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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!!

fucking beautiful. this author is quickly becoming one of my top favs!! these two students who happen to become friends and feelings develop to something more. such a natural progression. and there's some details about how one knew the other before. and they tried to be a little deep with some family problems for the seme, but it was not shown so well?? either way though, beautifully told in a soft slow rough way!! against the backdrop of rural japan. slow to relationship but then they touch right away at school lol

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.

set at a defense university, basically some military school. the two guys were friends in high school. seme is in love with uke and follows him to the defense uni. he makes it his goal to protect the uke. uke slowly falls in love, the events spanning their first two years at uni. lots of military puns and jokes. they never have penetrative sex lol seme comes in 3 seconds when uke blows his dick and they get interrupted the second time. love it!! second vol is just them trying to have sex whole time but uke's cousin keeps getting in the way cuz he also likes uke. but then he realizes how much uke only has eyes for seme and gives up. then they finally do it. then we see them graduate but it's kinda confusing cuz apparently they need to do another year and a half of some training?? and that's why a senpai is still here even though they're in 3rd year and graduating?? idk. but it's so sweet seeing them promise to be together forever. luckily they are assigned to be on same ship after studies too. and uke says he wants to grow old with seme and die together omg i fucking teared up it's wonderful.

this started off strong but the art kinda changed and the story seemed to take a weird turn as well. basically these two guys meet on twitter but there is a misunderstanding that the top is a girl cuz of his unisex name. so when they meet irl at uni, the bottom is surprised but transfers his feelings easily to the male yukino. they are cute and the bottom confesses. but is rejected by yukino cuz of some past trauma shit. then the bottom is like i accept you or something so he gets over it and then they get together. i think the issue was yukino is too perfect and that's just a front?! idk but something dumb, yukino always felt way too fakely over friendly. the character design for yukino totally changed for the worse. from a cool studious type to some rocker playboy vibe.

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.

neighbours. get to know each other through some bug extermination and dinners together. they find out they had some past connection. one guy helps the other guy overcome something in his past so he can write music lyrics again. then he kinda puts his feelings into a song lyric that the other guy finds and they get together. they even held hands before this so i thought they were already together but i guess not lol. cute but nothing special at all.

a nursery school teacher and chef. the child is nephew of the chef. teacher is divorced, but that part of the story is not well explained. kinda confusing if he was really married, or to a man or woman. basically through sending his nephew to nursery school, the chef meets the sensei and quickly falls in love. he confesses real quick but the sensei kinda rejects him by saying you must have made a mistake cuz im a man. after that they still see each other cuz the chef teaches the sensei to cook. looks like sensei is not completely against the relationship cuz he proposed this idea. but then he pretends to wear a ring on his ring finger to keep the chef away. like i don't get his reasoning for this. one day the chef confronts him about it and finally confesses properly and then they get together. very weird idk maybe i'm missing something. after that they move in together and turns out for 6 months they hadn't had sex so they get to it. sensei says a cute line like i like our relationship already i wouldn't mind not having sex to be with you but ofc he still has desires.

super cute!! they're not really delinquents but the way they dress and act kinda is, except they're on the right side of the law?! anyway so seme saves the uke one day and uke aspires to be like seme. he starts his own faction in the city helping the citizens. he gets so nervous seeing the seme that he acts out aggressively. slowly the seme sees the uke's cute points and they get together <3. no sex scene, but they do say they haven't had sex after a while in relationship.

volume 2 of this series!! they go through all the phases of a new relationship while fighting crime in the city haha. getting used to kissing and dates and finally having sex. wish there were some extras or something cuz it just suddenly ends after they have sex and it's kinda like suddenly being jolted out of that universe.