stressedpenguin's manga / #light drama(43)

short and sweet story about two boys running restaurants down the street from each other. they're both in love and it's super fluffy and the food looks so frickin good 7/10

Wut. Okay so the DJ guy... is 20 but hea still in high school because he studied abroad??? That makes no sense. Also did they really leave off with them separating???? Why? Was meh. 4 or 5/10

It's got all the friends to lovers tropes you could ask for but without being annoying somehow. It's got a short misunderstanding, unrequited love, and that thing where the one in love starts avoiding the other bc they cant be friends anymore but the other one doesnt want to lose their friend so they start dating and voila theyre actually both in love. It's very cliche, but I like this one cuz the background characters act like humans instead of plot devices and the drama feels character driven not author driven. 7/10 Series order: 1) Renai Nante Yurushimasen 2) Netsuai Nante Ariemasen 3) Dekai Nante Mitomemasen

Ch 1-4: Seme overhears the uke smack talking him and gets annoyed. Their club prez makes them hold hands to make up. Seme realises uke is in love with club prez while falling in live himself. It's pretty cute I'd give it a 6/10 Ch 5: story about the club prez and the club teacher. Ngl, that's a pretty bad teacher. Giving a kid who's probably like 15 or 16 special treatment and then making advances. Like. Sir. That's kinda mmm. I'm always mmmmm with teacher x student stories. It's a 6 but I'd knock it down for the premise. Overall verdict: 5/10

Ch 1-4: horny construction guy x kinda tsundere virgin supervisor. Theres this weird drama where the horny uke is worries the blatantly horny seme will be grossed put that he's hornier than he let's on. Why? Yaoi logic. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Ch 5: guy is in love with twin 1. Twin 2 is in love with Guy. Mild drama ensues but it's all resolved in the one chap. Ch 6: guy gets assaulted (and lowkey waterboarded??? Mans put a towel over his nose and mouth in the shower???) by his swim teacher (they're both adults so at least theres that) and the manga wants us to pretend that's not fucked up Overall verdict: 4/10

cool police detective alpha x independent punk private investigator omega. The two paired as part of a deal where the PI is the detective's informant. Ngl, I was kinda bored the whole time. 5 or 6/10

College aged konbini worker is tryna figure out what he wants to do with his life. He's choosing between staying in Tokyo do to he doesn't know what or going back home and taking over the family business. Then one day the hot salaryman who stops by the store everyday proposes a one night stand with him, which kinda freaks him out. Via shenanigans, they start a friends with benefits relationship with a deadline and then they fall in love and there's a little bit of drama and then a happy ending. My expectations were a bit too high for this one, so I was kinda disappointed. 5/10 name on MAL is Kirei na Oniisan wa Suki desu ka?

Another tattoo artist seme, nice. I love me my tatted BL. It was pretty good in the first half but then the kinda dumb random drama happened and I was like -_-. Wasnt bad tho. Okay but someone explain to me why in every bl I've read recently someone ghosts the other. Can yall at least be like.... SAY smth first??? 6/10

VA uke thirsting over the hot actor he'll be starring in a live action film with. Mr. Hot Actor seems interested too (¬‿¬) especially when he catches the uke masturbating on video call and initiates some phone sex. Ths drama is kinda contrived. Makes no sense and relies on these most typical BL misunderstanding. 5/10

Uh bubbly kinda actor x serious kinda actor. Uke accidentally overhears seme getting dumped (by the seme's cousin??? That was random) and then they start getting closer and then the uke falls in love. Pretty standard stuff. Doesn't get into deep feelings or anything. 5/10