just_m3h's manga / #Roommates(39)

Yousuke ignores advice from a stranger and ends up in debt from a bad real estate decision, and his fiancee leaves him for her ex. In this pitiful situation, he is taken in by Tao, who is in love with him. Yousuke certainly was too arrogant for me at the beginning but he turned himself around in a matter of days! I honestly really like him a lot. Up to his ears in debt, but never gave up. Put his pride aside to get help from someone much younger than him. Forged head first ahead into a completely new relationship, armed only with faith. And he sure had a damn lot, in Tao, that is! Tao was gentle and capable, I enjoyed his sleeping tiger side that comes out to play once in a while. I don't dislike either his sister or her girlfriend, but I definitely did not like the first impression (though Yousuke was also incredibly rude). I did like the sister more and more, though. And their backstory certainly helps endear them. My major complaint is length, for sure. This needs 10 chapters, at the very least. 5

I think not. They are too young, the uke is annoying and the seme wouldn't know consent, if it hit him in the face. 2.6

Iori, the sweet country bumpkin and his new roommate in Tokyo, the unreadable company owner. It was toooo abrupt, their relationship. I also don't like the way Iori is drawn. Say what you will, that ain't no 19 year old. He looks 15!! 4

Shun is a social recluse / author who enrolls in a live in driver's education school. Against his expectations, he ends up being confessed to by his roommate Kiyomi and makes some of the best friends he's ever had there. The premise of this is sooooo absurd! A live in driver's ed school?? That draws an unnatural amount of gay people?? WTF? Kiyomi jumping him at the beginning was so weird as well. Are you saying gay people hook up at the drop of a hat like that? Come on, that's just offensive. And Shun not wanting to report the almost assault. That doesn't sit right with me. But overall, it was all right. Pretty sweet, and Kiyomi waited for Shun, was pretty considerate. Also, he took what he could get and waited for Shun's feelings to catch up. He did good. Yamato certainly helped things along, too. 4.5 3: Kazama and Yamato were roommates at the live in driver's ed school kept in touch with each other Shun and Kiyomi. When Shun and Kiyomi jail on a meet up, they end up hanging out together. One thing leads to another, and Yamato ends up sleeping with Kazama. Can he trust the super hot Kazama to want to stay with him in the long term? As with a lot of these stories, the milder first story makes way for the more interesting second couple. I thought Yamato was so precious, his concerns were definitely not without basis and Kazama isn't exactly the nicest person around. I would really have liked to read more about them, see their relationship develop. 4.5

Uke was a runaway who ended up in an abusive relationship and cut off from his friends. When he finally makes his escape, he ends up with the reticent and stoic but secretly softhearted seme. It is so, so rushed, as oneshots are. But great. Good plot and lovely characters

A long time friendship morphs into something more when one friend tries to help the other with some sex related issues. It was good. Shallow, but sweet and hot and generally a really easy read. 4.6

Taeyoung is in love with his Hoobae at music training school, Junhoon and Junghoon also secretly loves him back. Tae keeps jerking off in their shared toilet, while trying to hide his massive, obvious thing for Junhoonie. Hoonie is picking on him slightly for not being honest? Not sure what the reason is. Simple straightforward and could have been an email. Short and not much insote into either character. Plot extremely small. 4.3/5

Kaburagi and Nasukawa are good friends who enjoy a "marriage of convenience", whereing they both conveniently use the excuse of practicality to be together as a married couple. Ahhhh! Nasukawa is too damn thick! Kaburagi is a blockhead, also! Fucking notice each other's feelings, ffs! 5 Edir: Somehow, I still want more. Ch 41

It's not really doing anything for me. I just don't feel like this is a good start. But let's see where it goes.