Kiko's manga / #love it!!!(24)

This is definitely one of my favorites! Everything about it works; illustrations, story, character development, humor, timing, and plot! I love the stylized drawings that highlight the character's personalities and enhance the story arc. My heart is aching and I'm crying because it's over. Absolutely *loved* this one; this is a do-over-read-again-and-again webcomic. Buying it on Lezhin and would love to own books, if ever available. Note to self: English books are printed & I just got V.1 in the mail, pre-ordered V.2 (11/18/2023)

A fun and no angst office romance with childhood backstory of one-sided crush comes of age. I loved the twin youngsters who are the ML's family and how the 2ndML simply accepted them - just like IRL where you simply make family part of your dating/courtship!

So beautiful and touching. Loved the art illustrations and the sweetness of the characters. The extras were great, too - a little insight into their fun personalities!

This one was very good. The approach of beginning the story with a break-up and pepper it with present day "hook-ups" and past storyline was nicely done. I also really liked the domestic issues as the catalyst for leaving, change, and eventually reunion.

I thoroughly enjoyed this one. The dark student past for both of them with one exhibiting outwardly and the other inwardly but coming to the surface later was very effective storytelling. The art was beautifully drawn and the story developed perfectly over the 20 chapters. If this was available as a book, I would buy it, too!

I totally love stories with societal taboos! Step-brother loves brother in his adopted family. This kind've love seems so natural b/c we ask kids to love each other when not biologically related but still "in a family" but then frown when that love is not familial but romantic! Will try to buy book.

Absolutely loved this one - plowed through all 70+ chapters (which are more like books for each chapter) and couldn't get enough. Japanese manga about 2 AV actors who at first are competitors and un-attracted to each other but as they mature and grow out the AV business, they are together. The majority of the chapters are them together experiencing life and its many ups & downs. Great adult material, too.

This is much like "Here U Are" for me .... very sweet, tender, and innocent! The 2 MLs in here are beautifully drawn and are developing slowly but richly. The "Villain" is, of course, not and thankfully our hero discovers that early on. The gentle love that is blooming is so tender and sweet, I look forward to every episode like a delicious piece of chocolate...glorious in the moment but over too soon.

**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.