RoseMary's manga / #Youth x Adult(163)

Disguised-as-Female Youth / Waiter (18) x Lawyer (27)

Elementary-school Music Teacher x Middle Schooler / High Schooler (Ex-student from elementary school asks the teacher to give him lessons to prepare for entrance exams to a musical high school) // Age Progression // Time Skip - At some point in the story, the youth goes to Italy to study music. Reunion will come after 10 years. > Regarding the music theme, I think this is one of the best BL about classical music! As expected, sensei's stories are always pretty accurate about the presented theme / setting. I appreciate that. So in that aspect, I think it was well-written and great. it's not a favourite of mine in terms of the characters' relationship (and I'm not into crybaby seme), but overall I really liked this story!

Collection of Stories - I really liked the title story, which is my favourite, and the last story! 4 stars for them! Uminari (pp. 9-80, 243-251) - Art Teacher x High-school Student // Youth x Adult // Older Uke // Seaside Moon of the sixteenth Night (pp. 86-125) - Someone's "convenient lover", a uni student, falls in love for the first time with a kouhai from his uni. Bittersweet! I felt kinda bad for the older guy who was left behind...maybe if he had been more honest about his true feelings, things would have been different. - University Students // First Love // Older Uke // Smoking Duplicate Key (pp. 131-165) - Funny story of two lovers who for the first time will have to be sepatated for one week due to work reasons, with one having to go away for a workshop and the other for a research... - Adult Couple // Cohabitation // Older Uke // Salaryman x Professor // Established Couple Related Series: 1 Uminari (Third Story, Shared Key); 2 Himitsu no Kuchizuke (ch. 1 Secret Kiss); 3 Rumble Rush (ch. 3 High School Maze, ch. 6 After the Rain). Last Kiss (pp. 172-237) - Middle-Aged Protagonist // Childhhod Friends // Family // Neighbors // Summer // Sea / Beach - "Honestly, those two guys over there are exactly like the fathers!" haha the sister said it right! There's the potential that the path that wasn't pursued by the fathers will be taken by the sons instead! Anyway, it's still a bittersweet story!

2007-released Collection of older works by Oumi Shinano: • Ch. 1 Where Miracle Exists? - Youth / Male Prostitute x Salaryman // Straight Seme // Older Seme // Reencounter • Ch. 2-3 Hisuiiro no Kaze / Wind of the Green Jade - Youth / High-school Student x Famous Novelist (the so-called “Hard-boiled man”) // Seaside Village // Half-Japanese Half-German Uke // Jade-green Eyes // Motorcycle // Family Drama // Older Seme > Wind of the Green Jade is actually the title of the story that the novelist wrote at the end of the story and dedicated to Midori. • Ch. 4 First Step - Dancing // Theater // Stage Actors // Older Seme - [[Also published in Yatte Yaru, Konya!, ch. 3 - mangago.me / read-manga / yatte_yaru_konya / an / yatte-yaru-konya--chapter-3.html / 3 /]] • Ch. 5 Love Song - Inter-linked to and set after the events of ch. 4, it's focused on the established adult couple of Saeki and Yoshiki. > Too bad for the one-sided sex / "rape as a start of relationship" often found in Oumi Shinano's stories! Here, the only story that doesn't have such element is the last one. Anyway, overall I liked all the stories, but for the plot and my personal tastes I really liked the first story and the second story (the title story). For those two maybe I'd have given it 4 stars...

High-school Student x Teacher / Neighbor // Age Gap: 8 years

High-school Student x Teacher // Age Gap: 14 years // The seme is a 1st-year student so he should be 16 y.o. and the teacher should be 30.

1st-year Uni Student x 37 y.o. Professor // American x American (WASP) // Straight Uke x Married Gay Seme ☚୧୨☛ Matsuo Marta's masterpiece - A must-read, unique quirky BL! It's comical in an odd way and, in contrast, underneath it lies a bittersweet realism, but at the same time it's cool and captivating! Somehow, the characters are charismatic in their own way and complement each other so well, despite that sort of swinging / intermittent relationship, with moments where they were not aligned, and their not-so-honest face-to-face confrontations. Btw, that was a very interesting dynamic! Anyway, it's a couple that grows on you, pulls you in and makes you interested and curious to see how their relationship will evolve or, better said, if it will evolve at all... > Apparently there's an alternative ending called Quicksand, which replaced the current ch. 8, but it's not scanlated. // Edit: it's now available! Thank you to the person who finally added this here! Thank you so much!! > Extra, Material Boy - 77mh.com / colist_233412.html

(()) Collection of three stories: • Ch. 1 (1.1,1.2,1.3), 4.5 Almost Paradise - Art Teacher x Middle-school Student (in Hokkaido) // Reunion after 10 years when the student is an adult too (in Tokyo) // Older Uke // Glasses-Wearing Uke • Ch. 2 Café Winterreise - Set in Germany (Berlin) // Cafè Owner // Half-Japanese Half-German x Japanese // Gay Uke x Gay Seme // Finding Love Again • Ch. 3-4 Gold, Ash, Dark Green / Looking at the Night Sky while Waiting - Historical Fantasy // Supernatural // Village // European Ambience // Long-Haired Seme // Cute Uke // Mage / Doctor x Wolf turned into human / later he'll be the Mage's Apprentice (The young wolf fell into a bear-trap and even his brother couldn't release him from it. Since it happened on a full-moon night, luckily through magic he could be turned into human by the pack's leader in order to escape from the trap. Then the brother was told to find the village's mage and seek his help for the wounded boy). > I think the title story is a "student x teacher" gem! I really liked it and it's without a doubt my favourite in this collection, but the other two stories were good too! In particular, for the second story I'd have liked to read a continuation (and I'd have liked to see them getting intimate)! And the third one is a kind of story I love, so I really liked it as well!

Collection of Stories: • Ch. 1-5 Honey Baby - Middle-school Student (14 / 15) x Teacher (27) • Ch. 6 S - Sex Friends • Ch. 7 That's Another Law of Love - Uni Students // Straight // Bisexual - For this one, I'd have liked a continuation! • Ch. 8 High Standard Impression - [[Not scanlated]] - Raw: 77mh.com / 201210 / 233321.html#@page=81