Secret Alliance
okay. i loved this. im feeling so many SO MANY emotions rn for all the characters and im just mostly upset that its over. god. i dont know. im most perplexed on how to feel about yul. i understand that he was definitely fucked up and he was insane to go to the lengths he did. even in their relationship he was overly possessive and literally provoked a guy into harassing her knowing that she had severe issues with men. thats AWFUL and i know that. but i cant help but feel so fucking bad for him. his home life was abusive and refused to nurture him and he was bullied for no reason bc of his face. i can understand wanting to keep safe and being possessive of the frist person that was kind to you. mostly im just so glad he didnt die. its been a little while since ive cried so hard over a fictional character, but yul really made me sob. i just pity him so much. hes also so beautiful but terrifying at the same time i spent far too long staring at the panels of just him, even when he was yuri (especially her fits, they were sooo cute). i think it says something abt how great of a character he is that i loved him so much despite everything he did (maybe the fact that he looks exactly my type also has a role in that yikes). i really wanted him to have a happier ending. it was left pretty ambiguous but i suppose knowing that he was able to move on is enough. i swear its always the characters i care most about that are given ambiguous endings. i really liked yujin a lot, even from the beginning. he was adorable once he fell in love w her and after the timeskip but i loved the brief banter we got from them in the beginning too. i was able to root for him and sian even while lowkey rooting for yul bc of how great yujin was. sian made me a little angry at times but i did like her character development after the timeskip. and i think given everything she went thru she has the right to be a little weird. the art is gorgeous of course and im really happy that i was able to read the majority of it on lezhin. i enjoyed this sooo much i started worrying about it ending from like chapter 20 loool. i was also surprised that this wasnt a BL tbh i went into this thinking it was. i was also expecting smut, which HONESTLY wouldve been the only thing to make this story better. overall, 9.5/10 i really enjoyed it a lot and i wanna reread 100%.
Shokuryou Jinrui
yknow - i was honestly expecting to hate this and was really just in it for the shock factor but im genuinely surprised by how much i liked it. ofc it was one of the goriest stories ive ever read and very very disturbing but i really liked the concept and grew to like all the main characters. the art is so fucking good and i flew thru this like it was nothing bc it never got boring. even the ending was surprisingly happy all things considered. i simped for both natsune and the ponytail sex-fiend genius the entire time. theyre both hot as hell and im so glad natsune bb made it out. i loved the small bio lessons every couple chapters too. several moments had me absolutely dread-filled and maybe im just desensitized and morbid but it wasnt unbearable at all. i liked this tbh. overall - 8/10
Boy Meets Maria
this was honestly a little too deep for my brain to comprehend at the moment but i liked it nonetheless. im happy there was a happy ending and arima was able to confront his demons. the teacher that raped him shouldve gotten his balls sliced off and forcefed to him that was so disgusting.
Watashi no Tadashii Onii-chan
this is one of the first mangas that i read on this site, so its one that ive been staying updated with for some time now, over the past year. it was really good throughout and im really glad there was a happy ending for them both. i was anxious that it would take a dark twist at any moment but it all worked out so yay. i just wish rize didnt call him brother when they were fucking yknow? LOL. like even when theyre alone, why keep up the act sldfjsd. but then again i dont think her perception of him as her "brother" is necessarily a familial one, just someone who is a constant presence of comfort and love for her. so its awks for the reader but thats just how she was raised i guess. anyways this was great. 9/10
Walk on Water
this is so good!! ive thought this from the beginning but i love the maturity in the main character's narration. it stuck me how realistic ed's thought process was compared to things i see in the more childish manhwas and mangas ive read. obviously this one had way more mature themes too other than just seggs. it was actually pretty fascinating to see what might go down at a porn shooting (well a very high quality one) and the trials faced when it all came to light proved to be devastating even as a reader. i really really liked ed. i loved the way he handled shit, from being savage as FUCK in arguments and throwing away chang at the end, but also his ability to stay strong when it came to not caving into a toxic, yet tempting relationship. he was so honest about the resentment he felt towards mcqueen (which he had EVERY right to btw) and i related w the guilt that comes with wanting to hurt the one you love sometimes bc you feel that they deserve it. i couldnt give a fuck about chang but i loved mcqueen too (other than the gross rapist portrayal in his porno) he was hot as fuck and respectful as fuck too. anywaysss 8/10.
Save Me
this was pretty good. i hated the bullying scenes so much, hyeongoh was so cute and kind that it hurt a lot to watch. im glad that the brothers were able to reunite but it sucks that we couldnt see more scenes of them actually getting along. also i feel like it wouldve been nice to see hyeongohs reaction whn he found out? namsoo being kinda mentally off made it difficult to get attached to his character and feel pity for him but like i liked him a lot regardless. i just want the best for hyeongoh hes such a cutiepie and i hope he lives a happy life from now on. seeing how in love their parents were hurt so much bc they wouldve been such a lovely family if it werent for that fucking bitch that killed them i hope shes rotting away somewhere. i love that all the bullies got exactly what they deserved. the art was so nice too. ngl like 45/60 chapters were boring like i understand the necessity for them but it only really got interesting towards the end. overall it was alright, 7/10.
An Uncomfortable Truth
i feel sick. what was the reason to fucking kill jaeha. there was nothing to gain and he deserved the best out of all of them. why show the same character suffering again and again. i hate this so much i feel so empty. what the fuck was this ending, i wish i hadnt read this. or i wish i stopped 5 chapters ago. this is bullshit. what was the reason to kill him. this is the most unsatisfying ending ive ever read. he doesnt even realize he killed his own brother. and why did he kill all those random people. just, what the fuck. i liked this so much but now i hate it. i wish i hadnt read. this is bullshit i feel awful. nothing was resolved????? it just ended in tragedy? what the actual FUCK. theres tears streaming down my face but i dont understand! what the fuck was this ending.
Peach Love
okay i have to say that i really relate with love's identity issues. this is smth thats been very relevant in my life for the past year but i really feel the whole "who am i really and is my personality just an act that im putting on to achieve a certain image whilst really ignoring the actual me?" way of thinking. i also completely understand the way love has allowed what seems like a trivial issue to snowball into this huge insecurity and wont allow him to make friends or socialize in anyway. as a really socially anxious person myself ik how relieving it is when you can open up to someone abt these things yet also feel afraid to do so in the fear that maybe its all in your head and its really not an issue at all but youve just overthought it to the point that something so stupid and easy to others is so serious to you that its debilitating and genuinely affecting your entire life. i get it. its been a rough year an a half. honestly at least love was able to create a persona that worked for him, i cant seem to change myself at all. but i dont think thats a bad thing. i think that coming to terms w who you are and truly just accepting yourself is the only way to achieve actual confidence. this is who i am, i guess. if people dont vibe w me bc of that then i cant help it bc this is me and theres nothing i change abt that. but at the same time, if its an issue to the point where it was for love, then change is welcomed and it was nice to see peach explain that to him "changing yourself for another person isn't deception, but effort" ugh i love it. anyways im rambling but now that im done, i can actually comment. so - i was PRAYING for some smut bro. this is one of those stories where i wanted them to fuck so badly i was disappointed in myself LOOOL. but damn we were robbed. especially when this particular mangka is like ?? so perverted? shame application??? i literally dropped it bc it was like 98% smut. u couldn't have sprinkled a few scenes here and there??? idk why I'm so devastated but ugh. also the ending was abrupt i agree w everyone else and i would've loved to see more of love and peach, but i think i realized at some point that the story really isnt abt them at all. i think romance is like the third category this series fits into after action and slice of life tbh. the emphasis was on the gang relationships as well as overcoming love's inner demons and uncovering his dark past. i actually really wish there was more of peach, other the fact that he's mad in love w love and is super strong, we literally know nothing abt him. kinda disappointing, especially when the first 15 chapters set it up as a romantic comedy - which i loved btw. i slowly got kinda bored tbh by the halfway point. but i did like it overall. it wasn't what i expected but it was still worth a read, even if it did take me legit an entire day. overall 7.5/10
Kakkou no Yume
bro this was so fucked up ljklfsd. they were all really shitty people all for different reasons but ig thats why they fit so well together. the plot twist was wild like i had completely fallen for the whole body swap thing, so i had to sit back and think abt everything seno lied abt. im equal parts digusted and impressed. natsukas an absolute asshole and has always been to everyone other than the one person he liked and thats so selfish. he treated seno like shit too which was hard not to look back on. whatever this was definitely interesting but it kinda fucked w me. def not a cute light hearted read but it was pretty good. 7/10
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