ArtemisFowl's manga / #warm(12)

A meeting between a baseball boy and his band sempai seems fated... ~Chapter 1

Very sweet. It follows one single man looking for love after breaking up with his cheating ex, and another single man looking for love. Both parties aren't looking for a hot romance -- they want, what most people in arranged marriages want, security and stability and warmth in their partner. Perhaps not a romance of the ages but they want to come to cherish and love their partner, and these two have. Side note: there could have been some drama, but thankfully it got talked through amongst the characters and it was good.

A kid in a high school named Si Tong likes another kid in high school named Li ZiChen. He thinks his feelings, which started in the middle of high school, will end once they graduate, but he ends up in the same friend group as Li ZiChen in college (which he didn't realize they would be in the same campus in the same major). Suddenly, SiTong is faced with the reality that his feelings won't just go away, like he had planned in high school; instead, he is stuck with his crush, vacillating between wanting to hang out with him and trying to distance himself out of a need to crush his feelings. He ends up spending a lot of time with him, both because they are in the same group and because Li ZiChen wants to. At some point, Li ZiChen realizes that SiTong has a crush on him but doesn't push him away -- first out of reasoning that it's only a tiny crush, then figuring that he wants to have this person in his life (which evolves into wishing this person was perhaps closer to him than he is). What will become of this relationship? Update -- Chapter 22: Ooof! He did NOT drag that out at all. And it was perfectly casual. I thought it was going to be 10, 20 chapters into this (after chapter 20) when he was going to confess. DANNNG you spicy Li ZiChen. Update of update -- wow wow wow he confessed and I was not ready for all that drama to unfold *cries quietly into pillow* Edit (Chapter 43): They got together! Edit (Chapter 44): Start of Season 2! ~Chapter 67

A middle-aged man, recently divorced, stumbles upon a tea/tobacco/curio shop, only to fall in love unexpectedly with the owner. Full of the slow, warm feeling of burgeoning love.

A nice salaryman at a high-end company gets caught up in a scandal (one hundred percent not his fault), only to be told that he'll get his job back IF (and only if) he signs a famous reclusive potter to his company. Little did he know that his target -- the reclusive potter -- is a hottie and proceeds to fall in love with him. It's a little bit more complicated and nuanced than my description, but it's a wonderful slow-burn romance -- and the nice salaryman is truly conflicted about the lie that brought him to this person in the first place, but has a hard time telling the truth once they get together. 5/5 for warmth, humor, and depth. Chapters 30 through 38 He's the worst!!! He dragged out a daytime drama into a long, long saga, and I am not here for it *makes devil face emoji* He should have just TOLD the freaking dude! I know the other dude messed up, but there's a point where you just feel sorry for him (especially after the boss changed his mind about what happened and forgave Wonyoung). Don't drag out the drama!!! Just say how you FEEL!!!!! Oooh, Taejoon asked WonYoung to live with him. ~ Chapter 58

A boy with social anxiety falls for the boy who knows him as 'god.' Two very different people with a prior connection end up having a bond and confessing to each other. One is a good-looking and smart kid, while the other doesn't have many friends for fear of 'messing up.' The socially anxious kid lives on a farm and his grandfather owns a mountain, a place he sees as a refuge from his anxiety. He warms up to this touchy-feely outgoing kid, and love blooms. A coming-to-terms romance story dealing with the anxieties of growing up. ~ Chapter 5

Two blog writers for video games/anime end up meeting each other, only for one to realize that the other (who writes about cute, sweet things) is a gentle giant (male). The giant falls for the other gamer/writer, who ends up in a relationship with him despite being straight and perpetually single. Very cute and sweet. ~Chapter 5.5

Two people who annoy each other end up finding something together, common ground and perhaps love...The story of two men finding something they didn't expect to in each other. ~Chapter 7