sadslime's manga / #Age gap(157)

Riku's father was a teacher before he suddenly died in a car accident. Then a former student of Riku's father, Nagi, appeared and offered to become Riku's guardian. Now Riku lives with the strict Nagi, who is also his teacher, and tries to flirt with him every day. But when he realizes the extent of Nagi's feelings for his father, will it change things? Trigger warnings: statutory rape, sex work by a minor.

Yuto is a social worker for beastmen and Lyco is an abused beastman child with no guardian, so Yuto is convinced to take him. He quickly comes to love Lyco as his son and does his best to bring him up, but when Lyco grows up, he decides he never wants to leave Yuto, so he'd rather get married. Trigger warnings: abuse, incest themes (guardian)

Ch.1-6 - Kyousuke has been in love with his older childhood Saku since they first met, back when he thought Saku was a girl. Just as he's approaching his high school graduation, he confesses to Saku, and Saku is thrilled, immediately agreeing to break things off with his other sex friends and be Kyousuke's alone. After one perfect date, they start to get intimate, and Saku suddenly changes his mind, abruptly ending things between them. Two years later, they go to the same college and Kyousuke still can't forget Saku. It turns out Saku rejected Kyousuke because he can't get over his traumatic past. But is he doing to Kyousuke the same thing that was done to him? No, but the push is enough to get him to move past his fears, at least. This is an interesting story and Saku's character is interesting and well written, but he has a truly tragic and upsetting past, so do be mindful of the trigger warnings and don't read if that's upsetting to you. Trigger warnings: child abuse, statutory rape, manipulation. Ch. 7 - Sagara is a high school model who used to do basketball, and one day he's approached by Nogi, an underclassman who seems disappointed he stopped playing. Sagara finds out that Nogi saw him play once and really admired him, and this starts their friendship that quickly turns into something more. A very cute friendship that turns to love story. No trigger warnings.

Godai is an older, gay, art dealer who offers to show some of the young artist Mizuki's work, but Mizuki offers to sell him even more than that and suggests Godai buy him for sex. Godai can't resist and the two begin a physical relationship, but when Mizuki's work starts to sell, Godai loses confidence that they can be in the same world. I like Godai's character design, but their actual romance felt lukewarm to me. Trigger warning: sex work.

Koga is an older gay man who has never had any experience so he joins a website to find gay friends, but it turns out it's actually for finding sex friends. He meets Rei, a young man, and after they've had sex a few times, he starts to wonder if it could become something more? Cute and short. No trigger warnings.

Subaru is a delinquent who's already having a bad day when he sees older salaryman Yoshio getting hassled for money and impulsively steps in. But when Yoshio calls him a good boy for helping out, Subaru abruptly falls head over heels, and now he's determined to make a relationship happen with Yoshio. Honestly not my favorite couple as it feels borderline abusive, but I do like seeing older men in yaoi. Trigger warning: domestic violence(comical)

Akihiro Kashima is the captain of the Sawatari branch of the mafia, and he's head over heels in love for the boss who picked him up off the street when he was a kid, but he knows the boss can never find out so he tries to hide it (and does terribly, but the boss is too carefree to notice). Starts out slice of life, but eventually they do get into the plot of an old enemy who targeted Akihiro to get to the boss in the past returning to do so again, only to force the boss to realize his own feelings. I like this couple, but the actual story stuff ended up feeling unresolved by the end. Trigger warnings: kidnapping, violence.

Kouhei Igarashi is a terrible boss, the kind who abuses his power and talks down to his workers. Wataru Momose is his perfect subordinate who always has a scary look on his face. It turns out, that's because Momose is in love with Igarashi and gets too nervous when he talks to him, and he's also unflappably optimistic, so he takes all of Igarashi's criticisms as compliments and loves him for it. Igarashi is a truly unlikable main character, though to be fair, it is Momose who takes advantage of him while drunk. Trigger warnings: drunk sex, power imbalance.

A short oneshot about coworkers with an age gap who start dating. Meanwhile, the older one in the relationship was formerly in love with his longtime friend, their boss, and now the younger one is jealous. No trigger warnings.

Kaname is a young delinquent who suddenly lost his father without getting to say goodbye. To his surprise, the handsome company president, Sena, shows up at his dad's funeral and says he'll become Kaname's guardian due to his friendship with Kaname's dad. But very quickly Kaname realizes he doesn't want a fatherly relationship with Sena, and it seems Sena might not want that either. The timing is so fast it just comes off as wacky and the couple didn't stand out to me. Trigger warning: incest themes(guardian), statutory rape(?).