plip's manga / #Glasses-Wearing Uke(24)

"Wakou, a senior student, is in love with his childhood friend, Takeo. However, he's given up on that love and just wants to be his best friend. But one day, Takeo suddenly says "I might be able to have a boyfriend"?!" ✰ Childhood Friends ✰ School Life ✰ Student x Student ⤷ spin off of [cupid ni rakurai]. i liked takeo then but i just didn’t feel much of anything ab this story. i hate “suddenly i’m maybe bi, oh my best friend since childhood likes me? okay i’ll date him” like I DONT BELIEVE YOU!!!! who finds out their childhood friend is secretly in love w them and then switches up immediately. that’s why i don’t do friends to lovers unless it’s mutual from the BEGINNING!

"The reserved Kasumi and the lively, popular Kyousuke have been friends since elementary school. Kyousuke was Kasumi's hero, often saving him from bullies, and occasionally Kasumi fluked a return save. Now as working adults, they face feelings they can't begin to describe." ✰ Childhood Friends ✰ Salarymen ✰ "Unrequited" Love ✰ Light haired seme x Dark haired/glasses uke ⤷ "I love him but with me he will never be happy"; little sad, very dramatic, love the art; I love angst but this was a little meh. I like the characters but I wanted to love them. But not bad, still very well written. Maybe like 3.5

"Two people in the catalogue department fall in love, get quickly married, and emigrate to another country, leaving their positions to be filled by new recruits “Bada Lee” and “Seomin Hyun.” While Bada manages song playlists, and Seomin hoards glasses cloths, the two are competing rivals." ✰ Coworkers, Enemies to Lovers ⤷ it was fine. I liked the art. No angst, basically just a loose petty rivalry that passes in like one chapter. Very short, so what do you expect. the relationship is fine enough, but I didn’t really buy the rivalry

"Shards of memory with a brilliant radiance. As the seasons turn, two boys' hearts are changing. Winter brings them close to each other, little by little. " ✰ Quiet, Studious Uke x Extroverted, Guitarist Seme ⤷ [9.0] IM CRYING IN THE CLUB HELPPPPPPP. Omg it's been so long since I've read these guys that was so nostalgic. I never actually read the sequel so this was a good time a reread. So good, such a classic, have always loved the unique art style. great intro shounen ai. just a nice feel good read. makes u feel warm. just don't like the pedo teachers lmao wtf. we've def seen a lot worse in BL but still - GET OUT OF HERE STOP HITTING ON UR STUDENTS

"A florist, intrigued by the vision of a beautiful- yet guarded artist, starts a friends with benefits relationship with him." ✰ Florist x Artist ⤷ [4.5] Beautiful art as always, love this mangaka so much. Lovely, sweet story. Author actually makes you feel something x

"Kurashina is a highschool student who has a complex about being a Dom (dominant) gender. He thinks the student body president, Isshiki, is a Dom and has a one-sided inferiority complex. One day, Kurashina finds Isshiki collapsed on campus and he takes care of him. Isshiki confides in Kurashina that he is a Sub, and Kurashina feels guilty for behaving coldly towards him. Kurashina then suggests having a light play with Isshiki as his way of making amends." ✰ Student x Student ✰ Dom/Sub-verse, Dom x Sub ⤷ [2.5]

"Tanaka Koutarou, a taxi driver who works in the countryside, loves his uneventful life more than anything. One day, he ends up saving a yakuza, Kurokawa Hozumi, whose abdomen was bleeding. A few weeks later, under the guise of attempting to return the favour, Hozumi pins Koutarou down..." ✰ Taxi Driver x Gangster ✰ Hot, Tattooed Gangster ⤷ rape was unnecessary, seme is toooo fine

"Hajime Mamiya decides to quit the yakuza business after the death of his boss. When riding on a bus, he meets Sho Kosaka, a college student who is close to his boyfriend. One day when Mamiya couldn't forget Kosaka's longing face towards his boyfriend, he reunites with him, who apparently works part-time at 'Deriheru'. Mamiya doesn't know how it feels to love someone, but he learns of Kosaka's devotion to selling his body, and decides to buy all his time so that he doesn't have to take other customers. A pure story of a slowly falling in love with a former yakuza who doesn't know love and a college student who wants to love and be loved!" ✰ Ex-Yakuza Str8 Hot Seme x Cute College Student Uke ✰ Age Gap - College Student x 36 Year Old ⤷ this was cute as hell but more importantly the seme was so egregiously hot i want him to roast me over a fire pit

"Dr. Uzuki, who works at a university teaching hospital, comes across in an alley and saves the Yakuza member Nonami after he's been shot. The next day, when Nonami shows up at the hospital, Uzuki is scared that he's come to make sure of his silence after he's seen the gunshot wound. But actually, Nonami, who misheard Uzuki's name and has mistaken him for a woman named "Suzuki", has forced a younger yakuza brother into being admitted into the hospital and order to find this woman, and they've started to search for this 'Suzuki'..." ✰ Yakuza x Doctor ✰ Tiger-Like Seme x Rabbit-Like Uke ⤷ i know this is besides the point, but can we talk ab these boys height difference??? even if the doctor is 5"1 which is already a GENEROUS under-estimation, if u refer to them standing next to each other in the final extra, the seme is AT LEAST 2 feet taller. which would mean that he is AT THE VERY LEAST 7 FEET TALL. HELLO? WHY IS NO ONE ADDRESSING THIS BEHEMOTH IN THE ROOM. anyways 3.7, not bad but dont rly believe their love

"Bessho coincidentally meets Makita in a university lecture they share, finding out that they both like cute things. While Bessho hides his preferences like a dirty little secret, Makita makes no excuses for who he is and what he likes. Despite the twists and turns they encounter along the way, the pair of lovers deal with their possessive and jealous urges on their slow journey to answering the age-old question: what is the best way to fall in love?" ✰ Student x Student; University ✰ Lovers of Cute Things ⤷