GLERTLESKLETCH's manga / #Slice of Life(45)

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.

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.

Shinobeba Koi

Complete | yukue moegi | 2014 released

Like shut up omg this was so cute. This is a side story of a brother from another story. I've read that one. This was so good. A kid goes out to enjoy the nightlife. He walks past a bike gang and a member meets eyes with him as if to say "come here". He's the leader of the group. The kid wants to ride on the back of his bike. Other members tell him that the leader doesn't let anyone ride on his bike. Girls beg him to let them sit on the backseat all the time. The leader asks him what his worst subject in school is. He tells him if he gets perfect marks on the next test he will let him ride. This motivates the kid and he succeeds. He gets to ride with the leader. He holds onto the leader tightly as they speed off together. Other members tell the kid that that was the longest he has ever ridden with anyone. After noticing that the leader is giving the kid special treatment, other members of the group start to try and fight the kid. During a fight the leader takes the kid away on his bike back to his place. As they are sitting by the heater in his place, the leader brings mouth close to the kid's. He licks him and asks him if he wants to continue. The two make love and in the morning the leader wakes up to find that the kid is gone. We see them older, as you do in the beginning of the story. The leader says that He regrets that night. That he regrets it because he never said I love you first. He wants to talk about it since they spent 4 years not talking about it since they met again. He wants to know why he left and if he likes him. It was refreshing to read this manga. It was very good.

Ringo ni Hachimitsu

Complete | hide yoshiko,Hideyoshico | 2000 released

This had a collection of short stories. The first one was about a guy who once saw a gay couple at the beach. They acted like they were in their own world. They didn't care that people could be watching. Then its the guy and his friends on the beach and he's dating a dark-haired tall guy in the group, but his friends don't know. The dark haired guy doesn't wanna hide anymore. The blonde guy recalls the gay couple he saw when he was young to his partner. He later agrees with his bf that he can tell people about them. The next story is I believe the same characters from the beach one but how they met. The blonde guy was seeing a man who wants to get married to a woman but still keep the blonde guy around. After he tells him, he stops seeing him. I think they are in college. The dark haired guy has a curry club and asks the blonde guy to join. The man the blonde guy was seeing shows up at his school and tries to get him to stay with him. The tall dark-haired guy sees and says something like "homos?" Before the man was holding his hand, but when the dark-haired guy made himself known, the man let go of his hand. When the dark-haired guy finds out that the blonde guy is gay, the blonde guy is surprised that he still wants to be around him. They hang out more and one day the blonde guy agrees to check out his curry club. Turns out the curry club is just the guys house, and him, and no one else. They go into his house and then the dark-haired guy calls the other guy dense and then he steals a kiss from the blonde guy. The dark haired guys says that he's been into him for awhile. That one was good. Then There's one about a guy who goes to see the guy he had a crush on ten years ago. He thinks that the world is going to end because the Mayan calendar is ending. He shows up at the guys house and explains this. This one was a lot more emotionally deep than the other ones. The guy talks about how its been so long and how he has someone, but he hasn't been able to get over the person that this guy once was, and that he's been searching, looking for parts of the version of him that he loved in him. The blonde guy who thinks the world is going to end seems to be growing on the dark-haired guy. The dark-haired guy asks the blonde guy to cut his hair. He makes it look like how it used to; the hair of the person he loved. He starts to cry, and the two of them kiss, and in the morning the dark haired guy finds a note from the blonde guy that says he went to work. There's no hint that they will meet again or that any real relationship has formed. Its as if the guy kissed the dark-haired guy's past self and was then able to move on. I don't even really recall what else there was and I just read this.

Kanemochi-kun To Binbou-kun

Complete | hideyoshico | 2012 released

This was somewhat confusing at times. There was like a 10 year time jump but I didn't realize it at first. They story was really cute and I like the characters. It takes place in a school. Two students that don't really get along at first. One is rich, the other poor. The rick guy's grandfather is the chairman of the school. The Chairman and the poor guy's grandfather knew each other during the war and the grandfather had a crush on him. He has loved him ever since. When the chairman sees him, its like seeing the man he loved in the flesh.

Hidamari no Orange

Complete | Yu chitose | 2019 released

Cute and just long enough with just enough character interaction where the development of the relationship feels natural and not forced. I really liked this cute bl. Basically, smart/pretty uke spends him time in the art room after school. He scores really high in school. Seme needs to improve his grades or else he will have to repeat the year. He finds the uke in the room and then says that he wont tell anyone about his misuse of the room if he helps him study. This is their deal. They spend time together studying and once its come to an end and the seme passes, the seme is sad, telling the uke that he would still like to see him. They see each other over the summer and we learn about the uke's family. How his dad left and how his mom is a single parent who works hard for the both of them. She's never around so its always lonely at his house. That's why he stays in the art room and thats why he is envious of he seme and his lively house. The seme realizes that he feels love for the uke and at a festival they go to, almost blurts it out. The seme tells the uke that he loves him and so does the uke. The uke graduates and the two become a couple. We then see into their relationship after 3 months and they are still together.

Hoshikuzu Lemonade

Ongoing | matsumoto icco | 2000 released

Convenience store worker is visited everyday by a salaryman who buys his meals there. The employee tells the business man that its not healthy for him and that he will surely die sooner. The salaryman has confessed to the konbini worker before and the worker rejected him politely. The employee is working and a man tries to rob the store. Before he can the salaryman shows up and brings the guy down, saving the convenience store employee. The employee then feels that he owes the salaryman for saving his life. The salaryman cant cook, hence why he always gets food from the convenient store. He wants the employee to cook for him in return. This is mostly where it leaves off. It seems like it has been dropped. People are asking for it to be updated and that was in 2020, from what im seeing. It may not be updated again or at least not for a long time. Thats too bad because the story seems really cute and I would love to be able to read the rest.

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.