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.
Ou-sama to Puppy Love
list - babies
Smyrna & Capri
list - 9.5+ Loved it!! Beautiful story with lovely characters and an interesting story. Mutual love, strong uke and sweet puppy type seme. Starts technically enemies but they warm up to each other quickly and were never really antagonistic. This author always has unique plots. I feel like the concept was really cool and there is lore there but things weren’t quite fleshed out or explained much in a way that was clear. I like the characters and their relationship was lovely, but it progressed quite quickly and sometimes characters feel a bit surface. I loved it but feel like it had all the best ingredients just needed to simmer and cook a liiittle bit more. Seems to be a common thing with this author, but they always make interesting stories that are fun to read and usually pretty healthy too.
Lost Virgin (Nagi Wataru)