ArtemisFowl's manga / #yay!(151)

I'm intrigued, and I've got about 500 questions to ask -- why are they now like that, why does the main character hate him and the romantic lead seem to be into him (even though their relationship is not poor in the present timeline...). I mean, it's not like much has happened yet so far, but I'm feeling the upcoming drama/tension/heat. Update: ayyyyy, he kissed him!!! Chapter 19 Edit: Did he confess? Uh, yes, he did. Chapter 22 Edit: Okayyyy I guess they're a thing...kind of a light thing? They confessed to each other without defining their relationship -- more to the point, defining how both of them feel rather than defining their relationship -- and it's bothering me a little. ~ Chapter 26

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

Very cute...seems like the beginning of a slow-burn romance. I'm looking forward to this -- there aren't many manga in this vein of tone anymore. Summary: Two guys who are neighbors end up meeting each other because one of them is scared of a cockroach in his house. Their lives end up becoming intertwined, and one of them wishes to be helpful to the other, despite some of the past experiences he hasn't fully dealt with... ~Chapter 5.6

A subordinate and his demon-boss manager -- who constantly tells him to redo his proposals -- end up becoming friends on an online gaming system by coincidence, only to find out who the other person is after seeing each other in a live meeting. -- Misunderstandings of kuma-san between aaa-san and hashimoto: the truth comes out *crying in mirth emoji* Edit: Chapter 16 the truth comes out for Shirase Edit: Chapter 17 has Kumada confessing to Hashimoto, only for Hashimoto to misunderstand and think in game references (he thinks that Kumada is sad about not being recruited into his and Shirase's guild -- yes it is a type of guild but not that type of guild) ~Chapter 20.5

Omegaverse but boy is it so much better than that. The story is much more complicated than that, and has a very egalitarian tone -- something that I truly do appreciate in yaoi, and in omegaverses in particular. I think this one is particularly interesting because the way that it talks about omega-verse sexism (that's what it is at its core) is very appealing. I think looking at things from the different characters' points of view was interesting. It is the story of a cop and an informant, and within this arc they get involved in a particular case with a beta who is drug-dealing a "solution" to the problem of being chained to an alpha. ~Chapter 4

A meeting between a baseball boy and his band sempai seems fated... ~Chapter 1

Pa ha ha straight to the point (of being gay...ha ha. HA.). ANYWAYS, Leejoon keeps on seeing Ha Gyeom in dreams. Sex dreams. They go to the same school, where finally Leejoon sees Ha Gyeom and specifically recognizes him for the first time and asks for his number (to clarify things. About sex dreams.). Unbeknownst to Leejoon, Ha Gyeom has been having the same sorts of X-rated dreams about hottie Leejoon...but history between him and Leejoon has occupied his mind for the past three years. They never talked, but Ha Gyeom definitely had a crush on Leejoon, and has been having these dreams about his long-time crush as well. Why they are connected through the mysteries of dreams? Don't know, but there's one way to find out. ~Chapter 7

MMMMMMHMMMMM boy you really are something else. Masato spends a lot of time in the one-room apartment of his friend, Atsushi. Atsushi admits he's in love with Masato, though unlike a lot of manga within this genre he actually respects Masato by not touching him immediately after saying so. In fact, he doesn't touch him at all and just puts it into the world, and waits for Masato to decide. Things are undefined at this point, right until the point where Masato decides to kiss him... Edit: The sex scene was meh. It fell into a lot of tropes that I was hoping it wouldn't :'( Well, you can't always have what you want. ~Chapter 4

Very sweet. It follows one single man looking for love after breaking up with his cheating ex, and another single man looking for love. Both parties aren't looking for a hot romance -- they want, what most people in arranged marriages want, security and stability and warmth in their partner. Perhaps not a romance of the ages but they want to come to cherish and love their partner, and these two have. Side note: there could have been some drama, but thankfully it got talked through amongst the characters and it was good.