pyrokitten77's manga / #host(9)

Haato fell in love with his abusive mother's ex-boyfriend (Shibusawa) who was nice to him. While he's in high school, he asks Shibusawa if he can join his yakuza group. Shibusawa vehemently denies, saying Haato's got the wrong name and the wrong look for it and it would never work. Haato asks him what he can do to get closer to Shibusawa and turns out Shibusawa was worried about him being with his mother so he tells him he can stay with him. Haato kisses him, which he is smacked for, and is told he's not to kiss a man. In chapter two, Haato has become a host and his mother has long since run off, leaving behind a huge debt that Haato is to pay. Shibusawa still takes care of him and looks out for him. One day, when Shibusawa goes to collect some money, he finds a man who had killed himself after killing a woman because of debt. Turns out the woman was Haato's mother. Shibusawa can't tell Haato because he doesn't want Haato to change so he tells him that he can permanently live with him and that they can start "that" kind of relationship. Haato finds out in chapter three that his mother is dead and believes that Shibusawa only let him have him because he was trying to comfort him and that Shibusawa was being nice. Shibusawa reveals that he actually loves Haato and Haato scolds Shibusawa for keeping an important thing quiet but forgives him. And they live happily ever after. :D Chapter 4 is about Tama and Negi who are childhood friends that end up in a relationship because Negi confessed to Tama and Tama said okay. Chapter 5 is a bit "supernatural". It's about Shouta and a ghost named Saito Zengo. Saito appears after Shouta beats up a few guys for stealing another kid's money. Shouta runs home but Saito is there and it turns out that Saito has followed Shouta for 2 years. Shouta is the only one that can see or touch Saito. They become close. One day while heading home, a sick Shouta is attacked by the guys he beat up before and Saito materializes and runs them off but he has to carry Shouta home because he's knocked out. When Shouta wakes up, Saito confesses and they end up having sex. The next morning, Saito has made breakfast and has "returned to self". I guess he isn't a ghost anymore? It ends there, so I'm assuming that's what happened. Chapter six is about a guy named Narasaki who rejected his friend's confession during high school ten years ago and who is currently being confessed to by a co-worker, Wakatsuki. Narasaki is to give an answer later and thinks about how he regrets that he rejected his friend's feelings without much thought and doesn't want that to happen again so he thinks real hard about it. Before giving his answer to Wakatsuki, they have a chat and Narasaki decides to think about it some more. Narasaki sleeps on it and when asked for an answer, he says yes.

Munematsu, the manager of the host club that has recently opened in the shopping street of a small town, meets the timid representative for the neighborhood council - Tooru. At first, Munematsu believes he's just a quiet four eyes, but the drunk Tooru is more seductive than expected and Munematsu starts to feel attracted to him. But the reason why Tooru doesn't let Munematsu touch him is that he has an allergy to hot people. The comic romance of the handsome host and the plain recycle shop owner!

Not too impressed with this one. The story just starts kinda abruptly and I never really got a feel for who these two were individually - just as a couple. There's no backstory on how these two met - which I think is kinda necessary. It didn't even have much of a plot but a bunch of stuff happened. Sora's ex-boyfriend came to (I guess) retrieve him? He acted all stalker-like and tried to rape him and then Keichi came and saved the day and the ex ran off and basically said it was too much trouble. Kind of a contradiction there, considering he stalked Sora and kidnapped him. Come on now. Keichi and Sora went to the hot springs on vacation, saw a woman (ex-girlfriend?) who worked with Keichi and who would have "taken advantage" of Sora (?), and then Sora almost got raped by a couple of dudes. Idek. Too much happened for no purpose. I did enjoy the last chapter - the one shot. That was pretty cute.