ArtemisFowl's manga / #has potential(59)

Mikado, a bookstore clerk, can see ghosts. He doesn't want anyone to know, and can determine if they are a ghost by taking of his glasses -- those who are blurred are real, and those whose outline stays the same are ghosts. Unfortunately for him, a guy at the bookstore can see through him (both figuratively and literally) and tries to recruit him as an assistant after getting rid of a ghost at the bookstore, at the behest of the owner. The man, Rihito, offers to pay Mikado double what he's making at the bookstore, but Mikado won't do it because he's scared of the ghosts he sees and how he is disbelieved. Rihito assures him that, with him, Mikado won't feel scared anymore. What will become of this potential partnership? ~ Chapter 1 (technically 0.5)

A man meets a monster who he makes a contract with. Every time the man experiences negative emotions, the spirit gets to eat. Donue-kun (the man) is a magnet for trouble, and the spirit, Shiro, seems almost human. What will happen to Donue? And is there more to the spirit that meets the eye? ~ Chapter 1

Aliens have randomly taken over the earth and this guy's childhood friend-turned lover was one. ~ Chapter 1

Ooooh! Love to read hate to love plots done right haha! Seo Hyunsoo lives the straight and narrow with the work mantra, "I do my best at work." He works for a fashion magazine company, and is top of the line in his work; he is the current manager of the department. He has heard about the other manager for one of the branches, the mysterious Baek Youngchan; he is said to be the department's ace, and is a mythical figure in the City Casual fashion company. To his surprise, he meets him one day...and finds that he hates him. Little does he know that a storm is in his path; this is the path to true love and an end to singledom...and he'll be kicking and screaming about it on the way there. 10/10 for a solid start, cute characters, and beautiful artwork. Edit: I feel like Baek is a shady character; I'm not sure what to make of him, or the situation. I feel like there's a lot of weird communication issues; I feel like they could have just made Baek more transparent, and there wouldn't be such weird tension around everything. ~Chapter 10

Two boys randomly end up with a period of the day where they kiss for thirty minutes, all because the younger kid is late while the older one is done with exams. The younger boy, who started the kissing in the first place, is known to date around while also being inappropriately physical with men (in the sense that most of the physicality is slapping and pinching bottoms, not that physicality with men is inherently inappropriate), as well as trying to police the sexuality of his fellow students. The boys start kissing for thirty minutes, and at the end of the older boy's graduation, the younger one says to his girlfriend that, "he doesn't know [the older boy]." The older boy is left feeling sad and hurt. I think that there is some internalized homophobia from the younger boy, among some of the problematic elements of their relationship. It's not defined (by which I mean that both parties are not on the same page as to what the other person expects out the relationship, even if those things are different); it's not clear what they want out of the other. It wasn't started with much consent; and although they ended up taking their relationship further than what it was, there were clearly toxic elements of what was to bloom in the end of the first chapter. We'll see what happens from here on out. ~Chapter 2

I'm kind of interested to see where this goes! Two idols have completely different offstage personalities, and neither gets along with the other. Will things change for them? ~Chapter 23

Chap 0, or introduction chapter. Hot guy gets patronized (as in, gets someone as a patron) at the combini store he works at by a potential gangster who seems to have some sort of moral code while doing gansta things. Has gorgeous art, and the potential to be something more than a comedic gag (though it is likely to fall into the trap of the latter). Edit: Very true for the last sentence on chapter 1. Edit: Chapter 3- Huh. He confessed to the guy he has an unrequited crush on. That's interesting. I wonder how it will go (probably not great, but maybe it'll go alright...considering that he's going to end up with the combini store guy, I have doubts that his friend is going to respond in kind. He probably will try to distance himself from the mc.) Edit: Chapter 4- That "friend" is grosssss and disgusting. He had creepy eyes halfway through the chapter, and I knew what he was going to try to do. Edit: Chapter 8 -- confession by the dangerous convenience store guy ~Chapter 39

Baek Chansol has always been alone. He lives at an orphanage, where he considers the others there as family, but is ostracized by his peers at school. Enter another ostracized kid, Park Hansoo. He spends the first couple months by the desk of this kid, but only starts having a relationship with him when their paired together for a project. Park Hansoo and Baek Chansol, after a long time, actually become friends. They hang out together. They spend time outside of school together. They genuinely get along, despite Hansoo's strange and charismatic personality, along with his reputation as a 'bad boy' who gets into fights all day long. Suddenly, during the middle of Baek Chansol's senior year, a serial killer named August (who the police haven't caught) strikes again; this time, to erase all of the people in the orphanage where Baek Chansol lives. It is a tragedy. All of members of the orphanage, except for him, die. He is the only survivor thanks to the fact he was hanging out with Hansoo, but it still leaves him with traumatic memories. Years later, as he's chasing down the serial killer who still hasn't been caught, he encounters a person with information while applying to a job: a one UM weapon's company Hansoo, going by the name of the nephew of the director of UM AND the Director of Sales Team A at the company. Baek Chansol doesn't seem to recognize Park Hansoo. Park Hansoo, on the other hand, does recognize Baek Chansol. He ends up hiring Baek Chansol to be his personal manager, all the while knowing Baek Chansol's secret (and telling him straight up to his face that he knows). Thus begins the cat and mouse chase of Baek Chansol trying to get information about August from Park Hansoo, the childhood friend that he doesn't recognize from trauma-induced amnesia, but has recognized him from chasing August himself for the sake of Baek Chansol. ~Chapter 17

A hot guy with a sea captain's taste in men ends up falling (hard) for the big softie sitting next to him. For reasons we will never know (until the end of this manga), he refuses to date; however, the big guy, Yohan, ends up being fine with having the hottie as a sex partner. ~Chapter 15

Babysitter sleeps with single father. Drama and chaos ensues. ~Chapter 2