muse ✨'s manga / #underage(48)

The son of a yakuza group is reunited with his childhood friend, a photographer, three years after they were separated. Pretty bland but a bit touching. This story earned its third star for the scene where his classmates show up to defend him. This story gets into sketchy territory with regards to the kid's age. He would've been about 13 when they were separated, which is pretty young. Nothing happens between them at that point but a kiss, but they do kiss.

Four years after his first love, Jin, went to college, a young man from a family known for writing haiku is reunited with him. Underage.

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.

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.

When his mom remarries, middle schooler Yuuto is delighted to finally have a cool older brother, but when he walks in on Ryuu in bed with another man, he begins to see him in a new light. Terrified that he'll tear the family apart, he never reveals the feelings he develops for Ryuu, playing the part of the spoiled younger brother until he's able to convince his parents to let him stay in the dorms. But four years later, he's still in love, and it becomes impossible to avoid Ryuu any longer when their parents leave the country for work and Yuuto has to live with Ryuu in his apartment. Spin-off about the adorable and supportive roommate from the story about the college kid who falls for the hot sensei who lives in the dorms (and goes out with him on a blind date once).

A man who has cared for the children of his one-sided love is shocked when the oldest confesses he's in love with him. I didn't feel there was any coercion on the part of the MC, although this is underage, and the MC did care for his lover when he was younger. He wasn't attracted to him as a child, only after he'd grown up, so this doesn't bother me. It wasn't his child and also this is pretend. The second story though, about the middle-school brother and the older guy... no thanks.

Apparently past!me didn't like this because it was explicit, but this is a really sweet story in which Kageyama is so upset by what has happened in the past, he assumes Hinata will eventually leave him and does what he can to keep him at arm's length. Hinata reassures him.

After he wakes up from a wet dream about his childhood friend Ryoumei, a Shinto priest, ditzy high school student Ao aggressively pursues him. The love story of a young man and the priest from the temple near his home, who has been a friend to him since he was very young and his grandmother was sick. He is a hyper, persistent little thing but pretty sweet, and their love is sweet, and the priest is delightfully grouchy. He reminded me of a dark-haired Frau from 07-Ghost. Himegoto Asobi is the spin-off (highly recommended!!) to this. Shuu and his daughter make appearances, but sensei does not. :-(

Okay look. This is fiction so I'll give it a pass because I know this is about fantasy and not what we want in real life, but I would've vastly preferred if they'd stayed in puppy love until Yuka was at least 18 (I'm American). Yuka was so young, and he'd endured so much, and he was SO NAIVE - sensei could've kept it in his pants. I was also sorry he was so jealous of Yuka's one friend, who seems to be a genuinely good guy. I wonder if this is going to continue at some point? It felt like there was more to be explored.