fujomom's manga / #boarding house(1)

Hana wa Saku ka

Complete | HIDAKA Shoko | 2007 released

A quiet, moving tale of a business man who becomes friends with a group of guys living in a boarding house, the most mysterious of them being the owner. He's solitary but plain-spoken, and very unapproachable. The businessman finds himself more and more fascinated with the much younger owner or the boarding house. He fully realizes his feelings when a new guy with his heart on his sleeve moves into the boarding house, determined to get to know the owner. I liked this but some of it was hard to read, awkward wording possibly because of the translation.