Popo's manga / #Slice of life(6)

【Ch1.2】5/5 Cutie with freckles realizes his bff never smiles, even around him despite having the closest relationship with him. He tries tickling, then dad jokes to no avail. The friend confesses that he only feels like smiling around his crush, our freckled cutie DAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW! 【Ch1.3】5/5 One day, MC jokingly tells his friend "You're so in love with me" & the friend's reaction made him realized how cute his friend was. He tries to figure out why exactly. They plan a date & he arrives 30 minute early. The friend tells him "You're so in love with me". Ughh need a continuation. Their story barely started!!!! The cutest part has to be when they plan to see a movie. MC suggests asking another friend along since that guy had expressed interest in the movie before. His friend replies "But I wanted to see it with you" and MC is so flustered/flattered/caught off guard, he turns off his phone XDDDDDDDDDDD 【Ch1.11】3/5 1st years in a HS judo/aikido (?) club wonder why their two senpais (a hot, cool but kibishi black haired guy & a nice blond) don't hair girlfriends. One of the 1st years ends up in a locker while the two senpais are together afterschool & finds out that they're actually dating each other. He feels bathumped & when the other 1st years wonder if the senpais might be day, the next day, he steers them back to practiing. He also tells the clueless blond senpai that he wishes for their happiness LMAOOO 【Ch1.12】3.5/5 minus 1.5 for barely startng the story ughhhhh MC meets a really tall and scary looking guy at the laundromat. The guy asks him for help to look less scary. They try for over an hour but end up with sore face muscles lol. Before leaving, the guy thanks him with a genuine & very cute smile. The guy resolves to ask for MC's name the next time he sees him. Wish it was longer since their story barely started & has no romantic undertones. Honestly, you could have this one and done kinda interaction with any stranger that you'll never see ever again. There's nothing here that gives hope that there's more story between the two. 【Ch1.13】4/5 minus 1 for being too short - even by the standards of this anthology (it's 4 pages lol) Two guys meet up after their individual club activities. Blondie asks Black Haired about the confession Black Haired recieved. Black Haired says he rejected it. Blondie's upset that he did that cuz 1) he wishes he could get a girlfriend & 2) maybe Black Haired would come to like the girl. Black Haired responds "When you say like, isn't it about wanting to be together despite being in separate classes & clubs?" Blondie realizes & Black Haired calls him slow and runs away while Blondie is frozen in shock XDDDDDDDDD SHOOOO KEWT!

A really sweet and real story about a gay couple with a 10 year age gap. Each chapter gives us a glimpse into their lives every decade that they're together. We follow along as they navigate a gay relationship in a conservative country and reaffirm their love for each other as they age. Nothing bad really happens but that impending sense of doom as they get older and older just made me feel awful and I was in tears by the last chapter. Even a love so strong is finite and that's devastating :'( This is a subject that you don't really see in romance at all.

Ch6.5 A cute couple with a kid who looks like a menace but is quite cute lol. Herapi wears a choker which keeps making me think this is omegaverse but it isn't (?) lol. Oh and Herapi used to be a big (scary) deal in a biker gang??? Inch resting. Finished it and it's so sweet. It's more slice of life and vibes with a few flashbacks to lightly clarify some things but it's not really a straight up spelling it out for us. It's very sweet and the baby is adorable. The leads are hot and have such good chemistry. I like the side characters a lot too like their cranky and strict landlady who also gives towards candy lol. But I still don't know where the baby came from LOL. What I was able to piece together from the clues dropped throughout the story is that Hirao already had Towa when he and Naguru were dating. Naguru smell Hirao once and said he smelled familiar. Later Hirao smells his own shirt, thinks to himself that it smells like baby powder and gets a flashback of holding infant Towa while wearing the same shirt. Naguru use to babysit a ton of little kids back in Okinawa (yo what happened to those kids when the Naguru and Gakki left tho? were they an orphanage or something cuz there were a lot of kids like two babies per Naguru and Gakki wtf) so it makes sense why he said that about how Hirao's smell that day. In chapter 4 Naguru made a comment that Towa "takes after" Hirao cuz " it's in his blood" but in chapter 5 when Hirao brings Towa to naguru for the first time, Hirao flat out denies that towa is his kids so....idk broCh6.5 A cute couple with a kid who looks like a menace but is quite cute lol. Naguru wears a choker which keeps making me think this is omegaverse but it isn't (?) lol. Oh and Naguru used to be a big (scary) deal in a biker gang??? Inch resting. Finished it and it's so sweet. It's more slice of life + vibes with a few flashbacks to lightly clarify some things rather than straight up spelling everything out for us. Like, from the flashbacks in Okinawa, Naguru and his friend might have lived in an orphanage? He doesn’t explicitly say it but why else would they have to babysit so many little kids? Or when Naguru is getting lectured by the landlady about properly sorting his trash, we see he’s trying to throw away a parenting magazine which shows how dedicated he and Hirao were to when raising Towa. I kinda like stories like this - it makes everything feel all dreamy and nostalgic. It's a very sweet story overall. The leads are hot and have such good chemistry. The kid is adorable and his character is very true to a child. He fixates on random shit that are related to his tiny world, like pointing out and naming random cars cuz he has a toy car collection at home. I love seeing their everyday life even though there are hints that they (at least Naguru) are not such mundane individuals. I like the side characters too, like their cranky and strict landlady who also gives towards candy after lecturing them lol. But I still don't know where the baby came from LOL. What I was able to piece together from the clues dropped throughout the story is that Hirao already had Towa when he and Naguru were dating. Naguru smell Hirao once and said he smelled familiar. Later Hirao smells his own shirt, thinks to himself that it smells like baby powder and gets a flashback of holding infant Towa while wearing the same shirt. Naguru use to babysit a ton of little kids back in Okinawa (yo what happened to those kids when the Naguru and Gakki left tho?) so it makes sense why he said that about how Hirao's smell that day. In chapter 4 Naguru made a comment that Towa "takes after" Hirao cuz " it's in his blood" but in chapter 5 when Hirao brings Towa to Naguru for the first time, Hirao flat out denies that Towa is his kids so....idk bro. I hope there’s a second book. Also, the BEST panels of the story (other than the hot for no reason - this creator is amazing at smut and those redrawn dicks were so guuuud) has to be ch6, page 26-27 where, in a flashback, a little kid asks Naguru why he was born in and, in the present, he says that it was so he could meet Towa, while thinking back to infant Towa who had just been crying suddenly smile at him TT___TT BEST AD FOR ADOPTION EVER!!! And the panel that comes in second place has to be a few pages later when Towa tells Naguru that he’s sure he had been in Naguru’s stomach. In the previous chapter, Towa met Naguru’s friend’s pregnant wife & pondered which dad’s stomach he must have been in but Hirao got so flustered, he distracted everyone with an arm wrestling match lol. I think it’s sweet that Towa kept thinking about it.

V2ch7 Just a really sweet story about a couple raising their baby. It covers all aspects of daily life, some of which are funny and some which are sad. The couple aren't perfect, as individuals not as a couple, but they workout their problems in an effective manner and the cute little baby is always there to lighten up the mood. The story gives a very hopeful message about normalizing gay relationships and gay couples with kids.

Ch5 They are both an old married couple and a young couple during the honeymoon period at the same time lol