Here U Are

Aug 28, 2021

234Mannan

Recommended

(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 ...

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May 20, 2020

Average_Tami

Recommended

Preliminary (122/156 chp)

This is my first review!

So I absolutely loved/love this so much, I binge read it cause I just could not let it end!!!
I love the story, it doesn't feel forced, I love all the humor in it, I like how the relationship's in the manga are shown and how they grow and even the way they show the past trauma's and past relationships. DG did so good, so funny, so silly love all the little easter eggs hidden around.

I LOVE the art style it is so nice. I love the subtly of the derpy easter eggs and yuyangs rings. I love the style of the ...

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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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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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Sep 15, 2021

Agome_Higurashi

Recommended

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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Oct 26, 2020

caesarsalad4361

Recommended

Preliminary (137/156 chp)

I love this manhua.

The story starts off slowly as we're getting to know the main characters and their relationship evolves from acquaintances, to a romantic interest, to eventually them starting a relationship. It's not accepted by everyone, and I like how it showcases both negative and positive atittudes towards Yu Yang and Li Huan's relationship.

I like that one of them is an openly gay student as opposed to many of the tropes we usually see in yaoi and shounen-ai. The story is sweet and focuses on their romantic relationship, but also on relationships with friends, family etc which are just as important. Sex is a ...

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May 4, 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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Jul 31, 2020

KaeriArt

Recommended

Preliminary (127/156 chp)

I believe it was my first Manhua and BL story I read and I instantly fell in LOVE with it!
The story is absolutely SWEET! All the characters are just charming, cute, unique and hot by the way, especially the main characters!! The expressions and personalities of these two are just adorable, you just can't fall in love with them!

Like mostly you will see the past love/life stories of all the characters in the story, so, it's amazing to see how they are evolving in their own ways. The main story is long but that's what is so good about it!!! Seeing characters past and present ...

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Jun 29, 2021

nixi_320

Recommended

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 ...

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Nov 28, 2024

Sachoza

Recommended

Either this is poorly written or this wasn't the right story for me.

The story starting cute, but already halfway through this you feel it could have been a nice ending, but it keep going. And then you hit another point in the story, where you again feel it could have been another ending, but yet it continue. What i mean is that i feel this story is just "dragged/stretched" to its maximum and yet they continue the story with multiple side stories, when i honestly feel the main story stopped mid-part and the rest of just side stories to begin with.

I will still recommend checking ...

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Feb 26, 2021

kuroshoto

Recommended

Preliminary (138/156 chp)

One of the first BL I've read after a super long time, and it absolutely won my heart. The plot is beyond amazing, the story is so enjoyable and perfectly simple, there aren't any overly frustrating scenes. The art is just *chefs kiss*.

The personality and physical differences between Yu Yang and Li Huan make the story even better. I didn't feel like there were any stereotypes as well, which made the story much more down to earth than your everyday BL stories.

I really liked how Yu Yang approached Li Huan despite his "hard to approach" vibe, he really helped Li Huan bring out the ...

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May 27, 2020

Novecento

Recommended

Preliminary (123/156 chp)

I'm quite satisfied with this manhua: I really like the type of drawing, the main characters are both pleasant and appreciable, well written and responsive (each in their own way).
The story begins slowly and the first 40/50 chapters are the ones I appreciated the most along with some of the final chapters: the situations described were very credible and engaging.
Around the middle of the manhua I think there's too much drama (it's still absolutly tollerable) and a trope is introduced - which I think is starting to become popular in BLs since I saw the same situation in the BL that I read before this ... - and I find it incredibly stupid and also ugly (like all the tropes in BLs If I have to be honest) [SPOILER]: the "I am gay, while you like women - even if you like me, a man - and therefore you are normal, so we do not understand each other and you cannot understand me and I don't want you to experiment what I am forced to go through as a gay dude" trope.
Now, this is an absolute nonsense - that I hope I will never read anywhere else again - for a number of reasons: first, there is a sexual orientation to indicate people who like both men and women and this term is bisexual (not "straight, but you are the exception") and the concept of "you do not understand what it's like to be gay and you would not understand even if I explain that to you" is absolutly ridiculous because the other person is already having the same experiences of the "gay one" because he already has a thing with a man!
Luckily this manhua, in the end, manages the situation decently: "the heterosexual" - who fortunately has never really declared himself straight, but only "non-gay" - becomes aware of his sexual orientation (a character even uses the word ""bi", what a miracle) and comes out to his father saying he did it firstly for himself and not only for the comfort of the other guy, and the other one - who had accused him of not understanding - apologizes because he realizes that he told him some nonsense without even taking into account his feelings. [END SPOILERS].
Although I liked it a lot I can't give more than 8 for two other reasons "and a half" (in addition to the overly dramatic situations in the middle of the story, as I already told): first, the introduction of other gay couples - another BL's trope that I dislike a lot and plus they were not very credible, the characters were uninteresting, individually they worked better than as a duo and that's why I just pretend they don't exist in the story at all - and, second, because the author should have already had finished this work cause the main couple (which is however the only one seen in 95% of the chapters) was resolved shortly after the chapter 100 and there is very little else to say - if not continue for the others, who as I said, are absolutely uninspired!
The "half" reason is that (SPOILER) they don't change positions when they have sex - although I still have hope, since they start doing it very late in manhua -.
At this point I think than when - and if - I will find a BL with a versatile couple I will have a party. (END SPOILER)

Ultimately, I recommend it - albeit with its shortcomings - because it remains a very nice BL, the characters are interesting (and not stereotyped), the situations are credible and engaging and it has very well-made drawings.
The chapters are many, but often they are short and therefore it doesn't really take much time to read it all.
I would say that it is more than acceptable even from the point of view of a gay guy and not just of a fujoshi, so I'd say it's promoted.

I read this review at least three times and I'm sorry If I made some mistakes, but english is not my first language.

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Jan 16, 2022

l1ghtmyluv

Recommended

What an amazing Bl you guys! I love it!
This was the first time I read a chinese Bl and I admit to y'all, it was great. A very well-constructed, realistic, non-fetishized, non-toxic, and lovely story. I was into this Bl since the beginning and I finished with a wonderful closure, it didn't let any kind of questions about the plot. I believe it's focused on romance and drama, but it has some funny moments.
The characters are so captivating and nice, the author gave the spotlight for each one of them in their own way, so I love it. The couples have great chemistry as ...

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