secret identity // wait... i know you

synopsis:
Urakawa Shinobu is a shoddy office worker by day, but a well known gay playboy by night. Suddenly, the straight office "prince" Omoteya Hikaru comes to the gay bar he frequents and sets everything off course. Can he really protect his safe spot and keep his identity secret, or will he risk it all?

notes:
volume one is actually so perfect for this trope i CANNOT stop rereading. go listen to the audio drama / blcd too, it's perfect

synopsis:
Lee Yeowoon joins the game Illusion and is randomly PKed by a strange and annoying Ji9star. It just so happens that he moves into an apartment next to an even stranger neighbor.

notes:
my god i am absolutely obsessed with this one. i love everything about it and it's genuinely super refreshing that neither of them is pretending to be a girl bc ill be honest. that trope is a little overdone.

their dynamic?? the gap moe?? the silliness??? waiter waiter more tgmnd please

synopsis:
Aya Oosawa has a crush! The record store she frequents has a cool and mysterious employee, she just can't help being interested in him. Little does she know that employee is actually a girl from her class!

notes:
also another one that i kept rereading the beginning of... mitsuki is so cool and the art is beautiful (the color pallete?? yes pls)

synopsis:
Eight years after a cataclysmic rift, Cha Euijae suddenly gets thrown out into the present. After his years of being the #1 ranked hunter J in a post apocalyptic South Korea, it's time for him to live under the spotlight. Things have changed, and so have people. Can he really live as an ordinary citizen? Or will someone cause him to force his hand?

novel:
PLEASE read the novel it's so engaging and much more descriptive. cej is so funny i love him. main couple is fire too

synopsis:
Lee Ha-kyung needed money. His mother was hospitalized, and he just received a compelling offer. Pretend to be the granddaughter of a man's old friend. It won't be easy, especially when that man's grandson gets involved. 7 years later, can the past really stay in the past?

notes:
the storytelling is IMMACULATE i absolutely love the pacing and the flipping through past and present

gonna add notes later, im rereading again first lmfao

synopsis:
Chiaki is a fashion student with a long-standing attachment to the cool punk model Ai. When forced to work on a group project with his unappealing classmate Enaga, he finds himself caught between two halves of his heart.

notes:
god they're soo cute together. i love the art and intimate vibes of this one

synopsis:
A strange man has been coming into Sumiya's apartment after work. He cleans up, does his laundry, cooks him dinner, and then makes love to him until he falls asleep. Sumiya's reliance on this man turns it into a strangely symbiotic relationship. When his work life and "night life" start to clash, there's no clear way for him to proceed.

notes:
(tw: dubcon) guilty pleasure manga but it's lowkey cute tbh. plus art is so gorg

synopsis:
Choosing to crossdress to work at a cafe is one thing, but falling in love with a female customer without her knowing your true identity? Even more, that customer with mutual feelings is crossdressing too... while both actually know each other from school as the absolute opposites of their ideal types.

notes:
misunderstandings EVERYWHERE. but so funny and engaging