Hanami's manga / #Coworkers(35)

This manga includes two stories. In the first one, Endou is caught by Okumura for sleeping with his wife. As a way to make amends, Endou suggests that Okumura beat him up, instead Okumura slept with him. The quiet and refined Okumura isn’t exactly how he appears. Afterwards they start a company together. A lying, sneaky, manipulative, dominant and sexy uke, I approve. This story had its serious moments and downright hilarious moments. Once the butterfly of the night has you, you’re doomed. Side note: Why aren’t most “dead” past lovers in yaoi actually dead? The other story follows Ritsu, who’s in love with his straight friend that’s in a relationship. He sleeps around and eventually stumbles upon Ikeuchi Hideo and OB GYN doctor who fell in love with him. I didn’t really like Ritsu, he was bratty and not very likeable. STDs are actually a concern in this story. I died at the hospital scene though.

Clumsy worker Kondou Takayuki has a difficult relationship with his manager Takagi Toshinobu, who treats him harshly at every opportunity he gets. One morning, after getting drunk, he wakes up to find he slept with his boss. After some confusion and a misunderstanding they become a couple. The devil takes form in the sadistic, dominating, possessive and demanding seme. Takagi really enjoyed making Kondou suffer, to the point that I wanted him to take several seats. I felt bad for Kondou, being constantly beat down by the person you admire. That being said, I really enjoyed this manga, the reactions of the characters were funny and watching Kondou flail around was oddly entertaining (*hides inner S*). The second story follows Fujimori Takashi, a 28 year old businessman in the middle of a big project. Due to his lack of time, he hires a live-in maid to take care of the cooking and the cleaning. But due to a computer mistake, he gets assigned a male maid, Kuga Atsuhiko. This one was more innocent than the first one. It was a pretty cute read.

Five stories that are completely cute. First story, Tsuda is forced by his twin sister to cover for at her job at a Maid Café. There he bumps into one of his classmates, Kaname. Kaname can’t tell girls apart but he takes and interest in Tsuda. The next story focuses on council president Kijima and vice president Kamida. Kamida and Kijima have feelings for each other but neither want to jeopardize their current relationship. The third story is about Aibo Shuu, a new secretary to the president of a company who’s afraid to lose his bento making job when the president gets married. The next story is about a director of a school who poses as the female nurse. In the last story Hirota’s sister leaves her daughter in his care. Since he has no idea about how to care for a child, Ogura stepped in to help him. I especially loved the love triangle in the last story, it was so adorable.

A collection of oneshots. (1) Popular student Suwa fell in love with Fujisaki, an introverted classmate. (2) Uehara Daisuke receives a love letter from what he thinks is a girl. Instead the person who confessed to him was Aikawa Ruka, his male kohai. I really liked this story, mainly because of Ruka. I liked how he wanted to be friends first, and also how he has a combination of traditionally female pastimes (cooking and sewing), but also “masculine” hobbies like kendo. His room was adorable too. (3) Natsume Ryuuichi has a glasses fetish and has to choose between his otaku coworker (Kuze) and his younger friend (Aya). Battle of the ukes to see who gets the prize. I died after they jumped on him when Natsume was sick. (4) Businessman Kikuchi Yuuma spends all his time working but even so he still messes up. His ex, Haruto, decides to stay for a while with him. Haruto is the cutest things ever. (5) Coworkers Manabe Yoshi and Asano Yukata can’t seem to spend a day together due to work. Feeling disappointed, Asano teases a coworker to get a rise out of Manabe.

Collection of steamy oneshots. (1) Student Uehara Yuuji falls in love with his math professor, Tatsukawa You, the only problem is that the professor hates people. After being rejected by the professor 31 times, Yuuji finally wins him over by becoming his dog. (2) Kurosawa is in love with his senpai Eizawa Shun but hasn’t confessed. One morning Shun wakes up as a guinea pig. It turns out senpai was also in love with him and Kurosawa’s guinea pig, Merumo, turned him into a guinea pig so that they could finally get together. That guinea pig was so cute! And this chapter was pretty funny. (3) Tsuruka Asato is the tutor to Misumi Ren and they both fell in love at first sight. The only problem is that they both want to be the seme. I loved how Ren was a wolf in sheep’s clothing, he was going for the kill. (4) Miyamoto Yuzuru is an actor with stage fright so his new manager, Atou Souichirou, has the perfect solution, sexually harassing him and tapping it. (5) Umina Makoto is a perverted loverboy who watches his beloved Mitsurugi Aoi senpai from the window of the chemistry room. To win over his senpai, Umina uses a prototype love potion given to him by the president of the chemistry club. This was my favorite chapter because Umina is so freaking hilarious, the things he said had me dying. (6) Kazuma is in love with his cousin and swim teacher Nogaki Kyousuke. (7) Houyama Riku fell in love with his friend Hoshino Seita. His other friend Shinosaki Eiru helps Riku get some action, and it ends up in a threesome. (8) Isayama Kyouya is in love with his older and married boss. Coworker Nakatsu Ginji caught Isayama in a delicate position and now he forces Isayama to be his toy. He’s actually in love with Isayama.

Tokitou is a bestselling author who’s lost his touch after his first novel turned into a best-seller. He’s encouraged to keep trying to write by his editor Kushima. Adorable story of Tokitou overcoming his writer’s block and finding his sparkles. This was all kinds of cute. I loved Kushima’s faith in Tokitou and his respect for authors in general. He was both an intimidating creeper with his evil aura and really cute. Tokitou was the cutest thing ever with the sparkles and the big eyes. Light and fun read that makes you feel all fluffy and sparkly, I just wish it were longer.

A collection of oneshots. (1) Kouta’s family borrowed a large sum of money and left him the debt. Sonomura Takahisa, his senpai, get him a part-time job as a gay AV actor. After the first one became a success they continued making videos. Senpai was clever using the AV excuse to sleep with him, but at the same time he never forced him. I liked him for being respectful. (2) Masaomi is the new president of a love hotel after his father left with his lover on a vacation. Tsushima, the hotel manager, has him try out various products so he that Masaomi knows the kind of things people do at love hotels. Another clever seme, using the excuse of showing the products to have sex with Masaomi. (3) Mimatsu Keizou’s family owns a liquor store. One day while delivering he picks up a student, Higuchi Yuuma. He has several fantasies regarding Higuchi and eventually those fantasies get fulfilled. Meh. (4) Sex club owner Miyatsuki seems to be interested in the new worker Aomura Jyunta. Turns out Jyunta helped boss when he was younger. Jyunta was way too innocent and cute. (5) Nagaoka wants to become the assistant of his favorite mangaka Chigaya Senri. Sensei is looking for someone to succeed him as he’s not inspired to draw anymore. This one was probably the funniest just because of the training regimen for becoming a mangaka. (6) Isawa goes to a hot spring and becomes interested in young part-timer Mashita Shitsuki. My least favorite of the bunch, it just wasn’t my cup of tea. (7) Kousuke is in love with his friend Sonokawa Yukihi. He wanted to confess during the graduation trip but chickened out. During the hot springs trip Kousuke gets his chance to confess and go further with Yukihi. I liked at the end how lovey dovey they were.

(1) Freelance writer Shouji Tatsuru was sent to a hot springs resort to interview the young master Kuga Nanami. Nanami agrees to the interview only if Tatsuru worked in the hot springs for a month. Loved this. At first Nanami seems cold but he’s surprisingly adorable. Tatsuru too was clumsy, but hardworking and dedicated to his writing. I really liked how real the long distance relationship was handled. They missed each other but also didn’t want to interfere with each other’s work and passion. Loved it! Plus Nanami’s family and friends were so cool about his relationship. Go mom and friends! (2) Businessman Takeru was invited over to Shinji’s house to take cover from the rain but has been stuck in the room for a week since Shinji won’t let him leave. I didn’t really like this one, for the obvious reason, but also because Shinji’s relationship prior to the kidnapping wasn’t explained. I wanted to know why he liked Takeru enough to keep him locked in a room. (3) Ten years ago designer Tsukamoto Ibuki rejected his friend Miyauchi Yuudai after he forced himself on Ibuki. In the present day Yuudai is the project manager and Ibuki’s company is interested in the project. I didn’t like that Yuudai was using the project to coerce Ibuki into being with him. Then again at the end he didn’t seem to mind. (4) Shunsei is in love with the assistant professor Mizawa Kazuyuki, who rejects his advances out of respect for his father. I liked Shunsei’s perseverance, it was funny yet endearing.