Come to Hand
SO CUTE!! the main story is about a sensei and his student from 10 years ago. 35 and 28, small age gap. they get together pretty quick after the student, now a tattoo artist, saves sensei after he collapses outside the shop. tattoo shop student kinda lies a little cuz sensei didn't remember him, but then truth is revealed easily at a reunion and there's basically no drama. just pure fluffy cuteness and even the art is so soft! they spent some time figuring out having sex before sensei finally gathers courage to ask and they just suddenly do it which is kinda unrealistic lol. looove the oneshot story at the end. might be even better than the main story. actor and a writer. actor is playing lead male in a movie adapted from the writer's novel. they are introduced and actor is already a huge fan. author takes him home to give him some signed books and they keep promising to eat hot pot together. eventually actor confesses he needs to do a kiss scene and is nervous cuz he's never kissed. writer gives such a sexy face omg and asks if he wants to practice with him. ofc they do and then next day it's time to act the kiss scene but it rains. writer calls and said he wished for it to rain and they confess to each other omg so cute!!
Koufuku wa Kimi no Tonari ni
first story very domestic and cute. guy gets left at the alter and starts living with his best friend. best friend pampers him and takes care of him so much that he falls in love. he's about to leave to avoid this feeling but his best friend gets drunk and jerks him off and begs him not to leave cuz he's always been in love with him lol. so they confess to each other and get together. second chap is them being domestic and cute but the guy is feeling a bit worthless cuz he doesn't do much around the house. his best friend takes care of everything. he is so relaxed that he's also being like that at work. he starts working himself so hard that he just becomes even more useless and distant at home. in the end nothing changes but he realizes he shouldn't have worked so hard?? he just promises to work more at home but idk what the point of it all was lol cuz he promised that before too and his best friend just said he loves to pamper the other guy so no need. second story is short shounen-ai. really no romance at all. they are neighbours, one in high school and the other a low grade adult who didn't attend high school in person. high schooler cooks and cleans for the other guy. one day invites him to school cuz the adult never had the high school experience. just took online classes. while there the adult has some revelation like he's so useless while the high schooler has such a bright life and future. so that inspires him to make a change in his own life. he didn't want to see the high schooler again until he changed himself. but high schooler misses him and hears him collapse in his room one day. rushes over to help and says he didn't need to change himself to be friends. and even though he confesses, it's taken as a friendly "like" so they don't get together..... third story super cute about guy with small dick and bigger shy guy. he sees big guy being used for sex cuz he wanted close human contact or something, not sure the reasoning for the big guy's past relationship is sound. so small dick guy takes it upon himself to be big guy's friend so he won't need the other guy for human contact. but after a long time being friends he sees other guy get together with the sex friend again and gets mad. big guy says he has sexual frustration towards small guy and that's why he needed to vent it out. small guy says it's ok just use me and they do it lol. last story is about boss and the guy he interviewed and then got hired. underling loves this boss so much. boss got a tick bite near his pubes. he is shaving it while at the company onsen retreat. underling sees him and offers to help. boss gets hard as his ass is being shaved. they fuck. underling says he didn't like boss like this before, but now he does. boss always had a thing for the underling, from the interview. so i guess now they're together?? i guess there's an age gap here but not specified. idk these stories had potential, especially the first one, but i'm just not a fan of oneshots cuz they can't put in much story.
Afureru Namida o Nomikondanara
guy with tear fetish picks up a crying man. then they start being sex friends and eventually fall in love to something more. uke is very cheerful while seme is serious. idk why seme is so upset he has a tear fetish? but very cute story. small 5 year age gap. seme is 19 when they meet, though soon turns 20.
Tonari ni
SO GOOD. SUCH A SLOW AND RELAXED STORY. big age gap. one guy 45, and the other is like 20? they happen to see each other on the shinkensen(?) and the younger guy likes the older guy a lot. then one time the older guy gives back a ticket the younger guy left behind. from there they kinda talk the next time they meet. and agree to start going to horse races together. that's why the younger guy was taking the train anyway, to go to horse races around japan's big cities. then from there they start getting drinks together and one time at the older guy's house, the younger guy is staying over after missing the last train, he confesses his feelings. at first the older guy kinda rejects it cuz he didn't think he was in love and didn't think he could do anything. he was experiencing workplace harassment, that's why he had to take so many business trips on the train every weekend. anyway, then they happen to meet again on the train and this time they get together! older guy says some women at a bar opened his eyes to how he looks/seems in love. he purposely makes the younger guy miss the last train and they walk back to his place hand in hand!! such a realistic read. very mature and slice of life-ish.
Kantoku, Nekona Ore wa Dame desu ka
first 3 chapters are story about two guys in the av industry. or i guess the jgv industry. younger guy is inspired by older guy to work in porn and ends up being a top even though he's a bottom. one day he's working with the guy who inspired him as the director. he can't get it up. the top fingers his ass a little lol then he performs. after that they kinda get close and film a porno together with the bottom finally being a bottom, on the condition that the seme acts as top. seme was interested in the uke after seeing his untapped bottom potential. after that they kinda just get together meh. chap 4 is a one shot about two guys who just got married and are having their first night. seme's dick was always too large to put in so this is their first time actually having penetrative sex. just that.
Otoko Yamome Mo Hana ha Saku
age gap of nearly 20 years. 40 year old and early twenties. they meet at the restaurant the younger guy works at. slowly they get to know each other and younger guy falls in love first. invites him out to hang outside the restaurant and messages him and stuff. the older guy is divorced with a 17 year old daughter. she starts coming over more and reconnecting with her father who was mostly absent and the older guy can't see the younger guy as much. but this just makes him realize his love for the younger guy. even though they had kind of agreed to go out before, older guy was just trying it out. then they kiss and stuff and the older guy says he's not yet ready for sex but next time for sure.
Caramel 1
18 and 28 age gap. kid coming to tokyo for uni sees ad for a place that lets you live rent free if you do all the housework. he starts living there and first day gets kissed as a thank you. this manga is more sexual than the author's other works. basically he takes care of the cooking laundry cleaning for a president of a small company. there are some disagreements between them and the uke runs away a few times lol but those times help us see the seme get worried and that he really cares about the uke. anyway, pretty slice of lifey like the author's other works and they get together along the way. but they do have sex/touching before the relationship. one night they're sleeping together, as they always do cuz the seme is scared of the dark, and uke gets hard. seme jerks him off. after they get together though, they do take it slow to real penetrative sex.
Dining Bar Akira
slow and kinda implied. i don't even know when they started the relationship, cuz it was either off screen or too implied for my dumbass to notice lol. but then it's kind of nice seeing them come to terms with dating a man and how there's less security in that than a m/f relatinoship. younger guy 26, older 32. they work at the same restaurant. two bullshit one shots included at the end. one ends in tragedy/no relationship and other goes nowhere, just a crush. first one shot also kind of disgusting like teacher and student even though teacher didn't know at first. but then even after he did, he kissed the guy and stuff. lol typical old time stuff.
Nichiyoubi ni Pound Cake
strange story. big kinda uncomfortable age gap of 27 year old and high school first/second year. so the older guy works under the younger guy's dad. he only eats out, so he kinda asks to come over for dinner? unclear if the dad invited or he wanted to... first the son suspects the dad likes this guy, but is reassured that's not the case. but somehow he falls in love fast upon seeing the guy's pretty face. he is super open about his attraction and just starts kissing the guy all the time randomly. the guy doesn't really protest much, but does try to punch him at times. young guy says he doesn't really try to reject him. older guy looks like he gets mad at this implication. but then invites the kid to his house and suddenly kisses him?? says he just wanted to see reaction but looks like he had feelings cuz then after they make out and go shower together and almost have sex... then we just see a fast forward to when the younger guy graduates school and seems like their relationship is pretty stable and they fuck.
Lotus Eater