Ig u meant my favorite reads on the webtoon app... Honestly, I haven't been reading anything there but «And Another Lovely Day» (by Leehama) and «Introverted Us» recently. Every year, I spend months away from webtoons cuz weekly schedule beats me ass 😭 but my faves on webtoon before I paused all my readings there like 5 months ago were these (in no specific order):
• daily jojo
• the fox club
• vampire family (up-to-date)
• the d!ckheads (up-to-date)
• Jackson's diary
• the spark in your eyes (these one I actually started reading 2 months ago but I haven't caught up yet)
• my in-laws are obsessed with me
• baby tyrant
• odd girl out
• aslfua
• press play, sami (actually up-to-date cuz I was reading in the Korean website)
• marionetta
• + the 2 titles I mentioned I'm still reading now

a funny tmi about me is that when i was in middle school, i was so obsessed with gakuen alice, that i started writing a story inspired in it (kinda like fanfic but with my ocs). i even did a tone of character designs drafts illustrations cuz back then i went to art school after normal classes, kinda what in japan they call art academies. but... i never completed it and lost it with the years (it was handwritten). i also have short drafts written about ideas for aus for namidaame to serenade with kiku as the protagonist, but because im no writer (i suck), i shy away from it. i did oil painting growing up and i was more of a fanartist anyways. but with the years, i stopped that too. now, i want to but i fear my skills have gotten worse due to lack of practice haha but i bought a new sketchbook so we will see ! anyways, i talked away, didn't i? haha so answering ur question... yeah, there's some manga/anime that i love specifically because they inspire me to create. it's a different type of feeling. so, even tho i don't like blue lock anymore, i get it. there's no shame on that. if it inspires you to write, that's great. i myself used to ship isagi and nagi lol I'm delighted to hear i have been able to help you 💛

p.s. long messages are welcome !

p.s.2 i dont ship ron and toto romantically but pls send ur fic if u ever publish it online ! i like reading takes of fans on their dynamic. fanfic serves as a way to analyze characters too ^^

Hi ! Thanks for the recommendations !! I am very picky with mystery and thrillers because it's my favorite genres but I will give «day of disaster» a chance 👀 looks like it's finished in Korea and webtoon just licensed it so I will wait for it to have more chapters available before checking it out. About «selfish romance», I also will give it a try because fake dating is one of my guilty pleasures (yk me well anon 🤣) hope it's good enough so I don't drop it 😔 and about «how to become a dragon» I dropped it early on its serialization because I was impatient lol. I loved the author previous work but that one, I had binge read it for the most part and then caught up to it weekly releases near it's end. Believe me or not, I drop a lot of weekly mangas/manhwas or pause them for months and years until I suddenly become interested again and binge read them. I think I might give it a try again since I just checked it's finished ! Thanks again !

I haven't seen that thread. And I haven't read much shoujo or josei sport manga because I wasn't interested in sport manga until 2022 after watching Haikyuu and reading Ao Ashi. I'm still not big on them but when I find one I'm interested enough to try, I usually fall deeply for them (recently, that's been the case with Medalist). From what I have seen, most long sport serialization in shoujo/josei magazines are older works. Nowadays, they are pretty short and sport isn't even the actual focused. Like you said, there's focused on the romance. I don't mind them but when I look for a sport story, I want them to focus on that (it's OK to have some romance, I mean, Ao Ashi for instance has that thing going on with Ashito and Hana but it's not their main priority so it's just there as an extra). One of the reasons i ended up dropping Blue Box was because it was marketed as a sport series but was focused more on the love triangle/romance and the first female lead was just not it for me. She had no substance even tho she was the star of the female basketball team.

Sorry, I'm mentioning lots of shone/seinen sports series. They are all I have read. For shoujo/josei, the ones I have read are pretty short and again, sports is second to romance so I disregarded that and read them for the rom plot. I wonder why there has been such a separation of the sport genre from shoujo and josei magazines when there was a time they used to thrive... I do know it was during the times when the Olympics was held in Japan in 1964 so sport manga were a buzz across manga 🤔

Like it or not, the female and male demographics cater readers different wants and likes. It's true that there's a different, vast and wide catalogue of stories in the female demographics with different genres and tropes but there's still things that separate them from their male counterpart. And these days, they are focused on selling romance. Well, worldwide it's the most read genre as far as I'm aware of.
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Haven't finished that short GL. Back in 2022, before I was tracking things properly, I was reading it but I ended up dropping it cuz I lost interest.

I don't think so! Being a shoujosei fan has nothing to do with consuming het romance imo. After all BL and GL have roots in shoujo manga. If you prefer M/F platonic relationships, that's cool. I myself treasure them a lot and at times I feel like the odd girl out because, at times, I would rather have the leads stay platonic lol but I keep that to myself 🤫

Also not weird liking toxic same-sex couples more than toxic het. I think that also comes hand to hand to what we see irl. Most times the one suffering is the female counterpart and idk how you identify yourself but sometimes I just can't handle seeing women/girls going thru it. Obviously I enjoy a good story that's about breaking out of the toxic cycle (regardless of the gender of the characters), but I do agree there's a different "vibe" to toxic/dark BL and GL. Many would say they find it "hot". I mean, don't we all like a bit of messy drama lol but, at the end, I'm not romanticizing it but I think they do tend to hit harder when it comes to writing (at least for me) than het ones, especially because many I have read with het couples end up being a disappointment. Tho some BLs I have read too (like Lost in the Cloud). Personally, I just like to analyze their relationships more than anything. I do that for almost every romance I do (I like analyzing dynamics in romantic settings to understand better "love"). Also, I haven't read much toxic GL tho but I'm gonna work on that in 2025 ! In summary, as long as you're romanticizing same sex couples in dark/toxic relationships, I think it's okay! I hope I helped you with ur concern 💛

i don't think so... and i also hope sooji doesn't develop them for jayu. i like them more as friends. about jayu liking jaehyuk romantically, i'm not quite sure... i am sure she feels more comfortable with him than her other male friends. but she has never had a crush or thought about dating. the most she has ever wanted was friendship, and even then, she had given up on that until jaehyuk came into the picture (and others too). jayu thinks positively about him but romantically, i think it's still early to say. that's why im glad jaehyuk isn't being pushy. since this is a romance story, i hope we can see her slowly falling in love. from others stories i have read, it seems some people realize their feelings much later on (or when it's already late) because sometimes when they are around that person, they just feel like it's the most normal thing or a given. they don't question it. they just know they like to be around them but there's not that "greed" that comes with wanting to date someone (like proclaiming they are in an exclusive relationship or physical intimacy). maybe that's jayu. also, we have to remember she's very awkward and not used to dealing with people outside her family. so ig time will tell.

and jaehyuk and sooji being best friends would be nice. i think they have some things they only can relate to (the downs of being popular and standing out lol) but first, jaehyuk would need to discard his jealousy. sooji seems pretty cool but he has his own problems so that also needs to be address. rn he only feels comfortable with jayu because she's patient, doesn't overstep her welcome, etc. i would love to see him get more cheerful at school like jayu has. overall, i just want all these socially awkward kids, introverts and shy kids to do well !

It's fine 😂 don't dwell on it. I found your first message quite funny actually. Glad to hear you liked my recs, it was my pleasure ☺️

Hm I'm not quite sure about ur question. I myself only got into sports manga/anime 2 years ago and I still haven't read or watched much 🤔 that's a good question tho. M/M shippers can be find in many fandoms, not only in sports one ! So I didn't find it that weird when I (for example) watched Haikyuu for the first time and went online just to find a ton of ship fanart haha but thinking srsly, perhaps the string homoerotism subtext comes from the authors trying to convert the strong emotions of the characters and somehow they get carried away...? Perhaps it's s marketing strategy since shipping culture is so big now and more out there than when I was younger...? Or maybe they just simple like it? That would be a good question for an interview with an editor of a sport manga mangaka 🧐