muse ✨'s manga / #explicit(16)

Apparently past!me didn't like this because it was explicit, but this is a really sweet story in which Kageyama is so upset by what has happened in the past, he assumes Hinata will eventually leave him and does what he can to keep him at arm's length. Hinata reassures him.

This was explicit and past!me didn't like it but today!me had no issues so I think past!me was in a mood. I really like that this switched up what seems to be par for the course for this ship and was HinaKage. I'm here for it.

It is what it sounds like.

1) Former classmates meet again and are having drinks when one's former lover interrupts them and causes a scene that knocks the other man unconscious. When he wakes up, he's been transported back to high school. 2) The central and most developed story in the book. Yutaka is shocked when Momoi, the senpai he greatly admired for his artistic talent in high school, recognizes him and calls his name. While they were still in school, Yutaka had stolen one of Momoi's works - a self portrait - but returned it, keeping only a photograph. He had no idea Momoi knew who he was, or that he'd taken one of Yutaka's pieces in return. 3) The story of Momoi's senpai. Rushed and mostly PWP.

On a school trip, 17yo Rin is shocked to wake up next to homeroom teacher Takamura, who touches him, leaving Rin upset. Takamura, the son of a politician, later reveals that they had studied with the same piano teacher seven year ago, when he was 17, and that playing together with Rin had been the only time he'd been happy. The back story is nice. The rest of the story is explicit sex justified by a thin romance. I'd love this if I felt Rin loved Takamura, but this reads as coercion by a teacher. Rin is in his third year by this point. Since he's going to school shortly anyway, I wonder why Takamura didn't tip him off that they'd known each other and then struck up a friendship until Rin was no longer his student. "That's because teacher x student is hot!" It can be so, so hot and I like it in fiction, but this missed the emotional mark for me entirely. I didn't like Takamura at ALL. He's too manipulative. Side note: Rin's father is super hot.

A PWP with nice art and a sweet, dense main character who doesn't realize his male roommate - who cooks, cleans, and has sex with him - is interested in him. Normally I wouldn't support a boyfriend installing surveillance equipment on his lover's phone, but in this case I'm not sure Yano would live through a day otherwise. The second story is about a front desk clerk who considers turning down his dream of being transferred back to to the main Tokyo branch because years ago, he messed around with the manager. At a friend's bar, a man spots his business partner's son dressed as a young woman.

Explicit, disturbing yakuza love story. I liked the couple a lot and it was nice to see their love develop. A man struggling with ED goes to a specialist...who turns out to be the childhood friend he used to hook up with, whom he blames for his impotence, and then has sex with in the office. PWP. Coworkers hook up after realizing their years-long mutual interest, and then they have breakfast! Features the wonderful "of course you're not still here in the morning, I was an idiot to get my hopes up, but oh! you were just out buying groceries!" trope.

Rintarou falls for his seductive tutor. The majority of the story happens after they've moved in together. I gave up on this the first time because Kaede and Rintarou jumped on each other right away, but I decided to give it a second try and really enjoyed it! It's highly explicit, but there's some emotional build and sweet moments.

Two years into their relationship, Takahiro is in an accident and loses all but the earliest memories of the man he's built his life with. Everyone agrees not to tell Takahiro about what their relationship truly was, and so he struggles to build a friendship with someone he barely knows, frustrated by his missing two years but refusing to be given spoilers. SPOILERS: I appreciate that he never gets his memories back but comes to love his partner a second time.

Rin is hurt when Haru mistakes his kiss as an Australian greeting and then remembers he's never bothered to, y'know. Tell Haru he's into him. So they fix that.