david_holmes's manga / #Colleagues(13)

Reading chapter 4 (volume 2?). Ayame x Shimotsuki Shuu. Bully x victim. Senior x Junior. Senpai x Kouhai. High school students. 3rd x 1st. Time skip. Company president’s son x company employee. Deputy general manager x planning employee. Human Resources x Planning department. Work colleagues. Mutual pining. Mutual unrequited love. In denial about their feelings. Mpreg possibility. Pregnancy test. One night stand. Older seme x Younger Uke. Alpha x Omega. Company CEO heir seme (him and his brother can both take over the company). Handsome seme. Gorgeous seme. Manly seme. Capable seme. Hard-working seme. Jerk seme. Jealous seme. In love seme. Seme saying over’s name over and over and over again during sex or when they have a soft moment. Deeply in love seme who secretly cares and watches over uke while uke “hates” him for making his life miserable. Seme who pushes uke hard because he wants him to be the best. Pretty uke. Nerd uke (in high s school). In love uke. Pushover uke (but inwardly rants at least). Meek uke. Loner uke (doesn’t want to be alone but ends up alone). Low self-confidence uke. Though it is a little irritating how Uke acts like a total pushover towards Seme, he at least curses him in his mind which is better than those other uke’s are keep giving jerk seme a free pass because they love them which irritates me to no end. That being said, my irritation is placated somewhat by the fact that seme clearly has it as bad for uke and been longing and pining for him just as much as uke has if the flushed yearning and longing loving expressions are anything to go by. Sensei’s art is absolutely beautiful though. She makes very lovely expressions on both uke and seme. Seme’s yearning deep in love expressions when uke is not looking are squeetastic. Okay, I maybe can understand why this work is not getting the high rating it deserves and I have no idea if someone mistakenly uploaded the pages all out of whack but by chapter 4, the pages and panels are ALL OVER THE PLACE with no connection to each other. One moment uke is suddenly talking to a flower lady from having a flashback to a conversation with his mother about wearing contacts because seme told him nice things and the next page he’s having a conversation with seme... no idea what is going on... Okay seems like it’s just the author’s style and I DO NOT LIKE. It really lacks flow. Jump cuts in manga are tricky and there’s a reason why few experienced manga authors can pull it off. If it’s sloppy like this, it’s because it’s amateur, no matter how gorgeous the art and characters.

Reading (read chapter ?). Kaburagi Motoharu x Onoe. Straight x uke.

UTD (read volume 1, 6 chapters+extras).1 full penetrative sex scenes (v01c06 first time+implied they did it 3x more times wow; v01 extra implied as naked in bed). This was so good!! SemePOV. Kitaoji Rihito x Arima Chikage. Straight x gay. 28 x ??. Salarymen. Handsome seme. Gorgeous seme. Popular seme. Blond seme. Blond x dark. Unrequited love uke. Jealous seme. Possessive seme. Capable seme. Seme is closet otaku. Closet shoujo manga otaku seme. Seme who wants shoujo manga pure love. Sullen uke. Manly uke.

Reading (read chapter ?). Honjou Haruma x Yuuki Ritsu. Salarymen. Colleagues. Coworkers. Fake marriage.

Reading (read chapter 15). Park Jiwoon x Lee Suha. Gay x gay. Director x secretary. Handsome seme. Flawless seme. Elite seme. Perfect seme. Size Queen Uke.

Complete (read chapter 6). 2 full penetrative sex scenes. 1-3 &6) is the main story and 4-5) is another couple (1 full penetrative sex scene). Rimming (c01). Uke/SemePOV. Aizawa Haruka x Takemoto Mitsuru. Salarymen. Gay x gay. 33 x 30. Experienced x virgin. Supervisor x intern. Boss x employee. Senior x junior. Gay debut in Tokyo uke. One night stand. One night stand cum office colleagues next day. Playboy seme (who stops for uke). Gentle seme. Rich seme. Manly uke. Rimming (c01). Fingerfucking. Reversi Seme who doesn’t mind being spoiled sometimes. “Teppan Meshi”. SemePOV. Karasuma Jun x Takashima Hajime. Actor x News anchor. Celebrity x broadcaster. Popular actor x serious announcer. Cooking show. Good cook x taster. Younger seme x older uke. 24 x 28. Handsome seme (manga world). Attractive seme (manga world). Manly uke. Gap moe uke (serious to sexy when he eats). Sweet tooth uke. Erotic eater uke (who looks like he’s having an orgasm when eating sweets). Big dick seme.

Completed (read chapter 6.5). 1 full penetrative sex scene. I only got to know Seme’s first name from the sequel! This was so cute!! Story goes like, “Uke thought seme was after his beloved little brother so offered himself to protect little bro so seme doesn’t lay hands on him, lol”. Obvious fact: Seme was after uke all along haha. I am a total sucker for uke brothers who are brocon for each other TOO CUTE! IT’S WEIRD because I know I’ve read this before but I neither added any details here nor did I add it in my Yaoi/BL master list… unless it was on myreadingmanga archive but even so, I remember adding some info about this series because I loved it so much. I don’t remember if I finished it (I have I feeling I did) but it’s odd I have nothing saved. I usually always write if I really loved a work like I know I did here. Uke/SemePOV. Toudou Akitaka x Kirishima Naoto. Salarymen. Colleagues. Friends since university. Brother complex uke. Brocon uke. Gay x straight. Popular x popular. Handsome x handsome. Misunderstandings. Megane-kun seme. Handsome seme. Popular seme. Popular uke. Good-looking uke. Manly uke (but still obviously uke). Longtime Unrequited love seme. Confession seme.

Reading (read chapter 1). Multiple couples (again? I hate those *sigh*). First couple who I thought were main literally only have one chapter and that’s it?? The rest is seme’s younger brother and second eldest who is uke to another seme. Anyway, this starts off with a dislikable self-entitled uke who likes blaming others for his own incompetence and mistakes… But the art is gorgeous, the seme is stunning. He’s wasted on that bitch hateful uke. Kouno Takaomi x Kusuhara Shouta. Salarymen. Sales department. Straight x gay. ?? x 27. Elite x loser. Top ranking x bottom ranking (how fitting fufu). Work rivals. Handsome seme. Stunning seme. Gorgeous seme. Popular seme. Inferiority complex uke. One night stands uke. Incompetent uke. I really dislike this uke, he’s just a gay slut who runs away from work and thinks about sex just because he’s stressed about being onesided rivals with the elite of the department who entered the same time as him. Like dude, instead of cribbing and being complexed, just focus on improving your own work instead of running off to have sex EVEN AT THE FUCKING OFFICE. No wonder you suck at what you do. Huge family seme. 6 siblings seme. Eldest son seme. Poor seme. Sole caretaker seme.

Reading (read chapter ?). Nishio Kaito x Azuma. Uke x seme. Straight x gay. Gay top uke wants to bottom for straight seme. Manly uke. Buff uke.

UTD (read chapter 10). 1 full penetrative sex scene (first time was rape c06). I remember this novel and how huge it was and how badly I wanted to read it back like 10+ years ago (we’re now February 15, 2022) so I’m so excited to see it’s a manga now!! THIS IS SO F GOOD!!!! I tagged it “Favourite” at first but undid it because seme is just too indecisive, cowardly and insensitive… Not a bad person but terribly infuriating because he depends on others for answers to *his* problems. *RANT: I really liked this uke because he was reasonable, level-headed and strong even though we was deeply in a onesided unrequited love with jerk seme being rejected and all. But the one thing that undid it all is when uke took seme’s watch… and wore it (even to work). That is what a typical weak-willed uke would do and I totally didn’t feel that an uke of his caliber would do that. Seme had forgotten the watch when they went camping on a double hetero date and it turned it out was a sentimental piece. Uke lost my respect then. But honestly, I genuinely feel for this uke. He’s a good guy who fell in love with a guy not worthy of him but you can’t do anything about it because in the end, that’s the guy he’s in love with. Hirosue Motofumi x Matsuoka Yousuke (Etou Youko). Straight x straight. Salarymen. Colleagues. General affairs division x sales. 34 x ??. Senior x junior. Older seme x younger uke. Honest salaryman x elite salaryman. Inefficient x capable. Plain x beauty. Manly seme. Awkward seme. Timid seme. Gloomy seme. Dull seme. Incompetent seme (work). Submissive seme. Indecisive seme. Super indecisive seme. Earnest seme. Kind seme (to a fault). Beautiful uke. Pretty uke. Crossdressing uke. Confession seme. Completely smitten seme (with crossdressing uke). Desperately in love seme (with female uke). Lovesick seme (female uke). Unrequited love seme (female uke). Unrequited love uke (toward seme). Rejected uke (by seme as a man). Lovesick uke. Onesided love uke. Painful first time (c06; rape where seme horribly calls out woman’s name of female uke). Confession uke. Chapter 5, finally after all the heartache and lovesickness from both sides (especially poor seme). Seme’s attitude completely changes when he toward male uke after the confession that he’s “Etou Youko”. Cold seme. Mean seme. Insensitive seme. Jerk seme. Thoughtless seme.