Slow Starter (ichikawa Kei)
Colorful Line
Shousuke (Shou-chan) and Tomoki are friends. Shousuke always comforts Tomoki after he gets dumped (which is often). His mo after break ups is that he cries a lot/gets depressed, drinks, and rants to Shousuke. Shousuke loves Tomoki and one night kisses Tomoki while they'd been drinking. The next day, Shousuke is avoiding Tomoki who wants to talk about what the kiss meant. Shousuke literally ran away so Tomoki had to chase him. When they've both run to exhaustion, Tomoki asks Shousuke what the kiss meant and is confessed to by Shousuke to which Tomoki replies that he loves him too. Shousuke cannot believe this because Tomoki is flighty with love - he always claims that he loved the girl that dumped him and that she was the one. The rest is basically dorks trying to figure themselves and each other out. And another run-and-chase happens. These boys are a hot mess. Lol. At one point, Asami (Tomoki's ex-girlfriend), talks to them both about each other. They've both been moping separately and she just gets frustrated one day and hits Shousuke with her bag. Those two do not get along at all. Asami had been jealous of Shousuke because it always seemed like Tomoki was almost a different person with Shousuke. She felt like something was missing between her and Tomoki - as did all the other girls he went out with. Anyway, the boys finally talk and finally start dating.
Yuugure no Machi
Asahi, who goes to a male soap land to collect on their debt, coincidentally meets Kanna. The owner of the shop had run off, leaving Kanna,who was working as a live-in worker, suddenly without a job and a place to stay. Unable to abandon his former classmate, Asahi lets Kanna stay at his rundown apartment as a freeloader, however...
Boys Love (NAKAMURA Asumiko)
Few words are said in this one shot, but they're not really needed. It is clearly conveyed that these two boys are young, inexperienced, afraid and in love. They know they are different from the norm because they like each other. This is a very wonderful (and very different) manga.
Yorimichi (KAZUKI Rai)
OMFG this is so cute. Inui confesses to Makoto while he's dressed as a girl for a school event and is instantly refused. Inui wants to be friends with Makoto who has no friends because his dad is a cop and his mom is a teacher. They become friends and while Makoto treasures his friendship with Inui, when winter comes and Inui confesses again he's upset. Because he's never strayed from the path set out before him, while Inui does all the time, and that scares him. Loving a boy goes against the norm and while he's scared, he loves Inui too.
Doushiyoumo Nai Keredo