❀'s manga / #slow relationship(469)

so this is mostly a comedy showing their school life and just in the last two chapters some non-subtle romantic reactions occur. a slice of life. a half white guy and a short guy. those are their insecurities. they become friends cuz neither care about the other's supposed faults. through scenes of friendship and some falling over on top of each other moments lol they develop feelings. some very sweet moments of tenderly holding hands. then ofc a misunderstanding separation before getting together. at the end the half white decides to stop hiding he is a half, only to find out everyone already knew.

so one is a kinda a god and one is attendant to gods. they used to be childhood friends but the god got banished cuz his power is kinda scary to the other gods. when he left/banished he erased the attendant's memories and said i love you. the attendant can't fly even though all the other attendants can, so he's bullied a lot. he gets assigned to be the god's attendant and they have a good relationship. the god can eat the evil corruption that's consuming their land. it's getting kind of bad and he's helping eat it but if he eats too much he gets kinda weak and it's painful. around this time the attendant helps another god and gets his memories back. anyway, some drama happens where the god has to eat a lot to save the main god who raised him when little. then the attendant guy helps him when he's like that and he helps the attendant back cuz the attendant went a little far. blah blah they save each other. at the end they decide to leave the lands together cuz the god didn't feel like it was home idk and the corruption was solved there. the attendant just wants to follow him wherever. he says he loves the god back, ofc. very good story telling like this author fit a lot of story into this 1 volume. well each chapter is like 50 pages long. but i kinda didn't like the ending where they leave and everything is kinda too perfect?? cuz when he needed to save the god, the attendant even flies for a few seconds even though he had never done so before. idk it was too perfect in some ways and not perfect enough in others lol. i just have seeing people being separated when i like them all together :/

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.

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

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.

set in 1950s japan, one guy is a tengu/unidentified supernatural creature who does not age and the other guy is a reborn human. they used to know each other in their past lives. the now human used to be a monk and the now tengu used to be a child studying under him. now they meet again and sort through their feelings for each other. really beautiful storytelling all the way through. the tengu has always been watching the other guy, ever since he was born. saved him when he was 16 and leaving his mountain village to go start a new life in town. guy ended up just staying with the tengu while working a little in the town. some drama happens and stuff that makes the human dream of his past life together with the tengu. then there's some kind of notice that the place they live in is going to be developed so they move away deeper into the woods, forever away from the town. but they had some conflict about the tengu wanting the guy to live a normal life and the guy being like no i want to be with you i don't care about trying to be normal. and feeling bad that they will one day separate cuz the human will die while the tengu lives forever. such a good story even though i'm not into the supernatural stuff much.

as children, older guy protected the younger fatty guy from bullies. now younger guy is skinny and kinda doesn't like food cuz he doesn't want to get fat again. eating disorder lol? anyway they are working at the same company, younger guy is serious auditor and older guy is chinese food chef. slowly they kinda realize their feelings for each other, but it's half dependent on stuff from the past and just a caring feeling. like the younger guy apparently always liked the older guy. unclear why the older guy loves the younger now except he wants to make sure he's eating idk. through some troubles at the company they are forced apart a little, but then coming together even stronger. BIGGEST SEME REVEAL OF THE CENTURY I WAS TOTALLY NOT EXPECTING THAT. And it seems like suddenly the younger seme had a personality change and was super dominant everywhere...... but ok it's not bad. pretty slice of life and roughy casual. older guy is ex-delinquent.

these two met in high school and become so enamoured with each other. both think they were 'saved' by the other and really loved each other. bitchy girl caught them kissing and posted the photo out. to save the uke, seme says it was just to tease the uke, and uke gets super upset. he runs to a broken stairwell and falls, but is saved by the seme. seme critically injures his leg and can't play soccer anymore. to strap uke to his side, he says uke must take responsibility. but uke wanted to stay with seme anyway and is glad to hear seme say this. in fact he thought seme might hate him so much and never want to see him again. he also starts taking care of the seme's sexual needs. years later, uke one day finds out that seme has been lying and his leg is healed, as much as it can be, and no longer goes to rehabilitation. uke kinda confused and just thinks seme was being nice by not pushing him away. but seme actually just didn't want uke to leave. some drama here about this shit and how they think they are deceiving the other but just wants to be with the other. but in the end both realize it's best to be honest and say feelings clearly, so they do and it's all good. poor translation job, but gets the means across. this is a pretty 'deep' story though so author tries to use a lot of flowery language that isn't translated well.

very good slow slice of life story. tells the relationship between two childhood friends from middle school through late teens. they live in the same neighbourhood. starts off with them now, at 18 and then enters a flashback of all their middle school and early high school years. so they used to be great friends and kazu was kinda popular with girls while moto wasn't. kazu was a playboy kinda. one day moto got a gf and kazu realized his feelings for moto. he acted kind of rude to the gf and moto came to talk to him about it. kazu got upset and kissed moto and almost raped him. after that, moto was angry but heard around the school about kazu's home troubles (parents divorcing) so moto went to talk to kazu again. kazu had also changed hair colour to stop looking like his dad. kazu saw too much of his dad in himself, like assaulting moto as his dad beat his mom while drunk and having similar hair colour and face. but while moto and kazu kinda talked about the divorce and what happened, kazu confesses he likes moto. moto doesn't really know what to do and says he'll think about it. this is 3rd year middle school. they go to the same high school and don't really talk to each other much at first, but apparently kazu got over it and they talk here and there. one night they happen to meet and hang with some of kazu's friends from work and moto sees kazu drinking and smoking and is like i don't even know this side of kazu. kazu sees moto close with some guy and gets jealous, grabbing moto away, so obviously kazu still has feelings for moto even though he said he'll try to get over it when he confessed. after that they go home and moto says some things that leads kazu to think moto was a bit jealous and likes him. but moto says he's also unsure what it means and stuff so nothing happens and kazu goes home. next day or so is moto's birthday? and they go out together as prearranged, to the aquarium and eating out and stuff. on the walk home, moto confesses that he likes kazu and kazu is surprised, saying he had convinced himself that what they had was enough. kazu is still unsure how to react but moto takes his hand and they walk home, the end! in the extra we see them two years later living together in tokyo, moto is 2nd year uni and kazu is working. kazu is back with his natural hair colour and looking natural like before, kind of a sign that he threw away the flashy hair and wild life he was doing in high school. overall a soft cute story, i just wish they kissed more!