muse ✨'s manga / #school life(123)

I liked the first about an overweight boy who admired a classmate and had a misunderstanding at their graduation that is cleared up at a reunion two years later. The others weren't interesting to me. ETA: I liked all of these on re-read. Past!me is a problem.

First story: a high school student crushes on a guy and follows him to a gay bar. The guy will sleep with anyone and has never been in love, so they navigate the pitfalls of a new relationship. A sweet story, although not very well developed. The second story is completely skippable: tsundere to the extreme plus noncon that's handwaved because there was no penetration and a pervy teacher. No thanks.

A shy shut-in who wears a rabbit mask to cover his face falls for the delivery man.

A collection of oneshots: the student president (who has a thing for cats) is regularly saved by his friend, a guy in love with his otaku friend (my favorite of the bunch), a man who had forced his friend to have sex gets a second chance (kinda iffy). Quick paces and little build, but it's nice as something to read over coffee.

Convenience store clerk falls in love at first sight with a guy who has a dog named Cerberus Hinata lookalike falls for a basketball player Some others Childhood friends have a drunken hookup and finally get together after years of avoiding the topic

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!

Multiple stories: - A sensei sensitive about his inverted nipples - A smart boy chooses a school full of delinquents so he can go to school with a boy who saved him from being mugged in middle school; he ends up tutoring him - A man who struggles under a serious work chief falls for him after an evening out drinking and they begin dating. The most developed couple and a really sweet story.

Mark me down as a fan of Scarlet Beriko! Best friends wander into murky territory when Masayuki discovers that Kei's legs look good in pantyhose. Their mutual friend Katsumi is in a relationship with the school doctor (lookalike to the tailor in my favorite story by this same author). Scarlet has a way of drawing you into the character's emotions. Her work is wonderfully sensual and moving, and the relationships feel genuine and deep. I laughed out loud and scared the dogs when Katsumi sent a picture of sensei post-sex. Scarlet reverses the genre's stereotypes about who plays what role in the bedroom and I love it. If she ever goes team switch, I'll die.

"The distance between two boys." A guy tolerates his best friend stealing his girlfriends and finally learns it's because (wait for it) his friend is in love with him. Then they have a spat about who will top and sadly do not become team switch. Still really cute.