stressedpenguin's manga / #not on MAL(556)

Completed at ch 49. I'm sorry. This story was so ass. This was an amateur writer's wet dream of an angsty cinderella plot with a Tragedy Sue (Mary Sue but the world hates them) MC. Bad things happen to the MC because he's the main character and therefore special. No one behaves like a normal human. Things happen just for the shock value. At multiple points in time, the MC has extremely damning evidence that in a normal world would completely destroy a company. But because this is a Tragedy Sue, no one is allowed to believe him and now they have to ridicule him just to make him more miserable even tho most human beings with human rationality and human empathy would be like that's fucked up I dont like the idea that my PHARMACY is using a HUMAN BEING to testify you can turn OTHER HUMAN BEINGS into an omega, which in this universe is treated like a REPULSIVE mutation. This is like discovering that Eli Lilly was conducting research that would give people spin bifida??? The fuck?? Also, y'all?? The seme fucking passed the illegitimate rat bastard to a different pharmacy to ALSO use in wildly unethical human experimentation that would 100% be crimes against humanity? And he tells that to the uke, whose ENTIRE life and trauma is about being tortured by a pharmacy? And he tells it like it's a good thing?? And the uke doesn't even react to it?? What the fuck?? What the fuck was this story? Why does it have so many positive reviews? This was fucking bizarre. 2/10

Goofy ass yaoi, as not expecting the bear to have a giant dick and explicit porn as its regular content. -/10

Another installment in the previously straight guy is now a cockslut and does dubious porn but def likes it so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Another pulin nabe, just an orgy with buckets of cum

Ehh... that was less consensual than I thought it would be. Uke kept asking the seme to slow down, stop, take the vibrators out and the seme just completely ignored it. Doesn't seem like the uke enjoyed it much either. He was scared . I thought this would be a little sweeter. 3/10

Lil oneshot about two girls living together as their individual lives grow and differ. Because it's a oneshot, there's not much room to explore the actually pretty interesting character dynamic of two lifelong friends (to lovers) and how their relationship changes as their lives change. Would love to see a long, deeper dive into that So yeah 5/10, I have no thoughts. The girls did suffer from not looking their age as always, so I'm docking points for that. One day. One day my anime women will actually look like women

Nahhhhhhhh nahhhhhhhhh the seme freaking sucked and the sex comes out of nowhere. Like, imo, theres no indication that the seme is interested in the uke sexually or romantically, and also pretty sure he was straight??? Since he mentioned having to ask his gay friends??? Too abrupt, zero chemistry, uke clearly hates his guts. Waste of a hot tattooed seme -/10

Last read ch 28. Bounty hunter Callahan just needs to catch 1 more criminal to collect a fat 10 mil pesos (?). His target is Jonny the Scammer, bona fide twink. Tbh there were bits that were pretty confusing. The story avoids going that play by play thing or giving exposition dumps, and generally does a good job presenting the information through visual storytelling and subtler dialogue... That said, there's A LOT happening in this story that divides what little space the story allots for exposition. As a result, it's easy to miss key backstory details (skill issue on my part) and could sometimes be a little unsatisfying? It's unclear for a BIG portion of the story if out Jonny is actually the scammer. He doesn't act like one even for the 1.5 ish chapters he's alone. I was never sold 100% that he's a criminal deserving of arrest. He just seems like some unfortunate guy. I think this actually could have benefited from being longer, having time to explore the characters (and world?) more. But it was still a cohesive, comprehensible story with what it gave us. Also shoutout to the person in the comments for explaining, re:ch 12 that Jonny lied about the timeline to give himself an alibi. I totally did not clock that at all 8/10

Wow, went from kinda a goofy premise to a little bit sinister huh... 4/10

2nd couple was very wholesome, woulda been hella smutty too if not for the censorship. They're ACTUALLY just jerking the air Uhhh 7/10? Cute and fun