stressedpenguin's manga / #friends to lovers(96)

Two friends have a weird thing going on. The uke always sleeps with the seme's girlfriends and the seme almost seems like he's getting girlfriends so they can be stolen? Well turns out their both in love with each other so they get together. Yay? The uke is painfully self-centered. Everything needs to be how he wants it. He doesnt care at all about how anyone else feels, which sucks. And then the seme and literally everyone else around him just enables that behavior because "he's got such a pretty face" like ???? It's so frustrating. 3/10

My feelings about this are very ???? Like it was good and cute but also somehow sad? And frustrating too ngl. Everyone is at a stalemate just waiting for everyone else to make a move? If it wasnt for that girl at the end, nothing would have happened between anyone. So like... 6 or 7/10 but like a weird 6 or 7/10

Happy to see tomo-chan getting new love thanks to the anime

Ch 1-2: a bit noncon. Guy gets tricked into fucking the hot salaryman that frequents his konbini job. Hot salaryman is also kinda toxic "testing" the seme's loveby having a friend give him a hicky to make the seme jealous Ch 3-4: uke and his friend jerk off over an eroge, some fonfewswa (what is this supposed to say??? This is why i hate typing on mobile), uke has a mini crisis, they get together Ch 5: guy picks up a stray, gets him a job at his uncle's restaurant, 5 years pass, they're in love. Ch 6: kindergarten teacher is in love with one of his student's young uncle Overall verdict: 5/10

Story felt like a frayed rope being held together at each end. A lot of things happen, like they jump from case to case with very little explanation. 90% of the story is just close-ups on people's faces so it's really hard to get a bearing on where anyone is. Theres a scene where they're rescuing some kid from a building and they have to jump from one balcony to the other... and it never shows us the balcony or the characters mid air. Really weird. The drama was repetitive. One of them will say "don't get hurt'" and then get hurt. Every. Single. Time. Like, it's cute that they care about each other but man, it's so predictable, it's boring. The emotional drama of Miro liking Ian keeps getting interrupted and we also know Ian likes him bc this is a BL so of course he does. There's no question about it and it's not set up well enough so by the confession I was like who cares just get over with. 4/10. It's not bad, just not good and I got irritated reading it

Suit shop and kimono shop. 6/10

clumsy uke x friendly seme. pretty cute. i like the lost doll plot ^_^ 6/10

Uke finds out he comes from a line of succubi? succubuses? succupeople? And now needs to get fucked by a guy to survive. So he goes straight to his childhood friend. There's some drama near the end and the seme gets angry, forces the uke in sex, and then gets all distressed about it. It's pretty standard. @me, i cried over this, but it's cuz my tear ducts are overactive so not actually an indication that this is good 5/10

Two horny couples fucking a lot. What great friends they just be fucking in the same room. This is good (smut wise anyway) except I thought they were adults for most of that and finding out they're high schoolers easy like. Ah. Ok. Mmmmmmmmm. 5/10

The angst is strong with this one. Seme took advantage of uke's break up back in high school. They started a messy friends with benefits relationship until they graduated. Seme was and still is in love with the uke. Four years later, uke seeks out the seme and they have a lot of angsty back and forths. There's a fine line between understandable, character-driven drama and annoying, unrealistic miscommunication plots. This manga walks that line. It works just well enough and the characters are just forgivable enough that I could indulge in the angst without wanting to peel my face off over the fact that neither of them bothered to clarify their relationship for like, what, 1 year? 2 years? 6/10