Merry's Collection of Faves

"The world, please let everyone attain happiness."

It hits all my good spots! It's dramatic, emotional, the dialogues feel natural and I can empathize with the characters. Also, Kiyotake's optimistic attitude is perfect to equilibrate Takayuki's pessimistic and insecure personality...Precious couple. The perfect match!

"I'm quite a greedy man."

Breathtakingly sensual, sweet and gentle. A man whose boyfriend just broke up with him has his conflicted thoughts interrupted by a bunch of laundry accidentally dropped on his head from above by a kind and clumsy old man.

"I guess I am in...Hm. Just a second. Wait while I think of the best love confession ever invented. 'I like you' or 'I love you' just isn't enough to express these feelings, you know?"

A petit, scaredy rabbit-like doctor saves the life of an intimidating, badly wounded tiger-like yakuza laying on a dark alley at night. Hilarity and romance ensue.

"If I'm not even allowed to kill myself...I wish I could just gradually become invisible and then finally disappear completely."

Do you believe in ghosts? No? Neither does Even Pryce, a talented journalist at New York Times, who uses the chance to write an article about the ghosts of a small town, Roureville, to hide from a group of dangerous, vengeful gangsters. But will his disbelief waver once he meets the airheaded Jayce and the unusually secretive rourevillians?

"You went on living. You've left me hear your voice. Thank you. Thank you for living."

I truly wasn't expecting to LOVE it this much. Mature and intriguing, but at the same time heart-warming and beautiful! Their feelings for each other were so three dimensional that I felt overwhelmed at the end of the story and I almost cried. Yeah, I'm sentimental...

"I have the feeling I could write a really gross love song."

This is the kind of tragedy that actually left me with a satisfied, warm feeling inside. It made me cry but it portrays an unlikely romance between a lonely ghost and an aspiring singer who heal each other through the relationship they slowly develop. Their time together was like putting ointment on a wound.

"If only I was a human too! If I was a human, then surely...surely...I'd be able to hear him too..."

Poignant love story between a human and an android made to resemble his lover who passed away. The angst and the two huge time jumps were like a punch in the gut. Steel yourself because this manga equals a roller coaster of sorrow and loneliness before reaching the happy ending.

"You mean, two guys...can do it...? Together...? But...how?"

THAT, my friend, is Jun's line. I whole-heartedly blame for triggering my love for BL. This sickeningly fluffy story is my first BL and the main cause for my cavities. It was a nice day of summer when I stumbled upon a pic of our cinnamon roll saying that. It was love at first sight <3 I didn't care about the genre. I just needed his story.

"Blue means All Clear, Red means Stop and Yellow means Danger. If the risk is aknowledged, we recommend proceeding forward as planned."

I was pleasantly surprised to find a very good plot and character development, a strong and passionate love and that well crafted detective atmosphere I always yearn for when I come across stories like this.

"I would happily die for you if my death gave you peace of mind. But I wish to tell you something before I die. What I want to say is...no...I want to tell you a story."

As the title implies, this manhwa takes the famous "1001 Nights" into the BL world, doing a wonderful job! Listening to the stories the calm and wise Sehara tells the tyrant sultan Shahryar to regain his gentleness, gradually, the merciless heart will be forced open by their bittersweet messages.