takame's manga / #mature(104)

multiple stores of salaryman, matured slice of life stories with some dark elements there. ./ ch. 1-56: #unrequited love he only noticed when he was #raped. was initially straight. #bittersweet. ./ ch. 57-90: boss x secretary. a bizaare, talentless yet kind company president x the poor, hardworking and loyal secretary chasing him around. #comedy #office life ./ ch. 91-132: getting #gang-raped in a seedy, south east asian town. #salaryman fell inlove with an language interpreter. #dark #bittersweet ./ ch. 133-160 : a recently widowed elite civil servant x brother inlaw, guilt, sadness and mourning. #angst #non-blood relation incest. ./ p. 161-202: beautiful, bittersweet one-way office love. bisexual (kept his gay side to his subordinate) boss who had an ailing, dying wife and his executive officer cum secretary. subordinate x boss #executive salaryman uke x president oyaji seme./

One supernatural masterpiece. *Tears* / Multiple cast guide plus some info. raizou - a cheerful, unknowing normal person used for the introductory POV x kon - masterless self-destructive (the wet-blanket) kami saved by raizou. Their main story is until chap. 10./ konoe - one of the original kami of the founder #bear-like seme x kotoha - the feared, super-sheltered powerful #shota boy of the main family. #adult x minor ./ ouka - androgynous female master fr. branch family x benio - yuri couple --- asari - one of the kami of the original founder x shouri - current family head. harsh glasses seme x #flighty #sly uke >first appearance ch. 4. to ch. 11. ./ genma - branch family son set to inherit theirs x himi - their family's... his father's kami. #kichiku, #beast-like #aggressive seme x #timid uke #rape #hate to love >pair's main story ch-12-20 ./ moriya - long-time cold-hearted kami - x ryuusei - disowned branch family member > ch. 21.5-29 : #drama #angst #tragedy #manly couple #stoic seme x #perverted #manly uke. ./ >konoe x kotoha backtory, asari x shoui backstory: ch. 30-35. ./ >shoui x asari main story, ch. 40-48.

ch.1-4: ai wa doki itta. #salaryman - salesmen #office life, office workers. #bickering lovers. #sex friends to lovers. #arrogant #elite #popular #straight seme x #normal uke -as for the rape tag of this story: isn't it similar to straight men not exactly againt a woman raping them and not taking it to court? there are instances like that in straight romances too. (moreever, it's common in the shoujo genre, sheeesh) there's way worse story than this, and the uke's not really seriously protesting and proceeded to be sex friends with his officemates. call the uke all the names you could think but he's honest with what his body is feeling and they are two consenting adults. that 'no' is not exactly serious and it doesn't look like there's a penetration that happened in that initial 'rape' scene. ----- ch. 5: #childhood friends to lovers. that sneaked kiss (while he's sleeping) puzzled the hell out of him. #cute story.

1-83: cute model x model story. popularity gap, insecurity, kinda cute-funny younger seme. #younger #awkward seme x #older #long haired #stoic uke ./ p.83-103: #adult x minor. normal-looking #bearded photographer seme x #cute #model uke, about to quite modelling. ./ 103-119: a great shortie (better than the main, haha) #bittersweet. realizing you love the person after he died is shocking indeed. but it's been two years and he needed to move on. ./ 119- end: backstory of restart + omake and a/n.

a waste of a manga that had compelling office life story just the way i like it. too bad it's not updating. My ideal executives business politics battle and love calls

it's actually fun. and i wish the manga had at least one more additional chapter. the end is too open-ended. it would have been fun to get the father in-law and the ex-bf together, haha what a mess.

2016 note: This is a FINISHED manga IDK why it's not marked. Most beautiful (mindless) smut in an interesting setting, Fulfils a lot of tropes and kinks. yum. Pretty blonde commander (which turned out to be a forsaken prince) is taken as a war prisoner in a middle-eastern empire. There's monastic knights so the timeline seems to fall on the Holyland crusades(?). totally not for the morally strict and the faint hearted. rape, imprisonment

⟫ After Morning Love > Before Daylight Love > Crossover Love 〚 Story of long-time friends who know each other since high school, now a lawyer and a bartender and how they get their respective lovers〛 daiki x tatsumi, the yakuza wakagashira who owns the bar he manages... and technically his life too since the waka has bought his debt-ridden self. ⬧ (btw, it's funny how matsuno still forgets that he's gone gay for rin now) Daiki's friend and the bar's apprentice has their own manga where they got together @ After Morning Love ch. 5. p.18-end: omake + mangaka's postcript. ɫ ⬧ ɫ ch. 5, page 1-18: continuation and conclusion of the animal ears salarymen story at After Morning Love.