muse ✨'s manga / #office worker(18)

A gently told, beautiful collection of three love stories: 1) An established relationship between a secretary and his adoring boss. (Temp MCD; dream sequence) 2) Childhood friends reunite, and through photography, realize their feelings are mutual. 3) In the aftermath of a major error, a boss and subordinate find common ground in their shared loneliness and begin a relationship that is supportive and tender; their love was so immediate and sincere, it gave me butterflies.

Simple love stories (a boss and secretary, a 33yo teacher and man 15 years his junior), but I was surprised how much the second one touched my heart. ETA September 2020: Huh. On re-read, it's the first story between the boss and secretary that I liked. The second is okay but didn't do much for me. The art style really is pretty.

Multiple stories. The most touching was about a man who left his job and returned to his hometown after being assaulted and is reunited with a childhood friend he starts dating. Also features coworkers who live in the office dormitories and a guy who is so frugal, he unplugs everything - just like meeeee!

Read this for the first two stories: A guy gets dumped and fired the same day and wakes up in bed with a friend who confesses he's always liked him. A recently divorced man is befriended by a 22yo guy who runs a bento stand. The story of the illustrator is domestic abuse and I wish I hadn't read it. The final story is about a photographer who runs a private website peddling photos of teenaged boys and becomes involved with the neighbor's son. He kinda skeeved me out.

A homophobic young man discovers that his super hot superior is actually gay. By Elektel Delusion's author. If that manga's homophobia is anything to go by, this is going to have a pretty nasty ribbon of it wound throughout. I'm enjoying this, but this author is not someone I trust.

Very silly and sweet boys from adjacent office buildings who fall in love (really quickly).

After he accidentally sleeps with the company president's son's wife, a man is rejected from his project team and his apartment, but he's offered a job as the son's live-in servant.

A man transfers to a struggling company branch run by a manager he admires and once confessed to, hopeful that he'll win him over. But the manager is cold and violent toward him once he arrives, despite keeping a photograph of their former team on his desk. In the three months he's there, the man realizes his manager is struggling with pain from a previous relationship and may not dislike him after all.