muse ✨'s manga / #Yakuza(60)

Yoneda Kou's yakuza drama. This is graphic and features a main character who sleeps around (and we see it). He falls for his bodyguard. But then things go south. Will they end up together? I hope so since I've followed this for a couple of years. Fingers crossed.

Childhood friends in a close relationship have to decide if they want to be together for life or part ways when Ryu accepts being the fifth heir in a yakuza family.

This is a lovely read on a rainy day, which is how the story starts: a man running away from debt left to him by his former lover is caught in a typhoon and taken in by Ren, who is hiding from his former life in a tea shop that no one will visit. The art really plays up the contrast of light and dark. Often the characters are portrayed on white backgrounds, and other times the backgrounds are fully detailed and inked. It has a wonderful hand-drawn quality that really appealed to me. (I left this same review on June Manga's website)

A detective x yakuza love story. Not my favorite story in the world but entertaining, and I like the way the artist draws faces.

While he recovers from heartbreak (Minori no Te), Tatsuyuki travels to Fukuoka where he falls into one of Rogi's schemes to see Akitora again, and also reencounters someone from his past -- a traumatized boy he'd comforted. When I first read this, I didn't know Rogi's past and had little feelings for him until the final extra. Knowing his history, this is much sadder to read. Scarlet did a wonderful job of weaving in his heartbreak. I believe the kimono with leaves he wears in one scene is actually the one from Jealousy. He may be twisted, but I feel sorry for him. I raised this a star on 3rd reread.

Needed better character development overall but readable. The fourth heir to a yakuza family falls for a con man, and his childhood friend who has a one-sided love for him eventually falls for a teacher at school. Relationships aren't very developed, so I felt little for anyone.

Chapters 1-3: High schooler Haato feels a bond with his abusive mother's former lover Shibusawa, a member of the yakuza and the only person to have shown him kindness. Years later, Haato is working as a host and is openly in love with Shibusawa, who toes the line of a relationship but never crosses it until Haato loses someone close to him. The last story is about two coworkers: a man confesses to a coworker he sees feeding stray cats outside their building. ETA June 2020: After rereading the first story for the billionth time, I bought the manga. Hisashi does marry, but his husband dies post-story. We pick him back up here when he is 39 (chapter 5): https://www.mangago.me/read-manga/akanai_tobira/ July 2021: this might be the story I’ve read the most. Even more than the one about the hot dad who gets back together with his boyfriend after 20 years. Something about this makes me feel so sad and so moved. I wish there were more than just three chapters. I would love to know more about their daily life after they lived together.