Here U Are

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Synonyms: Yuanlai Ni Zai Zheli

Japanese: Here U Are

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Type: Manhua

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: 156

Status: Finished

Published: Nov 22, 2017 to Dec 15, 2020

Genres: Boys Love, Drama, Slice of Life

Theme: School

Serialization: None

Authors: D Jun (Story & Art)

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Score: 8.49¹ (scored by 13,984 users)

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Ranked: #158²

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Popularity: #640

Members: 28,493

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ManhuaD Jun (Story & Art)

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Yu Yang is a second-year university student who seems reliable and pleasant. With the commencement of a new term, he is tasked with orienting every freshman he sees on campus. Eventually, his duty leads him to meet Li Huan, a new student with a fairly oppressive height. Besides his intimidating physique, he is taciturn, aloof, and often gives Yu Yang the cold shoulder.

Yu Yang, who has done nothing but assist him, immediately grows frustrated by this treatment. However, despite his initial impressions, Yu Yang believes that his chance encounter with Li Huan will transform his future outlook—perhaps even on the prospect of love.

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Here U Are is originally a webtoon series published on Dong Man (咚漫). One volume was published in book format by Ningbo Publishing House (宁波出版社) in December 2019.

It has been published digitally in English by Webtoon Entertainment since December 27, 2023.

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Yu, Yang

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Li, Huan

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Chu, Huanwen

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Yuan, Ji

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Shu, Pan

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Xuan, Bai Sheng

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Qiu Jie, Zhong

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Yu, Jiang Jia

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Ji, Chen Xial

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Jian Yu, Zhang

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Mar 9, 2022

bloodknife

Recommended

Coming from a Chinese queer person, this manhua features one of the best queer representation in East Asian media I've ever seen.

There is no pedophilia, no problematic kinks, and no romanticization of toxic or abusive relationships. That might feel like the bare minimum (and it is), but it's so refreshing to see good LGBT+ representation when there is usually so much gross fetishization and romanticization of unhealthy tropes in East Asian media when it comes to queer relationships.

Most importantly, DJun touches on homophobia, fetishization, acceptance, and tradition in his storytelling - so many important topics that are sometimes glossed over in favor of showing two ...

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Dec 31, 2021

abystoma2

Mixed Feelings

So, dear reader, I imagine that you are expecting me to tell you whether this is worth reading or not. But to be honest, I have my own question that I'd like to ask first: "What was the point of Here U Are?"

Well, maybe that question is enough to answer your question, in a way.

Now, to not be misunderstood - Here U Are isn't exactly bad, definitely not. I like that the characters feel as more than just cardboard cutout for BL fanservice (well, most of them at least). I like how it took time to actually develop the chemistry between the characters before kicking ... off the relationship. I like how it acknowledges that women exist, and that the world isn't just full of bishies with questionable sexuality. The art also isn't bad. So, it manages to dodge a lot of faults of your average BL. So, where's the problem then? It's boring. There just isn't much interesting content. The story is on a level of a soap opera. At best, at a level of average romantic shoujo manga (which isn't really that much better than a soap opera now that I think about it). It's obvious that it's more geared towards readers that are okay with style over substance. Any by "style" in this case I mean "WOOOOOOW there are guys who are in love with each other, that's like, totally AWESOME!". Yeah, sure, we get some of the usual "gays have it hard in society", and while slightly better executed than usual for the genre, it still feels like it was included just to make the comic feel like it has more meaning. It doesn't add anything unique on this point, just the same old story seen hundred times in various lgbt-themed media.

Here U Are also has some weird pacing issues. To the point that it sometimes feel like chunks of story was just left out. The greatest offender would be chapter 54 and 55. You see, chapter 54 was actually interesting (to an extent). The character chemistry was picking up stream and the relationship between one of the protagonists and his family looked like it could net some engaging story points. Then comes chapter 55 - it cuts to some completely unrelated event, ignoring whatever was happening previously and letting the previously started story points be more blue-balled than a mod for twich titty streamer. I though that surely I must have loaded a wrong chapter and there just has to be some conclusion to the previously presented scenes, but nope. I think this was the point where I started rapidly losing interest. The story later introducing more couples I didn't care about (didn't care about even more than about the main couple) didn't help either.

In conclusion:
1) Will you like this if you're into BL?
Well, considering it's a BL... I'd bet so.

2) Will you like this if you don't like BL/don't care about BL?
Unlikely, but as it doesn't have explicit scenes (if you skip some of the later extra chapters that is), feel free to give it a try. This is among the better boy's love titles, but if you're familiar with the state of average boy's love title, you know that's not saying much.

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May 9, 2024

CrisGH

Not Recommended

I'm actually mad for being blindsided by the score and rave reviews this was such a slog to get through. While gay relationships are certainly not easy, this manwha really pushes my limits on the whole "petty misunderstanding" trope. It's misunderstanding after another and I just know it's lazy writing because there are better ways to capture the struggles of same sex couples and their trauma responses from their surroundings. It's infuriating, drags along, and ONE disgustingly annoying character (the fujioshi) makes it even worse.

This is not even a slow burn, it's a CHORE to read through. The only saving grace is the art, ...

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