❀'s manga / #school life(465)

kind of confusing at times from poor translations and need to read the prequels of other couples. but cute overall and felt pangs of misunderstanding angst. nice art.

total 3 chapters and extra. dummy delinquent uke doesn't know the other guy is playing/flirting with him, and keeps challenging him to fights. slowly growing closer that way. prequel to After School (Harudaki), first chapter of that couple is actually here, that's why that book felt so weird.

cute height difference/complex story, but not very memorable... i'm sure i've read at least twice already and still can never remember what happens when i come back... i guess this is the third time and this is just super fluffy no conflict. enjoyable read, especially with the official good translations now. seme and uke both obviously like each other but not aware of their feelings. seme starts realizing he likes uke and wants to wait until he's taller than uke to confess. but he's only 165 while uke is 180+ he even tries going with a girl for a bit but realizes it's impossible and the girl was just annoying him. at this point uke realizes he likes seme cuz he's so lonely after hearing seme is spending time with a girl after school. so they confess to each other and ofc it's mutually accepted. then they keep going as before for a while though seme keeps wanting to have sex. until they have a date at disney and then stay at a hotel afterwards cuz both have been wanting the same thing. super sweet honestly. at the end they are having so much sex uke wonders if seme is only after him for his body. but then after 2 weeks of them not doing it, uke is pent up too lol and goes to seek out seme. seme is away but comes over after and then they do it and profess their love again.

the story in chapter 3/4 is better than the main. about coworkers at work, one like a huge dog following the other and a bit of misunderstanding angst

one guy sees other as school rival in grades. but he only wanted grades to please his mother and his mother tells him it's ok (that resolution was kinda too fast, but fits the fluffy tone of the story). then they suddenly kiss in the classroom and both realise they have feelings for each other so the kiss was ok with both parties. they confess later in a park and all is cute... cute overall but i would say some things were resolved too quickly or in a fake way. would have liked to see more depth to the emotional scenes.

guy and his scary senpai who likes sweets. then story about the guy's two close friends then story about the guy's younger brother and a cram school teacher only the first story is worth rereading, others were skimmed. confusing is the younger brother is ~8-10 years younger, so when he gets into university, the first guys should be almost thirty, but still looks and acts the same as in high school... didn't show their future lives/jobs. the guy was still living at home lol...

might as well try to keep up with this since it looks like it won't end in another 20 years......

had a lot of potential (like bottom loves the innocent looking top and had a deviant sexual history before amnesia accident) but then did not go where i expected. writing is kind of bad, like things happening without logic and for no reason. they just made a simple accident super dramatic and it doesn't make sense why it needs to be such a big deal. also extra chapter showing the minor character bully falling in love with the top guy is weird and doesn't make sense since he hated him......

first story is childhood friends reuniting at work. second is childhood friends in high school and one is effeminate.

very messy and confusing at times, especially with 3 secondary characters, but i guess it's to make two of them into a couple, too. also weird how the uke kept flip flopping if he liked the guy or not. thought he finally decided but then no again... just not well written overall but cute. actually the last chapter is the best, showing after they are dating and a little look into their future and their fathers.