❀'s manga / #shounen ai(356)

they are childhood friends and also another girl. they have developed feelings for each other. there is also a girl they are friends with. at one point the uke thought seme liked her. anyway it's very slice of life again, like this author's other works. seme kisses the uke which leads to everything being clear and they go on a date and get together. very natural this author is so good at drawing, especially human figures. everything was so well proportioned. great storyteller too. she is so talented, seriously.

they're high school students already together. just showing a day in their life together i guess? but kinda confusing idk i'm not really into slice of life when there's really no progress in anything. the dog keeps interrupting their romantic moments.

scary senpai and fluffy kouhai. everyone scared of the senpai but not the uke here. senpai falls in love quickly and confesses but the uke misunderstands. eventually he kinda confesses again after they get closer and they get together. extra has them sexually touching. contains a one shot of two guys, high school 2nd year and just graduated, bonding over their dogs. but nothing explicitly romantic happened.

brothers meet a salaryman at the park eating a huge onigiri. younger kid brother loves the food. older bro, 23, invites him over to show them how to make it. it turns into a weekly thing where they cook together at the brothers' house. they live with their dad, mom passed away last year. the salaryman is same age as older bro. salaryman dealing with some family issues cuz he was adopted by relatives after parents died and the siblings weren't nice to him. i guess the story is showing he gave those ppl up and found this new family instead? anyway, so they slowly get to know each other, but it's revealed the older bro met him 2 years ago and already kinda got interested. older bro confesses and the salaryman mulls it over a couple days until he goes back to their house to accept. he's so in love with the guy and the whole family that he's now scared to lose it if they break up. the family's dad gives him some good advice about how pain of separation is proof of love, so be grateful you feel the pain. anyway, they are cute and happy together, with a promise to soon live together. then we get to see a glimpse like 10 years later when the younger bro is in junior/high school and they are both salarymen. we don't really see the older bro cuz he is on a business trip until the last panel lol. anyway, they 3 all living together, kinda weird idk, and apparently dad is living there too. so basically the salaryman guy moved into their house?! lol but still cute story overall

bunch of shounen-ai stories. most are not as conclusively romantic as i would like. first one is super cute, about first loves in junior high meeting again in uni and getting together! and the smaller cute guy grew up to be tall and way manly lol. then about an office worker whose bf broke up with him and he's kinda stalking his bf. his boss at work mistakes his stalking for him liking a girl, the girl his bf is now with. his boss tries to help him and stuff mistakenly until one night they go drinking and the guy tells his boss the truth about everything. then it's kinda implied that they're starting to grow feelings for each other. but the boss doesn't understand his feelings. next story about a guy in high school art club who loves this painting by a senpai. he meets senpai and learns the painting is of a past lover. senpai kinda likes him for liking that painting and promises to paint him something. so the student starts going to the senpai, who is now in uni. i guess they fall in love along the way cuz there is an extra where they're at the beach. senpai thinks of it as a date and the younger guy asks senpai like how do you know if it's love, so guess he's kinda in love. salaryman hires guy to be his "conversational partner" cuz he likes him. they met at the restaurant the younger guy works at. the younger guy needed money to buy his gf a purse so he agrees. he starts going to the salaryman's house at night just to chill and hang out. the salaryman lives with his grandma so it's a cozy non sexual atmostphere lol. then ofc during this he starts feeling something for the salaryman and breaks up with the gf and doesn't buy the purse and returns all the money to the salaryman. it is non conclusive but he says he likes the salaryman's confession and will keep coming without pay. then last story is like a guy whose mom wants to cute him of gayness through drinking medicine she makes from her garden. sounds kinda bad but actually she is just worried and her medicine contains seeds for 4 leaf clovers, showing she is actually wanting her son to be happy and just scared he won't be if he's gay. well the guy has a bf now and living together happily and he plants his mom's seeds and doesn't drink the medicine. whatever, not that great.

guy's senpai commits suicide and he is depressed. goes to monk to get exorcism. monk just hangs with him to rise his mood. hints of feelings but not really.

dropped after chap 1. i don't like how the story is just slice of life, but not even in chronological order. gets real confusing to keep track of all the dates to piece together the order of everything that happened.

pretty cute, but the characters are not really my type. this unlucky guy who is actually angry inside always pretends to be cute and fine meets a super lucky guy who always wins everything lol. and together their lucks balance out to a normal person's luck. at first the unlucky guy was just using the other guy, but then feelings turn real. through a misunderstanding, they start going out very soon. lucky guy is kind of just going along with it, but starts having feelings as well as they do stuff together. and then there's forced cohabitation kinda cuz the unlucky guy's apartment keeps having issues. the unlucky guy is also super shy about kissing and nowhere near close to having sex even at the end lol.

so these two are 1 year apart and middle school classmates. they were friends and liked each other. seme confessed and uke was embarrassed but like him back and happy. but then a student saw them kissing and uke got scared of the homophobia. said it was just a punishment game and avoided the seme ever since. uke went to a school outside their area, but seme followed him there. now in high school seme still pursuing him and obviously uke still likes him back. but the fear of homophobia is holding him back. one of their friends seems particularly against how close they are and very perceptive about the nature of their relationship. turns out he had trauma with dating a guy who then threw him aside in middle school and just didn't want to be reminded about it. anyway, so after all that seme and uke confess happily and get together once again. they fuck pretty soon after. this author seems to have a thing for bowl cut blond cute short ukes with different internal/external expression and dead-faced blunt semes. this one and the other completed one are both like this and i seriously hate this kind of pairing?? hate dead semes and cute ukes wtf exact opposite of what i like lol that's probably why i don't like this author's stuff much even though the stories are objectively well written.

guy comes to work as live in housekeeper. family has 5 sons and dad, so need a "mom" to take care of them. dad is writer and the housekeeper guy was sent by the publishing company. he and the oldest son kind of start something but hard to say when feelings develop lol. the oldest son is very suspicious of the housekeeper at first cuz bad history with other people taking advantage of their family or abandoning them. but this housekeeper seems ok and somehow they both start liking each other. but just as oldest son is about to accept his feelings he overhears the housekeeper is going to publish his own children's book and stop working for his family. he gets all worried and housekeeper checks on him and he confesses. turns out all a misunderstanding lol. housekeeper will still live with them to help out but not for money now. idk nothing special. they also go on a little fake date in the middle to give the older son practice or something like that.