story was ok. (I almost stopped reading it, but it got more interesting after a while.) My faves were the student council story, and the illustrator × publisher story. There's a particularly sweet moment in the illustrator × publisher one. What's nice with these stories, is that the seme do apologise for their oafishness, and genuinely regret hurting their uke, which is so often not the case in yaoi.

3.5 stars. I quite enjoyed these, especially the main story. I'm not usually a fan of the otaku theme, and I guess I enjoyed this more DESPITE its otaku theme than because of it. I'm glad the annoyingly wimpy and geeky uke was challenged to grow up a bit by his seme. It was my first time reading gender bender, and I actually really enjoyed the gender bender aspect. I've not (yet) dated a genderfluid person, (btw, it's not clear whether Meguru is genderfluid or a male who cross dresses), but I've often thought that it must be pretty cool not to know which aspect of that person's personality you'll wake up next to every day. Megumu was beautiful and strong no matter how they were dressed. I love the fact that Megumu was the seme - the fact that they wear a dress, doesn't have to automatically make someone an uke lol! I quite enjoyed the other stories, too, especially the one with the psycho uke. I like the fact that the dominant, possessive one was the uke for a change. It was quite refreshing, even though I prefer it the other way round most of the time, (so that I can fantasise about being dominated by a sexy sadistic seme lol).

Nah that was beneath Meguru to act like that. Sensei got it wrong. Meguru MIGHT have said something like that to begin with, but then they would've explained that it was due to jealousy, and THEN they would've had make-up sex XD