sadslime's manga / #student x student(98)

Haiga Yuuki is a university student who just joined the music club where he first saw Kanae Ryou, an extremely charasmatic headliner for the biggest band on campus, the Cigars. Haiga wants to get closer to Kanae, but rarely sees him on campus. But when he's given money by friends in the club jokingly for the purpose of going to a gay sex shop, Haiga decides to go through with it to explore his own sexuality, and runs into Kanae working at the shop he chose by chance. He ends up frequenting the shop so he can see Kanae and spending all his time earning money to fund it, while Kanae says Haiga's not his type. But when they go to a camp for their club, the two finally get the chance to get closer and decide what they feel for each other. I like Kanae's character design, and the relationship is well-done. Trigger warning: sex work.

During high school graduation, the handsome and popular Takahashi Ryohei is surprised by a sudden confession by the shy Ishiguro Yuuma, but Yuuma doesn't want to go out, he just begs Ryohei to sleep with him once. Ryohei goes through with it out of curiosity, but he likes it enough to suggest they meet again. And again. But as Ryohei gets more involved with this relationship, Yuuma has a hard time believing what feels too good to be true. I like the emotional growth, though the translation can be a bit off at time. No trigger warnings.

Karasuma Kodai is an ASMR streamer who does some erotic content, but just when he's thinking of quitting, he learns that his popular classmate at college, Minami Masaya, is a devoted listener who can only get off to Kodai's voice. Kodai agrees to help Masaya and even starts streaming again, but he feels guilty that he's starting to enjoy getting Masaya off. Cute and fun read with good smut. No trigger warnings.

Bad acting student meets student with hearing loss and realizes he has a talent for sign language

In high school, Igarashi happened to oversee the popular student Amarai having sex with another man. After that, he was interested in Amarai and did his best to get closer, until the two were best friends who do everything together, even in college. So Igarashi finally decides it's time to shoot his shot and get what he's been after all along by asking Amarai to make adult videos to post online with him. Amarai goes along with it, but as things escalate between them, Igarashi starts to wonder why Amarai would go this far. A cute and silly relationship where everything could have been resolved if they'd talked for like five minutes, but this way was more interesting. Trigger warnings: voyuerism, manipulation.

Aoi and Ryouta are childhood friends who do everything together, so it only seemed natural to live together when they started college. But when Ryouta finds Aoi sleeping in a compromising position one night he touches Aoi's lips, and when Aoi wakes up and demands to know why, Ryouta says he couldn't control himself because he likes Aoi! Aoi never thought about their relationship that way, but their gay neighbors are here to help them figure all this out. Very cute and sweet. Trigger warnings: forced outing, somnophilia (in a relationship).

Ch.1 - If it's for You, no Matter How Far - Takachiho is stern but easily decieved detective who has finally caught the blithe criminal Nanami on a deserted island, but getting him all the way inland and into a jail will be a whole different story with Nanami's hiijinks and straight-up lies to deal with all along the way. Very cute, funny, and unique. Trigger warning: noncon, lying/manipulation. Ch.2 - Magical Butler - An unnamed salesman is pushing his product on the butler Tsuruhami when it turns out Tsuruhami recently lost his master and he begs the salesman to become his master instead. But it turns out that his previous master trained Tsuruhami to please him sexually. Salesman isn't saying no though. It was still funny, but this one skeezed me out. Wasn't for me. Trigger warning: light dubcon, implied grooming. Ch.3-5 - Yamada is a high school student always being dumped for oversharing about his interests (and not listening), and he goes crying to his best friend Ishimaru about it who listens patiently, if unenthusiastically. But when Yamada realizes that Ishimaru blushes every time they touch, he realizes Ishimaru might be in love with him! Or...not? A clumsy love story with no trigger warnings. Vol.2 Ch.1-5.5 - Takaichiho and Nanami are here once again, but this time it's 1,000 years in the past! In Heian era Japan, Nanami has started a business that steals customers from the local onmyoji using confusion due to its similar name, and Takaichiho is the general who is supposed to get him to change the name. They quickly forget about that though and get into all kinds of ghost and supernatural related shenanigans. Absolute wacky madness up in here. Also mpreg. Trigger warning: dubcon.

Ch.1-2, 6.5 - 5 Seconds - Hayato has special eyes that have been passed down in his family. For him, this means that when he meets eyes with someone for five seconds he can copy their "sensuality," so he uses his friends to help him jerk off. The one person he won't use is his childhood friend, Tsukasa, who he's tried to avoid since he realized his ability, but Tsukasa is too sharp not to notice, and when Hayato accidentally copies some eyes he shouldn't have and goes into heat, only Tsukasa can help him. A kind of random and unexpected setup, but I liked the characters well enough. Trigger warning: dubcon(heat). Ch.3 - The Way to Nurture Love - Keiichirou is a normal working man who got dragged to a gay bar and told to pick his type, so he randomly pointed to a worker, but when they turned around he saw it was actually his long lost twin brother, Yuuichirou. Yuu seems to be living life as a woman now, and Kei isn't sure he approves, but he can't help but worry, so he invites Yuu to live with him. But the longer they live together, the more the feelings from their past that forced Yuu to leave seem to reemerge. I liked it, but it is an incest story, so don't read if that's not your thing. Note: I don't think Yuu identifies as a woman, so if you're looking for trans characters, he won't really fit the bill. Trigger warnings: incest, transphobia(?). Ch.4 - Too - An unnamed protagonist (Nameless-kun) lives an ordinary college life, except for the fact that he has a stalker following him every day, buying and wearing all the same clothes as him, and putting not-so-secret cameras in his apartment, which is especially weird since he's a nobody and his stalker, Kudou, is quite popular. Nameless-kun doesn't see it as causing any harm though, so he lets it go until one day Kudou seems to stop dressing like him, causing Nameless-kun to wonder if his affections have changed, and that's when he realizes just how much he's been watching Kudou in turn. I'm not really into stalker romances, but this one was fine for what it was. Trigger warning: stalking. Ch.5 - Itai no, Itai no - Rei spends every day at high school breaking up fights between his childhood friends, Takuma, and Shinobu, who are at each other's throats over everything but insist on spending time together because of Rei. But Rei knows that secretly, the two are in a physical relationship fueled by their shared masochism. Rei has trauma to do with pain that has caused him to develop a masochistic streak too, so he wants in on this. Not my thing. Trigger warnings: masochism, abuse, suicide, voyuerism, violence, violent sex. Ch.6 - Mushuusei no Ohisama - Aki and Asahi were friends in high school when Asahi said he'd become the best actor ever and Aki promised to be the one to shoot it on film. Now, years later, Asahi seems to have given up on his dream and only works in the porn industry, but Aki is still determined to capture the best of him. But when they fight, Aki decides to rape Asahi on camera to show him all the faces he hasn't seen yet. Or something. I wasn't really paying attention because I don't like rape stories. Trigger warnings: sex work, rape.

A selection of short stories, almost all shounen ai (Ch.2 depicts a sex scene), about lovers with a personality gap. Ch.1 - Only I Know Chief Iwatsugi! - Shimizu is always getting scolded by his demon boss Iwatsuji at work, but he doesn't mind because secretly he and his boss are dating, and at home Iwatsuji is a total cutie. No trigger warnings. Ch.2 - Adorable Liar - High schooler Tanoi has a crush on his straight-laced classmate Mizuno, so he tells his anonymous friend that he's going to confess on the last day of school. He does and gets shot down hard, so he agrees to go sleep with his anonymous friend to get over it only to find out the friend and Mizuno are actually the same. No trigger warnings. Ch.3 - Non-stop Zaizen-kun - Poor student Hida finds an expensive wallet in his shoe box that the other students assume he stole from rich classmate Zaizen. But it turns out that Zaizen is in love with Hida and this was his weird way of giving him a matching wallet. No trigger warnings. Ch.4 - The Right Way to Shorten Our Distance - Actor Kashiwara doesn't understand why his popular and affable manager, Tsubaki, is so kind to everyone but so distant with him! But when he tries to shorten the distance, he learns that Tsubaki is a way bigger fan than he thought. No trigger warnings. Ch.5, 11- Akaoni-kun's Rice Ball - Katori is a salaryman who ends up with no choice but to buy lunch from a nearby restaurant with a terrifying chef, Akaoni. But after he tries the food he's hooked, and when he comes back, he finds out that Akaoni is anything but scary underneath it all. No trigger warnings. Ch.6 - It's Your Fault for Being so Suggestive! - Chitose noticed that his childhood friend Nao has a crush on him recently, so he's been teasing him with it while waiting for the right moment to confess. But Nao has enough of it and turns the tables on him. No trigger warnings. Ch.7 - About a Guy Called "Matsubara" - Suzuki is a serious loner-type student, and popular student Matsubara always seems to be bothering him about something. But really the two are dating, and Matsubara is a little bit of a yandere. Trigger warning: obsessive behavior. Ch.8 - Tell Me About Your Fingers - Beauty school stuent Souta has a huge hand fetish, and right now he's into the cool loner Kodomori's hands. But when Kodomori finds out about it and calls him creepy, Souta is mortified, only to find Kodomori using it to sadistically tease him later. No trigger warnings. Ch.9 - My Roommate's an Android? - Ayukawa heard that his dormmate Hadano never changes expressions, so people call him an android, but Ayukawa is determined to get closer. But when he finds out about Hadano's dog who passed, he finally gets to see the emotionless Hadano let his guard down and act cute. No trigger warnings. Ch.10 - Do You Understand What You're Doing Senpai? - Ritsu and Fujieda are childhood friends who started dating before going to separate colleges. This episode shows them the morning after as the airheaded Fujieda becomes reliable and cool in the face of Ritsu's tears at the thought of being lonely without him. No trigger warnings.