Sleeps In Sunbeams's manga / #Nice Art(3)

All enjoyable one shots, I love the author’s skill with faces.

This manga was full of hot short stories apart from the main, including; “Carrot and Dick” - Office supervisor and entitled subordinate who got his job through nepotism find an incentive for performance “Livin’ Libido Loca”- Pro fighter Tatsumi and his trainer Sho find clever ways to improve focus in fights, but soon Tatsumi wants Sho to be even more involved and hands on. “Fooled You Hard”- Naive Shota is pranked by his friend Ryoji when he reveals his lack of understanding of a cavity search. But soon Ryoji is caught in his own joke, trapped by the hope that Shota wants him more than simple knowledge. “Vulnerable Boy”- Trigger warning a.) Cousin x cousin incest, b.) Rape (not by love interest). Delinquent youth Daiki is being sent to live with his strict uncle and high achieving cousin, Masaru when he completes high school by his own overly strict parents. But Daiki is not what Masaru was expecting and he has to adjust all his preconceived judgements when he realises just how vulnerable his cousin is, and how much he wants to protect him. “Denyin’ Libido Loca”- Continuation of Tatsumi x Sho story, told from Sho perspective. Main Story: “Hammered and Banged”- Matsui (popular, attractive and driven, top in sales) x Kensuke (perpetually horny, creative, top in Planning & Development). At a planned all night drinks and games night, the 2 MCs end up being the only ones left after their friends bail. Not knowing each other well, they begin some drinking games that have very predictable results (if only someone was there and sober enough to interject). From such inauspicious beginnings follows a year of these guys relationship both in the office and at home. They are hot, muscled, highly competitive and increasingly into each other. This manga includes the complete vol 2 of their relationship. If you like strong men and muscled uke’s this may be just the story for you.

I think this mangaka does not like her uke’s very much. In the Omegaverse story the alpha deliberately raped and bit the omega. Not because he was overwhelmed by his nature, or full of lust and/or love. Simply from cruelty, the desire to control and dominate his boss. A horrible story because even at the end, the omega hated the alpha. And the bullshit excuse of putting up with a lifetime of rape and bullying so he doesn’t have to take his suppressants? Wtf kind of crap is that? Then, the other stories... The high schooler who blackmails the salaryman over old AV vid he was in and makes him have sex in public. Turns out the salaryman was fine with it but the dynamic was poor between the two. The story was meant to be erotic with a foot job under a restaurant table and fear of being caught, but the pair had no chemistry. The suicidal friend story I was looking forward to, but it ended unresolved and was way, way to short to do justice to such a sensitive topic. Total letdown, but has potential. The otaku friend in bondage story also had potential but it fizzled as it felt like a meaningless and opportunistic fuck with zero deepening of their friendship subsequent to having sex. The only story that was ok was the horrible doctor one and the male nurse. This one was good because they both recognised the dark nature beneath the friendly smile AND they developed feelings for each other. But even in this story the uke had to be sexually assaulted by a stranger.. like I said; this mangaka doesn’t like their ukes. They don’t have love enter the stories, they like the ukes to be raped and powerless without any retribution. It’s not even reflective of good BDSM relationships which have aftercare and trust and safe words. So, read if you like these kinds of stories. I was really disappointed.