GLERTLESKLETCH's manga / #Romance(85)

Yozora no Sumikko de

Complete | Hayakawa Nojiko | 2000 released

This story has supposedly ended but I didn't feel like it was done. I was hoping to see the two of them be more romantic and touchy but alas this is not a yaoi. In this story, the characters are reunited. They knew each other in high school and they met when the uke joined the seme's astronomy club. 11 years later, the uke is a teacher and the seme's son is his student. At times the story confused me. I know that the two of them liked each other when they were in high school. The seme had made some moves on the uke when he had given him a pen with stars on it. Back to the present, the two are surprised to see each other. They end up seeing each other often due to the seme's rowdy kid. The uke ends up going over to the seme's place. I forget what was said there, but the next day the uke realizes that he lost his special pen. He goes to the seme's house to ask if its there and when the seme asks "Is this what you're looking for", he gives the uke a kiss. The seme's son is adopted. His previous girlfriend had already had a child and she passes away in a plane crash. I wish there was more smooching between the characters. But there is a cute part thats set in the future in 2 years and they like together and the son has grown uo and the uke is making them dinner. It was so cute.

Kurayami Ni Strobe

Complete | hayakawa nojiko | 2011 released

SO CUTE. The stories from this author have been so nice and refreshing. This one was about two childhood friends who live next door to each other. The blonde guy (who i think is the uke) has a business in school where he takes pictures of peoples crushes and sells them. His dad is a professional photographer and he learned photography from him. His black haired friend (the believed seme) plays basketball and is pretty popular with the girls. He gets confessed to regularly and his childhood friend is always around eavesdropping on the confessions. The seme always tells the girls that he is busy with basketball, and during one confession, while the friend is around, the uke's phone goes off. The next confession, the seme instead, tells the girl that he has someone that he likes. The seme walks out knowing that his friend was eavesdropping and he had known that last time too. The seme asks the uke if he wants to know who it is that he likes. The seme tells him that its someone that he has taken a photo of. In the seme's wallet is a negative of a photo of them together when they were kids. The uke blushes. After this their feelings are pretty much revealed. The uke grapples with the fear of being discovered and people finding out that he's gay. The seme deals with feeling a bit of jealousy, but in the end the two work it out. The story is marked as completed, but it seems like there would be more to it. The story starts to show the other two friends of theirs becoming closer. I thought that they might get together before the story ended, but they did not.

Yoake Ni Furu

Complete | hayakawa nojiko | 2000 released

This story is a continuation of the story about the teacher and the father reuniting after 11 years. I figured that the son and the bully in his class would end up together, and this is a spinoff with their story as high schoolers. This tells us that the father and the teacher are still together after all this time. This story is really good and i can't wait for these to to get together, but first they have to make up. This ended on the characters in an argument. So basically used to be bully seme has the hots for uke, his somewhat childhood friend. The uke still has a thing for the teacher. He said he was rejected but he didn't give up. After spending time together. the seme being jealous of the teacher, the seme thinking that the teacher and the uke are dating, the two find themselves at the semes house. Its there that the seme finds out that they were never dating and that he had been rejected already. That he hasn't given up. The seme starts to ask "why not me?" The seme pushes him down, but the uke thinks he's joking. "I'm not joking." He confesses to the uke and slides his hand under his shirt. The uke head butts him and runs away. That's where the story has left off. I wish there was more I could read already. I was really getting into it.

Endou-kun No Jikken Note

Ongoing | hayakawa nojiko | 2013 released

A Continuation of the story with Endo (the uke); the boy with the messy long black hair and the seme that ruffles his hair with his hand. I had thought that the story had ended with seemingly no conclusion, but the story picks back up in this book. This part was less good. The seme's older brother appears and they talk about career future college stuff. That's the majority of it, but at the end, the two come together and finally tell each other what they are to each other. The story is apparently not over yet.

Perfect Fit

Ongoing | Thanat | 2019 released

The art style is kinda hard to get used to. I didn't really like the seme but he was better later on. His eyebrows are so fucking wack my guy. Mans got villanesque eyebrows fr. Anyways, the seme just messes with uke at first. They meet at school and he is pretty interesting looking. Their peers describe the seme as handsome, but i beg to differ. But apparently in this universe he is a hunky guy. So uke is staring at him. Who can blame him when the seme is walking around with eyebrows like that and also he's missing his hand from one arm. Then they hang out at the seme's place and hes all like "i saw u staring at me/ u like me" and just starts moochin on the uke outta nowhere. So it happens quite fast and u don't really feel the connection. It was okay. Seme high-key a sexual harasser, and the book even acknowledges it but its then like nvm, jk. It was okay. They frick and the characters look kinda off putting imo. The uke looks fine and the seme's sister, but really other than that, everyone else looks wacky and no one looks wackier than the seme. Maybe in their universe, the wackiest looking person is the most attractive or something.

Living With Him

Complete | miyata toworu | 2000 released

THIS WAS SO CUTE. Such a good read, short and sweet with just enough relationship development for the romance to not feel rushed or forced. It was a very cute story that I will be adding to my favorites list. The story is about childhood friends that grew apart when they went to different high schools. They are now going to college and need a place to live. Their moms are besties and decided that they should live together without hearing what their kids thought of it. The seme is tall Hottie nice popular guy cutie and the uke is cutie fluffy hair fellow. Turns out that the seme has had feelings for his childhood friend since they were young. The seme confesses and the uke needs to figure out if he feels the same way.

Don't Call Me Dirty

Complete | Gorou Kanbe | 2000 released

I read this after Dev sent me a tik tok with someone talking about it. The story is quite short and I think that the characters kiss but idk maybe it wasn't that memorable. I did read this before bed and it was 6:00 am. The love stuff happens fast. The whole relationship is just kinda like zoom for the finish line, which i think is something the tik tok person mentioned about the story. It s one of the things i don't like about many stories, so i gave it 4 stars. The sex happens too fast, the uke is just getting over a guy that dumped him and the seme never has any worry about how fast he's moved on like how people would in reality. It was good and cute nonetheless.

Fuyu no Hanashi (Yamada)

Complete | Yamada | 2000 released

This is so cute and short and i wish there was more. They are so gay for each other its so cute, but they never confess or anything. The dark haired guy is always teasing his light haired friend about liking him and the light haired friend gets flustered or mad or both. They both seem to like one another, but alas, no confession, as mentioned. Wish there was more, super cute, a favorite for sure, really short, loved the chemistry between the characters. This is how you convey attraction and connection in a short story. The characters didnt have to have a monologue about how suddenly "their heart beats around them and they get all flustered now but why is that" sort of thing. They didn't have to confess (even tho that would be cute), you understand that they like each other and those explanations are unnecessary. Also holy shit yamada wrote this and it was fluffy and nothing fucked up happened.

Come On, Spring

Complete | fujisawa yui | 2011 released

This was so cute. I love cute one-shots. They are childhood friends. When going off to college, the uke, who is going to school to be a beautician is going to a school in tokyo and has to leave his friend. When they say goodbye, the seme doesnt look too upset to see him go and this makes the uke cry. One year later, the seme is taking an entrance exam in tokyo and comes to visit his friend. He stays the night. The uke washes his hair and sneaks a kiss on his forehead. The seme doesnt stay around long. He takes the exam and then has to go home. When the seme is just about to get on the train, the seme is wondering if the uke is going to cry. The uke holds back his tears and smiles a goodbye to the seme. He doesnt get on the train. The train leaves. The seme says "I'm lonely too" and they hug and its cute and the seme kinda confesses and then tells the uke that he wants to go to school in tokyo so he can be with the uke. This makes them both super happy and the seme leaves, riding the train with a smile.

Metro Dog

Complete | KUSAMA Sakae | 2000 released

This was really good, really chill. They are both older men, one being older than the other. Me identifying the characters as uke and seme wont work here because they switch. The dark haired man is the older one. He is a business man. The light haired man is a shop owner. The business man is drunk one night, walking with his head down. He finds himself walking into a shop. The man in the shop offers him coffee. They have a nice chat and the dark haired man wants to pay for the coffee. He learns that this is not a coffee shop, the man just happened to be making some and offered some to him. His shop sells tobacco products and antiques. The business man keeps coming back for coffee and the shopkeeper. They share conversations over coffee. The shopkeeper clearly likes the business man. The business man is divorced, but accidentally talks about his wife as if they are still together, leading the shopkeeper to believe so. One day the business man is at the shop and he falls asleep. The business man feels something touch him and awakens. He sees the shopkeeper and tells him that he's not a homosexual. This makes things a bit weird between them. The shopkeeper tells him that chances are he won't want to come back. The business man has a realization that the shopkeeper is special to him and that he does in fact feel love for him. And they smooch and make love. The end.