Sugar ❀'s manga / #blackmail(12)

P: KyoZaNa✿ [2337]: Miya by chance found out a popular cool Maki's actually a pure-hearted virgin and blackmailed Maki to go out with him. O: It is kinda interesting, but isn’t exactly my cup of tea. The art is nice. I don’t really like rape/blackmailing and it’s kinda cliche. It’s cute. Reread (previously on hold). Wow this was so boring to read.. plus not a fan of Miya. Skipped second story 4-->3

P: Manaka is a new teacher, with a pretty face who seems weak and clumsy, but is actually pretty strong. Azumaya is protective, and when he notices that some students take the teacher to the gym closet, he hurries there, and discovers the Manaka actually beat the shit out of them. To silence Azumaya, for witnessing this he has sex with him, and secures this by coming on his face and snapping a pic to blackmail him into not telling anyone O: Hmm.. that teacher is so evil. 4-->3 This is so boring ngl. I don't like the teacher. He's so phony - he acts all cute, when he actually can fight fierce as hell. f/2

P: Saijou Takato's 5 year reign as the "Most Huggable No. 1" has been snatched. Stealing his thunder is the newbie actor with a 3-year debut, Azumaya! Towards the stuffy hostile Takato, Azumaya's sincere sparkling smile starts to become effective. Even as Takato sets his alert level on MAX, Azumaya catches Takato in his shameful drunken state and uses it to blackmail him! In exchange for Azumaya's silence, Azumaya states, "Please let me hold you"'?! "Embrace me, who was the Most Huggable No.1? What the heck is he saying!" O: Didn’t like it, contains rape, and Azumaya is so possessive :(

P: Cetagandane [179149]: Yutaka, living w/ guilt for not being able to become a pro boxer like his father & hiding his homosexuality, scouts a guy he saw fighting in the streets. But upon learning Shiraishi only accepted the deal for a place to stay, he is taken by force to be silenced. O: Meh, there’s rape and blackmail so I don’t really like this manga.

P: vignette00 [59728]: Two-story volume. The first is about a high school student who is blackmailed by a salaryman(?) over stealing pencil lead. If that sounds petty, that's because the characters are bare sketches, and the plot merely hints at development. The fundamental question of "do the characters fall in love?" is answered, but there's a family subplot for the student and a backstory for the O: Pfft.. I don’t really like this author’s writing+drawing style :P

P: takame: A game of dare turned into a nightmare. I guessed he messed with the wrong guy (can't be helped because guy looks super plain at first glance). Oh how he must have regretted it after. Haha. I love. O: ?

P: KyoZaNa✿: Kakeru found out by chance that a classmte, Hoshino is actually a famous theatre actor, Sora. He gets kissed for blackmailing to keep secret and has also become Hoshino's errand boy. ¯〵_(ツ)_/¯ Whatever, that also gives them both the chance to get close & learn how precious of each other. - Slow pace pure love.. O: ? Rereading... ehhh it was alright... wasn't really my vibe tbh, I feel like it would've been better left as a shounen ai tbh. Plus it felt like there could've been more to be explored e.g. I wish there were other classmate characters that were involved in the story. It was a cute read tho, Kakeru is so cute! 5-->4

P: Closet idol fan, Mikado, hates his superior, Anezaki. Anezaki is very capable in his work, but he hands all the grunt work to Mikado. One day, Mikado is charged with sending a drunk Anezaki home after a company drinking party. But they missed the last train and end up spending the night at a love hotel. There, Anezaki suddenly mounts Mikado and continues to do the dirtiest things. O: ?

P: Wolves and foxes have been living with humans to breed. There's a rule that they cannot hang out or fall in love with each other since they are rivals when it comes to breeding. But wolf Han Sirang and fox Kim Ho are attracted to each other and break that rule by secretly continuing their dangerous relationship... - O: Interesting... I wonder where this is going. chaelattea [228526]: "ITS THE DUMB UKE AND ASSHOLE AT FIRST SEME DYNAMIC" lmao so true. I did want to see a bit more of the second couple though... The side stories are a bit confusing..? There were some unresolved things e.g. Ho's bro

P: Heejae is the youngest executive director of the Jinhwa Group, nicknamed the "Chaebol Prince" by the public. But his life is turned upside down when documents linking him to an embezzlement scheme are found by an accounting student, Taekyung! To make sure the secret stays that way, Heejae pretends to have a crush on him, but... is there more to Taekyung than meets the eye? Apparently Heejae had amnesia from a car accident in high school, so he doesn't remember Taekyung. O: This seems promising... dang that's so sad how Heejae got into an accident. I wonder what's the deal with Taekyung, and how he's covering up his true identity. Can't wait until all the tea is spilled. Second couple is also interesting. That would be very interesting if Heejae became as smart as he used to be. Dang both of them had sad backstories, it's a shame that they can't return to the past. Heegyum is so shitty.