ArtemisFowl's manga / #lame(26)

Not the worst, but certainly not the best...from what I remember from reading it, this manga has awkward (and skeevy) dynamics, with the seme forcing himself on the uke (in terms of their meetings/interactions, thankfully -- at least I don't remember reading -- not sex, though both are crossing the line, in different degrees, the latter being much worse than the former). Or at least using his power (as a president) and abusing it in a malicious manner.

Eh...I don't know about this one. It's kind of funny but stupid. We'll see where it goes... ~ from reading chapter 1 It's pretty stupid...I just keep rolling my eyes at the whole premise (but, moreover, the execution). I don't like their relationship. Oh my god, I just want to bang my head against the wall. I kept reading chapter 4 after I clicked it (without reading all the other chapters before it), and there are just so many things the mc keeps doing after he realizes the romantic lead is from a different culture (literally from a different species, but it amounts to the same thing here). It's so cringggeeee uggggghhhhhh. Ngl I'm not going to continue to read unless I hear about some hotttt sex scene coming my way and then I'm all for those three pages (then capisce) (And honestly I probably won't read it anyway, since the material they're showing here is not my type of thing).

This one didn't have as much depth as the Double Fake manga, but it had some cute moments. However, it could have been so much more than it was -- the build up felt cheesy, the characters were contrived, and the villain could have been explored with so much more depth. There was a lack of nuance in the way that the author handled the situation -- instead, s/he just pushed the main couple to be together and the bad guy to have his way to stir some drama. (The manga should have looked seriously at what that forced business with that tattoo was -- basically akin to rape, as it involved power dynamics.) It sort of tried to take a look at it, but failed to in a serious manner. I think a more nuanced author (like the author who is writing Beauty and the West Chamber) could have captured that element fully. ~Chapter 6

A guy in love with his high school classmate asks him to sleep together. Thus starts the beginning of a sex-friends relationship, with the guy with feelings constantly second-guessing and unsure of the relationship that he has with the guy he is in love with but is not in love with him. Points for having an HEA, but I don't like the thesis of this manga and others like it, which reads: devotion and insecurity and reaction can get you someone you "want." No, because that's also the logic that stalkers use. ~Chapter 6

Two friends-but-not-really-friends, neighbors all the way from elementary school to college, suddenly body-switch. They don't understand why at first, but hear a rumor that if you break someone else's name at the same time they break yours, they will body switch with you. Only love can break the curse! P.S. Everybody knows that something is up (ha ha ha, it's nice that the author is making the other characters not the most idiotic) with the two of them, in terms of not acting like themselves. ~Chapter 8