[Webtoon] Marry My Husband
EuHello everyone! It’s been a while. How’s your 2024 so far? For me, I spent the first 3 months of the year consumed by Marry My Husband lol.
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[Manga] Uemura-kun wa Majime na Iiko. (上村くんは真面目ないい子。)
上村くんは真面目ないい子。 | Uemura is a Good Boy.
Story and Art: Megane (めがね)
Translated by: Amimaru Translation and Localization Services Ltd
Status: Completed
Available at Manga Planet (EN), Rakuten KOBO (JP)
Summary from futekiya
To his teachers, classmates, and parents, Uemura is a model student. But, that is hardly the truth. Beneath his serious exterior, Uemura loves masturbating more than anything else and spends his day thinking dirty thoughts. His facade as a serious student slips when his playboy underclassman, Matsuoka, catches him at school jacking off to dirty panties. Has Uemura finally found someone who can accept his true self?
What prompted me to read this was the contrast between the title and the cover. The title roughly translates “Uemura-kun is a Good Boy,” but the cover I saw was this?
Read More[Manga] Hatsukoi Encounter (初恋エンカウンター)
初恋エンカウンター | Hatsukoi Encounter
by Nanatsuno Wataru (ななつの航)
That cover ticks off all my favorite tropes. But will this be just eye candy?
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[Manga] 素人ヤンキー♂危機一発!! [Shirouto Yankee Kikiippatsu!!]
素人ヤンキー♂危機一発!! | Shirouto Yankee Kikiippatsu!!
Story and Art: Happy Yaku (八百)
Available at Rakuten (JP)
A story about a wolf (not really… or is he?) and a delinquent. Sounds delicious and sexy, no?
Except that’s not exactly the thing that pulled me in.
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[Manga] The Apothecary Diaries 1
薬屋のひとりごと 1 | Kusuriya no Hitorigoto 1
Story: Hyuuga Natsu (日向夏)
Art: Nekokurage (ねこクラゲ)
Compiled by: Nanao Ikki (七緒一綺)
Status: Ongoing
Available at Amazon (EN), Rakuten Kobo (JP)
Summary from Goodreads:
Read MoreAfter breaking a “curse” on the imperial heirs, a palace servant with training in herbal medicine is promoted up the ranks to food taster…and right into the thick of palace intrigue in this lushly illustrated period mystery series!
Maomao, a young woman trained in the art of herbal medicine, is forced to work as a lowly servant in the inner palace. Though she yearns for life outside its perfumed halls, she isn’t long for a life of drudgery! Using her wits to break a “curse” afflicting the imperial heirs, Maomao attracts the attentions of the handsome eunuch Jinshi and is promoted to attendant food taster. But Jinshi has other plans for the erstwhile apothecary, and soon Maomao is back to brewing potions and…solving mysteries?!
[Manga] Link and Ring (リンクアンドリング)
リンクアンドリング | Link and Ring
Story and Art: Tsuyuki Yuruco (つゆき ゆるこ)
Translated by: Amimaru Translation and Localization Services Ltd
Status: Completed
Available at futekiya (EN), Rakuten Kobo (JP)
Summary from futekiya
“If I ever get brave enough to say I like you from the top of my lungs–” Bessho coincidentally meets Makita in a university lecture they share, finding out that they both like cute things. While Bessho hides his preferences like a dirty little secret, Makita makes no excuses for who he is and what he likes. Despite the twists and turns, they encounter along the way, the pair of lovers deal with their possessive and jealous urges on their slow journey to answering the age-old question: what is the best way to fall in love?
[Manga] Love Awakening x Syndrome (恋⼼×シンドローム)
恋⼼×シンドローム | Koigokoro x Syndrome
Story and Art: Machida Tomato (町田 とまと)
Translated by: Amimaru Translation and Localization Services Ltd
Status: Completed
Available at futekiya (EN), Rakuten Kobo (JP) (both digital)
What it is (summary from futekiya)
College student Sano, who is curious about love but has never felt it, decides to go to associate professor Kigami, who’s famous for doling love advice out to his students. When he’s mistaken for a part-time assistant, however, Sano gets roped into cleaning the Archaeology department’s room for Kigami instead. Impressed by his work, Kigami gives him advice in exchange for his trouble and suggests Sano be his teacher’s assistant for real. But would his advice still successfully snag Sano a girlfriend, even though Kigami’s only ever liked guys?
Another title I picked up because it is on the first page lol. Surprisingly, I enjoyed it.
[Manga] Seitokai: When a Student Council Member Rehabilitating a Bad Boy Somehow Turns Into a Romantic Comedy
That’s a really long title…
生徒会役員として問題児を更生させていたら何故かラブコメになっていた件
| Seitokai Yakuin Toshite Mondaiji wo Kousei Saseteitara Nazeka Love Comedy ni Natteita Ken
Story and Art: Hashimoto Mitsu (ハシモト ミツ)
Translation: Amimaru Translation and Localization Services LTD
Status: Completed
What it is (summary from futekiya)
Hananomiya’s student council president Taisei Mizuki has his hands full with rehabilitating Sosuke Hakaze, the school’s number one problem child. As Hakaze’s acts grow worse, Mizuki can’t take it and blurts out, “how can we get you back to how you were before!?” In response, Hakaze says he’ll show Mizuki how…by kissing him (!) and even jerking him off (!!) Can Mizuki, pure in both mind and body, even stand a chance of enduring the naughty chain of “rehabilitation activities” they’ve just started?
Futekiya subscription was free for the entire month of May so I decided to try their service. I picked up Seitokai randomly because it seemed light and fun, and basing on futekiya’s smutty level, it is indeed smutty.
[Manga] Tabetemo Oishiku Arimasen 1 (食べてもおいしくありません 1 )
食べてもおいしくありません 1| Tabetemo Oishiku Arimasen 1
Mangaka: Yamada Nichoume (山田２丁目)
Status: Ongoing
Volumes: 2 (at the time of writing)
Frustrations from Mujintou led me to Tabetemo… I guess I didn’t want to accept that Yamada Nichoume is only as good as Mujintou, so I decided to give them another try with their new-ish series. Thankfully, I’m not disappointed.
In a world where demons and humans coexist, humans are treated as rare species. A chance encounter with a big-horned demon made a big change in Hiyori’s relatively peaceful life. Hodaka, the demon, demanded to allow Hiyori to eat him.
This is a pleasant surprise. I was expecting it to be full of blackmail, judging from the cover with cowering Hiyori and a towering demon in the background. But Tabetemo subverts every expectation I have.
[Manga] Mujintou ni Motte Iku Nara (無人島に持っていくなら)
無人島に持っていくなら | Mujintou ni Motte Iku Nara
Mangaka: Yamada Nichoume (山田２丁目)
Status: Completed
Volume: 1
I’ve had this book on my Kobo for the longest time that I can no longer remember what made me pick this up. I think it was the Datte Maou-sama wa Kare ga Kirai series that sparked my Yamada Nichoume phase? At the time, I was fairly new with their writing and wanted to know more. Sadly, this phase ended prematurely with Mujintou. God knows how many times I’ve tried to read this, put down, wait, restart again.
You know, it’s hard to talk about this book because I had a rough time wrapping my head around this most of the time. With each restart, I hoped that things would get a little clearer to me. But to no avail. Even after finishing it now, I’m still quite lost and confused at some parts of this one. Maybe because I wanted to like this book so much and have liked some of Yamada Nichoume’s works before that I couldn’t let myself think that this book somehow disappointed me?