just_m3h's manga / #Tattoo(8)

Whoa! Unexpectedly hot, unexpectedly interesting and unexpected uke! Colour me impressed! Second story da bomb also

I think this will be pretty interesting... Edit: 1: It was nice. Fairly lighthearted for such a heavy subject matter. Atsushi, a mixed race child who was abandoned in an orphanage by his abusive mother, grew up attached to Masa, an orphan a few years older than him, never knowing his white father. After moving to Tokyo, he went through life with no other real attachments until Yuuya, a well meaning and kind hearted idiot, walks into his tattoo parlour and life. I enjoyed it, but Atsushi's actions also do raise some red flags. His trauma had a really deep rooted effect. I think they'll be okay, though. Yuuya is really good for him and Masa also continues to look over them. I'm really happy Yuuya found something that makes him happy. Not everyone needs to walk a corporate 9-5 job to live a good life, you know. Glad his mom came around. 4.6 5: Simple workplace romance about a capable senpai who captures the heart of a smitten kohai without meaning to. The uke being older and widowed lends a slightly different tone to this one than others woth a similar theme. I didn't have any particularly strong feelings for this one, though. It was okay, but the drunk sexual activity just is always a no from me. 4

Already bawling. Guh!! Edit: But their lives are fraught with anxiety and danger. That makes me sad

Looks kinda interesting, but also? Too many pain-in-the-ass characters (not the mains) Edit: Story about an abused soul, barely hanging onto his life and sanity, finally meeting the man who would breathe new life into him (and save himself in the process). The only real POS character is Seung Jae's disease of a brother! The rest have substance to them, if nothing else. Geum Hwa is such a fragile person, so unstable and wavering and hungry, but not sure for what, forever searching for a safe place to land. Or was that drown? Seung Jae is certainly his ocean. I love them together, they were clearly meant to be. They seemed to provide safe havens for each other in a way they hadn't seemed to know they needed. Min Wook is such a psychopath, like, he's literally insane, and such an abusive dick who was gaslighting the shit out of Geum Hwa. But I don't doubt he loved him once. He couldn't hold Geum Hwa, the sand like Geum Hwa, who was sliding out of his fists, never meant to be his, and he couldn't live with that. I am glad he let him go, not under any kind of delusion that that was in any way easy. Would love to see his own story with Seung Jae's underling. Geum Hwa and Seun Jae honestly need about at least, AT THE VERY LEAST, 10 sextras and flufftras.

Simple, hot, relatively less problematic. Not really engaging either. 4.4 Edit: WTF, no, this is gold! So hot and so healthy! ~Ahhh. I love this for them! 5!

It was all right. Odd mix of yaoi clichés and some rarer tropes as well. The traumatised uke who doesn't date straight guys trope and the flower shop owner trope mixed in with the rarer happening bar trope. Kimda forgettable. 3.95

Kinda shallow but cute. 4.4