alias's manga / #living-together(20)

Sequel to a Gosan no Heart sequel

Yuri's story continues in Form of Sympathy I'm unsubscribing 6/1/24, because the translation is just difficult to read and the couple is in an annoying place. Honestly, I think I read the sequel first, and thought this couple would be really cute from that, but they just... aren't?

Seke couple They're kind of weird and annoying about it at first - The smaller, younger, more "cute" of the two is initially the uke, but over time he grows taller and more muscular, so they initially present everything as "well yeah, since he's bigger and more 'manly' now, I guess he's the seme so they've got to reverse roles! No other choice! Doesn't matter that the older guy doesn't like the idea! And I guess this is just how it'll be, now! The younger guy who liked bottoming before will just never do it again, because he's bigger now and those are the rules" and there's also a bit of transitional "the guy who wants to top is the one that wants to have sex. The uke just puts up with it" sort of stuff and a bit of an allusion to the idea that the older guy "has never really been gay, he only wants to sleep with the uke" which adds a smidge to their "drama" about him needing to give in and bottom. There's quite a bit of transition. But once they sort of get over that, the relationship between them is quite sweet. And they start switching a bunch more, and even have some more realistic observations about their dynamic (the older guy has a moment where he realizes he doesn't want people to think he's a bottom, because it will make him feel like less of a man, and at another time the couple talks about how they both "feel it more" when they have sex a particular way). All in all, it's a sweet couple, and definitely tries to break away from some tropes, even when it seems to reinforce them just so they can break them a bit later

Part of the Doukyuusei series. I had no idea this couple had so many sequels??? They're so precious, I just wish I liked the art a little better. This has got to be one of the later ones, but I've lost sense of the order.

This was quite smutty, but also sweet. The pairing really care about each other, and the amnesia was a test of their relationship. But of course, the story also had to throw in a bunch of creepy pseudo(?)incest-y kinda stuff, because we really needed that edge, right? Like we can't enjoy the story if both the gay guys didn't start out in love with their sisters, right? -_- It's possible the main uke wasn't attracted to his sister and was just dealing with the difficulty of growing apart from his twin, but with all the other uncomfortable family attraction (the main seme was seemingly attracted to his own sister, apparently the uke's pornstar mom (so OF COURSE he fell in love with the uke! it was fate via DNA~!) and also the uke's sister (which like yeah, if he forgot he fell in love with the uke, sure maybe he'd think his attraction was displaced from the uke's basically identical twin sister. But he also slept with the uke while thinking he was in love with the sister...)) so even the potential interpretation of the uke being in love with his identical twin is really icky. But the seme has to give up on his sister early on, the attraction to the mom is really a passing mention (we never meet the mom), and the attraction to the uke's sister is entirely the result of this amnesia thing, which makes it a little less ick. BUT ALSO the seme and uke knew each other from school. How did we never know about the sister before the amnesia? The seme should totally have at least KNOWN OF her before all that. Does she not go to school? Is their school that big? It makes no sense. She clearly only exists to create this identity mix up from the amnesia. The sex is hot, okay? They care about each other. When they're both in their right minds, they seem pretty sweet.

So the whole time I was reading this it felt like there was missing information/context, and then it turns out IT'S A SEQUEL to Hush (Today) So good news: There's more of this couple, and this story was at least comprehensible on it's own The bad news: I read it first