Hidoi Otoko (MINASE Masara)
11.7.2020 The first couple have a 30 yo director salaryman and a 20 yo college student, and the second couple have a 40 yo bar owner and a 20 yo bartender. The first couple’s drama is all because the younger seme tries to respect the older uke’s working hours and how he (seme) doesn’t get how older people don’t go over the top with displays of anger or affection, like younger 20-yo do. Which was pretty darn realistic. Not a true queen uke, but I must say that if it was real I would really respect that man. The second couple’s younger uke is a friend of the first couple’s seme. He works part time in a bar, and fell in love with the bar owner.
From Green Kitchen
26.8.2020, 4.9.2021 This is the story about how two men fell for one another because of homemade food, and how much fluff was involved with all that food porn. Also, it was ultimately about how to be brave enough to follow your dreams.
Fuhoni!
16.8.2020 This one seems more realistic, and since it’s the depiction of a ”first” relationship between a 35 and 28 year old man, I think the older man’s inner dialogue from the first to the last chapter is so ... well, both adorable and realistic. He feels insecure because his lover is younger, he’s trying not to let his feelings show up at work, he worries about when or if they’re going to have sex. As a couple, I really liked them :) The art looks, at first glance, really clunky and crappy, but then it kinda grows on you and suddenly the main protagonist’s facial expressions are so nice, and the way the sex scenes are drawn just look realistic (no lifting your lover like he’s made of air and the like).
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!
Mujaki na Wanko to Nekokaburi