monnom's manga / #Zariya(14)

Camilo (openly bisexual) is an attractive man who owns a cigarette store. He gets a lot of customers who come for his looks. The other man (Teo), is childhood friends with Camilo and his store (liquor store) is right across from Camilo's. Their shops are across from each other in a small European town and Camilo has been in love with his friend, Teo, for a long time. Teo has been struggling with his own understanding of sexuality and his attraction to Camilo. Meanwhile he also has to deal with being a liqour store owner with a low alcohol tolerance. It's all super cute mutual love.

In need of money, a divorced Apollo accepts the job at the high-class brothel, Shangri-La to be a ‘Foreplay Man’ to make the prostitutes (aka birds) in their best body & mind for servicing clients, working under 3 rules ; Do not let the birds come. Do not have intercourse and.. Do not fall in love, no matter what.

A doctor, Dias, seduces his live-in roommate Crow, whom he met when Crow saved him from a wolf attack. Smexiness ensues

Arata, a partial clone/android hybrid sex-bot created in the form of a dead man and programmed with his memories, is given by an officer who deals with the rehabilitation of abused bots to its new owner, the dead man's former lover, Maki. Is a programmed doll capable of human feeling? Maki dismisses the android's appeals to his emotions as "imprinting", but during sex, Arata shows a sweetness that Maki's late lover, Ren, could never fake. A tragic backstory emerges involving Maki's twin brother. Will Arata's feelings leave Maki lonelier and more empty than when Ren was alive, or will he be able to dance with this new creation's feelings and develop something new? As always, an edgy, riveting story, beautifully drawn men and arousing sex scenes.

Kazuma belongs to a religious order that forbids all forms of sex, and Kizaki-sama, the landlord of the temple, refuses to accept this. As usual, Zaria pushes the envelope between rape and consent. Sexy and bittersweet.

A finicky eater attracts the attention of the kinky homosexual chef of a fine bistro who combines tabletop sex with feedings in order to stimulate the young man's gourmand tastes, never realizing that a history of betrayal and deception factors into the young man's food aversions. An interesting take on the relationship between appetite and desire, the emotional impact of treachery and betrayal on the gut, the way misery wipes out self-worth and personal boundaries and creates the willingness to be used, and the healing effects of love, even kinky love. Zaria's art is, as always, gorgeous, and this is a surprisingly sweet story, even without the stickier ingredients.