ArtemisFowl's manga / #interesting characters(53)

Yikes, this had a much heavier premise than I expected. Yes, it is about five boys under one roof who are dealing with their love lives, but how they got there is tragic (and decently dealt with by the author). All of their parents were friends, and when they all went on a trip together, they died. The five of them ended up living together under the charity (though still with some catches) of their landlord, who want them to live in a more pious manner (or they'll all be kicked out if a single person is caught breaking the rules). The main character, who has never fallen in love, seeks to straighten up his fellow tenants and make sure none of them gets caught by the landlord. ~Chapter 22

There are beast humans in this world, as well as regular humans, who are zone-cut off in different areas based on previous designations of the law. There is Yuki, a half-beast, and Goudai, his friend/savior/mentor, who works for the anti-beast police department (basically like the DEA, that enforces the border between humans and beasts). Yuki and Goudai have something, especially since they started living together. However, Yuki has never told any human his secret; and he just got exposed in the last chapter that I read (chapter 4). Who knows what will happen next? ~Chapter 4

Where's the second chapter???! Someone is going after a colleague he thinks is gay...but that colleague keeps denying it. That would be fine, but then they end up at a hotel due to circumstances....the man who keeps denying he's gay (which I had total trust in, not sarcastically) sort of wants to sleep with that guy -- there are inconsistencies about his previous appearances and his character, where he has a piercing (w/o a ring) and a tattoo. There's more to this guy than meets the eye...who knows whether he wants to have sex or not. ~Chapter 4

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

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

A kid in a high school named Si Tong likes another kid in high school named Li ZiChen. He thinks his feelings, which started in the middle of high school, will end once they graduate, but he ends up in the same friend group as Li ZiChen in college (which he didn't realize they would be in the same campus in the same major). Suddenly, SiTong is faced with the reality that his feelings won't just go away, like he had planned in high school; instead, he is stuck with his crush, vacillating between wanting to hang out with him and trying to distance himself out of a need to crush his feelings. He ends up spending a lot of time with him, both because they are in the same group and because Li ZiChen wants to. At some point, Li ZiChen realizes that SiTong has a crush on him but doesn't push him away -- first out of reasoning that it's only a tiny crush, then figuring that he wants to have this person in his life (which evolves into wishing this person was perhaps closer to him than he is). What will become of this relationship? Update -- Chapter 22: Ooof! He did NOT drag that out at all. And it was perfectly casual. I thought it was going to be 10, 20 chapters into this (after chapter 20) when he was going to confess. DANNNG you spicy Li ZiChen. Update of update -- wow wow wow he confessed and I was not ready for all that drama to unfold *cries quietly into pillow* Edit (Chapter 43): They got together! Edit (Chapter 44): Start of Season 2! ~Chapter 67

They had chemistry, but then chapter 5.5 appeared...and I feel grossed out at the sexual harassment. Ryouto and Kousuke (Number two and number one respectively in their college's list of good-looking men) spend a night together after the latter strains his hand on a ski trip provided by his school. Both men end up in sexy times on the massage chair within their ski resort (much to the delight and the chagrin respectively of Kousuke and Ryouto). They end up having an ambiguous relationship, where Ryouto is reading the signals correctly (for once in a yaoi, the person isn't completely oblivious to the other person's attentions). Kousuke has plans to go skiing professionally in Canada. Will skiing break these lovers apart or allow them to stay together? ~Chapter 11.1

By the author of Three Men, One Chinchilla, which makes sense. It has the same vibe in a strange way. New kid in high school has some strange things going on -- he doesn't like to leave with anyone, doesn't want to go home with anyone, doesn't want to hang out with anyone after class -- but all aside from that, he's pretty normal. The main character wants to figure this person out, after they have a meet-cute moment with a calico cat (where their initial interaction is great, but then sours for some odd, unknown reason) before they meet at school. The slightly shady new kid thinks that the other kid is super weird, but doesn't hate him. The other kid (the mc) doesn't have any social oddities, other than the fact that he has a bit of a loose filter (and says all the things in his mind (to some degree)). He wants to get to know the shady new kid, and their vibes are fantastic even though it's only chapter 2... ~Chapter 2

There's a strange curse in this world related to the sea, and the people who stop them are doomed to pass away at an early age in the position of 'Kannagi' for the villagers. Alto is a villager who is supposed to be scared of the Kannagi, but only feels interested in him. This is the story of them, with the majority of the first chapter taking place during their meet-cute, and the later part of the chapter delving into the present. Although Kannagis normally pass away after five to six years on the job, this particular Kannagi hasn't. It's been 6 years since the main part of the story took place, and the Kannagi has relied on Alto, both for emotional support as well as a strange healing method for the Kannagi, whose black hands stained from the curse have healed. ~Chapter 19

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