muse ✨'s manga / #incest(8)

A doting uncle is shocked when his angelic nephew returns from four years overseas as a tall, handsome man who then proceeds to pursue him relentlessly. Soooo...TW for incest because I don't think we're using "uncle" as merely an affectionate term here.

This opens with a story of an adopted brother in love with his older brother. It ends with the low-key Free AU, complete with Haru/Rin ending fanart! Yay.

I don't know how I feel about this story. I understand it from the dad's point-of-view to a degree. He had no idea of the actual identity of the person he fell in love with when he was 15, and he has stayed in love with the idea of that person for 22 years. But the son always knew the identity of the person he was with, and he was a few years older at the time because of the time travel so his seduction of the 15 year old felt off. I don't know anyone who would seduce a younger version of their parent; most people would be horrified by the idea. It says a lot about this person's character that he did not. Unfortunately, I didn't feel the writer developed the story enough in order for me to understand why the bond this person wanted so desperately with his father turned into romance within just a couple of weeks. I would've liked more development there. Maybe the son had come to believe he was delusional, that the future he thought he'd come from didn't exist, or that there was no way home. My true wish is that they'd both been using false names, and that neither of them had known. Putting all of that aside and returning to the present where they're in love, this was a story about two people who had once been together for a brief time and found an immense joy and happiness with each other. After they are reunited and their identities are clear, there is a three year gap. They are both unhappy without the other. They make the decision to live together as lovers knowing the relationship can never be revealed beyond the two of them. I wonder if the intention of the story was to explore whether love could be fulfilling if that love can never be revealed to a third person. Is it enough that they live together and have a life together in private? I do not feel this was written in support of this sort of relationship. I think the author chose this taboo subject specifically because it is so taboo. It's the ultimate taboo, isn't it? I think she chose it to force it to stay completely private. There is no one they could confide in. The only option they would have is to move somewhere no one knew either one of them, and hope that because of their different names and the fact that they do not resemble one another closely, they will never be mistaken for father and son. This would have been just as effective as a time travel story without the romance — a chance for a man to get to know his father, and a chance for them to then have a relationship as equals when he returns, minus the sexual content. I would have actually liked to read that.

After a good decade apart, an older brother - now yakuza member - returns home to take care of his younger brother now that their mother has died. While caring for his injuries, they cross some lines you probably shouldn't cross with siblings. What was interesting about this story is that nothing seemed to be done out of attraction at first. It was like... "Hey, that must suck, I'll help..." which is still way, way outside the boundaries of normal sibling relationships, but this wasn't the typical "And I'm in love with my brother" story. Will they get there? Probably, eventually, but this was a slightly different take, at least. Leaving it unstarred, though, since I'm not sure how much I actually enjoyed it. It's not bad! It's just not really my thing.

Well this was a collection. I liked the first story only, a student who doesn't have money for food and steals rice, passing out in the street. He ends up with the shop's owner, who is also his landlord. Tagging for noncon for at least two and domestic violence in pretty much all of them.

Harada level twisted. A man gets revenge on the biological father who abandoned him by seducing his chronically ill younger half brother.

Codependency and confused feelings lead a pair of twins into a relationship their parents probably won’t be too thrilled about. Really no discussion about public perception or the future. I don’t get the feeling that they will be able to maintain this for the long run. It might be interesting to check back in with them after a decade and see what their relationship looks like.