manganiME's manga / #cafe(5)

I wish this went on and we saw more of all the characters' stories, because this is a very cool setting and I love the emotion and humor.

The first story (and follow-up extra) is my favorite. There's a mixture of humor, suffering/trauma, rescue, and romance that I find absolutely wonderful. The two characters are so different and so right for each other for those differences. The older (uke) guy's story breaks your heart, so the happy ending is that much better. The quirky side characters work, too, having some dark/lightly-cruel moments along with the humor (Tomoko-Sensei's specialty, light with dark). Didn't much care for Chain Gang. Don't like rape in Devil's Thoroughbred, but she sort of redeems it with the violent humor of the hospital visit. It ends up having some complicated as heck relationship/friendship and effed-up seme. But definitely count Stroboscope among my faves for the spaced out, enduring his loneliness and sorrow and fears uke. So happy he got happiness.