takame's manga / #salaryman(352)

⟫ Kimi Ga Koi Ni Ochiru > Kimi Ga Koi Ni Oboreru > Kimi ga Koi ni Midareru. This story starts and coincides with "Oboreru" vol.2 in the perspective of Kijima and his broken heart. #popular seme - he could get whoever he wants but when it's the one he fell for, he just can't everytime. Nice story, nice art. A kimono dealer was touched by a design and immediately sought the artist unfortunately, the artist is unwilling to publicize his work. It's not in his nature to fail tho. But is seems like that it's not just the artwork that he's come to admire.

cat cafe = PARADISE ON EARTH. I was squeeing the whole time lol. #straight seme x gay uke. A twoshot centered around cats and how this straight guy fell inlove with a male shop staff despite being straight. seme - some fast-acting ladies' man who works in the office visits the cat cafe with impure intentions. actually hates animals. uke - prickly cat cafe staff who is annoyed with the guy (seme) who only visits most likely just to please some chick. (and he's right). unfortunately for his gay self, he's slowly falling to this guy. lies and tries to pass it off as some joke

⟫ Te wo Tsunaide, Sora wo > Amayakana Toge > Aisanai Otoko > Vanilla Star. 〚 Slice of life story series of friends working in a publishing house and their lovers.〛 first pair: haruya (writer) x maki ch. 1-6: blocked writer who stays at the outskirts of Tokyo saved this dirty and hungry young man. #met when the boy's 17. 17 yo youth x 30 yo guy that works in a publishing co. + that cute tuxedo cat. ch. 13: extra story about seme's ex. and his new boyfriend. yagisawa introduced the new guy to the main couple. ------ɫ ⬧ ɫ-------- Non-related shorties. ch. 7-9: Kiss me Daddy, a reprint from the manga Make me happy. #age gap. ch. 10: #office life of a guy who had a bad rumor around him in the office. more specifically, being gay. #discrimination #homophobia. then slanderer aka. the salty-douchebag-exBF hit karma. and uke lived happily ever after. ch. 11: it is interesting. why is it open-ended. mangaka should have just made this into a fucked up oneshot... or two-shot. at least i want more of them. started with #rape and #imprisonment. yep, it's always the silent ones. #college friends, but seme had this "great" idea of making a stockholm syndrome victim out of the friend he's having an unrequited love with. #rape to love i guess. ch 12: nice. i a bit intense story. a guy who looked like a stiff-collared businessman rented him out for the whole night. uke is moonlighting as a #prostitute to pay for college. in the middle of sweet talk, he said "take me with you" he did mean it a bit. but was left with a thick envelope of money. then he saw on tv this #embezzler who looked super familiar.

〚 Puchitto Series: A story of some friends (and the lovers they gain) whose common point is the gay bar Blue Organ 〛 ⟫ Puchitto Hajiketa > Porotto Koboreta > Korotto Ochita?. It's so cute! And I love seeing seme crying in their moment of weakness. Aw. This is Rui, Akkun's friend's own story. Friction at first meeting. They do not get along but one day, rui kind of pitied the man as he saw him drinking silly his broken heart away. So rui offered a comfort sex and eversince seeing the other guy's cute side that day it seems that he's slowly falling for him.

ch. 1-4: cousin!cest. #older uke #age gap of 2 years, #salaryman x model. #salaryman uke drops by #college-aged seme's school at times for lunch. uke is strict with his younger cousin's diet. seme has other motivations from getting fed. ----------------- ch.5: oneshot extra about #businessmen #aphrodisiac. #mature #handsome uke #aggressive seme. i want more of this oneshot. it's so cute.

Could have been good. It could have been at least a full 27-page chapter but NOOOOOO mangaka decided to end there. *flips table. (╯°Д °)╯╧╧ Gay guy went to a pick-up place and is about to leave when he saw a beautiful young man that is totally his type. Back at work, he noticed the similarity upon staring at his thich-glasses subordinate.

Why does it has a low rating? WHY? ヽ(`Д´)ﾉ TBH This manga is actually pretty good w/ a satisfying deep plot about homophobia and people fiercely hiding in the closet, fearfully covering sexuality with layers upon layers of lies and perfect "normality". It does not romanticise gay-in-denial BL but lays down the reality of what might be happening in real life. As I read on, I think Sone smell gayness (gaydar ALERT!) on Mitsui all the while after the #reencounter that is why he persisted through the depressed divorcee's abuse & self-destruction mode. (I was staring at Sone's face, curious as to why he doesn't even looked surprised when Mitsui finally dropped the "I'm gay" confession so I figured he must have been suspecting all while) I felt so grateful for his existence in Mitsui's life because he literally served as a salvation for him and gave him the courage to get out of his fiercely locked closet and take baby steps as a gay man, breaking down the barriers of the heterosexual conformity that served as his shield to cover up his trauma. I was annoyed at Mitsui at first but I'm happy for him now and Sone got his highschool flame finally fulfilled.

⟫ Azami >Sabita Yoru Demo Koi Wa Sasayaku > Renai-rubi no Tadashii Furikata > Hadakeru Kaibutsu. 〚 kan x yumi 〛 Aw. That's too sad and intense. The kind that would want to make you look away. Even without anyone dying this seems to portray something really tragic... like the process of Kan-chan loosing his humanity. And they were so happy at the start. This is the beginning of the end.

#office life. #salaryman x security guard. a bad case of assumption caused some silly misunderstandings but ended happy and gay anyway so whatever haha. #baka couple. department chief is being hounded by mysterious sexual-harassing notes and he doesn't want to get raped but if it's their company bodyguard...

p. 1-98: Pitiful but not pitiful seme. TBH I don't know if he's just foolishly childlish (to the point of near retardation), airheaded or is simply just a natural-incidental-playboy but HOLY SHIT HE CHEATS THEN CRIES AND REPEATS IT AGAIN? LIKE... HOW SPINELESS HE COULD BE? Notheless, if the stupid seme does not bother you that much, it's not a bad read since it has a pretty artwork unique in the signature style of madarame hiro. one #obsessive love. #uni life. After one forceful stalker-ish gf, seme learned his lesson and never strayed and became twice as clingy to uke. In the end, the award goes to uke's friend for being the only sane person in this manga. He doesn't mind about uke having a relationship with a guy, properly scolded the boyfriend(seme) like no one could and he always makes a sound advice. .//. p. 102-174 : I like this one WAAAAYYYY better. straight seme x gay uke. uke is hamster-like cute, and fragile despite being a salaryman. started with a proposed one night stand. backtracking, both were working in the same building and uke is having an #unrequited love for handsome, hard to reach popular guy. Since uke had a different persona by night, he hoped that he won't get recognized. Hoped. .//. p. 180-end : one night while staring at his sleeping lover, arrogant, in-demand playboy contemplates on breaking up instead, began thinking about this nerd's best features. #tsundere seme moments there haha. Out of all the infuriating playboys, I am very amused at this one because he actually had his attitude handed back to him by the unknowing gloomy uke, trying to deny the fact that he's actually swallowing his pride over and over again because he's inlove for reals. And eventually, he stopped playing around and as much as he deny it, is actually enjoys serving the uke. All the while, the innocent uke kept on being negative and insecure as per his nature without knowing that he had the seme at the palm of his hands.