jama's manga / #multiple stories(31)

Chap 1: Yuugo and Masatoshi are roommates. Yuugo denies his feelings for Masatoshi, but that doesn't stop Masatoshi from confessing his feelings. After Yuugo nearly gets devoured by some stranger on the street, he goes back to his home and admits he has some feelings for Masatoshi. The two get it ON. Chap 2-3: Nao is gay and has harbored feelings for Sakai for 5 years. One night when the two are drinking, Sakai falls asleep. Nao attempts to kiss him but gets caught in the act. This angers Sakai and he leaves. The two then have an awkward work relationship. It finally comes to a halt when Nao decides the leave the next project. This prompts Sakai to confess his feelings to Nao and the two become a pair Chap 4: Taizou and Junbei are high school classmates who are also dating. Junbei doesn't want to do anything more than kissing. Junbei then admits he thinks Taizou only likes his feminine side. The truth is out and the two mate. Chap 5: A boss who secretly love his employee and they end up together (boss had fake relationship with friend for 7 years)

Chap 4 has the guy who gets wild when drunk but gentle when sober. The boss x employee in business setting. Chap 5-6: Poor wannabe painter bites the hand of his idol painter unknowingly. They meet again at the art college when he models for some artists. Fall in love and end up living together.

The feelings! Three different stories: boss X secretary (hot, wanton lover and boss after a little misunderstanding are getting it on; photographer X publisher (childhood friends becoming lovers after 10 YEARS); boss X worker (last story is about two men brokenhearted who found love with each other.

Four different stories: 1. Business men Tannai and Okano work together. Okano knows he's gay but Tannai denies his own sexuality. After a drunk night, the two sleep together. Okano is insecure but the two eventually get together. 2. Spirit Animal with human Junnosuke form a bond from the mountains. The spirit animal eventually finds a child for inheritance purposes Chapter 4: Previous high school classmates meet as adults at a hotel where one is a rich mogul, Shunsuke Saeki, and the other is a hotel worker, Mitsuru. Saeki purposefully picks on Mitsuru harboring a long-time unrequited love for him. Mitsuru gets caught by Saeki and the two sleep together. Saeki apologizes for his forcefulness but Mitsuru admits his feelings for Saeki. The two end up together. Chapter 5: Misturu, grandson a man named Tooru, meets a vampire named Viore at his grandfather's funeral. Viore tells Mitsuru that the ring he wears on a necklace was his to his grandfather and requests that Mitsuru be his partner. Mitsuru becomes curious of Viore history with his grandfather and investigates. He discovers that his grandfather and Viore use to be friends but it was an unrequited love. Mitsuru wants Viore to love him for him rather than his grandfather's look-alike. Viore leaves but 10 years later the two reunite and Mitsuru becomes a vampire. OK story.

The artwork for this manga is gorgeous and delicate, as are the stories, although their threads are so subtle and character-centric, they can be a bit tricky to follow, all interconnected by a common character or precipitating event in common. (1) Sunose, a straight university student falls for his cat-like and uncommunicative gay professor, Yukimura, who is too bashful and insecure to admit the love is mutual, even after a frank conversation behind closed doors with former lover, Kitakami, reveals Yukimura's true feeling and is overheard by his beloved, Sunose; (2) Backstory: it seems that Kitakami, a renowned painter, makes a habit of revealing, too intimately, the inner souls of his models, who usually also become his lovers, just as he paints their nude bodies too explicitly. Although the hitherto heterosexual, Yukimura, is forewarned of this propensity, he throws caution to the wind and agrees to be both Kitakama's model and lover, although he refuses to promise his heart or his fidelity. (3) Seiji, Akira's stepbrother, invites himself into Akira's workplace, a mahjong gambling parlour, to coax him into returning home, unleashing a storm of feelings that Akira has never been able to resolve about being abandoned, first, by his mother and, then, by his lover. A small cameo by Kitakami, in high school, links this story to Yukimura's. (5) Sarashima Satoshi, Akira's co-worker, also happens to be his roommate. He is blessed with above-average intuition and discovers, through the slightest sign, one of which Akira cannot possibly be aware, that Akira is depressed because he was abandoned by someone with whom he once regularly slept. The main plot engines are driven by abandonment, loneliness, recklessness or subconscious signals which reveal too much, followed by feelings of being overexposed and too vulnerable, withdrawals, inadequate communication and misunderstandings. One of my favourites!

Ch 1-3: Summer vacation has started and Yoshiyuki and his cousin, Takaharu, are being tutored by Kurushima, who works for Yoshiyuki's brother. Though reluctant at first about having a home tutor, Yoshiyuki starts developing an attraction towards Kurushima. However, there's more to Kurushima than meets the eye... - Ch 4: Yakuza sleeps with debt-ridden man's son and the two decide to run away together - Ch 5: Nephew sleeps with NEET uncle whose apartment burned down and is living with brother's family - Ch 6-7: Cleaning guy falls in love with business man and the two end up living together.

Two twisted love stories. The first revolves around two college professors who have been in love since high school but were NEVER direct about it. A detective becomes involved and the three work out well. The second story is about a brother-in-law in love with his sister's husband but could never say it. Instead the best friend of the two gets involved with the brother-in-law until the b-i-L dies. Good stories.

Beautiful, slow-paced stories. Idk if I'd reread again but just simply enjoy the art and appreciate the artistic drama. Three stories with first being the yakuza and illegitimate son of a tea master; 2) Glasses-wearing boy (Liam) falls in love with hot guy (Maddox) after staring at each other for long periods of time; 3) Oliver falls in love with dad's ex-boyfriend (Ethan) after he had his memories wiped away by Wallace when Ethan nearly chokes him to death. Dad passes away including mom and the two reunite at dad's funeral.