ArtemisFowl's manga / #has potential(57)

The couple is fine/whatever...I actually like their dynamics more as friends. They are much funnier like that. Another observation: aside from the gay romance part, the two main characters and two side characters (all of which are friends/in the same friend group) read to me like a realistic picture of (chill) guy group dynamics! Honestly, it’s probably the first time where I’ve seen a group of guy friends in yaoi and thought “this is how a group of guys acts around each other in real life.” I’m not a guy, so I can’t say through experience whether that’s true or not, but that’s what it felt like to me.

Ugh...this dude's confession was too..he jumped the gun on this one, and it just felt desperate (and a simple way to take advantage of someone in a vulnerable state). It's not that he meant to, and given the previous buildup of his character, he probably got kind of ahead of himself. On chapter 2. Still, it left a bad taste in my mouth. I'm not sure I'm going to continue reading this one.

Truly a compilation of stories concerning characters who are generous and kind and nonjudgmental, traits society rarely spotlights but are worth more than their weight in gold.

Princess Alicia is a modern woman from Tokyo, reborn as Alicia in a novel her sister wrote. Alicia was born in a small smithing town, with her mother and her half-brother by her side...until they discover that, at her mother's untimely death, her half-brother is the last heir of the noble crown to Lianne. He and his half-sister go to Lianne's capital, where the mc is trying to avoid all the 'doom flags/endings' and get the heck out of dodge with some guy named Lancelot, whose face she's never seen. Little does she know that she ends up sleeping with the novel's hero, Ares Crenoix, who takes a little more than a liking to her...and ends up entangled in her problems within the castle and the petty politics the main establishment is up to. She ends up at the castle, trying to increase her power and protect her little brother by ending up as Ares' weapons' advisor (all while telling herself that Ares is not her type). Edit: He proposes at the end of chapter 73 (despite them technically being engaged, or pretending to in order to introduce the idea of 'she's potentially going to see someone romantically' to her brother); also, the end of the season Edit: on the verge of answering his proposal in chapter 80 Edit 9/9/23: She proposes to him. - Chapter 85 Edit:1/9/24: They basically admits that they like each other - Chapter 109 ~Chapter 102

Guy goes back to school, only to have to face his past (his stalker/former "best friend" who raped him) and his future (another stalker-like character who goes on and on about 'saving' him). Luckily the latter has a lot of genuinely good qualities, one of which is being there for the main character. He ends up in the hospital after a series of events at the end of the manga, only for him to actually resolve part of his past with the former best (doesn't forgive him, but makes peace with his past) and start his life anew. ~Chapter 45.5