GLERTLESKLETCH's manga / #Cute(85)

On the Veranda

Complete | Ichikawa Kei | 2000 released

I wish there was more of it. A man sees a ghost of a guy on his veranda. He smokes while the ghost drinks. The guy swears that he recognizes the ghost guy from somewhere. He realizes that the guy is his coworker. He sees the guy on the veranda every night. At work he hears the guy tell his coworkers that his girlfriend left him to marry someone else. He sees the ghost of the guy looking at his phone and crying that night. Another night he sees him jacking off and he does too. When the ghost starts to not come around anymore, he starts to realize that he misses him and that he seems to like the guy. It was very interesting and cute. I would have loved to see the characters get together, rather then be left with the idea and assumption that they do.

Toritome no Nai Koi no Shi

Complete | Ichikawa Kei | 2000 released

Umm hello? This is SO CUTE. The story uses metaphors is a literal way to show what the character is feeling. He wakes up with a hole in his chest, but it's a literal hole. He asks a friend about it and looks up what it means. It mentions sadness and loss. He thinks back to his long time friend and him drinking last night. He recalls his friend telling him that he is married. He thinks he feels sad because even though he has known him for some long and they go out drinking often, he never mentioned anything about his love life. His friend shows up at his door step. When he sees him he starts to feel pain. The hole is growing bigger. They go inside and his friend is worried about the pain he is in. His friend wants to tell him something. He tells him that he is not actually married. He lied. He had this idea of saying something like that to see how he would react, because his friend has liked him for a long time. The guy starts to hear bells ringing. He tells his friend that he can hear them. He tells his friend to hug him and his friend goes in for a kiss. No more hole in his chest. This story was cute and clever. I enjoyed reading it.

One Room Angel

Complete | Harada | 2019 released

This story was so beautiful and bittersweet. Big scary looking guy works at a convenience store. He doesn't think his life is worth anything and has thought about dying. While working at the convenience store register, two guys who are buying cigarettes get upset when the scary looking guy asks them to confirm their age. They take the fight outside into an alleyway. The scary guy is winning until one of the guys pulls out a knife and stabs him. When the scary looking guy is stabbed, he starts thinking about how he might as well die. He is on the brink of death and sees an angel, a boy with beautiful white wings who sits on the ground. He is then gone. When the scary looking guy is discharged from the hospital, he goes back home to his very small one room apartment and the angel boy is there. The guy lets the angel boy stay at his place until he gets his ability to fly back. The angel boy's wings are affected by people's emotions. When the guy is depressed, the angel boy feels it and feathers fall from his wings. Having the scary looking guy be happy would bring his wings back to health. The scary looking guy tries to find a new job since he was fired from his last one. People won't hire him because of his scary look. While living together they grow closer and learn more about themselves. The angel boy cant remember anything about himself. He doesn't know who he is or if he is really an angel. When the scary looking guy gets the angel boy a smartphone he looks up articles about the stabbing. He discovers that at the same time the scary looking guy was stabbed, his past self had jumped from the building and committed suicide. When the angel goes outside, he realises no one can see him. when the angel was alive, a popular guy in his class bullied him. Everyone noticed, but no one did anything about it. One day, at a party, the popular guy was drunk and tried to kiss the angel boy. He got mad when the angel boy called him a pervert . The popular guy put him into the open window and said jump. When the angel boy looked scared, he seemed like he was about to apologize or be nicer, but the boy sat in the open window and leaned too far back, falling to his death. After the popular boy died, people started blaming the angel boy for killing him, even the popular boy's parents, who came to the angel boy's father to say "why did our son die but yours is alive". This got to the angel boy and he commited suicide due to the way people treated him. There are times when the angel boy tries to fly, but he gets scared. They start to wonder why the angel boy is there on earth and why can only the scary looking guy can see him. One day when the angel boy tries to fly, the scary looking guy asks him to stay with him forever and the angel boy asks him to go out with him. They go out places together and they laugh and smile together. They are both happy. On a snowy day when they are expressing how much they mean to one another, they look happy and the angel boy says he feels like he could fly. When the scary looking guy turns around the angel boy is gone. He becomes sad again, really sad, and he wonders if this is his punishment for things he did in the past. He starts to wonder if he just imagined the angel boy, untill his sister comes over to his place and says "what a beautiful feather". The scary looking guy keeps the feather in a bottle that he wears around his neck. He goes to work at his sister's bar and his younger brother who he lost connection with sends him some rice and congratulates him on his new job. The scary looking guy looks at the angel's feather and thinks that life isn't so bad. In the extra, we see the angel boy call a wide and taller man by the name of the scary looking guy. They both have wings and they walk off together into the distance. The scary looking guy has lived for a long time and has passed away and is now reunited with the angel in heaven. I loved this story and it made me tear up. My favorite work by Harada for sure. Not as fucked up as the other ones, not very fucked up at all, just emotional.

Dekoboko Sugar Days

Complete | Atsuko Yusen | 2000 released

Added to "re-read". Write something about it Dark haired guy used to think “I will protect this kid”. Now, that kid has grown to be very big. When the dark haired guy helped the guy (blonde) when he was a kid, he mistook him for a girl. The kid’s parents said that he often gets mistaken. The dark haired guy said “and so fell the curtains to my first love”. After that incident, the blonde guy became attached to the dark haired guy. The dark haired guy says “my first love should have ended back then, but I think my freakishly tall 180- some childhood friend is adorable.” The dark haired guy has a height complex and wants to become taller. A short freshman girl has her eyes on the dark haired guy, and she goes to confess to him. When the dark haired guy starts experiencing jealousy and sexual thoughts of his childhood friend, he starts to avoid him. When blonde boy is in class, a classmate tells him that the dark haired guy has been walking home with the freshman. When the blonde guy was younger, he used to think the dark haired guy was his prince. He told his older sister that a prince came to save him. She said, “princes don’t save boys”. She told him that he is not his prince but someone he admires. When the blonde guy finds out about the girl, he starts thinking of how the dark haired guy would act towards a girlfriend. When he pictures the dark haired guy in a sexual scene, he pictures himself in the girl’s position. The blonde haired guy wants to see if the rumors are true, so he decides to take a peek. When he sees the girl walking with dark haired guy he starts to follow them. He sees the dark haired guy smile and he thinks of how he only looks upset or looks away when he is with him. This thought makes the blonde guy start to cry. While is his walking, the blonde guy falls into the gutter that the dark haired guy had saved him from when they were little. He tries to get out, but his legs appear to be stuck. He makes a sound and the dark haired guy hears him. While he and the girl are walking he says “sorry” and “I’ve got my answer”. He goes to find the blonde guy. The blonde guy sprained his leg. He helps him out and carries the blonde boy home on his back. The blonde guy tells him that he has always been cool, since they were young. They both realize their feelings for one another, but both of them think that the other only sees them as a childhood friend. They tell their friends that they have someone they like. The dark haired guy’s friend guesses that it is the blonde guy when he says that they are child hood friends. Then the friend tells the dark haired guy that the blonde guy also likes him and that it is obvious. The two finally tell each other how they feel. I really like this story and I love the way the characters look. The seme is really cute, I love his design.

Double Section

Complete | MARITA Yuzu | 2016 released

Added to "re-read". Write something about it. I really liked this story. Its about coworkers who have a jobs that are "like water and oil". The blonde is an audit and the dark haired guy is a salesman. They are next door neighbors now that the dark haired guy has just moved in. After discovering that his neighbor is an audit of the same company, the dark haired guy glares at the blonde guy. The dark haired guy later learns that the audit wants to help the customers and the sales people and he changes his view of the blonde guy. They start eating together and such and become closer. They learn more about each other, like something from the blonde guys past.

Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku

Ongoing | Fujita | 2014 released

This show is so cute and I wanted to read it to see what else happens. It's not completed yet so I will have to look out for updates. Hopefully it does, cause if not, looks like I'll be spending all my money on paper copies. I can't wait to see more romantic development between Nifuji (is that how its spelled?) and Narumi.

Darlin', Iikagen ni Shiya Gare

Complete | SUZUMARU Minta | 2017 released

I thought that this story would be longer, but I sorta liked its shortness. Country Japanese farm boy meets have Japanese half Italian boy. They hit it off and start spending more time together, when italian boy kisses farm boy on the cheek as a greeting and farm boy blushes.

Hetakuso Love Step

Complete | Yoriko | 2000 released

I really enjoyed this story. I have read Sugar Dog by the same author and that story is also really cute. In this story, A dark haired shy guy is asked my his female friend if he could fake being her boyfriend to get this player guy to leave her alone. He doesn't want to, but since she already showed him a picture of the shy friend, he doesn't have much of a choice. He meets the blonde player guy and he wants to talk to him saying "you're so and so's boyfriend, right?" When the player starts asking personal sex questions about his fake girlfriend, he tells the player that they haven't done it. The player asks him to go to the bathroom with him, leads him into a stall and then confronts him about what he said saying that normally a boyfriend would get mad at someone who spoke like that about their girlfriend. "you're not actually dating, are you?" The shy guy thinks he's gonna get beat up, but the player says he wants to hang out with him. He wants to teach him about sex stuff. He starts making moves on the shy guy and it does seem rapey at first but then the blonde player guy does ask for his consent and whether or not he wants to continue and the shy guy does consent saying he wants to know what it will feel like. As "friends" who keep sleeping together, when they shy guy starts to develop feelings, he is afraid that he will end up being hurt. He starts to fear this and before the blonde player can dump him, he tells him that he no longer wants to go along with him. To this the player says "I'm done". It takes this for the player to realize that he does like the shy guy and that he does want an actual relationship. They confess and it is very cute.

Terano-kun to Kumazaki-kun

Complete | Yoriko | 2019 released

Student council president x delinquent. They met when a teacher asks the prez to check up on the delinquent. The Prez shows kindness but the delinquent always responds coldly. As the Prez keeps trying he starts to see a different side of the delinquent. He starts to see his cute side. The Pres starts to find himself blushing around the delinquent and has a desire to touch him. The delinquent starts blushing around him too. As the school year ends and thoughts of a new year and being in a new class without the delinquent rise to the surface, the prez goes for it an asks the delinquent to go out with him. I thought this story was very cute, just like the other works I have read from this author. The art is always so good and the characters always look so cute.

Dull and Sweet

Complete | jil hashikura | 2019 released

This ended very quickly. The book is closed for this manga but there has to be more. This was just the start of a story, and a good one at that. This is super promising. I love the air-headed seme and I would love to see their relationship progress. Man walks into a gay bar and asks “where are all the women?” The bartender is living a double life. During the day he's in the office and at night he’s working at a gay bar. While hes working a new guy comes in and says that. He finds out that the guy is straight and he is looking for a wedding party. They part ways with the straight guy saying that he feels like he knows the bartender. The next day hes at the office and he bumps into someone and its the straight guy from last night. The company is holding a drinking party for the new guy (straight guy) and straight guy tells bartender that he would be happy if he went. The bartender goes because he is afraid that the new guy might spills the beans about his other place of work. The new guy gets really drunk and the bartender is the one who ends up having to take him home. Since the new guy wont wake up and give the bartender his address, the bartender takes the new guy back to his place. When walking through the doorway of his place while supporting the new guy on his back, they trip on a step into the room and fall to the ground. The new guy wakes up, takes off the bartender's glasses and says "you look cuter without your glasses." This makes the bartender blush and the new guy leans in like hes about to kiss the bartender but then he passes out again. This makes the bartender hard and he jerks off in the other room. That is it; that's all there is rn. I really want more of this story.