淳's manga / #slice of life(171)

Both the uke and seme cheat on their partners with each other. But both have a long history with each other and were each other's first loves and could not forget each other. It's a story of fate and Destiny and how they both tried to move on but couldn't. Yes, they could have come clean to their partners earlier but guilt especially on the uke's side silenced him. Eventually, the uke just couldn't forget how strong his feelings still were for the seme and although he tried to move on from him, he could not and he broke off with his partner telling him everything.

Uke finds comfort in a frequent bar customer, first as a friend to confined in, about his unrequited love for his childhood friend who is straight, who is moving nearby (within walking distance) in Tokyo. Things slowly develop as the uke and the new friend/seme slowly learn more about each other, especially the uke who was unsure of even his sexuality. Things come to a head as he and his childhood friend go back to their hometown for a visit and all the uke thinks about is the seme

Hilarious. Starts off w/ FL discovering her fiance is cheating on her in the new home they bought. Priest gives her comfort and advice. She quits her job, works at the church and develops feels for the hilarious, slightly wicked priest.

Small hick village has a weird custom of arranged marriage between certain families. Unfortunately, only 2 males fit the criteria for the age range so they had to marry. Story was cute especially the ending as the feelings are developing and you see the seme's perspective. Love this author so gets 4 stars but seen better works

3 childhood friends. One spies his 2 best friends getting it on and feels left out from them not telling him about their relationship so thinks he's smart, diving into a closet while with one of his best friend's younger brothers trying to spy on them. But lo and behold, younger bro is in love with him ahahaha

Minato is an out of the closet gay who sadly picks abusive partners bc he feels he has no choice if he wants a chance at happiness (even though all he wants is to be loved and to be happy) because there are so few gays to choose from, he feels he can't be picky. He befriends Takumi who is a sculpture artist he admires and begins to open up to him once they meet over his workplace, a cafe. Minato's last straw with his ex is when he catches him cheating on him, on Minato's birthday. He goes to Takumi's for comfort and one thing leads to another. They do have issues, one very realistic one being that Takumi has never been in a gay relationship before and had in the past, expressed a strong desire to have a family. I enjoyed seeing these real issues be addressed and confronted. And it was nice seeing Minato have really supportive ppl around him, the ppl he works for plus his mother. ((Btw it was his shithead ex that raped him))