Hanami's manga / #Multiple Couples(60)

Even though Mikuni Renji wants a serious love relationship, every guy he’s been with use him for pleasure and leave him. Sadistic florist, Ichinomiya Shinobu fell in love with him because he finds Renji interesting. The second story is about a student who fell in love with his unsociable classmate. And the last story revolves around the son of a Mama, Kei, who gets confessed to by his coworker and transvestite Seto Tadashi. The first story really had me hurting for Renji, and though at least he found someone who wanted him I still kind of feel bad for the teasing he goes through. The last story is cute, though Kei was an asshole at the beginning, I liked them together. Mama’s yaoi radar was working.

Haga Hajime is an unsociable hairdresser, who’s never really struggled with anything since his parents gave him all he ever wanted. As a result he doesn’t really know how to interact with the people around him. His first friend is Tatsuo Andou, a makeup artist who teaches him how to interact with other people. I really liked how their relationship progressed from friendship to love. Hajime is so child-like it’s endearing. The second volume focuses on Hajime’s brother Makoto. Having spent all his life living under his perfect brother’s shadow, Makoto developed a serious inferiority complex. So when his coworker Mizusawa Souta confesses to him and he accepts, he takes his first step towards happiness. Makoto really got the short end of the stick in life, everything he ever wanted was handed out to his brother. At least he found someone who acknowledges his faults but loved him regardless.

This manga includes the story of three couples, and all three couples have an unexpected twist to the characters. The first story is about a businessman, Kanbe, who’s in love with his manager, who enjoys sexually harassing him. The manager moonlights as a fortuneteller, whom Kanbe visits often. It took Kanbe a century and a half to realize that Ammon the fortuneteller and the manager was the same person. Kanbe was cute, too slow for his own good, but still as endearing as a puppy. In this first couple there were sekes, a threesome and even Captain Duck got some action. The second story is about a high school student who’s in a relationship with his teacher, but hasn’t had sex with him yet. Turns out that the teacher is a sex beast with an insatiable appetite. Good thing he’s young and full of energy. The last story is about a businessman, Shibata, who loves the younger type, but gets topped by his seemingly sweet subordinate, Saiga. In reality Saiga is a sadistic seme who awakens the inner uke and masochist of Shibata. The last story includes threesomes and bondage.

This manga includes four stories. The first story follows Azuma Shirou. Azuma has a glasses fetish and for some reason his eyes seem to follow Sorachi Satoshi. This story was so adorable! Sorachi is the cutest damn thing ever. He’s so squishable! I loved how both were so insecure and jealous, it was endearing. The second story follows Minami Kazuhiko as he always seems to stumble upon Sawai being confessed to. He and Sawai have a sexual relationship, which the adorably dense Minami interprets as just Sawai killing time before he gets a girl. Of course his assumption is completely off. The third story is about detective Saegusa Noritaka, who developed a crush on the café worker Nanase Ikumi. And finally, the last story is about Saegusa’s assistant Kirishima. Kirishima has had a crush on his neighbor for eight years. When Shirai Tetsuji is leaving for college, they are unwilling to let go of each other. This manga’s sequel is Wild Darling.

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.

Delinquent Kikusui Kiyouya changed his ways after falling in love with his math teacher Erimoto Hijii. Suddenly Erimoto wants to break up with Kikusui, so to prove that what he’s felling for Erimoto isn’t just lust he makes a deal that they won’t touch for a month. I intensely despised this story mainly because of the uke. Erimoto is the most spineless, wishy washy uke ever! Kikusui stopped getting into fights and started taking his studies seriously because Erimoto was the only person to give a damn about him, yet Erimoto kept hurting him. I irritated with his character. In the second story Fujisawa Yuu moves from Tokyo to a small village. There he meets Nanatsuki Haruki, a guy who will sleep with anyone but only in school. This story was way better than the first one. I liked that Yuu wanted to build a relationship with Haruki.

This manga features four stories. The first one is about Go players Asanuma and Shiraki who fall in love with each other. My favorite of the stories. I loved their competitiveness. Shiraki’s mom needs a little bit of fashion advice, Asanuma keeps getting thwarted by the…interesting clothes she chooses for Shiraki. The second story is about convenience store clerk, Kanai and recently divorced Takatou. The third story follows a boy named Chiaki, he’s the new “wife” of the inugami. The last story is about a boy who goes to get prescription glasses and falls in love with the clerk.