Please Love Me (upi)
**ANYTHING** by Upi is on my list of *love it*!! This is a short but very sweet story of younger ML confessing and waiting for older ML to reciprocate. Love the style of the B&W drawings and the subtle changes in solid lines to almost shadowed lines.
Red Area
There's something about this one that I find absolutely captivating. It's definitely in my top 10. The illustrations are so clear and fine and the dialog is simple and to-the-point; no extra lines or words needed. The contrast with the B&W and the only additional color red is brilliant.
Incidentally Dyed By Spring's Love
Love the gentleness of this one. The college meeting fraught with young angst and insecurity and then the 10 years later meeting back up and the determination to make.it work. Yummy!
Love So Pure
This one grew on me and I fell in love with it by the end! It builds up around 2 characters and their group of friends, who become so wonderful too! I shed several tears at the end just seeing them all so happy in their relationships and within themselves.
Secondo Piatto
I liked this one immediately because it has such a great ML (detective) and his unrequited love for his best female friend and the 2nd ML who is in love with her future husband. I loved the way the ML falls and hard for the guy who he meets at the wedding, who he finds out that he's in love with the husband! The the detective falls for a guy who is so beautiful and yet a guy!! I've bought the French mature ones because you need the intimate scenes for the full effect ;)!
A Thousand Cranes
Worth every minute. Hard start with blood and violence but smooths out with love and beauty - a gem! Probably want to own it in PPB, too.
Miscreants And Mayhem
A little taboo and somewhat risque... love between a father figure (by relationship only - not blood) and his "son" in a gangster environment. I'm actually liking it a lot b/c it is so off-the-beaten-path. We shall see...
Bang Bang Knock
Short sweet about a college kid who interrupts his neighbor while delivering a mis-delivered package.
Keeper of the Pearl
Although I think some of it was lost in translation, I really enjoyed this story of their developing love and the retelling of the Joseph Dynasty version of the prince and his ill-fated love. The flash back happening when the current alpha is unconscious was a nice way to take the time to tell the whole back story. I shed some tears when the Omega figured out that the dragon that was visiting in his dreams was actually his 3rd pregnancy and the unborn child that was never born b/c he was killed by the prince in the JD era. I loved the epilogue of the grown children loving each other and their loving and caring family.
Dangerous Convenience Store