stressedpenguin's manga / #atmospheric(29)

Yo lowkey wasnt expecting a fuck buddies oneshot to have so much vibe 7/10

Sex friends to lovers story with a little bit of angst and an exploration of the relationship after they get together. They talk through their insecurities like the adults they are. Uke and seme are sex friends who met through an app and fuck at the uke's house after getting ice cream at this gelato place. I like their dynamic and I'm happy we got to see them post confession! The drama is pretty standard. Seme briefly questions the uke's love for him on account of the uke being inexperienced but they figure it out and is mostly fluff. Honestly just a meal well made with background characters that feel like real people 7/10

A oneshot but I liked the vibes 7/10

Ch 1-2: flower researcher is sponsored by a beautiful rich man who eats nothing but flowers. It's a bit melodramatic but I still liked it. 7/10 Ch 3-4: pushy top chases cute classmate. Classmate assumes hes just teasing and is hurt. Top finally realizes hes serious. Didn't vibe with this one much. 4/10 Ch 5-6: a prequel of sorts for another story that I haven't read, and I wasn't very interested in the characters. 4/10 Overall, wound up being a 6/10 for me

Uke has a pretty bad inferiority complex to his twin brother so he starts sleeping around under a fake name that... is or is similar to his brother's as a way to defile...them both? That part was a little confusing. Anyway, he meets a friendly salaryman who, in treating the uke kindly, forces the uke to realize he doesn't like his self destructive behavior and starts changing for the better. It was sweet watching the uke discovering how to love himself and the seme was very gentle with him. The only thing I'm lost on is the name thing. Someone explain 7/10

Hmm that didnt really do it for me. The story was a little hard to understand. It was too short to do much effective planting and payoff, so the memory erasure plot just seemed like an extra, unnecessary obstacle. There also wasnt any payoff about the familiar thing disliking the hero. Idk. I think I would've liked to see the scenes the amnesia hid from us. Gimme that story instead of popping into random villages and fighting random monsters. Basically, feels like the author had too many ideas they wanted to get across in too short a time, and wound up saxeicing clarity to make things fit (which they didnt) 6/10, it was clearly trying to do something, and I appreciate that even if I was a little confused the whole way through name on MAL is Tresor: Boku no Takaramono

I'll be honest, I thought something more would happen given the story had like... curses and fish spirits and spirit mediums, but it was kinda... standard? Idk a little disappointed in the supernatural element because this felt like a unique yokai type story. Mm 4/10 for the disappointment

I really loved how gentle this was. I loved the softness of Chinatsu describing the aquarium to Kasumi, and all the soft face caresses, and the way Kasumi constantly reaches for Chinatsu to feel that he's there and that gentle photograph of Kasumi at the ocean. Aaaaahhh my heart 8/10

I waited until winter to read this for the aesthetic~ Worth it. BUT actually kinda not. Furuya's works always have this atmosphere to them and I usually love them, but this one just didnt go deep enough into the many different psyches of its characters. When the teacher asked Itsuni if he had hobbies, I was expecting that to TRIGGER a deeper ecploration of Itsuki's character. Theres a specific kind of angst you can get out of a character who is naturally talented at everything but has no interest in anything and that driving a wedge between him and everyone around him. The poor kid stops doing ANYTHING out of fear of triggering other peoples insecurities. That's heavy. I want to see an exploration of that. The ending is unsatisfying because it's trying to pay off on a plot thread that was never adequately set up--Yuusei's writing. Why did he stop? Why did he start again? Did any of that have to do with his feelings for Itsuki. I thought we were going to get an exploration of that too, but if just didnt go anywhere. This story really dragged on of my personal insecurities into the open and then didn't interrogate it at all, just brought it up in passing and then went to play hacky sack at a park by itself. It had nothing Monday about the interesting threads of its characters, rendering them boring and without a real resolution. really had Thoughts about this one i guess I'm kinda torn on a 7 or an 8 for this I think if it had been better executed, itd be an 8, but it's just missing a strong set up, carry through, and pay off. 7/10