just_m3h's manga / #substitute(12)

Love it. I'm glad Hibiki got his feelings through to Fumi. And now Fumi is so into him. Yay!

Ehhh. Not my thing. Characters were boring and whatever. Basic plot of sleeping with a substitute untill the original notices your feelings. I think. Or sleeping with a substitute after heartbreak but then falling for the substitute. Anyway. Not that amazing because characters not engaging. 3.5*

I can't take how Aki's using poor Ryuji, knowing Ryuji is in love with him, just the way Aki is in love with Keigo. It sucks so much :/// But I want to read on, because I want Ryuji to live! Please live and be happy. Edit: Glad Ryuji made it safely, still angry about the replacement shit, though

It's so hard to get someone to look at you sometimes

Baeutiful. Hot. Unexpected depth

Uke with a back bone and some goddamn pride.

Yay, Takumi. But also underage. Ugh. Why can't there be decent age gap yaoi with adults

I. Hmm. What to say about this one. I was crazy into it at the beginning. Chance encounters, old wounds and new loves. This is one of the rarer recipes in yaoi (though not all together uncommon), and rarer still, for it to have been executed so well in the beginning. However, the plot devolved midway and just, becomes fairly disappointing. Uichi seems to know next to nothing about Makoto and Mako keeps pushing Ui-chan away and blaming everything on Uichi. It could have been really good. Like, bruh. But instead, it's just okay. And kinda leaves a bitter after taste ? 4.2

tough uke, this one! 4 Chap 1: I mean, was he a tough uke? He did punch him, and rightly, but I don't know about tough, per say. He's not jellyfish, for sure. Tannai was such an insensitive seme, nearly everytime he opened his mouth, he said something horrid, and without meaning to. At least he got his act together, though. Basic plot about coworkers who fall in love. Okano was pretty cute, tbh. This wasn't too bad. 4.1 Chap 3: Story about a strong spirit and the human he took for himself many years ago. Kinda cool how they circumvented the system so well, but also Junnosuke shouldn't have taken such a huge step without discussing first. Felt like that was brushed over. 3.9 Chap 4: Rich hotel empire heir reunited with highschool crush. I don't think anyone really likes downright cruel semes? Making him clean his shoes like that :/ Mitsuru did seem to like him quite a bit more than he was letting on, and he had been aware of Shunsuke for a while as well. But, I don't know. It was still okay, and ended really sweetly. 4 Chap 5: Vampire and replacement for his old love. I didn't think I could hate any of the stories more, they all seemed average-ish, but I really do hate this one. How dare Viore openly claim that it wasn't Mitsuru, but his grandfather he loved all these decades. Even so, even as a stand in, Mitsuru followed him into eternity. I hate that. Loathe it. 2.9 Overall :3 7