takame's manga / #slice of life(352)

Ch. 1: Reality is different from expectations. That's what the MC bitter life as a low-grade movie production staff is. His current job though ludicrous, is very stressful. He got his friend to thank for this great opportunity & the only way he could think of paying back is to indulge the man of his "hobby". It's either a "swinger club" (google it kids) or some kind of a mild S&M bar. The truth is, MC (uke) was really inlove with his friend and used seme's hobby as an excuse to sleep with him. .//. -==Town Hall 3-part series: Quirk is one mysterious guy calling himself "god" (LFMAO) & serving as a cupid for the featured couples in a certain countryside.==- Ch. 2: A supernatural love triangle with a ghost. A gay guy who has an ardent suitor just died and is now haunting him... to give some kisses lol. In a #flashback, he consulted his straight friend about it over a drink which ended with a #drunken sex. But the ghost knew MC (uke) loves his straight friend. #mutual misunderstanding got cleared in the end w/ the help of the ghost. #guilt+tragedy to happy ending. #civil engineers working for the town hall. Ch. 3-4: #cute giant younger seme. More or less 9 yrs age gap. Asahi (seme) chasing this vocational teacher around. And cheerily so, making sensei tired all the more. Even if sensei doesn't make it super obvious they were in a mutual understanding type of relationship & OFC, it did not escape "god" when he encountered them. #breakup. Poor baby seme but the misunderstanding will clear up. ch. 5: Alright! it's god's turn for a love story! Arashima, the kind busybody friend-colleague from the last episode is back and this time, it's them two that are focused here. Poor guy is trying to hide his feelings to his straight #childhood friends but how long can he hide to a clairvoyant? #10 yrs unrequited and that simple word "let's go out" is unbelievable AF. Cute! it's very cute! -----------------.//.----------------- Ch. 6: try-hard delinquent is silently crushing over his uncle for sometime now. he's really a nice boy once but then their #tutoring session escalates to pettings and eventually jacking off and he's already in the middle of developing feelings for the uncle so when he was bluntly rejected, he decided to rebel.

» Ijiwaru Shinai de > Furete, Aishite, Dakishimete. Ch 1: 1st Cpl~ #older uke, #age gap #25 yo x 18 yo. cute #baka couple. #lovers @ 3mos, #misunderstandings. #uke, an awkward 25-yo virgin. A little jealousy pushed them forward. Ch. 2-3, 5.5: 2nd cpl~ A direct continuation of the first chap featuring Machida, Mizuhara's friend. MC is now 31 yo and as he thought that he's content with life as it is, a popular gay bachelor. However, seeing his friend hooking up gave him yearnings of settling down. His #childhood friend's #unrequited love get out in the open because of an omiai. seme - 31 yo publishing house worker. #sadistic yet spoiled seme, #macho uke. --------ɫ ⬧ ɫ-------- Unrelated Story: Ch. 4-5: An office sempai-kohai romance. beautiful guy got "saved", or rather caught in nichoume (gay district) by a straight younger co-worker. Dutiful junior took it all to himself to "protect" him when in reality MC just wanted to find someone to screw. And because of the kohai's kindness and gentlemanly demeanor, MC started falling for the guy even though he doesn't want to fall for a straight man. Come company outing and they will have an understanding of each other. #kind seme that has a possessive and jealous side! I like him. #seme 3 years younger #office sempai x kohai

(Nov: Marking as finished since it's probably just waiting for the extra. *Hopefully*.) Synopsis: Touching family manga that goes beyond blood. The girl completing their trio is back & still as quirky as always. Our couple has totally become doting uncles for the newborn & suddenly got tasked to serve as a parent to the child while the mother embarks on her self-imposed duty to the world (job: war photojournalist). Well, despite that, I still find her nice and cool albeit a little of an outlier with her bizzare attitude. The pair is living the lovey-dovey life sans living together but with the little girl's entry, lifestyle will change, including frequent cockblocks. Personally, this manga made "family manga" mean a lot more with the kid's mom and the couple's parents. There's love all around their extended family and I am happy that for once, the mother is included in the family circle. It just gives bad vibes when the women are made as plot device villains. #already lovers for three years at the start of the story.

Nov 2017 EDIT: OMG @ch. 20-end: It's seriously giving me a heartbreak. Ohhhh why is it so painful between them. The drama, it hurts good. I can't believe there's only one chapter left before it finishes. I can definitely feel the climax. I'm in near tears BUUUTTT I've been let down in the end. I was never a fan of bad ending for couples when there could have been reencounters and resolutions that could happened and what did the webtoon creator did? well make them breakup. Congratulations on never resolving this in the end. I think even as much as he wanted to deny it, yoo il never had gotten over it. If he REALLY did, he won't be as guarded all over the memory like what he is doing. NOPE. Not fun. #reencounter with his old crush. Old crush had a son who just looks like him, to the chargin of our MC. However, the kind of grew closer each day but like any 40-something ahjussi, is still reluctant to step in this. Especially with how awkward everything about them is. And let's not start with the age gap. However, it is interesting how the webtoon presented their relationship as a love affair that needed to be hidden. Somehow, everything about this manga make you feel the realism of the issue it wants to get across, especially the may-december romance. Gratituous scenes are a bonus, even when the smut is not explicit. The plot makes me happy enough tho. Still, I'll keep the 4* because the drama hurts so good and it's good overall, just not up to my preferences.

#ongoing scans with good pace. Update: Now finished. ☆ I need to emphasize that crossplaying is a hobby unique to otaku culture. THEY ARE NOT (necessarily) TRANSGENDERS. Synopsis: Super cute love story of two cosplay enthusiast. #puppy seme x #older uke.MC (seme) is a that is normally withrawn & nerdy high school student except when he's in his #cosplay otaku hobby. Fell inlove at first site at a convention with a "girl" cosplaying his favourite female game character. Currently, his brain is on overdrive by still being attracted even after the "girl" revealed her identity. Good pacing of the MC-seme's attraction. I like how it's in his POV too. #sempai x kohai at school, sempai uke.

For some reason I can't get into it. A mysterious shop w/ unique services are a familiar concept in BL & there's a lot of great ones w/ similar format (sex therapist & minori no te among others) that I REALLY like but IDK? But don't get me wrong, IT'S NOT BAD. I read it till the end. Synopsis: An repatriate who came back to Japan for good ran an izakaya (traditional japanese restaurant) that is a little bit... unique. First, the owner is a quirky guy who acts and thinks like a weaboo despite being japanese & second, he is using it as a front to do some detective work with his mysterious, all-capable employees. And did I mention that he's gay? So yeah, in a nutshell this manga is about him helping those unfortunate gay men who stumble to his restaurant building. #reencounter romance started to develop around half of the story. Love interest is the okama that works on a gay bar that the group knew through their first job. Surprise, they actually knew each other since high school and the "amazing" owner cannot seem to recall that he actually confessed lol. Cute happy ending for the two!

Beautiful and clean artstyle similar to shoujo. I thought it would go into an angsty smut route but surprisingly, it is such a gentle & sweet manga that purifies the soul. I'm not worthy! Synopsis: Seme looks so intimidating to the point people drop out of his club. Wanting a friend, he invited this beautiful boy to join the art club. Meanwhile, a poor, unfortunate teen endure being bullied and selling sex just to make ends meet. Then, an underclassman who only have naive intentions of making him an art model made him feel that there's still good things in this world. OFC he'll fell inlove. #sempai uke x kohai uke romance.

Synopsis: Ugh my face. I can't stop smiling. It's SO cute(and healthy!). Teacher became neighbors with a college guy whom he found out to be a former student (that he can't remember) but as the days passed, he slowly noticed the boy's feelings as he get comfortable with their newlywed-like life. *I always find it interesting when an unrequited love is taken from the perspective of the person who is the subject of the unrequited love. I get to see what they are thinking and how they fell inlove with the guy attracted to them. Bonus points for seme's POV too. #age gap - 10 years

Beautiful unrequited love with a gentle and relaxing atmosphere. Two highschoolers who are both movie buffs are close despite in different classes. Later, brunette learned why. His very male friend confessed to him one day but without expecting something in return. However, with this summer pilgrimag, he later found himself falling anyway. But when classes resumed, friend was mysteriously gone? This manga is a testimony that a relaxing slice of life can become a masterpiece with full-marks

Fuzzy feelings. That's what I has all throughout reading this manga. Great pace, no angst no twist... The perfect slice of life that refreshes your soul. Synopsis:#POV of both seme and uke, #seme in love first, chef x hairstylist. A divorcee became friends with a chef-to-be and without realizing, they started to fill up each other's loneliness. The transition of stranger to lovers of two males (and one is definitely straight at first) are believable. I also appreciate the heatr-clenching moments without any excessive drama.