muse ✨'s manga / #writer(28)

A lonely writer is saved by a persistent child who comes to visit him. This veered awfully close to uncomfortable. The writer is open about falling in love with Subaru when he's still a child, though I think it grew from the loss of companionship after Subaru had gone to America and strengthened as he matured. I wish the author had felt saved by a child rather than saying he'd fallen in love with him, and even held that child up on some sort of moral pillar. That might have made for more interesting tension when Subaru returned and erased the skeeve factor.

The morning after his high school reunions, Izami wakes up in bed with a former classmate who is now a best-selling novelist.

A series of oneshots from Scarlet Beriko. They all move pretty quickly but the art is pretty. The fourth chapter has two 37yo characters.

A family of all men can’t figure out how to take care of themselves. Enter the mail housekeeper sent by the novelist dad‘s publishing company. Enter the relationship between him and the oldest high school aged son.

Introverted adult mangaka Mutsu spots his former basketball club member Akiharu on his way to a job agency and offers him a job as a live-in assistant. Akiharu manages the household and takes care of Mutsu, who rarely goes outside, running manuscripts to his editor and even going so far as to help him masturbate to spare his wrists. Their relationship becomes intense and close, but when Akiharu talks about the possibility of a girlfriend in the future, Mutsu begins to pull away. BIG KUDOS to the author for sex gone wrong the first time. Everyone has great first-time sex in mangaland, and I liked that these two had a less-than-satisfying first go with penetration. And then they worked things out together! Yay. A happy story.