sharkbait's manga / #Showbiz(18)

Chapter 1-3 Idol x Idol: Hinata & Yuu are in an idol group. Hinata likes Yuu but acts cold cause he's miffed about Yuu not remembering an encounter they had in the past (petty behaviour), but at the same time, he is very protective of Yuu and would do just about anything for him. Yuu doesn't realize he likes Hinata too, he also doesn't understand why Hinata treats him the way he does. Yuu gets hit on by an actor he works with and Hinata doesn't like it. The actor gets his ego bruised when Hinata and Ryo (idol group leader) prevent him from trying anything on a drunk Yuu and (allegedly) retaliates by causing a scandal for the idol boys. The loverboys are forcibly separated for a while to wait out the rumour mill and call each other constantly in the meantime, each falling more in love with the other through their conversations (it's ridiculously cute honestly). Chapter 4-6 Rich Guy x Student: Yuki lives with his granddad in the countryside during the summer. When walking home from doing groceries he walks along a seemingly never-ending fence-wall and wonders what kind of person would live on the other side of it. When he leans up against the wall he spots a man in Yukata standing behind him, at that moment Yuki faints due to heat exhaustion. He wakes up in the house that stands inside the wall and spots the man in Yukata, Takagi-san, the owner of the house. Intrigued by this handsome older man, Yuki offers his services in the garden and spends the following weeks fixing up Takagi-san's bewildered yard (accompanied by his granddad's dog Choro, who is adorable and a very good boy). Yuki and Takagi-san start to get to know each other, and Yuki starts to fall for the man. Then one day, a man who seems to know Takagi-san, shows up, and the next day Yuki finds the house empty. He waits for Takagi-san to return everyday, for several days the house remains empty. A few days before Yuki is supposed to go back to Tokyo, Takagi-san shows up, Yuki yells his confession and Takagi-san reacts in kind by kissing him.

little heavy on the "funny"

I'm on the fence about this one.. Yuma (uke) is sent to scope out a Kei (seme), a famous actor's house by his childhood friend Ota. When Yuma gets caught by Kei when sneaking pictures of the actors threadbare apartment, he gets tied up, raped and blackmailed with video material of said rape. Then it turns out his shitty childhood friend set the whole thing up to get Yuma and Kei to meet as Kei was looking for a lover and Yuma happens to be his type. Of course they keep sleeping together (the whole blackmail thing) and Yuma stays friends with Ota. But like: why? Yuma actually resists everything in the beginning: he refuses to help Ota at first but gives in once Ota tells him he'll just call someone else to help him, and once Ota reveals his little plot Yuma says he doesn't ever want speak to or see either of them ever again, he's ready to cut them off but then Kei shows him the video of Yuma tied up and taking it, and Yuma ends up going along with him. He even falls in love with the prick! I mean, it's cute that after they are forcibly broken up by the manager that Kei chases after Yuma and puts his career on the line to be with him, but he is incredibly possessive and jealous, combine that with the whole rape thing and we get one seriously toxic basis for a relationship. If they had met under different circumstances maybe, but Chirst on a stick this is fucked up.