takame's manga / #mental illness(31)

sad, intense, dark and tragic. even if it's a short story the story is very effective. i also like the story-telling style and the art. it complements the atmosphere of the story giving it an overall noir feel. prostitute x mentally ill serial killer

ch.1: chirpy soccer captain and biracial, stoic student councilman who compares him to a dog. ch.2: high-strung seme, #kendo club. x popular cool beauty uke Ch.3: seme is a popular actor and uke is a normal salaryman. They know each other way back high school. Friends to lover ch.4: #school life. young ookami looking for a partner. ch. 5: #split-personality #mafia youngmaster x detective. open-ended Ch.6: a runner that got abducted by a world-ignorant rich kid

dark, twisted oneshots that all have 'rape to love' tropes in it. ch,1: childhood friends, doctor x neighbor/patient with multiple personality ch.2: sex with inanimate object (doll) #childhood friends #bully seme x #pathetic uke ch.3: #friends to lovers. stupid friend x jeweler ch.4: #bdsm #rape #hate to love

seriously it's so much fun seeing yu's face change so much when either of his alter egos took over when he still appears as yu. crazy and lighthearted romance. yu - florist / kaname - lawyer / ryo - hooligan(?) playboy. ./ guy with multiple personalities and a psychiatrist... and the other personalitie's own bfs.

#twin!cest. a love triangle between twins and a guy, fighting over the older twin. #incestuous rape ./ warning: #manipulative seme, taking advantage of a person with mild retardation. and despite it being open-ended, i would have preferred it this way. because the uke choose the right thing. getting help. seme x uke x seme. threesome in the end.

⟫ Koi Ni Nare! > Koi Nanka Shitakunai #school life, #school dorm romance, popular adult x moody teen. #bisexual seme x (closet) gay teen uke. kid got acrophobia. #blind date. It's very, very cute. seme(teacher) looks like a flirt. An easy, superficial guy but behind the jokes is an actual genuine concern for students as an educator. with that attitude, he's a real nice guy. He had a clean lovers relationship with the uke & actually waited till graduation before going further. i love the supportive roommate, Nakajima. Despite him roommate not really into men, he still's still friends with MC, serves as a support and does what's best for him w/o being too nosey. Also, I love how he's bothered by the littlest of things. It's cute and amusing. note: nakajima's solo story is at the sequel.

vol. 1 p.1-130: main story first -- ɫ ⬧ ɫ --other oneshot extras: vol. 1. p.134-143 :#dark #mental illness story. uke paranoid about seme's non-existent cheating. ./ p.148-168: gay guy offered comfort sex to a friend. was touched with being treated gently for the first time. ./ p.172-202: a proper adult x minor relationship with melancholic start and ended with a funny last word. #age gap #teacher x student #height gap

⟫ Star na koi > Star ni Ai ch.4: the very-much anticipated sequel of the bittersweet open-ended "eight episode of star na koi". the fallen rich kid x the now pro-baseball player hunk. ./ ch. 5-6: seme phobia of dark places dark, twisted story of a blind musically gifted composer and a normal salaryman who had one fateful meeting. enter yandere elder bro as villain../

Straight seme x gay uke, business partners, sleep disorder.

The queen of their all boy's school. Everyone worships him and is at his mercy everyday but he's not a bitch, kind of an innocent/natural queen. The gap of his pretty face and vulgar mouth is amusing. He's a funny combination of arrogance, cuteness, danger, beauty, craftiness and innocence so you cannot really hate him. Being the son of a doctor and the one that will inherit the big hospital, uke is always in danger of being kidnapped to the point he needed an able bodyguard like the servant he had now. They grew up together. Servant (seme) swore to serve uke for life. #uke had the habit of bullying those he like. #uke had problems sleeping at night because of trauma. ➤☆ 3.5 It's cute and funny. (my standard of rating is just low)