stressedpenguin's manga / #living together(104)

Story 1: guys best friend confesses and then starts avoiding him. They resolve it. This happens twice, which was annoying. The friend also really pushes for sex without really considering if the MC wants that. Didn't really like this one Story 2: Two college guys living together. The short one is in love with the tall one and the tall one knows but kinda teases the short one about it without explaining that the love is mutual until the end. Was cute. Overall verdict: 5/10

Two idols from different bands are gonna be in a show together so they have to live together for a while. Problem is that they used to be in love but had a falling out. But the uke is still in love (and so is the seme but shh don't tell anyone else that). It felt like... a lot happened and nothing happened all at once. The story doesnt spend much time on any one event. The event happens and in the same chapter we've jumped to another one. Theres little flow or at least not as much as it needs to feel wholly cohesive. Also I thought there'd be more angst but nah the two are still in love and get back together pretty much right away. 5/10 I was bored.

I read this once a while ago. I remember very little. It was okay? 5/10

Wait thats how it ends? It's cute and all but I was getting confused about what was a flashback and what was present day. Everything feels stalled and not in a good way, like the story just stopped. Was expecting more. Minor gripe: you're on a stakeout.... and you frickin distracted having sex that you miss your target??? Bro these guys are mad incompetent ლ(ꗞДꗞლ) 6/10

WARNING: mentions of suicide. Feels incomplete. I wanna know more about Mike's past, what he did for work, what he's gonna do now that he's quit that work. What about Ethan? Man's in a bad place even if he acts like everything's fine. This is such a small slice of their lives. I wanna see more (‡▼益▼) 8 ot 9/10

Somehow, this didn't feel like a lot happened in it, just a lot of sex and some drama that they resolve via communication like mature adults. I was kinda bored tho, idk if that's just me. I think it's because we don't really get to see the uke doing anything but getting fucked. Like where does he work? I read this like 30 minutes ago but I think I forgot everything.... 5/10

....So it's a collection of one shots that are largely inconclusive and kinda unsatisfying or boring, imo. Ch 1: Guy gets saddled with a freeloader who legitimately cannot do anything. Guy had to pick up extra work to take care of them both which is mmmm Ch 2: Guy watches his two friends be in love, is reluctantly supportive (cus homophobia but kudos to him for grappling with it). Pretty okay. Not much you can do with one chapter. Ch 3: Rich guy gets bored waiting for the guy who stood up his sisters arranged marriage and runs away. Encounters another runaway who invites him to tag along and have fun. Turns out Runaway 2 is the guy who stood up his sister and now is announcing he likes our Runaway 1. We basically end there. Ch 4-5: Guy starts dating his senpai who secretly works at a crossdressing maid cafe. Things are going well until suddenly senpai breaks up with him over text and completely disappears only to return 3 years later with amnesia. Turns out senpai had a stalker who hit him not hard at all, giving him amnesia, and also that's why senpai broke up with our guy?? Didn't really explain much and I got kinda irritated cuz I personally hate ghosting. Overall verdict: 2 or 3/10 depending how annoyed this makes me if I think about it.

They're a bit of a mess but a cute mess. It's a fluffy vampire x werewolf story. 5 or 6/10

Stressed out salaryman (uke) being overworked at a black company suddenly runs into a kid, now grown up, he knew back in middle school (seme). Seme asks to move in temporarily while his boss, who he lives with, is in the hospital. Watching Hiro be stressed and worn down mentally by that job was starting to stress ME out (⋟﹏⋞). Shotout to Kaneko, his team lead or smth, for encouraging him to quit and pointing out just how badly the chief has twisted his image of himself. Kai's life was also sad af, just neglect after neglect, and it shows so clearly through his mindset. I really liked the old guy who took him. Also props to the son for recognizing what a shitty thing he did and genuinely apologizing for it. I liked a lot about this story, but the ending was just unsatisfying. It feels abrupt and like it didn't solve the underlying issues. Hiro quits his jobs, which I was rooting for. But Kai just abandons the old man who's cared for him for the past 5 or 6 years. There's nothing wrong with Kai moving on, I just wanted some scene with the old guy where he talks about it, so we can resolve that plot thread. idk. This was almost a 9; the ending brought it down to a 7; Kaneko, the old man, and the son brought it back up to an 8/10

So many misundsrstandings =_= Bro this uke cannot just TALK about his goddamn feelings. The constant back and forth was beyond frustrating. So these two guys are dating, just moved in with each other, and cant talk about romance stuff without the uke freaking out and running away or jumping to conclusions. And then the SEME jumps to conclusions all the time and UGGGGHHHHHHHH 3/10.