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!
Honey Wolf Come Here
19.10.2020 So, Ai had a crush on her friend the ”big bad boss” (his words) at the office, but he wooed her best friend Moë instead and they started dating. Totally not knowing if she should be sad for herself or happy for her friend, Ai met Kotaro in the park and shared her bento with him. For him, I guess it was love at first sight. Later, he starts working as a temp (but is officially hired shortly after) in the same office, and they start going out. The story is about Kotaro x Ai, as well as Moë x the boss. I really liked it, and the smutty scenes were consensual smut and it felt like the couples really liked one another.
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.
Hina wa Mitsuiro no Koi ni Torawareru
12.12.2020 This one had a really good story: a gay man’s unrequited love is getting married, and because of that he gets himself into having a one night stand. Weirdly, it’s his first time having sex, and the gay man who approached/poached him is...none other than his new boss. (Yaoi trope’s aplenty alreay, am I right?) The boss ”plays” around with him a while, until he falls in love and confesses. Whereupon the boss coldly just lets him go, without saying anything, even letting him see how he’s having a one night stand with someone else. The uke then realizes he’s been ditched, and actually goes on to remake himself: he asks to be job transfered, gets a makeover and makes it impossible for the seme to contact him. The seme then, after a month or more of going through one night stands starts to realize that he actually fell for the uke (a first apparently for him) and he then tries to convey his feeling really heartfelt to the uke...who rejects him. (Queen uke!
Kore Mo Shigoto Desu
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