crispicheva's manga / #shounen ai(90)

storyline: haejin and sunwoo are former highschool sweethearts who bonded over their love for writing and reading, but ended up breaking up on a bad note. now find each other again working for the same publishing company review: i think some plot points needed addressing and didn’t get the resolution we needed… did sunwoo tell haejin that he plagiarized his writing for the contest? when did sunwoo even read haejin’s writing before? i don’t think these were mentioned anywhere in the story and i believe these were key points in the narrative… a bit disappointing but not a bad story

storyline: tasuku, a closeted gay high school boy, is having a hard time at school because of his sexuality. once he's considering ending his life, he meets anonymous, a mysterious woman who owns a lounge up on the hill. at that lounge, tasuku meets different people, with different life stories, self-expressions, and sexualities, and finds his place among his people. review: this was so lovely... the character dynamics, every character's intentions and motivations... everything fit together perfectly into a beautiful story of self-choice, introspection, and self-love and acceptance.

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: 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: natsuo (nacchan) is a boring office worker who was confessed to in high school by his best friend, issei. six years later, they reunite, and issei is making a living as a famous dj and producer. these two very different ways of living clash and make nacchan especially self-conscious of their own existence. review: this was pretty cute and issei was the loveliest (and an inspiration ngl)

storyline: shishimaru and leo, childhood best friends who love each other. shii’s scared though, because two boys shouldn’t be in love. review: cute but not super memorable, leo was adorable 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: kei gets swindled by a hostess and ends up in debt… he tries to kill himself but gets saved by the “circus”, a crew of male prostitutes who cater to men, and ends up working there to pay it off review: unexpected plot, dynamics and ending but not bad. felt like this was more of a Story than a BL or yaoi