muse ✨'s manga / #business men(33)

A man transfers to a struggling company branch run by a manager he admires and once confessed to, hopeful that he'll win him over. But the manager is cold and violent toward him once he arrives, despite keeping a photograph of their former team on his desk. In the three months he's there, the man realizes his manager is struggling with pain from a previous relationship and may not dislike him after all.

A series of interconnected stories. The only one I really cared about was the President and Luciano, the exclusive model for his company. The others were forgettable. The final couple included a sculptor who was a controlling partner who doesn't listen, and I didn't like him at all. But Luciano and Yoshi, I like that they're open about their relationship and seem to be communicating well. :-D

A collection of oneshots: a man and his coworker, childhood friends who swap uniforms for graduation, a man reunited with a childhood friend who always saved him from bullies. All of them go from "I like you" to penetration like it's the last lap at Daytona, but it was a happy read.

A selfish boss and his subordinate end up in a hotel because the trains have stopped running. The boss, too drunk to recognize his coworker, comes onto him and asks his subordinate to film the encounter, giving him the perfect weapon for revenge. Only the more they get to really properly know one another, little by little, their relationship begins to change. I almost skipped this and am so happy I didn't. This was a fantastic love story, well paced and believable. I agree with other commenters who said this has the best confession scene they've ever read!

After being unfairly fired from his job, a man agrees to be a housewife for his kouhei from university.

An instant favorite. Ayumu has been in love with a sempai at his company for a long time. They're so close and Toujou is so affectionate with him that coworkers joke they're married, but Ayumu has no intention of confessing his feelings and only wishes for Toujou's happiness. I dislike labeling people by the way they have sex, but this author flipped a lot of traits I see in other stories. Toujou, who plays the role of the seme, is bubbly, affectionate, straightforward, cheerful, laughs, and rolls around thinking about buying a dog. When Ayamo apologized for being unable to bear children, Toujou turned around and apologized too - to everyone's shock, including mine. So often, the gay character is the one who harbors regret for leading the straight or bi character down a "wrong path." This author went the other way. Toujou stressed that they're both unable to have kids, they're equals, and they're choosing to be together because the love each other. The end. I'd read a hundred pages about their silly domestic mishaps.

A demanding young man in his early 20s struggling with his confidence falls in love with his tailor. This story broke a lot of genre stereotypes and it was incredibly touching and even erotic at times, but it always remained tasteful. I wish it were ten times longer. At Fujocon 2021, Scarlet said in her livestream that of all of her characters, Tetsuya is the one she would date. She also said he was the quietest during sex. Now we know!

Two men who have been friends for twenty years have become lovers and play rock-paper-scissors to see who tops.

From DMP: What would you do if your crush of many years suddenly got married?! After attending his beloved Saitoh's wedding, broken-hearted Nagai gets a little too drunk for his own good and lands himself in a hotel room with the bride's guest, Honda. To top things off, just when he thought he was getting over things he finds out that newlywed Saitoh's bride has run away. What will become of this developing love-triangle?

A part-timer constantly ducking the affections of a co-worker falls for his older, strict boss in a call center.