ArtemisFowl's manga / #funny(95)

Theater and opera, good lord I am not ready for this. Edit: Chapter 85 - He confesses!!!! ~Chapter 133

Hahahaha I'm dying with this manga. This is literally so fun to read -- and the main characters are both obsessed with their looks and popularity, though for different reasons. Dang, the seme really wants to get it on with a person who truly "understands their value." Ha ha ha ha hope this one turns out as good as it's going right now. ~Chapter 13

These two hate each other for valid reasons -- the black haired guy got the redhead a bad grade because the redhead didn't do his part of the project, and the redhead tried to work with the black haired guy on a side project afterwards without being rude to him, only for the black haired guy to talk smack as a 'precautionary measure.' Thus mutual hatred ensues. How they will ever get together in a realistic manner is a wonder to me. It's kind of going into 'stupid' territory at this point...but the end of the 9th chapter was pretty funny. Dat face though. ~ Chapter 10

A vampire and a werewolf sleep together in a town and world that holds vampire-werewolf relations and rivalries out in the open. When Chess sees #hotguy out at the werewolf moonparty (whatever that is, ha ha) sitting next to him and chatting with him, he becomes attracted. All of a sudden he falls into bed with this man named Raoul (or so he says). He wakes up the next day, leaves to do something (writing Raoul a note), and comes back to find the man gone from his house. A week later the man finds Chess, only for Chess to have realized since then that he, a werewolf, slept with a man named RAWIN, a vampire rival of his werewolf clan, who has come to take a liking to Chess. Chess tries to stay away from him but finds he can't. What will happen to the two of them? ~Chapter 8

LiTian Yu and Xu Ze have a contentious relationship, only to become something more when they start to spend time with each other. They have an interesting relationship, but then it all falls apart when LiTian Yu moves out of the country their junior and senior years... Fast forward 5 years in college, and Li Tian Yu has come back to become a doctor and fix their friendship (finding the former love interest by accident) while Xu Ze is the basketball coach/captain at One University's basketball program. They have to deal with the obstacles that come next... I really enjoyed seeing LiTian Yu and Xu Ze during the years they were in high school...I'm not so sure about how this is going to go now they are in college...The relationship could fall into more typical tropes familiar to the yaoi world, which I would be sad about... ~Chapter 58

Broken arm, friendship that was potentially a romance, but no action was taken until now... These two meet again in college, only for the seme to have his arm broken by the uke falling flat on the concrete after tripping down the stairs. The seme asks to be in a relationship with the uke, at least until his arm heals... Update: Yes yes yes! Edit: Also, can I just say that the uke is a world-class, real-world icon? Top of his class and everything. Edit: Ugh, I'm getting more and more annoyed at the manipulation of the seme. Edit 3: Okay, I feel that seme (at the end of chapter 7), because he right. ~ Chapter 27

A subordinate and his demon-boss manager -- who constantly tells him to redo his proposals -- end up becoming friends on an online gaming system by coincidence, only to find out who the other person is after seeing each other in a live meeting. -- Misunderstandings of kuma-san between aaa-san and hashimoto: the truth comes out *crying in mirth emoji* Edit: Chapter 16 the truth comes out for Shirase Edit: Chapter 17 has Kumada confessing to Hashimoto, only for Hashimoto to misunderstand and think in game references (he thinks that Kumada is sad about not being recruited into his and Shirase's guild -- yes it is a type of guild but not that type of guild) ~Chapter 20.5

Combini store guy and an older salary man...a hot night in the shower after a rainy day leads to a post-sex date that reveals their ages -- which freaks the older guy out. They decide to go out -- on trial. ~Chapter 6

-Chapter 75 -- Bite me *rolls eyes* Look, I liked the relationships between the seven of them, but there comes a point where all of the lying and the cheating and the hiding, for it to be revealed and exposed and the APPARENTLY (apparently the key word here) resolved, but only to realize that everyone would be doing the exact same thing all of the time DESPITE this "resolution" pisses me off. I know not everything is solved in one day, but they seemed to have a resolution of their problems, only for them to fall back into old patterns and it's making me want to bang my head against a wall. Also, as much as it makes fun of the tropes of the web novel genre (which I appreciate, I really do), it really took a sudden turn into stereotype land itself when Eun-Ho is going on and on about how he luuuurves the main character (as though it's realistic that this guy would have only had one attraction to one person -- and I'm not saying this from a hot guy perspective, I'm saying this from a human perspective -- while in middle school with a bunch of other people around), and he's going on the same way that a character in a shojou harem would. Which this is. Except that it revolves around the ML's sidekick best friend, who happens to be the main character of the story we are reading. It had a lot of potential, but sadly I'm disappointed in the execution of the overall story. *End rant* Whew, glad I got that off my chest. Anyways, there are good things about this manga that I liked. I liked her character growth, and the way that she would interact with them as people -- in terms of the dynamics of her friendship with them, which I already touched on. I liked her reactions to things, which were usually very funny. I like that her friendship with Ban Yeoryeong had depth -- that they didn't just have a friendship because of convenience, but there was more to it than that. However, it did irk me that she kept viewing them as characters -- even though she knows they are comic book characters, that doesn't mean that the present reality she's working in doesn't exist. Most of us accept our reality as real -- if we didn't, and thought we were trapped in the matrix where people still interacted with us the same way they did back in our conception of reality, we should still treat the thing in front of us as important and real. Dan-il did not do that, and that is obviously very disheartening. It makes sense that she's trying to reconcile it in some ways, but she has to realize these are people, no matter whether they are comic book people or not. They are, in real time, interacting with her, and that is what matters. I wouldn't say that she's a 'strong female protagonist' -- only that she doesn't 'fall' for the guys she's with (which she totally would have if she felt like this were 'real life' -- it's pretty clear in the way she interacts with them and the fact that she generally stops herself from falling for them by say 'oh, right, they're comic book characters' -- and end scene.) She's not particularly girly and she has a sense of humor. However, she is constantly comparing herself to her friends, and she doesn't feel like she adds up. It makes sense that she has some insecurities, but to this degree, I wouldn't say that she is 'strong' because she doesn't really try to deal with them. She just goes along with whatever. I don't dislike her exactly, but I wouldn't say she's strong. ~Chapter 76

YAASSS!!! This one sounds so good!!!! This is about a guy, who parades around as a shut-in weirdo who nobody likes at work, only to be a gay rockstar when he goes to bars. He lives his life like this for valid reasons, only for his world to get turned upside down when he sees his d-bag coworker (prince of all the office lands) at the bar he frequents often. The seme slayyyss looking forward to more chapters ayyyy ~Chapter 10