crispicheva's manga / #short story(377)

storyline: sakura is a gay man with stereotypical 'girly' interests. he used to look after yuusuke, who is now an employer in the company sakura hired to be set up with a woman and try to live a 'normal' life. needless to say that yuusuke ended up helping sakura redefine his notion of what is 'normal', and most importantly, what is 'happiness'. review: i love this story, it's so cute!! sakura truly just wants to be a princess, and there is no better prince than yuu <3 also hana is the loveliest sister ever. the way she has her brother's back and only wants his happiness... got me emotional ngl

storyline: a broke, gay cooking student gets scammed into sharing a house with three other guys, one of which isn’t gay but certainly finds him interesting. he finds his way to his housemates hearts through his cooking, particularly this one guy, who turns out to have met him a looong time ago. review: pretty cute, two pairs of boyfriends living together

storyline: high school student and college student start a fwb situation after college guy gets dumped by his bf. that’s basically it. review: not bad but not excellent. it caught me by surprise, however, when sano said “i’m finally 16” like WOW. you’re YOUNG (this whole story is WRONG), but at this point i was already a bit invested so yea.

storyline 1: a young intern at a company works part-time as a prostitute and ends up being hired by his superior at work, who doesn’t know it’s him because he’s blindfolded throughout the entire thing. the superior is also ridden with like, religious guilt, so sex is treated more like exposure therapy than actual sex for a while, until lover boy falls for him and decides to show him a new side of sexuality. storyline 2: a college student lends his pen to another one from a different year and department, then uses that pen as an excuse to frequently meet him at his lab. turns out, lab guy had a long-lived crush on his sister’s husband, and pen guy has to convince him to let it go and fall in love with him instead. also, anemia and like 9 stepfathers (damn). review: not bad tbh. the art is super cute, although i think the author suffers a bit from same-face-syndrome. it’s interesting how two wildly different stories such as these ended up in the same volume.