stressedpenguin's manga / #everyone sucks here(83)

Oboreru Omega

Ongoing | Fujita cafeko | 2019 released

Dropped at ch 7. Wow what a surprise an omega in an alpha school gets raped by every other character and then somehow he's now friends with the rapists. How original. Read the comments about the ending and it's too fucking stupid. I'm not finishing this shit bye 2 or 3/10

I'm a Fudanshi and My Childhood Friend is Coming Onto Me

Ongoing | Yukishio nigiri | 2022 released

Dropped at ch 1. Mmmmmm not a fan of bully semes I'll still give it another chapter but chances are I'm dropping this Edit: read the comments. Dont have it in me to give this another chapter. Byeee -/10

The Dog Will Not Give Up Unrequited Love

Complete | Kihara noriko,Shodensha | 2019 released

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 Secret Case Files of the Cafe April

Complete | Hyougo Kijima | 2000 released

Mm. Yeah. I was really enjoying it until the fucking snake and suddenly Miharu just totally caters to his every whim, let's him destroy things he cares about and chase away the actual ray is sunshine we've been hanging out with??? That reallllly soured the otherwise okay experience. Basically, cute guy is saved by hot guy who runs a shop. Cute guy is head over heels, starts working therez and watches as hot guy goes around sleeping every other dude's problems away. Was fine. Was expecting hot guy to grow past his trauma thanks to being around our cute sunshine... but then in the end literally everyone sucked. 3/10

Admiration and Longing

Ongoing | Hyeoldo | 2022 released

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.

Calorie

Complete | Sakuragi Yaya | 2002 released

Childhood friends, light smut, meh, college students,multiple stories, high schoolers, light drama, unrequited love Uke has been in an unrequited love with his childhood friend for 15 years. When he finally decides to give up, his other childhood friend suggests they go out. Y'all... sorry, these guys have all been friends for 15 years but they barely know anything about each other??? That kinda made all their relationships super shallow, like they only care about each other once romance has been introduced. Idk 4/10

19 Days

Ongoing | Old Xian | 2014 released

Dropped at ch 162. Ngl I'm a little lost since the story doesn't have any kinda long form structure Edit: this had been sitting in my finish later pile for so long I'm just gonna assume I'm never gonna finish -/10

Stories from the Shopping District

Ongoing | Sanba maekawa | 2000 released

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

This guy

Ongoing | Suyohara | 2019 released

Dropped at ch 4(?). This is a mess huh. Everyone is hooking up with everyone else and getting hurt Rooting for the childhood friends Edit: well I started reading this forever ago, ignored every update, and remember not liking it that much so ima just.... go -/10

Cat and Bed

Ongoing | toujou sakana | 2019 released

Hmm. Started very cute, fluffy, and domestic. By ch 4 tho, it's starting to feel like this is an unhealthy situation for all of them. Seme is playing the doting bf for a bunch of lonely people who all have unique needs. That's draining. It's clear they all want to be special to him, too. Idk. I'm getting drained just reading this. Curious to see how it turns out, but it's looking like a breakdown. Idk. Update ch 6. That was wildly unsatisfying. Seme and uke's relationship barely exists because it's so far been all about fucking. It's weird that the uke encourages the seme to keep contact with all his ex clients because they were specifically coming to him for the loving boyfriend act, so now he's kinda just leading them on. Hiroki doesn't have much of a personality? Hes kinda just blank all the time? He barely reacts at all to the seme apparently having an obsessive ex that regularly escapes his mental hospital? Also that was such a sudden plot point? (Unless I'm misremembering) 3/10, this kinda... sucked