muse ✨'s manga / #host(11)

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.

A series of one-shots featuring super hot characters, especially the last two.

A host with zero respect for women falls for the dentist his last girlfriend* left him for. * Woman he leeches money off of while living with her.

Neighbors who have been in a relationship for a while finally hook up. A host falls for the writer stalking him.

With his older brother's restaurant in peril because of few customers, a student uses his nights to sew costumes for a bunch of hosts who have agreed to work as cosplay waiters without pay in exchange for room and board. One of the hosts hits on the student and they have a lukewarm relationship. I agree with the other commenters: I would've rather read about the older brother and the other host.

A butler and his young charge are kicked out of the family home until they have made ¥1 million. They end up as hosts and also in a relationship when the young master reveals he’s gay and has always been in love with Kaede.

When a host club opens in a quiet neighborhood, the residents worry it will cause issues, but the manager wins them over with his friendliness. The older women ask him to befriend a man who runs a recycling shop and has an allergy when it comes to attractive people. Also features one about cousins.

I was about to drop this, but the chapter I was on turned out to be the last. It's not bad, just didn't really grab me. A proud man who has lost his mother refuses to accept money from his wealthy step family, who turn out to be yakuza. His step brother is into him; his other step brother assaults him. It missed a mark somewhere for me.

Prequel to Gravity Eyes Long-time lovers and heirs to rival yakuza groups hit rough waters when one agrees to marriage and the other is pursued by the puppy-like host Kyoya (who will get his own happy ending in Gravity Eyes). Injured over his lover's seeming infidelity, Homura temporarily dates the sweetly persistent Kyoya -- something that set the comments section aflame. I thought it was a totally reasonable move by someone who is heartbroken and devastated, but then I've been heartbroken and devastated. If I'd read this while younger, I might have been mad too.