Sonna Me De Mite Kure
Really short, thought it would be longer, but really cute nonetheless. Adding this to "re-read", write more about it
Walking With You (junko)
This is so cute and short and sweet. The pacing is good and the story is good. I feel a connection between the characters even though it is short. Reading this was like a breath of fresh air. I loved it. They are childhood friends who have grown up together. The one is very popular and he is really good at soccer. His friend finds out from his mom that ken was scouted and is going to tokyo. He will be leaving and this causes some problems between the two. Ken's friend is upset and is avoiding Ken. Ken wants to know why. They end talking it out and it ends with them discussing their future together. They share a kiss and the story ends. Very cute story.
Koi No Senryaku Management
This one was really cute.
Toritome no Nai Koi no Shi
Umm hello? This is SO CUTE. The story uses metaphors is a literal way to show what the character is feeling. He wakes up with a hole in his chest, but it's a literal hole. He asks a friend about it and looks up what it means. It mentions sadness and loss. He thinks back to his long time friend and him drinking last night. He recalls his friend telling him that he is married. He thinks he feels sad because even though he has known him for some long and they go out drinking often, he never mentioned anything about his love life. His friend shows up at his door step. When he sees him he starts to feel pain. The hole is growing bigger. They go inside and his friend is worried about the pain he is in. His friend wants to tell him something. He tells him that he is not actually married. He lied. He had this idea of saying something like that to see how he would react, because his friend has liked him for a long time. The guy starts to hear bells ringing. He tells his friend that he can hear them. He tells his friend to hug him and his friend goes in for a kiss. No more hole in his chest. This story was cute and clever. I enjoyed reading it.
Natura-turaly
Multiple short stories in this book. The one about the kid in the clubroom and the guy who bothers him. Another about sex friends that date other people but cheat together. Another one I have read before with rape play. And some more about the story with the twins. A guy who gets stuck with a long haired guy on an elevator.
One Room Angel
This story was so beautiful and bittersweet. Big scary looking guy works at a convenience store. He doesn't think his life is worth anything and has thought about dying. While working at the convenience store register, two guys who are buying cigarettes get upset when the scary looking guy asks them to confirm their age. They take the fight outside into an alleyway. The scary guy is winning until one of the guys pulls out a knife and stabs him. When the scary looking guy is stabbed, he starts thinking about how he might as well die. He is on the brink of death and sees an angel, a boy with beautiful white wings who sits on the ground. He is then gone. When the scary looking guy is discharged from the hospital, he goes back home to his very small one room apartment and the angel boy is there. The guy lets the angel boy stay at his place until he gets his ability to fly back. The angel boy's wings are affected by people's emotions. When the guy is depressed, the angel boy feels it and feathers fall from his wings. Having the scary looking guy be happy would bring his wings back to health. The scary looking guy tries to find a new job since he was fired from his last one. People won't hire him because of his scary look. While living together they grow closer and learn more about themselves. The angel boy cant remember anything about himself. He doesn't know who he is or if he is really an angel. When the scary looking guy gets the angel boy a smartphone he looks up articles about the stabbing. He discovers that at the same time the scary looking guy was stabbed, his past self had jumped from the building and committed suicide. When the angel goes outside, he realises no one can see him. when the angel was alive, a popular guy in his class bullied him. Everyone noticed, but no one did anything about it. One day, at a party, the popular guy was drunk and tried to kiss the angel boy. He got mad when the angel boy called him a pervert . The popular guy put him into the open window and said jump. When the angel boy looked scared, he seemed like he was about to apologize or be nicer, but the boy sat in the open window and leaned too far back, falling to his death. After the popular boy died, people started blaming the angel boy for killing him, even the popular boy's parents, who came to the angel boy's father to say "why did our son die but yours is alive". This got to the angel boy and he commited suicide due to the way people treated him. There are times when the angel boy tries to fly, but he gets scared. They start to wonder why the angel boy is there on earth and why can only the scary looking guy can see him. One day when the angel boy tries to fly, the scary looking guy asks him to stay with him forever and the angel boy asks him to go out with him. They go out places together and they laugh and smile together. They are both happy. On a snowy day when they are expressing how much they mean to one another, they look happy and the angel boy says he feels like he could fly. When the scary looking guy turns around the angel boy is gone. He becomes sad again, really sad, and he wonders if this is his punishment for things he did in the past. He starts to wonder if he just imagined the angel boy, untill his sister comes over to his place and says "what a beautiful feather". The scary looking guy keeps the feather in a bottle that he wears around his neck. He goes to work at his sister's bar and his younger brother who he lost connection with sends him some rice and congratulates him on his new job. The scary looking guy looks at the angel's feather and thinks that life isn't so bad. In the extra, we see the angel boy call a wide and taller man by the name of the scary looking guy. They both have wings and they walk off together into the distance. The scary looking guy has lived for a long time and has passed away and is now reunited with the angel in heaven. I loved this story and it made me tear up. My favorite work by Harada for sure. Not as fucked up as the other ones, not very fucked up at all, just emotional.
Darlin', Iikagen ni Shiya Gare
I thought that this story would be longer, but I sorta liked its shortness. Country Japanese farm boy meets have Japanese half Italian boy. They hit it off and start spending more time together, when italian boy kisses farm boy on the cheek as a greeting and farm boy blushes.
Kanemochi-kun To Binbou-kun
This was somewhat confusing at times. There was like a 10 year time jump but I didn't realize it at first. They story was really cute and I like the characters. It takes place in a school. Two students that don't really get along at first. One is rich, the other poor. The rick guy's grandfather is the chairman of the school. The Chairman and the poor guy's grandfather knew each other during the war and the grandfather had a crush on him. He has loved him ever since. When the chairman sees him, its like seeing the man he loved in the flesh.
Hidamari no Orange
Cute and just long enough with just enough character interaction where the development of the relationship feels natural and not forced. I really liked this cute bl. Basically, smart/pretty uke spends him time in the art room after school. He scores really high in school. Seme needs to improve his grades or else he will have to repeat the year. He finds the uke in the room and then says that he wont tell anyone about his misuse of the room if he helps him study. This is their deal. They spend time together studying and once its come to an end and the seme passes, the seme is sad, telling the uke that he would still like to see him. They see each other over the summer and we learn about the uke's family. How his dad left and how his mom is a single parent who works hard for the both of them. She's never around so its always lonely at his house. That's why he stays in the art room and thats why he is envious of he seme and his lively house. The seme realizes that he feels love for the uke and at a festival they go to, almost blurts it out. The seme tells the uke that he loves him and so does the uke. The uke graduates and the two become a couple. We then see into their relationship after 3 months and they are still together.
Houkago Edge