takame's manga / #bittersweet(83)

Ch. 1-3: #office romance, #age gap couple 36 yo seme, 20-22 yo. uke has #papacom. #straight seme x flashy, bold #gay uke. #persistent uke seducing the old guy. ch. 4: It started with the couple #already in a relationship. there is really no problem with their relationship but suddenly, uke broke up with seme. real reason? age and work stability is catching up on him. I really like this chap. bec this also happens to real-life gay couple. about dreams and work vs love. #reencounter 1 yr after. ch. 5-6: they did not knew each other till now that they were adults. their parents were now dead so they decided to connect. but something developed. and ouch. a bittersweet, painful end as what #incest relationship should be. i'm glad sensei didn't make it fucked up but stay inbetween the fence of morality and guilt. this is the type of incest story i like. #half-brothers #incest. #loser type uke x #kind, caring seme. #younger seme #age gap of three years. ch. 7: guy saved a depressed highschooler freezing on the snow beside the garbage one day. turns out the kid knew that he was beaten by his now ex-boyfriend. #younger seme #age gap, #24-yo textile designer x newly grad highschooler.

All I can say is its TOO SHORT. C'mon mangaka, why did you left us hanging like that, ugh. One guy's sad life of being forced to BJ someone. His only oasis is seemingly nice younger brother so he endure the older brother's abuse just so he can have the excuse to go to their home and see the younger bro. To his shock it seems like the younger bro hates him? Too bad older bro figured it out.

Mangaka tried for something that has a mysterious character but it ended up messy. It started good, it has quite enough depth and interesting ideologies and that kept me for a while but the lack of resolution, even if it's hinted or open-ended did not arrive so that accounted for much confusion. A shame really. Common ground is the seme's ex-gf. Two bisexual guys that experimented but eventually moved on with life and gone back on the het track (bec of cowardice most likely)

⟫ I: Episode 0 > Itou-san (EDIT:@2017 FIN. EDIT2@2018: Eh? Extra chap? YAY!) Even the art execution matches the mood of the story. It's well made. I have no other words other than I like it so much. It has all my favourite tropes in. All the while I'm thinking john wick hahahaha. I just love how these two people who has lived in a cruel and cold world has found each other and fell inlove. ch. 7.5 Extra, the real epilogue. It's heart clenching. And the most beautiful of all is how they turned kyosuke's memory loss not as something to feel pain for but a blessing for the both of them. And that made them completely separate from their terrible past and embrace their pure, happy ending. It's beautiful.

{An anthology w/ the theme of "bakemono" ~ shape-shifting youkai/monsters in japanese folklore so expect your seme or uke TO BE ONE. Some are nice & smutty but some may be too weird for ur taste. *horrified scream* If you hate creepy-crawlies, STAY TF AWAY FRM CHAP. 6!!} Ch. 2: brow-raising funky combination of kitsune (fox) and tentacles lol. ordinary-looking highschooler blackmailed a classmate with his proof shot of the guy with his fox ears on while sleeping. His condition is to have a taste of that big "D" but chickened out in the middle. Unexpectedly, fox boy hunted him down and demanded to finish what they did last time. This time, in his terms. .//. Ch. 3: A boy with underwater photography as a hobby was washed on a shore, unconscious. Got saved by a long-haired guy. And OMG WHAT'S THIS ABOUT GIVING ME FEELS AFTER AN UNDERWATER SMUT WITH A MERMAID DICK!!!!!!! #bittersweet end. .//. Ch. 4: A very dark and sad oneshot that is begging for more. Heartbroken scientist wanted to die but the science experiment demon won't let him. TBH It's hard to enjoy either the smut or the story because it had too much crammed in a oneshot. Unfortunately, it failed on both aspects. If it were a simple demon seme x heartbroken scientist uke then it might have turn out nicer. It's even too short to see if these two manage to fall inlove in the future. End is meh. Rating: 3 stars. .//. Ch. 6: Another dark oneshot but at least it's better than chap. 4. It's... hot in all it's weird glory. I'm serious. HOWEVER, this can be considered as borderline bestiality since it involves the bee yokai looking more monster than human (and it's minions) and if you are not into it, STAY AWAY OR RISK GETTING TRAUMATIZED. -Writer looking for the paranormal stumbled across this inn in the woods & was crushing on the owner. Got more than what he asked for. He was kind of weirded out but has taken a liking to it with how he came back to the inn despite all. (Maybe the bee yokai will be able to impregnate him with more sex?)

Beautiful and clean artstyle similar to shoujo. I thought it would go into an angsty smut route but surprisingly, it is such a gentle & sweet manga that purifies the soul. I'm not worthy! Synopsis: Seme looks so intimidating to the point people drop out of his club. Wanting a friend, he invited this beautiful boy to join the art club. Meanwhile, a poor, unfortunate teen endure being bullied and selling sex just to make ends meet. Then, an underclassman who only have naive intentions of making him an art model made him feel that there's still good things in this world. OFC he'll fell inlove. #sempai uke x kohai uke romance.

{edit: 2015-'17 FIN}. Long living cats are cats that gained lifespan as long as humans. In this story, cats like those can have the chance to take human form with a condition: They will look like a normal human to other people but they will be seen as cats by the human they fall in love with and the human must come to love and accept that form in order for the human to see them beyond the cat form. Ch. 1: kitty requested to their elder to turn him into a long living cat because he fell in love with this college youth who has been kind to him. His (seme) friends see the cat as human so the cat immediately win their sympathy because of the seme's coldness. Finally he opened his heart to the cat and was able to see his human form. Felt embarrassed at the misunderstanding he caused when he still sees the cat as an animal. Ch 2: I love it better than the first one because it's such a bittersweet story. A brunette long living cat is waiting for the human he chose to come back in the empty apartment. Got found by the new resident, an arts student and coincidentally, the kohai of the first pair's seme. They spend their days idly w/ seme sketching the "neko" (not like he knew that the cat literally mean it) and it ended w/ them sleeping together. OMG I WANT MORE. My heart hurts at that last page like omg. Ch. 3: the two cats and studying in order to fit into society. Focused more on the first pair. --------ɫ ⬧ ɫ-------- Ch. 4: cute student's reencounter story. His younger brother has a tutor and it turned out it's the former student council president. Now, as he's been a member of the student council ever since they should have been friends but it looked like they had bad blood between them? Cue flashback. I find it adorable how the little brother and the tutor hatched a little ploy to ascertain older brother's feelings. .//. h. 5: cute uni romance. a logical phys major was ordered by his cousin to take revenge or smth at the handsome guy who spurned her. Turns out handsome guy is like an ideal girl even MC & his friend kept saying it's a waste that he's a guy (bec of "ideal girl" qualities that is). It seems like handsome guy has strange tastes & like a romcom, fell inlove with MC. Him. The very male cousin of the girl handsome guy rejected lol. .//. ch. 6: story of amusing lovey-dovey (too much that people look at them oddly lol) non-blood related brothers. older brother is such an airhead to not feel suspicious of the little brother asking for skinship. He adores the little brother that much. So little brother wanted to "rely" on him to the point of having sex. Still, older bro is such a thickhead to not notice something off about this. Um. Open-ended, and now they were going to live together. #age gap, 18yo seme x 28 yo uke. salaryman x student.

Arabic-inspired.but not strictly so. Basically, mangaka just want to make a desert romance. What I appreciate is it's a Prince uke for a change. If anything it was love at first sight for the Engineer MC (seme). He's always been reputably cold on his relationships but when the arrow of love hit him, it made him go down his knees. Literally. Somehow, it reminds me of Empress Ki where the struggle is between duty to country or love. I think this manga ended in a fairytale-ish romantic way yet, it still make sense/quite realistic for their position. This is the best for them. It may not be the perfect fairytale ending that other reader dislike it but this imperfection made it beautiful and bittersweet. I approve! {2017-09-22 07:17 marked}

EDIT: FIN@mar2018. I made a summary at (+). I need rereads for this LOL. It started w/ them as somewhat-lovers-but-not because Sensei doesn't want a commitment. There were 2 flashbacks. 1st when seme graduated & they became co-teachers. 2nd Back at high school. Sensei was an asst. teacher then. CHRONOLOGICAL SUMMARY: Uno is working as an assistant teacher at a certain highschool. There is this one kid that is very friendly to him more than others, Someya. One day, Someya cheerfully asked if he could live with him. Sensing the highschooler's voiceless call for help, he agreed. Living together, they got close, fell inlove and slept together. The first lie is his bad home where he doesn't want to go back to. Second is blindfold (I'm thinking he has some marked received from women while he does compensated dating). But one day, when the "parent" visited their school, uke figured out that Seme is lying. Since he can't trust Someya anymore, he broke up with the boy. (I believe the "guardian" is one of the women.) At chap. 3, first page, he did said that he really hated whoring himself out and just wanting to forget just about everything. One year later, They met again as co-teachers in a cram school but somehow, what Someya remembers from the breakup is different from his? He did not paid much attention to it but focused on how Someya wanted to get back together with him. OFC he did not agree so they got into this more-than-friends-less-than-lovers arrangement. It's understandable because till now, Uno think that Someya is a liar so he said no despite him still having feelings for the younger man. But then next lie happened again: He saw Someya walking towards the hotel with a woman. So they had a fight again. But this time, as Uno looked back, it feels weird. Someya actually might have amnesia? he kept mum about their fight but really didn't want to get hurt anymore so another year later, (chap 1) the relationship between them is the same. Meanwhile, Uno (uke) started thinking that Someya might have forgotten all the bad things while retained the good ones. Finally, Uno asked to go to Someya's house and all he see is an unkempt house and no mother came back despite how long they waited. He decided to just live together and keep Someya close so even if what's between them might be fake, or if he's going to get forgotten too, as long as the younger man is happy then it should be okay. But then again, keeping the secret that Someya's parents is wearing him down so one day he just told the latter. At last the truth came out. Someya confessed that he did remember everything, including his parent's death, and his compensated dating. All he wanted is Sensei's love as it had became his oasis of support so the boy foolishy kept at it for as long as he could. But now the cat's out of the bag, he has no face to show sensei so he intend to disappear. Because confessing the truth would just drive it home that he just whored himself out to women. Thankfully, Uno-sensei had a good sense to look for the younger guy and they finally had a good talk. How they were both at fault. As Sensei carried the injured Someya to the hospital, he expressed how it's better if they work it out together, and lean on him too. Good words,uke. #bittersweet but I'm glad for the happy ending. I like it 3.5

Ch. 1: My frustration is that it's TOO SHORT & CUT RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STORY! sempai uke x kohai seme. Have the potential to be cute but rudely cut ending prevented it. .//. Ch.2: I like this chapter. Boy who has a SHOUJO HEART is actually the SEME. That was precious. .//. Ch.3: Amusing school romance. Cute guy interested with a classmate. Seme is jealous of his own mole. .//. Ch. 4: An okay oneshot? Didn't like it that much. HIghschooler is living at his older childhood friend's place. .//. Ch. 5: Drunken sex. He confesses and sexes his friend up whenever he's smashed but never remember it afterwards and resume life normally. Poor uke lol. Seme's quite stupid but at least he got the point later on. .//. Ch. 6: I like this the most. #paranormal romance oneshot. Classmate can always read his mood. One day he found out that classmate can he his brother. .//. Ch. 7: Aww, cute. Two friends who tried to annoy each other off to mask their (mutual) feelings. Their first time is cute. .//. Ch.8: This is just bittersweet. Remember the elder bro from chap 6? So seme was drawing him at the library and the couple figured out that aniki-ghost was always looking at the librarian. Turns out librarian were former classmates with aniki and had a crush on him once. It's a shame he never got to confess since the aniki died but he needed to move on. And now there's this new guy who is interested.