muse ✨'s manga / #feels like starlight(159)

The prequel to Rouge and deals with why Ai is so indebted to Yamato. It explores his abuse a bit more and Yamato's kindness to him. (When Nagato showed up toward the end, I screamed.) It's also the romance between Yamato and Yukio.

Junjou's spinoff. When Miyata's lover leaves him because of lingering feelings for his ex (Keisuke from Junjou), he goes drinking in Nichoume and encounters a work acquaintance, Ikuya, who insists on seeing him home. Miyata settles for a cab and intends to apologize at their next encounter, surprised when Ikuya asks to date instead - using work as leverage. This is primarily a love story but also deals with Miyata's biphobia and issues bottoming for a partner because of past trauma. Caution for one dubcon scene. The ending was perfect.

THIS WAS SO PURE? I feel cleansed. A bad-guy-turned-sheriff is stranded in the desert after his horse dies and is rescued by Toto, a lone Native American, who saves his life and gets him back to town. Fran continues to ride out to see him, and they consummate their relationship on what he believes is his last night, since his past has caught up with him.

Spinoff to the "I AM his boyfriend" manga. Azuma finally finds love in a first-year student who tries to hate him but can't. Sex friends to friends to lovers - the confession scene in this was really sweet. And Kawachi has a cameo!

Lovers become coworkers and have to navigate new hurdles. They also help a gay student in love with his friend. Spin-off from Family Simulation.

A patissier who returns home to run his late father's bakery falls for a novelist who frequently buys his sweet breads. This is fluffy romance with no heartache.

A lonely young office worker is befriended by a child who steals his rice ball, and his older brother - Minoru - who asks him to teach him how to make them. The single father is their widowed dad; I didn't want to use a different tag for this. It's so heartwarming and sweet.

When their best childhood friend leaves her baby with them to work overseas, two guys who have been together for years but have never made a commitment to each other shuffle their lives around to care for her. Things that are amazing about this: - Established, realistic, loving relationship - Lots of women characters! Amazing women characters! Who don't die! They have careers and ambitions and speak their minds - A child with agency who also speaks her mind! - Sweet as hell proposal and engagement party - Supportive parents - Realizing that you are family when you say you are; you don't need it on paper. But it's great to be able to have it on paper, too.

Following the death of his parents and his sister's marriage, a young and clueless man decides to live on his own. He's saved from his constant yet endearing fumbling by his neighbor, a kind-hearted member of a theater troupe. A sweet love story with feelings that really jumped off of the page!

Teo, the lightweight owner of a liquor store, "trains" with his childhood friend Camilo in order to take part in the city's wine tasting festival. He uses their drunken evenings to explore his confused feelings for Camilo. Though Teo loves him, he's frightened by the idea of having sex while simultaneously afraid to give him up. The art in this is gorgeous, the relationship mature, the friends supportive and friendly. Marking this dubcon since Teo is asleep when they start at many points, though it was vaguely agreed on each time in advance.