muse ✨'s manga / #oh no a fire burned down my apartment(3)

Surprisingly touching. Two men licking the wounds from past relationships come together when a professor agrees to adopt two kittens on the pretense that the student who had rescued them continue to care for them. Neither forgets the past, but they are able to move beyond. Sept 2020 ETA: Interesting twist on professor/student. Although they're from the same university, they're in different departments. Also their relationship is pretty open. The only reason I dock this a star is for the pacing. It moves a little quickly. This could've been twice as long to show Kiriya opening up more gradually, especially when his hand is broken. It strays to cliche at times: the apartment burning down to force living together, the jealous wife chasing out the MC for crushing on her husband, dual tragic backstories, kittens. But it's tossed together in a way that's satisfying.

This is The Happiest Story. Two single dads meet in the mornings dropping their sons off at school. The sons are dear friends, and the dads grow close, helping one another to cook and manage their lives. When one loses his apartment in a fire, they combine households temporarily out of necessity, and it becomes harder to hide feelings for one another. The dads are great, but the kids MAKE this story. They're adorable. Be aware that Kentarou works in porn at one point, and having sex with someone else is part of that work. He sees it as work and so does Asakura.

Kami is recovering from a broken heart (see Sofure Buka, ch. 5). He is shocked one evening when a reporter named Waki bursts into his apartment and eats his food on live TV. But Waki turns out to be friendly and they start having lunch together regularly. The day Waki doesn't show up, Kami figures he's been forgotten again, but Waki shows up at his apartment that night saying he's been reporting on a massive fire all day. His own house was lost and he has nowhere to go. Seeing a chance, Kami asks him to stay. A promising start! I hope this is continued. Kami's first story was heartbreaking and I'd like to see him happy. It seems to end well! YAY!!! ETA August 2020: The story is being continued! We plunge into drama territory when Waki gets a popular woman costar and there are rumors of a relationship.