muse ✨'s manga / #sequel(47)

After being released from prison, Sawaragi distances himself from the yakuza and tries to live a respectable life for Izumi and Makoto, until a former cell mate turns up at his home. I prefer this to the original story. I still wish the brother-in-law was with Izumi, but Shuuya is sweet. This is a straight-up love story.

Even after eight years, a man realizes he's still in love with a friend from high school that he runs into at a bar. There is a non-con scene in a car after heavy drinking. It wasn't done out of violence, but one party was not able to consent, so it's non-con.

Sequel to "Sayonara Game" that follows their relationship across the ocean and two-and-a-half years into the future. A beautifully drawn love story that overcomes distance, insecurity, jealousy, and ego.

After being turned down by a childhood friend, Rei falls for a senior employee at his parents' store. Be advised there is on-page dubcon (I read it as noncon, to be perfectly honest) twice.

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.

The continuation of Katou and Iwaki's story, at least a decade after the first. They're still acting, still in love, still hot as hell, still having spectacular sex! One day they'll call each other by their first names during sex and I'll die happy. Anyway. In this new arc, Iwaki learns he has a grown biological son, and we see some obstacles thrown at his relationship with Katou, but they make it over the hurdles together. I wish I'd had this sort of bond when I was married. We had nothing like this. This is the sort of bond and respect I'd want from a partner, if I ever have another one. The scanlation team switched because people were uploading to reader sites against their wishes. A new group has picked up the series, but it's a shame people were disrespectful. :-( ETA: On March 8, 2019 there was an update where Iwaki called him Youji while they were play-arguing and it led to sex, so I can die half happily. 5/25/20 - Read a spoiler (LOOK AWAY IF YOU DO NOT WANT SAD THINGS IN YOUR EYES) that says Katou dies in the final chapter. I'm not sure the teams will bother to translate that; I'm not sure I'd want to see it. I have loved this couple. What a tragic ending, but hearing about it out of context, I can't judge it properly.

Spin-off to Renai Nante Yurushimasen! This story follows the younger brother and the guy he likes, a transfer student who has just moved back to Japan after many years in America.

Sequel to "After morning love," featuring the first couple's honeymoon period and the story of the bartender and yakuza bar owner. I hope they work out their sex life.

Sequel to the sequel. I'd like to see Tatsumi's emotions evolve toward Daiki. Unfortunately, he treats him as a possession - and says as much - multiple times in this series, and it bothers me that he doesn't grow beyond that. I believe he cares for Daiki, but he's a bit abusive and manipulative. Maybe there will be another volume where he comes to be more affectionate.

Side-story to Yondaime Ooyamato Tatsuyuki centered around Rogi. Following that story, a young man flings himself in front of Rogi's car hoping to extort him for money, but Rogi takes him home instead and his daughter takes a shine to him. Unable to refuse her, he lets the man stay as a pet. Contrasted with these newfound domestic moments are scenes from Yogi's past and Ooyamoto Akitora, the young yakuza leader he fell in love with when he was twenty-one. I have a feeling we are headed into extreme heartbreak territory since we know he can't be with Akitora in the present. His son is Tatsuyuki (as in YOT). Desperately waiting for Tetsuya to make a cameo as a bartender! I want the history of his scar! I also 10,000 more volumes about him and Oumi!