Old-fashioned Cupcake
17.10.2020 Volume 1 This story is about how a kouhai fell in love with his senpai the boss when he started working under him. A few years down the line, when he’s turning thirty and the boss is turning fourty...the unrequited love comes to light and they become a very lovely couple. The most lovely thing about them is how much they both bring out the best in each other, and how much they complement one another. Oh, the fact that the younger man LOVES his older man’s cooking (he eats it to the point of gettong hamster cheeks!) is adorable. And the say the older man isn’t really shy to say thing even if he blushes and gets embarrassed due to being sex shy a LOT is also lovely. Also, what starts with with girl talk (about how all the women keeps looking at how handsome the younger man is) at a pancake place and ends with boy talk (about masturbatory aids among other things...) over beer and food at home? Well, this couple’s story. Loved it. 30.1.2021 - Volume 2 The older man gets insecure when his superior at work notices his necktie around the younger man’s neck. Drama ensures, and they’re both so unhappy :( (ch 1-2) 24.7.2022 ch 3-5 They fought, and the older guy outed himself to his two collegues (the bosses), and they supported him being in a relationship this messy (with a younger man, and subordinate to boot), and the guys fought and so very much grown up, and made up, made compromises, and damn it my heart can’t take this much amount of reasonable realistic fluff! 20.10.2023 Vol 2 ch 6 - 6.5 + side stories 5.5-5.6 Onsen trip. Moving in together, Nozue proposing to Togawa. Them calling each other Saki (Nozue) and Minoru (Togawa). There’s this pointed scene in the onsen trip when an elderly lady at a ceramics shop treats them very naturally as lovers, and automatically changes a couple set of bowl into two equally large ones. And they both get so flustered because of the acceptance, and it’s so poignant. Damn it, this whole story just goes around your heart and makes it soft and fluffy! Even the sex, goddess damn it!, and it hits so in the feels!
24 Jikan Ochi nai Kiss
21.10.2020 So... the story starts out with the uke being basically an asshat of a player boss (Takumi), and the seme being this passive aggressive introvert (Ryo). However, due to a company drinking event that ends with the asshat deciding to take everyone to a brothel (srsly?!?) and Ryo just up and leaves, the alcohol makes Takumi feel forced as a boss to try and help Ryo ”get over his hatred for women” by talking about it. It ends with Ryo getting so pissed that he forces himself on Takumi, who passes out. As a cherry on top, Ryo puts on Takumi’s girlfriend’s lipstick and places a big one on Takumi’s chest. Takumi’s girlfriend leaves him. Naturally. And Takumi can’t sort out his feelings about it all afterwards, and this is the hardest part in the story for me. After a bunch of drama, Ryo and Takumi do get together, and they even learn to communicate and grow as a couple - even to the point of coming out at the office as an official couple! (The whole ”our company guidelines don”t say anything about coworkers not being able to date”) And their coworkers accept it, even of they’re weird about it at first. I’m giving it 5 stars because it does present some realistic charachter growth and reflection about it, as well as portraying smart modern people in an office, even if there’s tons of drama. I really liked it. I’d like to buy it on Renta. Also, one of the side characters is a transwoman.
Sore Demo Suki Desu Kasahara-san
23.10.2020, 2.11.2023 This is the first omegaverse story where the omega manages to talk down his alpha from going after another omega whose estrus abruptly started . Ren calms Akisawa down by getting his own scent close enough ”in his face” for him to snap out of it. Even if he was scared, he still did it.
Sensei no Sensei
24.10.2020 One of the few really realistic omegaverse stories I’ve read. The mangaka wrote in the last chapter how they wanted to have a world where gender discrimination wasn’t present, and it’s handled quite beautifully here. An alpha elementary school teacher falls in love again with the same counselor that turned him down 7 years ago, only for the love betweem then this time to become mutual.
Yoru ga Aketemo
3.12.2020 This mangaka seems to like drawing +30yo people in their ”first real relationships”, with ALL the akwardness that can entail. (I’ve read two of their works so far) In this one, a closeted gay office manager is healed (by his kouhai) from his first heartbreak, and after more than just some overthinking on both their parts, they become true lovers. It can’t be described as ”two idiots who fell in love”, but it sure FEELS like it. Especially with the kouhai getting antsy about seeing his sempai looking at him without glasses on: ”I don’t want to see your love for me disappearing from your eyes!” Loved it! <3
Only You, Only
6.12.2020 This is the story of how Akinari and Tadayuki met and fell in love.
Rakka Sokudo