ArtemisFowl's manga / #lame(26)

Based on the first chapter (which isn’t much, but still), this is going to be awesome!!!!! Exactly the sort of tension I was looking for, and both characters seem independent and whole without each other. Fingers crossed that this doesn’t turn into instalove! Edit: never mind. This is pretty lame. I read way too much into the first chapter, and extrapolated some things that weren’t really there.

No...no, no, no. Chapter 7 onward is a downward spiral. And it had all the right explanations and all the right ingredients to be great.

This premise had the potential of being interesting, but sadly failed due to the insistence on sticking to the rigid script of seme - uke dynamics, once the seme (or the middle ‘seme’) decided to bottom at the beginning of the manga. Boooooo

Really could have been an interesting dynamic, but turns out to be a dud because the uke, who has complexity, is not really understood by the main character. I think another person could help him out more, but we have this character instead. ~ Chapter 2

I don't like how much hatred this dude has for this other dude. It's honestly creepy. Just because you don't like some rich people doesn't mean all rich people are horrible (which is true for other labels too). Dude's got it all except for the fact that his body is suuuuuper sensitive. He ends up trying to take out his *ahem*...frustrations... by going to the gym, only to bump into the pervert who keeps touching his body in later chapters. Thus sex galore ensues. *Reading chapter 8 for the heck of sex* Why can't he just end up with the colleague, not this douchebag loser *cries loudly*. Gah, the world is criminally unfair to manga ukes who deserve much better.

No, no, no. As much as I love the consent, the pacing was completely off. This had the potential to be a great story, and only turned out to be a so-so, mediocre one. Why couldn't there be more depth and exploration of their lives through a longer passage of time? It was a unique premise gone to waste. Summary: Two men who are off in their own lonely worlds are connected through a magic mirror that serves as a portal between and a physical incarnation of their unsure and uneasy souls. One is a prince of a country; the other is heir to the ikebana throne in the flower-arrangement community. They both find common ground by feeling a loss of identity in their inherited power, and, when they meet, have finally found their other half.

Summary: Hot guy at a convenience grocery store falls in love with his coworker. Told from the perspective of the coworker, it shows how they slowly fall in love. There are some interesting aspects of the manga, as the uke struggles with wanting to be where the seme is but is not sure that he can convince himself to (as he is straight, and (trying/wanting/wishing he was) going out with a man). As for the rest of it, it was pretty typical :oI

Falls in lust with this guy (it's the hottie who he keeps on having future dream sex with -- his dreams show him the future), who he says some very rude things to and ends up having sex with. This could have been a really good set up with an awesome plot, only for that idea to swiftly fall apart as soon as he opens his mouth and starts talking to him at their first meeting. ~Chapter 2