淳's manga / #Manga(120)

Small hick village has a weird custom of arranged marriage between certain families. Unfortunately, only 2 males fit the criteria for the age range so they had to marry. Story was cute especially the ending as the feelings are developing and you see the seme's perspective. Love this author so gets 4 stars but seen better works

Minato is an out of the closet gay who sadly picks abusive partners bc he feels he has no choice if he wants a chance at happiness (even though all he wants is to be loved and to be happy) because there are so few gays to choose from, he feels he can't be picky. He befriends Takumi who is a sculpture artist he admires and begins to open up to him once they meet over his workplace, a cafe. Minato's last straw with his ex is when he catches him cheating on him, on Minato's birthday. He goes to Takumi's for comfort and one thing leads to another. They do have issues, one very realistic one being that Takumi has never been in a gay relationship before and had in the past, expressed a strong desire to have a family. I enjoyed seeing these real issues be addressed and confronted. And it was nice seeing Minato have really supportive ppl around him, the ppl he works for plus his mother. ((Btw it was his shithead ex that raped him))