stressedpenguin's manga / #host(9)

uke gets trained to be a masochist for guy he likes. host x psychic model. was interesting. 7/10

kinda rushed through a bunch of tropes and was the sex was very dubcon. the time travel plot could have been interesting but it just didn't have time to explore it. so 3/10 i guess

Cute! Uke owns a restaurant that's in debt and the seme is a host who's destroyed his liver. the story really brushed over the sexual assault scene and the host having serious medical issues. Wish the uke had some friends of his own too but overall the story was pretty good. 7/10

Kinda lacked substance I guess. All cliches. We never seen rin actually be good at being a host so he just looks dumb the whole time. 5/10 it's not like it was bad

WARNING: suicidal themes in ch 4 dropped at ch 4. uke in the first story can't handle not giving and serving people, which was kinda unhealthy

Would you call this a slow burn mind break? It's a 3/10 for me. Not into crazy

That was an absolute roller coaster of emotions. Simultaneously heartbreaking and sweet and smutty and so fuckin FUNNY. The art went HARD on the emotional moments, you can really feel Naruse screaming his emotions out. This had me in one kinda tears over the bag swap and then in a different tears again during the running scene and the end. It was wild. The art really makes them seem almost insane sometimes. If it was just a bit longer I'd give it a 9, but for me this was missing something so it's an 8/10.

Very cliche host seme x naive uke. Uke is looking for love and sex and spends all his broke college student money on the host. They fuck a bunch, fall in love, have minor drama, fuck again, the end 4/10

Seme works as a hairdresser, having given up his dream of being a soccer player. Uke has a lot of guilt for causing the seme's injury, so he became a host to earn the money and network to help seme's salon through advertising. Big angst from both these characters being simultaneously too proud and too lacking in self worth. I did really appreciate that the uke still uses his medical knowledge, although I dont think becoming a host--an industry famous for its unhealthy alcohol dependency--is the best idea... Anyway, 7/10 for the feels