bokutotiddies's manga / #one-sided pining(6)

this was good! i liked the second couple more than the first one for sure tho. the first one was kinda frustrating to read about bc of them both being ass at communicating with e/o but it was gratifying when they actually got together. the second one was so funny and i loved the one-sided pining and how quickly they got together. i also related a lot w his mentality in a relationship and i found it difficult to pick a side when they argued. they were also really funny and super sweet, especially onada. it was a cute read - 7/10

halfway point - yo. the author of this story is so fucking mean. literally i just know that she lives to hurt reader's fucking feelings. i genuinely cannot keep reading this is hurting me. i have way too many fucking emotions and i hate everyone except for seth even tho i already fucking know hes the only one whos gonna get hurt in the end. this is bullshit. fuck sam bro. fuck him so much. i dont even feel anything towards him im not even interested in him whatsoever. his scenes w henry are so frustrating and make me angry ugh. he only likes being "needed" by henry its not actual love. he also put him thru so much that its ridiculous to expect him to still only have feelings for him after all this time. i think seth is kinda stupid for even getting involved in all of this mess KNOWING that henry isnt emotionally available and is still heavily confused abt his first love and persisting even after being rejected. this is so frustrating to read idk man i hate how this makes me feel but i guess i asked for angst and thats what i fucking got LOOOOL. chapter 50 - ive accepted defeat. whatever. i just hope sam redeems himself enough that i dont completely hate him. they better give seth a cute ass mans who actually DESERVES his love and sufficiently provides the same amount back. last chapter - im exhausted lol. i hated this entire experience. can say with absolute certainty that i would never ever even dream of rereading this. i hated it. it was a good story i guess and perhaps even maybe realistic in some sense but i hated it. we didnt even get to see seth move on in the epilogue. tho i desperately wished he would stop appearing only to get his heart broken. ugh what the fuck. i cried so hard. this was bullshit. they werent even a good pair (probably the most realistic part) and til the end they had such terrible chemistry. i havent liked sam since like the 5th chapter. i still despise him now. idk man i wanna sleep this story off it was so annoying. there were SO many points that i almost quit but i held it together in the hopes that seth would somehow find happiness. i couldnt have been more wrong lol.

this was pretty bomb. i liked it more than the first one abt his brother. it was more angsty but also i like the couple better together. even if the seme let way too much fucked shit slide. but i mean the uke literally repented for his actions for like 8 years of unrequited love so.

i wanna congratulate this series for being the first to get me to spend solid money on it. i dropped 7 bucks, and i mightve only spent it on like 3 chapters but its still a feat. now, if it was worth it is another matter. i liked this but i cant say that i enjoyed all of it. i actually found it a 10/10 until like maybe around the 30th chapter? the way hyunwoo and subin's relationship wrapped up and subin's committment issues to his actual relationship is what threw me off. first of all, i understand that the appeal of this story is the realism. from the conversations between friends to the thoughts of someone who suffered an unrequited love, its all very real. i completely relate to the lingering feeling that you feel for someone who meant so much to you, to the point that maybe for a second you consider dropping your healthy relationship for a chance at one w them even if you know itll end badly. i get it, but that doesnt make it a satisfying read. its realistic but i dont really read these stories bc i want to read abt someone who makes the same stupid decisions as me. jun is honestly probably too good for subin and if i was him i wouldnt want to stay w someone i constantly have to feel insecure and paranoid abt. i cant say that any of this is subin's fault either tho. its not his fault that he fell in love w a piece of shit who in turn made him act like a piece of shit to someone who just deserves better. still, my heart soared whenever subin prioritized jun over hyunwoo, even if to the end, he still wavered. ig thats the realistic part of it tho. i dont hate hyunwoo at all and i dont necessarily think hes at fault for everything either. subin forced his feelings onto hyunwoo and made him feel uncomfortable multiple times but hyunwoo was also really inconsiderate abt his feelings and deliberately tried to stomp all over them. he also hid the fact that they sorta slept together and played w his feelings when subin finally began to move on. tbh everyone in this story is an asshole except for jun and dongun. and yeona's ex, hes not that bad either. yeona's a bitch but shes so fucking cool and i aspire to live like her. she was ALWAYS spitting cold hard facts, regardless of who to, and the only person i always agreed w was her. i really really enjoyed the pace and story for the first half but it started to get kinda annoying to me. first of all, how can the fucking official translations be so shit. half of it didnt make fucking sense or seemed so off from the korean translation and didnt flow well. that alone annoyed me so much fucking much. subin and jun's relationship goes from like 0 to a 100 and then back to 0 in like 10 chapters. the flow of the story is so off sometimes, like some scenes were so out of place bc of the sequence and sometimes we'd sit and watch a convo between a main character and a random fucking person for like a quarter of a chapter. for no reason, like they wouldnt even be talking abt anything important. i think im only going off bc i actually spent money on this but i didnt like the ending either. im glad it was a happy one and i think every character ended up in the place that i hoped they would but the uncertainty in their relationship is so tangible that it bugs me. i cant really give this any higher than a 7.5. i feel really strongly abt this series but again, i cant say i feel good after reading it. it was still relatively worth it tho. the art is great and the characters are really fun. tbh the first 30 chapters were probably some of my fave that ive ever read. idk this was a perplexing read. i normally LOVE this trope too, and i love even more when the one in an unrequited love ends up in another relationship and the one who puts them thru suffering is the only one suffering in the end. so like, this is obvi my cup of tea but it just leaves me feeling bittersweet ig. i cant say i want to read more either, bc the more i read the more unsatisfied i feel LOL.

so good omg i was kinda confused in the first 2 chapters bc of the pacing but i actually loved how it turned out a lot. theyre both adorable and the little plot twist was so cute. the seme is so damn whipped we love to see it. i think his power is more akin to a siren than a mermaid but ig its pretty similar in terms of folklore. anyways really good - 8/10.

there are 2 stories in this and they're both super cute! the first one is kinda more based around sex and mutual sexual attraction, but the second one is like shounen ai friends to lovers and sorta one-sided pining for a while. its so sweet even without smut or anything. one panel that was memorable for me is when nao covered his ears bc he physically didn't want to hear harunas confession that he felt the same way bc of how hard he was trying to convince himself that its impossible for them to be together. that's just so ... sad. but I'm glad harunas the stubborn type and forced him to listen. I've done the same as nao and it didn't go so well in my experiences so yeah. "if he wanted to, he would" i guess right? anyways they were both pretty good 9/10.