muse ✨'s manga / #supernatural(93)

A boy and the deity he'd befriended as a child reunite when he injures his leg.

A series of oneshots, a few interconnected - cats who turn into humans to be with the ones they love. There's one highly implied incest story halfway through, one cat that is a very young human in an ambiguous relationship with an adult - that'll probably squick some people. Overall, I found these stories hard to follow. The one I liked the very best was a delinquent who fell for a man who works in a bookstore. Somehow, that one touched me.

The story of Minoru and Sora, who claims to be an alien come to Earth to find his partner.

A bunny agrees to enter into a political marriage with a fox for the sake of his family’s security. unbeknownst to him the fox has actually been in love with him since they were children. A sex addicted office worker picks up a male prostitute and later they fall in love.

Four guys strike out on a group date and end up finding new ways to have fun. A man accidentally picks up a werewolf at a gay bar, and the werewolf pursues him earnestly.

I don't know how I feel about this story. I understand it from the dad's point-of-view to a degree. He had no idea of the actual identity of the person he fell in love with when he was 15, and he has stayed in love with the idea of that person for 22 years. But the son always knew the identity of the person he was with, and he was a few years older at the time because of the time travel so his seduction of the 15 year old felt off. I don't know anyone who would seduce a younger version of their parent; most people would be horrified by the idea. It says a lot about this person's character that he did not. Unfortunately, I didn't feel the writer developed the story enough in order for me to understand why the bond this person wanted so desperately with his father turned into romance within just a couple of weeks. I would've liked more development there. Maybe the son had come to believe he was delusional, that the future he thought he'd come from didn't exist, or that there was no way home. My true wish is that they'd both been using false names, and that neither of them had known. Putting all of that aside and returning to the present where they're in love, this was a story about two people who had once been together for a brief time and found an immense joy and happiness with each other. After they are reunited and their identities are clear, there is a three year gap. They are both unhappy without the other. They make the decision to live together as lovers knowing the relationship can never be revealed beyond the two of them. I wonder if the intention of the story was to explore whether love could be fulfilling if that love can never be revealed to a third person. Is it enough that they live together and have a life together in private? I do not feel this was written in support of this sort of relationship. I think the author chose this taboo subject specifically because it is so taboo. It's the ultimate taboo, isn't it? I think she chose it to force it to stay completely private. There is no one they could confide in. The only option they would have is to move somewhere no one knew either one of them, and hope that because of their different names and the fact that they do not resemble one another closely, they will never be mistaken for father and son. This would have been just as effective as a time travel story without the romance — a chance for a man to get to know his father, and a chance for them to then have a relationship as equals when he returns, minus the sexual content. I would have actually liked to read that.

Well this was a collection. I liked the first story only, a student who doesn't have money for food and steals rice, passing out in the street. He ends up with the shop's owner, who is also his landlord. Tagging for noncon for at least two and domestic violence in pretty much all of them.

A multi-generational story of a family cursed to use a power that causes them physical harm, and the paper dolls - kami - who take on their pain. In good yaoi fashion, that means having a lot of sex. Also the puppets are made from human remains (for future generations, the remains of their own family.) Isn't yaoi fun. Among the stories, there were three I liked best: Genma and Himi (beware dub and noncon in their early days), Waki and Magane (because of the emotional challenge of being in love with someone who is bound to someone else), and Shoui and Asari. Theirs was, hands down, the best of the stories. The twins are awful. I skipped them on re-read. ETA: Considering I can't get this out of my head, adding it to the top 100 list. 4/25/20 - Still think about this a lot. Added a star. Skipped the twins again. They serve zero purpose and ruin so many poignant moments.

So much quality Genma x Himi in this, and Asari & Shoui too! Slice of life oneshot sequels to Ze.