stressedpenguin's manga / #grounded feeling(48)

These two are so bad at saying things. Guy goes to a pink movie showing and gets picked up by his favorite magazine columnist. They staring fucking every other day after watching movies together. Feelings happen, things get complicated cuz their bad at communication, and then it all works out. Cute, grounded, kinda funny, and surprisingly sweet. 7/10

Ahhhhhh that was satisfying. Uke had a one night stand with a restaurant owner, starts working and living at the restaurant and the one night stand continues. The relationship is cute and the characters are pretty honest with their feelings and kiyo-san is a fantastic grandpa figure 9/10

Really wish the two in the alternate world got together too. dark haired guy seems so lonely. this one kinda made me sad... 7 or 8/10

Guy runs into his old classmate who's always been an aloof asshole. Keeps running into him and the seme keeps kinda prying into his past. Their relationship starts off very terse and almost combative. Both of them initially hope the other is more miserable than themselves. I'm sad the hamster wasn't more relevant. She's only in a few scenes but shes so ROUND. I need more hamster! Overall thoughts tho. Didn't really enjoy it. Its just not what I want to read rn I guess. I may have misread it since it was late af, but characters were all kinda nosy but with a feeling like they wanted to amuse themselves? Also the teacher was kinda a creep? Who runs I to a former student and then begs them to let you stay there? Don't you have other people closer to you? And then also prying into basically a strangers sec life? Weird. The story does feel grounded, but the characters feel isolated. It left me feeling like... depressed for some reason. Idk. This one wasn't it for me. Sorry. 4/10

Huh. Okay I didn't really feel much while reading this one. The seme confessing was almost a surprise for me. Uke gave me almost aro / ace vibes with his complete lack of interest in the romantic part of the date and general not understanding romance, but that's just me projecting. The seme put a lot of effort into their relationship, but the uke barely reciprocated at all. Everything was for research. Yknow... it's kinda bugging me know. He barely seemed to think about the seme at all ever, even when they split up. He seemed so lonely but part of me wonders of a romantic relationship was the answer, or if he was just lacking in close friends outside his brother. Like, when the seme finds him alone and he finally starts reciprocating the seme's feelings, I didn't feel like he was actually in love. It almost felt more like... he was relieved someone was thinking about him, romantically or not. In the end, their relationship still felt one sided to me. So I wound up feeling kinda.. empty when I finished this. Idk. Not sure how to rate this one. I feel so conflicted about it. Hmm 4/10? 8/10?

Seme makes side dishes at a supermarket and notices the uke exclusively picks options he made. They happen to meet outside the super market and the seme starts making the uke food everyday. The ending is was very sweet The seme, whose life has always been a bit aimless, finally gets the courage to start his own bento food truck so he can follow the uke wherever the uke's work puts him. I love food based stories man there's something so homey and soft about them 8/10

Dropped at ch 3. This is really interesting and genuinely well written, I just really do not like historical fiction. Maybe I'll finish this one day but I just cant rn Everything about this is setting up for a 9/10 though with a unique setting I've rarely if ever seen. Was NOT expecting the Amish to make an appearance in BL. I definitely wanna come back to this someday when I've got the bandwidth for it -/10

Yknow. I want to say this hit me in the feels, but I honestly just couldn't get into it. After hitting his head in an accident, out MC is suddenly able to see the 17 yr old ghost that's been living in his apartment. MC was an aspiring mucision who's given up on his dreams after a heartbreakingly disastrous first street performance, but through his interactions with this ghost, he rediscovers his love for singing. I think knowing the ghost was... a ghost and given the very grounded tone of the story, I probably checked out emotionally before I even began. I want to say this was good and that it hurt or was cathartic or whatever, I cant. I just didn't engage with the story at all, so it didn't feel any different from all the other things I've read. I think it was just objectively good from an art, story, and execution standpoint so.... 6/10

Absolutely adore this one. I love watching Yukinori struggle to get used to the job and make friends with all his coworkers. I love watching the increasingly protective Maki get attached to him and vice versa. And they communicate! Dude I love this one so much 8/10

A oneshot but I liked the vibes 7/10