crispicheva's manga / #5 stars(263)

storyline: hangyeol loses his lover, taehyuk, in a car accident. in the middle of the street, hangyeol passes out and wakes up in his own body 10 years earlier, aged 11. he then makes it his mission to save taehyuk, currently a 28 year old vet who has no clue what the kid's deal is, all while figuring his way around his own brother's obsessive behavior. review: honestly? what a fucking great surprise. this concept had a strong chance of being developed into something weird and problematic, but execution was super well done. even the addition of a future-insighted taehyuk allowed for his character to see hangyeol as more than just the kid before him, so the age gap wasn't such a striking aspect... and even so, taehyuk's resolution of waiting a decade for the simple chance of his lover finding him and falling for him again... i love love!!!! (also dojun deserves the entire fucking world and i HOPE hanyool got his ass in therapy after that whole fiasco)

storyline: namwoo is a broke college student who catches the eye of si-eon, the ceo of a publishing company. a relationship blooms between them, but while namwoo dives headfirst into the feeling of love and his vulnerability, si-eon uses his money as a shield in order to keep namwoo happy without having to give himself away. slowly but surely, his walls are broken down… review: this was so good, the way the characters’ motives and thoughts reflect their upbringing, and the way it affects the relationship… amazing (and this was also the cutest freaking thing)

storyline: season 1 shows jihyun, a college students working part-time bartender who’s a pleasure-seeker, and yohan, a classmate who’s jihyun’s physical type but a real pushover. jihyun tries his luck and they start a physical relationship since jihyun doesn’t believe he can date anyone. meanwhile yohan is falling head over heels for him but won’t push for more. angsty but resolved!! season 2?? my favorite: jihyun’s nerdy classmate, daeshik, discovers he’s gay with yohan’s brother, yosef, who’s a total gangster. THE CUTEST COUPLE AND DYNAMIC EVER. then our resident lesbian sohae, who starts off poorly but is along for the ride and loves the boys as much as us. review: i love how daeshik just never stopped wearing the rainbow-themed clothing. also yosef’s longer hair and stubble?? PLEASE bring them back!!

storyline: yeon skylar has a crush on his schoolmate, seong chan-il, and has a folder of photos he takes of him. baek cirrus, chan-il’s friend, finds out, and skyler begs him not to tell chan-il. cirrus then decides to mess with him, and uses skylar in some twisted games he plays with his fucked up family. meanwhile, skylar is also fighting his own demons and trying to survive cirrus’s antics. review: this was actually so fucking good. the trauma on both ends, the characters, the dynamics, the ART!! i hadn’t been this invested in a webtoon in a very long time, i’m so glad i found this

storyline: sihyeon, aka agent red candy, gets sent on a mission where he needs to approach the target, university professor kang hajun. he doesn’t expect to fall for him, though. review: the angst, the trying to protect each other, the plot twists and schemes… AGENT UNO…. god i would love to see more of this universe (pls give us uno’s story now )

storyline: honatsu is a regular high school girl whose best friend, touma, has always been by her side. suddenly, sullen-faced transfer student shun joins their class, and a strange feeling surrounds him in honatsu's heart and mind. "what does love feel like?" is a recurring thought in her head, and touma and shun each give her a different answer. review: i liked this one quite a lot, the plot was interesting and the character's dynamics fit the narrative really well... poor shun though

storyline: being yohan realizes his senior, park mugyeong, likes another guy, lee junseo, and decides to tell mugyeong he’s being obvious. this leads to an unexpected friendship where yohan tries to help mugyeong out with his crush, but ultimately backfires as yohan ends up developing feelings for his hyung. review: this was lovely omg and also yuri?? yuri’s relationship with yohan??? i love these idiots (i didn’t read the side stories and apparently it’s a good thing i didn’t)

storyline: a spinoff of “for your love” where kwon yuri, yohan’s best friend, is a college student who is “in love” with his adopted sister (distant cousin whose parents died and was taken in by yuri’s family), and meets his former teacher, lee seonwoo, at his sister’s wedding. mr. lee is a fucking wreck, drunk and sobbing, and yuri realized he was pining over the groom as mr. lee made a move on yuri. the story unfolds very messily from then on. review: i LOVED yuri’s character in “for your love” but i’m glad we delved a little deeper into it in this story. i really believe yuri has bpd from the way he behaves, his upbringing, and every thought he has. glad his relationship with seonwoo seems to work but i wish their dynamic didn’t seem so volatile. also yohan and yuri’s friendship still makes me cackle every time, i love them so much.

storyline: ethan, a poor older guy in debt, saves mike, who shows up at his doorstep covered in blood and about to keel over review: this was so good actually, i love their dynamic and ethan is such a sweetheart

storyline: natsume’s boyfriend breaks up with him because he claims the sex doesn’t feel good. natsume decides to get better at sex to get revenge, so he hires an escort, “kou”, from an online service. turns out kou is his housekeeper. review: honestly?? fucking great, and MAN i want a kou for myself