Sou Seme Bijin to Doutei Youkya -Toshoshitsu de Kizu wo Nameaou-
The S of the God is the S of the Sadist?
The Pizza Delivery Man and The Gold Palace
50+ 53: I absolutely adore this. It's refreshing and sweet and melancholy. Beautiful art and characters with some depth. Uke that has social anxiety or rather in public spaces, and seme that is used to giving up what he wants. Sweet seme and tough uke where it could have been reversed. Also rich and poor trope where the uke dotes on the seme. Both are quite thoughtful and considerate, while the uke is more straightforward in initiating at first, the seme becomes quite affectionate as well. Very wholesome couple with a good build up of the relationship in the first half, and a nice blend of affection and smut in the second.
Love in Orbit
24.5: this is kind of wild but very entertaining lol. It has some good melancholic moments among the chaos and comedy that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Lots of great smut too, basically just a friends with benefits situation at first with a very slow growing relationship. But even without feelings acknowledged, there’s a lot of physicality and affection and a high level of comfortableness. Plot is interesting and unique and I really have no idea where it is going to go. It doesn’t dive too deeply into the emotions or emotional connections, but maybe we will get there eventually. Thinking about it, it’s a similar vibe to the author’s other couple - funny with bits of drama and very affectionate couple. This one is more raunchy than wholesome so far, but I feel like they’re a lot more equal and kind of the same lonely people deep down.
Abyss