muse ✨'s manga / #falling in love(35)

A year out from a failed relationship, a lonely tailor is mistaken as someone intending to commit suicide and stopped on the platform by a high school student. That encounter changes his perspective, and he grows closer with his boss, whom he ends up falling in love with. Heartwarming and looks to be traditionally drawn in ink.

An untalented man who chose to study art on a whim to redefine his past becomes obsessed with the impressive work of a fellow student, the deeply introverted Yukari. He and Yukari grow close after an incident on the train, and he comes to understand that Yukari's neuroses may have to do with his famous father's parenting. When Yukari is attacked during an art theft, Kurose's past surfaces when he has to fight (and nearly kill) the assailants. But the point of the story is that the past is defined by the future. Using his fighting skills to save the person he loved redefines Kurose's earlier life. And Yukari's past made him into the artist he is. In the very last panel, we see his notebook scattered across the bed, indicating that he's working again. But also sleeping and eating, since he appears to live with Kurose now, who -- unlike Yukari's own father -- actually wants to take care of him. What appears to be an earlier work by Eigyou Nika's author, Kanai Kei.

I love Misaki. I've dealt with many of the issues he goes through in this story. There is so much dub-con in this series it makes me squirm, but I love him and I want to know how things work out for him. Also, Akihiko really is growing as a person as the series goes on. I'm glad Misaki calls him out on his behavior, and that he legitimately listens. He's controlling and has jealousy issues, but he does work on them, which I am glad to see. I love their story, even though it had a horrible beginning. June 2022 update: Ijuin-sensei and Yuu getting together made me CRY. So happy for them

Akino's obsession with his neighbor Meguro is the reason he keeps getting dumped, but even after they start a physical relationship, they refuse to admit they're anything but friends. Much to the shock of everyone who's ever met them. It's only when they're both unable to perform with other partners that they realize...hey, maybe there's something to what everyone says about us. The one in which everyone can see that Akino and Meguro are in love... except for Akino and Meguro. Written by the same author as the one with boys and motorcycles and scrunchies!

Surprisingly touching. Two men licking the wounds from past relationships come together when a professor agrees to adopt two kittens on the pretense that the student who had rescued them continue to care for them. Neither forgets the past, but they are able to move beyond. Sept 2020 ETA: Interesting twist on professor/student. Although they're from the same university, they're in different departments. Also their relationship is pretty open. The only reason I dock this a star is for the pacing. It moves a little quickly. This could've been twice as long to show Kiriya opening up more gradually, especially when his hand is broken. It strays to cliche at times: the apartment burning down to force living together, the jealous wife chasing out the MC for crushing on her husband, dual tragic backstories, kittens. But it's tossed together in a way that's satisfying.