muse ✨'s manga / #misunderstanding(7)

When Kawachi discovers that the senpai he's admired since middle school isn't as kind and considerate as he thought, he panics and blackmails him with sex - and has to live with the guilt. To atone, he apologizes and acts the part of doting boyfriend, walking senpai to and from school, carrying his bag, taking him out for pancakes. And while senpai is confused by Kawachi's sudden chivalrous behavior, he accepts it and the feelings that come with it. Features my favorite moment: "I AM his boyfriend."

Erwin rejects the money Levi earns by selling his body, and the resulting distance between them forces him to understand his own feelings. This was beautiful and moving, and the art is lovely but inconsistent, like this was created in pieces a few years apart. In the third-ish part, Levi looked very young for a few panels and then the art reverted to him looking like an adult again. It may have been a stylistic choice since he was vulnerable in those moments. SPOILERS FOR CANON wow this is 10000000x worse once you've seen erwin die

If Junjou Romantica and Soredemo Yasashii Koi wo Suru hooked up and had a baby manga, it'd be this. Kirishima, a guy with a massive brother complex is the secret love interest of his gay best friend, Toudou, who accepts the love as unrequited and, for a time, appears to have taken an interest Kirishima's little brother Hokuto. But like Onoda in Soredemo, when Kirishima learns that Toudou has been in love with him for many years and wants to end their friendship, he refuses to let Toudou out of his life and insists they try to date. Sweet. Not my favorite but endearing, and it didn't make me cry.

Shouji takes care of his neighbor and childhood friend, a needy and helpless mangaka, but pulls away when he thinks Niki has grown too dependent on him. But when Niki is accused of plagiarism, Shouji can't leave him alone.

After Haebom has spent his childhood believing he was hated by the boy who had been his closest friend, Taesung, they end up in the same class. Taesung - who has avoided him for years - begins to come to his rescue from bullies, sit with him in the lunch room, and walk with him to and from school. Slowly, they patch up their fractured friendship and realize they're in love with each other, find an apartment, and go away to college. But then a horrible stalker appears and messes things up for a few chapters. He's toast now, so I hope we get a bit more romance now.

When he mistakenly applies to an all-boys school, Shiro thinks his dream of having a lover are dashed...until he's told the story of a magical statue behind the dorms. Write the name of your crush on it, and they'll fall in love with you. He's spotted by a popular student, Nozomu, whose name is similar to the girl Shiro likes and says he'll go out with him. Thus begins a gentle roller-coaster of high school drama, pettiness, misunderstandings, pride, and love.

This collection of stories is an homage to the author’s fetish for glasses. I don’t remember a thing about the stories.