Setting: College

These works take place primarily on a college campus or feature a college as a consistent setting.

Manhwa Review | Love Meter 100% by Sagold

Title: Love Meter 100%

Author(s): Sagold

Artist(s): Sagold

Yihan loves video games, but not just any video games. His favorite video game is Love Meter 100%, a BL game where he can romance several hot 2D men. His favorite, though, is Mikaros. His love for the fictional character doesn’t stop in the game. Yihan’s bedroom is covered in Mikaros merch, he carries around a Mikaros bag, which is full of Mikaros merch, and he wears Mikaros merch wherever he can. Mikaros is a hunk, and everything Yihan wants in a man, but the odds of finding someone precisely like his 2D love interest are slim to none until he happens upon a Mikaros lookalike on campus.

Park Há is just as hunky as Mikaros and has the same mint-colored hair. What are the odds? Yihan is ready to risk it all for a chance to meet the man of his dreams, but along the way, he hears Park Há mention that he hates otaku. Unfortunately, Yihan is the ultimate otaku. How can Yihan finally win with the heart of real-life Mikaros when Park Há is destined to hate him?

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Manhwa Review | Wouldn’t It Be Nice by AM

Title: Wouldn't It Be Nice

Author(s): AM

Artist(s): AM

Hyobin and Gichan have been best friends for a decade. There are no signs that that will change anytime soon, especially when another girlfriend dumps Hyobin. As usual, there is Gichan to pick up the pieces and help Hyobin nurse his broken heart. The two are nearly inseparable, and they know everything there is to know about each other. At least, that’s what Hyobin thinks.

What Hyobin doesn’t know is that Gichan has been fostering a secret, unrequited crush all this time. From the day Gichan met Hyobin, he loved him. Though it’s painful to see Hyobin get his heart broken repeatedly through the years, Gichan is happy to be by Hyobin’s side until Hyobin catches Gichan kissing a man. Realizing that he may not know everything about Gichan, Hyobin feels compelled to take their relationship beyond friendship.

But once they cross this line, will they ever be able to return to the close relationship they’ve had all these years?

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Manga Review | Hand in Hand by Ayu Sakumoto

Title: Hand in Hand

Author(s): Ayu Sakumoto

Artist(s): Ayu Sakumoto

Yuasa is beautiful, which has become more of a curse than anything. Yuasa can’t make real connections with most people as they only see him for his good looks and nothing else. So, he’s cultivated a close group of three friends and doesn’t go beyond that unless he has to for school or work. While in the library, he ends up brushing hands with a freshman named Satoru, a jewelry craftsman. There’s nothing remarkable about the situation, and Yuasa fully expects that any interest Satoru has in him is rooted solely in Yuasa’s looks.

To his surprise, though, Satoru couldn’t care less about Yuasa’s face. Instead, Satoru only cares about Yuasa’s hands, which he dubs his ideal, dream hands. As it turns out, Satoru has an intense hand fetish, manifesting in an obsession with touching, taking pictures of, sketching, and making jewelry for Yuasa’s hands. While Yuasa is disturbed by this weird turn of events, he can’t help but find it refreshing to meet someone who likes him for something other than his face. So begins Satoru and Yuasa’s push-and-pull relationship of Yuasa keeping Satoru at arm’s length while Satoru does everything he can to get close to those hands.

However, the more time they spend together, the more Satoru’s love for Yuasa’s hands begins to encompass all of Yuasa. Will Yuasa be able to accept Satoru’s evolving feelings? Or will he run away in fear of another superficial relationship?

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