plip's manga / #time skip(18)

"It was the summer of 2009 when it all started for Minato. Fourteen years old and preparing for his high school entrance exams, he meets Naoki Okisaka, the long-term guest of a small guesthouse inn Minato’s mother runs. Naoki, a Tokyo resident who once used to live in Minato’s town, immediately intrigues the young Minato who dreams of someday going to Tokyo and exploring the world outside of his small hometown. Minato drags Naoki along on his shenanigans with his best friend Akiyoshi all summer. But eventually, the time comes for Naoki to go back to Tokyo and for everybody to return to their realities… but nobody really forgets the summer of 2009. Not even years after when Minato and Akiyoshi have grown up to be full-fledged adults." ✰ Younger Seme x Older Uke ✰ Age Gap - 20 and 35 ⤷ sweet. 4.5

"Reiji Kuze is the son of doctors and the new transfer student in his last year of high school. As someone whose socioeconomic background and academic grades are in the top 98th percentile, Reiji immediately stands out like a sore thumb in his new school. And in high school, standing out means you will be targeted. Presumed to be a delicate prince swimming in cash, Reiji gets picked on by the third strongest person in the school... and beats him and his entire gang to a pulp without breaking a sweat. As if Reiji didn't stand out enough already, he seems to have caught the interest of the king of the hill, Akira Ohara, the cat-like lone-wolf that nobody can seem to tame..." ✰ Student x Student, Manly/Strong Couple ⤷ [ch 1] ok continue .... [ch 5.5] - bruh i fucking hate the immediate fuck after confessing ESP WHEN ONE LITERALLY JUST ALMOST BEAT TO DEATH LIKE WHY IS THAT SO COMMON IN BL JGKDF also i am just ASTOUNDED that med student boy hunted down akira who at that point had SO MUCH BAGGAGE like homeless, affiliated w the yakuza, boning dudes for money, allegedly selling drugs to kids like HELLO?? DID THE MANGAKA NEED TO MAKE HIM LIKE THATFDJL. 3.5 stars

"Edward (known lovingly as "Ned" ) is a fledgling writer taking his yearly summer retreat at the home of siblings Margaret and Albert. Ned's been in countless romances with women, but he finds himself more and more infatuated with the sarcastic, sister-doting, fickle and gorgeous Albert every time they meet... This cinematic love story, with its heart-rending and love-maddening scenes, features a deepening love in breezy summer that ends, as well as a new beginning." ✰ ⤷

"For three years, everyone in school criticized me for pursuing Zhao Guanyu. They said, “Aren’t you, a man, ashamed of pursuing another man so publicly that everyone knows about it?” However, what made Zhao Guanyu change his mind to pursue me a few years later? Is it love? Is it responsibility? Of course not. It's his dignity!" ✰ High School -> University; Student x Student ⤷ why does this feel like a soap opera lmao. dropped ch 1. art so ugly

"Hiro and Shiro have been friends since childhood. Shiro has always taken care of the sweet and careless Hiro, never failing to reprimand him with verbal reproaches and light physical punishments. Now that the two are teenagers, they start to think about their future and possible separation. With the passage of time, however, Shiro's punishments become increasingly violent and the boy seems unable to resist the impulse to hurt his friend." ✰ High School; Student x Student ✰ TW: Violence, Abuse ⤷

"As the only son of a trading firm, Asakura Michitada enters the dormitory at an all-boys school. There, he is put in the same room as his childhood friend and only person he could trust, Tachibana. But for Asakura, their reunion is something of a more complicated nature." ✰ Boarding School; Student x Student - Reunion ⤷ thank FUCK that didn't turn into a tragedy. 4.25

"Since high school, Masaki and Rion have been best friends, and have lived together since adulthood. Their personalities are distinct opposites, but beneath the casual intimacy of friendship lie the unripened buds of Masaki’s feelings, unacknowledged by either of them." ✰ Best Friends to Lovers ⤷ nice art but corny story lol. felt like a soap opera

"“Is this feeling charity or inferiority?” A lonely young man, Sakichi, picked up a demon baby. He raised him and named him Aka, but in the future Aka returns to the mountains. However, Sakichi goes to the mountains in search of Aka because of a feeling in his heart even after time had passed." ✰ Human x Nonhuman (Demon) ✰ Human Raises Demon Child ⤷ oh this was better than i expected it to be. i'm not a super fan of raising a child turning into romance (yes, the interspecies relationship is not what bothered me lmao) but by the end i thought it was sweet.

"Shunta and Tamaki are childhood friends with a year of difference, but Shunta feels something different towards his friend, an impure, not correct, dirty feeling. As this feeling grows stronger, will the relationship between the two friends also change ...?" ✰ Childhood Friends ⤷ out of every manga i've ever read, i want this one to update the most ;_; vol3 ch2: AN UPDATEEEEEE I LEGIT GASPED WHEN I SAW IT IN MY FEED THANK YOU SO MUCH vol3 ch3: i can go on living now vol3 ch2.5 - wait wut who bumped into him at the bar someone tell me

"Is it ever too late to make up for a lie? Or can the opportunity be swept away, like white clouds across a blue summer sky? It's been seven years since Hozumi left behind the island town he grew up in, and Mishima—his close friend and first love from high school—with it. The two haven't spoken since Hozumi rejected Mishima and lied about his own feelings. When Hozumi returns for his high school reunion, he wants nothing more than to make amends, a task easier said than done." ✰ High School Reunion; Student x Student ⤷ this author has blessed me w too many beautiful stories to bear