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MY TOP BL MANGA OF 2021
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MANGA: Nirameba Koi
Nirameba Koi – Yukue Moegi
Apart from the fact he’s in the student council and has quite strange tastes, Shima is an average, low-profile, quiet high schooler. Therefore, he doesn’t understand why Ryuunosuke, a sports student, always glares at him every time they cross paths. Shima doesn’t want to draw the punk’s attention, but the instinctive hostility of Ryuunosuke towards him troubles him, and he wants to know why the other boy hates him…
This is a super cute collection of stories that explores the juvenile delinquent uke trope. It’s always fun to see these tough boys get all blushy and flustered.
Glare At You Because I Love You is the title story. Told from the point of view of student council member Shima, the story follows how he fell in love with Ryuunosuke, a notorious juvenile delinquent who always glares at him.
This is one of the most adorable falling in love with a tsundere story. Shima is wonderful. He’s the type of guy who finds cats with weird faces cute. I loved how he slowly get to know the secret sweeter side of Ryuunosuke’s personality. I especially liked how he notices the little things Ryuu does that show he really has a kind heart. It was a joy to witness him slowly falling for the intimidating punk who’s really a big softie underneath all that scowl.
Ryuu fell in love at first sight with Shima. He had a really good reason for doing so. The reason and the way he said it was so full of hope and longing you really had to feel for the guy. Don’t judge a punk by his death glare.
There were a couple of other stories in this 2-volume collection.
The Dragon Of Memories is a one chapter, age-gap story of a troublemaker who frequently had run-ins with his school’s new janitor. Unbeknownst to him, the older man was someone from his past and was trying to jog the young man memory. I wasn’t feeling this story. This had a huge dub-con scene.
Notice Me Because I Love You is a childhood friends to lovers story starring Ryuu’s kohai, Reiji, and Akira, the twin brother of their mutual friend, Osamu. Reiji is an uber dense high schooler who failed to notice that Osamu’s twin brother, Akira is in love with him since forever. The three are neighbors and had been friends since they were little kids.
I liked this one as well, though not as much as the main story. The characters were familiar mostly because I have read other stories with similar character types. But I enjoyed the way straight A student Akira was pining for his twin brother’s spectacularly oblivious friend.
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MY TOP BL MANGA OF 2020
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MANGA: Teruteru Bouzu Tere Bouzu
Teruteru Bouzu Tere Bouzu – Yukue Moegi
Juntoku is a priest who inherited his family’s temple, and the one he doesn’t want to see the most right now… Appears during a monthly sutra copying session. A big, handsome man named Hasegawa Michi. That’s because Michi was a high school classmate, who then became his close friend, and then… the one he loved. And yet, whether he knows of Juntoku’s feelings or not, Michi suddenly reduces the distance between them…!? An easygoing grill restaurant owner x stoic beauty priest forbidden love! Also included is a second story about a seiyuu otaku, getting flustered by his senpai who has the same voice as his idol.
Bald head moe and voice fetishes!
A cute and slightly yaoi-ish collection of tsundere priest, blushy seiyuu otaku and their unflappable boyfriends.
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MANGA: Hakujin to Kurobotan
Hakujin to Kurobotan – Yukue Moegi
Kuroi is a 37 year old man serving as the second in command of a sub-group headed by a major Yakuza family. His childhood friend, Shirakaba, has been asking to join the group since they were young and Kuroi has always forbidden it. Now, Shirakaba is an established lawyer and goes over Kuroi’s head to get work as his legal council.
OMG these two dorks!!! Kuroi might be the wagakashira but Shirakaba’s one heck of a scary bastard.
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MANGA: Neko to Wakagashira
Neko to Wakagashira – Yukue Moegi
Kengou is in love with Busamen, Touma is jealous of Busamen and Busamen is scared and hungry.
A crossover between Busamen and Hakujin to Kurobotan!LOL he’s competing with an ugly ass cat!!!!
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MANGA: Mie Hariatte Surechigai
Mie Hariatte Surechigai – Yukue Moegi
Salesman Minoru dislikes his co-worker Shinji, who likes to grope him and confess his love. Even though Minoru rejects his advances, the persistent Shinji refuses to give up.
Sparkling, self-assertive semes. Repressed, resisting ukes. A hit and a miss.
The Truth Framed Like A Joke: A case of sekuhara-but-ok-if-it’s-you made Minoru realized latent feelings for his business partner. I wanted to be annoyed but Shinji’s Lab-like enthusiasm and undying devotion won me just like he won his Minoru.
Putting On Airs, And Passing Each Other By: More feelings come out in the open as Sakurazaka made Yamamoto spell out his feelings with a clever/dumb wordplay. Not warming up to the too cool Sakurazaka.
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MANGA: Otoko Yamome Mo Hana Wa Saku
Otoko Yamome Mo Hana Wa Saku – Yukue Moegi
Middle-aged salaryman Uematsu (40s) was surprised to learn that the restaurant part time-worker Asahikawa knows about his food habits. When Uematsu got promoted to department head he thought his life will be smooth sailing from then on but very soon his wife left him and the people assigned to him are utterly useless…
After hitting his 40s he felt like his stamina, energy, everything has been depleted, so he tries to avoid anything troublesome. But strangely he feels a sense of ease whenever he is with Asahikawa and starts warming up to him, but it’s feels like Asahikawa wants to get closer to him more than he could have ever imagined…
Nothing like new love to make an old man feel rejuvenated.
A delightful age-gap, older uke/younger seme romance that’s soft and pure. Makes the heart feel 10 times lighter.
