cmdrbanger's manga / #Coworkers(15)

No idea why this wasn't 5 stars before. A top that likes cuddling first?? Uh, yeah, straight to the favorites. No gay panic, and the ramen shop throughline is a nice theme. Ueda Aki is great with these couples that strive for open and honest communication.

I'll have to read this one again sometime. It looks like some of the characters' personality traits are needlessly annoying, but I should revisit it some other time and finish reading it all at once. Yeah I reread it, definitely kind of annoying. No depth or story outside of the top making the bottom fall in love with him via pushy sex. There's one actually sexy scene with a toy near the end, but that's it.

Aside from thr super awkward translation with scanlator memes, this was just okay. Felt super rushed even with the relationship established before the book starts.

The earlier chapters are the funniest with Kitaoji and Chikage accidentally one-upping each other as male leads in a shoujo.

Uhhh this ended so abruptly? It's what I wanted from the story (more domestic life) and even has a new side couple I'd love to read about, but it feels incomplete... There's another sequel, but it hasn't been translated yet. Hokuto's immaturity is especially cute here.

4 stars for the adorable and organic romance, 3 stars for bringing it back down in the end with a cringey sex-between-men epilogue chapter. Surprisingly mature confessions scene, and even if it was ultimately in service to comedy, Shiga's "I like kissing" line was

Eh, it was fine I guess. With better execution the crossdressing conflict could've been more interesting, and also without some of the awkward student/teacher 'relationships'. The sex scene was well-drawn and narratively important though!

Not much to say about this one, oddly. It was good! Unusual color pallette, not *quite* monochrome. Beautiful artwork, and very current for when it was originally published. One of the characters cosplays as Tanjiro from Demon Slayer, lol.

I can't tell I'd the sequel is done yet or not Reminds me a bit of Classmates, but if they were adults from the start. Also has a live action version!

Honestly? Five stars for doing literally everything to 11