abandoned, chpt 8. the work itself is well-crafted, really polished, and I was ready for another romp down the editor/artist trope popularized by sekaiichi hatsukoi, but in the end the editorial stuff was really just a convenient set up for close-quarter cohabitation (unlike sekai, which really felt like an intimate love letter to the manga industry from a mangaka), and the uke, satoru, comes across as less a man tortured by his own latent sexuality and sentimentality and more like he's fundamentally ace-aro, especially in the earlier chapters (this gets better in the latter half of the manga, but in a way that kind of undermines or negates his earlier behavior). and somehow reading abt a potential ace-aro character (or at least that's my interpretation) forcing himself hurts me. ymmv, obviously. maybe you don't agree that he seems to be ace-aro. but it wasn't an easy read for me.
Sensei, Mou Dame Desu