stressedpenguin's manga / #no romance(16)

Hitman turned otaku, the wacky group of just as dangerous characters who gather around him. We stan Viviana, work life balance QUEEN and audience surrogate fujoshi. AND there's no cannon romance ️ This was fun and a little sweet 7/10

That was not what I was expecting. That kinda... hit me harder than I expected?? Aikawa was really, truly keeping himself safe by having these silly, spontaneous phone calls with a friend he's known since elementary school. The chase sequence was a LITTLE goofy compared to the tone set, but it still made my stomach drop. Aikawa lived a hell of a life This was good. 7/10

The abortion comment is kinda clumsily inserted into their conflict. What is it referring to??? Did Takase's MOM get an abortion after sleeping around? Did TAKASE herself get an abortion after sleeping around? Why did Kana bring up abortion specifically and not careless pregnancies, which I think would've been more of a natural escalation? There just wasn't enough foreshadowing for "abortion" to be the major conflict. Idk. Was pretty good, just very short and trying to tackle multiple issues at the same time. 5/10

Two women who have comfortably lived with each other since college start feeling the social pressure to get married or otherwise be in a romantic relationship. They try it with each other and they try it with the men they've been dating, but in the end they're most comfortable being friends. I really like that conclusion. There's more than one type of family, and I'm happy to see that represented here. 8/10, I am biased but I think this was good

Short oneshot of a daughter getting to see her mother again for just a night after. It's an old style murder mystery ball with a bittersweet story 7/10

I'm debating that no romance tag. Uhhh middle schooler gets lowkey kidnapped every week to help a yakuza learn how to sing karaoke. Until the last half chapter, their dynamic is very much like mentor and mentee dynamic but that last half chap had a lil bit of a romance vibe that I'm not sure I like, what, with the massive age gap and the kid being actually a child. I need more mentor stories. Really I just want more Reigens from Mob Psycho lmao Other than the last minute romance vibes, I really liked this one. The way the characters express themselves is so human, like the author really understands how people are. 7/10