ArtemisFowl's manga / #hmm(25)

Not enough information to make a good call as to whether this will be a good manga or not... The mc is a former military vet discharged under mysterious circumstances. His uncle (who is his biological father, revealed in chapter 0) comes to his apartment to give him an opportunity -- to work as an informant within his company to deal with the power dynamics happening in the current situation with the general manager position. This guy does not want to agree to do it, but ends up getting pressured into taking the job. He thinks there will be some sort of trouble, trouble that his twin brother (who left four days before his uncle/dad showed up) ended up avoiding thanks to leaving. There was some talk of luck and who's lucky, and whether or not he himself was lucky, and he certainly doesn't consider himself a person with too much luck. He starts packing, to unwillingly embark upon this new adventure in chapter 2... ~Chapter 2

Koi fish gets brought into a house, only for the owner to realize the supernatural inhabitant of the koi fish is a sprite. They start living together, and the human quickly falls in love with him. Borderline toeing the line with telling him lies about how humans live and love rituals. ~Chapter 24

BL author applies for a high-end beer company on a whim, only to send his unpublished manuscript instead of his resume in his application. To the author's surprise he ends up getting an interview and getting hired, mostly because the manager in charge of filtering applications was a fan of his BL novels and the boss ended up seeing the "love letter" the potential employee sent and had his interest piqued. *What is love~the boss thought. I'd like to get to know this person better.* So goes the story of the newly employed BL author charming his way through sales contracts and into the boss' heart. ~ Chapter 15

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

Boy runs away from home due to a fight between him and his best friend (?) who he was in love with. ~Chapter 0

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

Gahhhh, why is this sex scene ruined by guns and blood at the beginning???? Let me just take a moment and cry a little bit *weeps in the corner without stopping* (Dear lord* do I hate tragedy) *full title: lord spaghetti monster Edit: Everyone's (the characters are) so into the melodrama over here. I'm just like. NO. When you feel that depth of feeling, it comes from a place of love and trust, not lust and chemistry. Agree to disagree, main couple. They hawt though.

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

Myeong and Seonho were high school classmates, not friends and not really even acquaintances. They also had an eye out for the other, Myeong much longer than Seonho. Myeon ends up going to the reunion of their high school after six years of not seeing Seonho, only to see Seonho with a ring on his finger. Myeon tries to leave, but Seonho goes outside with him for a smoke. They end up kissing, and they go back to a hotel before anyone at the party can catch them. Hot sex ensues, all the while with this secret of the ring between them. Myeong runs away from the hotel, only to go back once the ring is on his finger and he figures out what that means... Watch out for the sixth chapter. It may have a kink you're not interested in... ~Chapter 6.1

A boy with an accident in his past (he was in the house when his house caught on fire) was saved by a mysterious stranger years ago. Years later, as a young man, he is trained to be a firefighter. On his way to work, he stumbles across a building catching on fire, and hears that a little girl is still in the building. Wanting to save her, he goes into the building, only to be hemmed in by more fire when he finds her and tries to make it out through the window. He almost does but then is about to fall...until he is saved by the same handsome stranger that saved him long ago. Only the stranger. hasn't changed in appearance, even though he had seen him over ten years ago. Who is he, and how will this change his life? ~ Chapter 1