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: Unknown

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 10,608 users)

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Ranked: #127²

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Popularity: #679

Members: 21,255

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Ranked #127Popularity #679Members 21,255

ManhuaD Jun (Story & Art)

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Yang Yu 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 Huan Li, a new student with a fairly oppressive height. Besides his intimidating physique, he is taciturn, aloof, and often gives Yang Yu the cold shoulder.

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

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Yang, Yu

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Huan, Li

Main

Chu, Huanwen

Supporting

Shu, Pan

Supporting

Yuan, Ji

Supporting

Xuan, Bai Sheng

Supporting

Yu, Jiang Jia

Supporting

Ji, Chen Xial

Supporting

Qiu Jie, Zhong

Supporting

Jian Yu, Zhang

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Aug 28, 2021

157 of ? chapters read

Overall Rating: 10

234Mannan (All reviews)

10 people found this review helpful

(Including the extra chapters too)
One of the best romance stories out there
Here U are is a realistic depiction of what gay males go through. And the writer Djun actually wrote it while taking his own personal experiences into account.(Yes the writer is a male)
Its not your typical BL where everything is just good and lucky or where you would have a issue of over the top or forced relationships.
One of the main charms of the series is the challenges the main character yu yang faces in order to be who he is. The manhua beautifully potrays his strong willed nature and read more

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Dec 31, 2021

137 of ? chapters read

Overall Rating: 5

abystoma2 (All reviews)

5 people found this review helpful

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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Sep 15, 2021

157 of ? chapters read

Overall Rating: 9

Agome_Higurashi (All reviews)

3 people found this review helpful

I’ll keep it short. This is a romance story with a slice of life pace. The difference? We have a look into some of the struggles gay people (and bisexual?) might have. I’m in no position to say how realistic the story is, as I’ve never faced those situations myself, but considering what I’ve seen and from my understanding, it touched on important topics like: prejudice, the impact of social/family acceptance (or lack of it) and insecurities/fears/awareness that heterosexual people usually don’t have.

I’m not gonna lie, we can find some common tropes, like the “fate/ destiny” one, and clichés here and there, however, they weren't the main factor building the relationships. And the drama doesn’t rely heavily on “Do they like/love each other? Will the couple end up together?”, but more like “If they end up together, how is it going to work? What is necessary for that?”. As a sucker for stories that focus on characters and their relationships (not only romantic ones), caring about the process, I’m satisfied with what was delivered. It’s a work that stand out among others on the BL and romance genres for me.

If you decide to give Here U Are a chance, I recommend paying attention on what makes the characters fall in love or strengthen their bonds with one another. Not from a judgmental stance, but trying to solely understand them. I’m pretty sure you will recognize similar dynamics playing around you or even expand your point of view on these matters.

Considering it’s a colored work, I enjoyed the details and how the backgrounds aren’t dull. The lightening and scenarios change quite often, adding to the story. For example, through the interior design choices, we can see that the characters we follow aren’t tight on budget or have families with a good financial condition overall. Also, although I’m not into fashion, I think the clothes choices reflect a lot about the characters and their personalities.

My favorite element is how they interact with each other though, expressing different sides of themselves and giving a more 3D aspect to them. In addition, I personally like the author brief appearances. I find their antics comical, but underneath all that, I see how D Jun put effort and consideration into Here U Are, paying attention to reader’s feedback and details as well. It isn’t a flawless work (is this even possible, considering how artists/writers, who are humans, are "flawed" too?) and might not be for everyone’s taste, but I found it to be a heartwarming and meaningful one. I had a good experience and I’ll probably remember positively about it in the future as well.

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Jun 29, 2021

138 of ? chapters read

Overall Rating: 9

nixi_320 (All reviews)

3 people found this review helpful

I thought it was an amazing story that I really enjoyed reading, however I didn't like the way it ended. I felt like it ended too abruptly. I would have liked to see more from the main couple after they got together, and more from the side couples, but for the most part my problems with this were only in the last few chapters, other than that i really enjoyed reading it and would highly recommend it. It also has great characters and character development. Another thing I didn't like was the age gap between one of the couples, that big of an age read more

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