stressedpenguin's manga / #Reencounter(85)

Uh lowkey no idea what I just read. They sped ran a reencounter unrequited love story for the first half and then a persist pushy seme chasing after the same guy's ass for... apparently multiple months?? years?? Idk theres no build up. Characters react like something dramatic just happened but I dont see the drama in it. This was kinda a mess 3/10

The uke's fucking bleeding and the seme just keeps going but oh no it's okay we forgive him because he has trauma from that time he broke a different kids leg back in high school. If they wanted to explore his character through that trauma, that'd be fine, interesting even. But this is all just contrived drama so like. 2/10.

I mean... the plot's in the title. This childhood friend basically took over his room bruh Anyway, cute cliche 5/10

Man I dont have any tags for this. Everyone's yelling about the uke sleeping with literally everyone so I'm not gonna touch that. What DID annoy me was the uke's constant self deprecation. Through no fault of his own really, the story turned into the uke going "oh no I suck I'm so dirty I'm so selfish" and everyone else jumping to reassure him that he's not. But he kinda... was? Purely from his POV, he calls the seme home from a 7 year study abroad--which isn't even a study abroad at that point, that's just where he lives now--with zero regard to the seme's established life and expects him to take over a restaurant because the uke wants to. To be fair, we do get that memory at the end that the seme promised to come back. But because it came at the end, I was already annoyed at him. Imagine how much more dramatic irony we could have gotten if we knew the uke wanted the seme to fulfill his promise while the seme was dealing with all the changes he was thrown into (not that that... is what hes actually trying to cope with, gosh everyone sucks) Also it just kinda pissed me off that the uke literally pushes the seme away the first time they hug and says they're complete strangers???? No???? YOU called HIM back to his hometown. You've been yearning for him and you're finally getting close. Why the fuck-- SPEAKING OF the seme.. SIR. I wish he spent more time thinking about all the ways his hometown had changed and not JUST that his cute childhood friend had slept with 100 guys I dunno man. This story suffered a lot from characters refusing to introspect and then communicate. They have to be told their own feelings by their neighbors who can see instantly what they're thinking. It makes them seem flat, avoidant, and melodramatic. I don't know why this story pissed me off in particular because I read so much crap like it, but it seriously got to me 3/10 for making me spend like 5 hours post-reading trying to parse out my own feelings

Crybaby American comes to japan to find his childhood crush that hes absolutely sure isna pretty girl, but it's actually a scruffy guy who fucks for a living. There's so drama, angst, and a lot of crying. Also there's some WEIRD bits in here like when they show the seme jerking it at a questionably young age that I had to scroll past real quick because whyyyyyyyy?? Anyway 4/10

Guy gets isekai'd and now all these hot old men want to fuck him Really unsatisfying plot 3/10

Ooh interesting, a sort of historical drama. Seme is a well off white man and uke is half chinese half white. They were friends as kids and now reuniting become fuck buddies. Uke is in some shady sjit with the mafia and trying to get out, and then the great depression hits and everything REALLY goes to shit for them. But they're devoted Solid 8/10

Completed at ch 7. Woah shout out to the seme for being responsible and having boundaries and not sleeping with a minor Update ch 6. Aw I hope there's another chapter. They're cute but this felt rushed and I wanted more with the other members. Like that was adorable that they all hung out and napped in the same room. Gimme more of that! 7/10. Miiiiight bump it up to 8 cuz it was just so frickin funny

Last read ch 6. MAL says there's another volume, so Ima keep my eyes out

Another cute, low self esteem uke x confident, hot seme. They're very sweet. Uke has a grudge against the seme for being perfect but he just is 6/10