muse ✨'s manga / #writer(28)

Neighbors who have been in a relationship for a while finally hook up. A host falls for the writer stalking him.

I'm giving this five stars because I've never seen a manga where people talk this dirty and embrace their kinkier sides. A host and the writer that stalked him are now an item and navigate different sex drives. The final chapter is a one shot: an illustrator slash programmer with a fetish for wearing women's underwear falls for a coworker but fears he won't be able to accept his hobby. Lucky for him, it's not an issue.

A senior in high school who writes erotic stories for cash falls for a popular younger guy.

An unsuccessful mangaka finds work for an ero publication and is pursued by his editor.

Realizing he's gay, Shun walks out on his own wedding and flees to the island where his grandmother lives to escape his family. There, with the excuse of writing books, he befriends Mio, a boy who has lost his family. Before Mio is sent to an orphanage, he kisses Shun, promising to return. When he does three years later, Shun is conflicted, remembering his own family's reaction to him coming out, but they ultimately make future choices together. It deals with isolation, loneliness, and living honestly. Some other commenters complained that this seemed randomly thrown together. I disagree, although the transitions could have been clearer. There were a few times I had to stop and say, "Oh, we've jumped ahead in time," but the story itself doesn't bother me: Boy moves to island, boy meets other boy, other boy leaves island, other boy comes home and confesses his love three years later, they dance around each other, former fiancee makes boy confront reality, boys affirm their love, boys leave the island together.

A writer (who is suspiciously like me, hmm) falls in love with his new housekeeper.

After reading the comments I expected to like this, but I never got into the relationship emotionally. As a story it was fine. A one hit wonder novelist has a persistent manager who is constantly on him to work, but he has never written anything after his debut novel. The manager starts to believe he plagiarized it when he finds a manuscript under his late novelist father's name bearing the same title as the debut novel. After some running around it's revealed that both the son and father had a relationship with the same woman, a tutor, and both wrote versions of that story as the novel the son ended up publishing. Some commenters felt the son didn't harbor feelings for the tutor at all, but I don't agree. He was clearly moved by her rejection. It wasn't until after she rejected him that he was able to write again. The story hinged on the idea of a man being so harmed by a woman that he was unable to get over it. I expect those commenters were clinging to that idea because it helped them feel the story was actually about the gay relationship all along, and that the novelist did not have feelings for a woman. But I don't think that's accurate. He even said he had hoped to keep his relationship with the manager platonic. He was a playboy and slept with other women while this was happening. They fell for each other, but it wasn't until the end, and his feelings for the tutor were genuine. I hate to see relationships with women erased because of misogyny and biphobia, and I think both of those are contributing to the comments section. On a scale of 1 to 10, I give this a three as a love story. As a story story, I'd give it a five. As a story about a writer, it was accurate. I felt incredibly understood when the novelist holed up for several days! It would make an interesting movie, but this is not something I would re-read.

This is absolutely sweet and contains both the story of the two boys, and also Sumi's father and the second love of his life. No heartbreak! Just happy things.