shapeless's manga / #Straight/Gay(109)

5(+1) Chapters

7(+1) Chapters Kurama is in the closet due to his homophobic father, but fantasies about having sex with men (particularly his kouhai, Kirishima). Through a series of complex interactions, Kirishima ends up forcing himself on Kurama, who is traumatized and leaves school because of it. Kurama is then further assaulted by one of his theatre club members and taken to the hospital, where he's forced to come clean about his sexuality to his father. Three years later, Kurama and Kirishima reencounter eachother and carry on an extremely unhealthy, borderline abusive relationship, which is treated as "normal". It ends with a pseudo happy ending where you're just kind of left to ignore how bad the two main characters are for eachother and how dubious the consent is when they have their goddamn marathon sex. I don't know why all the tags are so positive. This doesn't have any real romance in it. It's just bad and the "adorable" "uwu" "romance" tags make me feel pretty disgusted.

6 Chapters 1-4) Loan Shark / Debtor — ★★★★★ Godai is a loan shark that's far too soft for his job. When one of his debtors disappears, the responsibility falls onto his family... but the eldest son is totally Godai's type! Karekura Makoto works two jobs to support his younger brother and grandma (whom he'd do anything for), but still doesn't make nearly enough to pay back his father's debt. That's when Godai decides to make him an exclusive offer... 5) Jungle Explorer / Guide — ★★★★★ Ryotaro is a clumsy explorer set on discovering a fabled "magic banana". While trekking through the jungle, he falls and injures himself, but luckily is found by handsome island native Ryu! Ryu nurses Ryotaro back to health and joins him on his expedition, but it isn't too long before some deeper feelings begin to emerge... 6) Extra for main story

11 Chapters CW // drugging, rape, some mindbreak elements 1-8) Host / Wealthy CEO Takuya recently got a job working at a host club, but he can't seem to keep any clients. The only one who keeps returning and requesting him is... a man! Yuto has been following Takuya since his last job, and fell in love with the now-host at first sight, but his desperate desire to have Takuya to himself leads him down a dark path... Yuto ends up drugging Takuya in order to make him submit to his sexual advances and begins training him to enjoy taking Yuto's dick at any time. 9-11) Host / Host Elsewhere in the host club, fellow newcomer Yoshi has no problem reeling in his clients, but struggles to keep them coming back for more. Number two host Jun takes it upon himself to teach Yoshi how to be a better host, dragging the unsuspecting Yoshi into the back rooms for various "love lessons"...

10(+2) Chapters 1-6.5) Shima gets a new job in an office building after being outed by his straight former lover at his old workplace and suffering the consequences. He intends to fly under the radar, but his withdrawn nature catches the attention of the floor manager, Togawa. The two end up becoming casual sex partners, which only serves to bring up painful memories for Shima, who wants to terminate the relationship, but he doesn't count on Togawa catching feelings for him... 7-10) In the same office, Onoda has discovered that he seems to have a crush on Shima, now that he's opened up more after entering a romantic relationship with Togawa. Onoda vents his frustrations to his long-term drinking-buddy Deguchi, who is surprised to discover that Onoda could be attracted to men. Gathering his courage, Deguchi comes out and confesses his three-year long unrequited crush to Onoda, who doesn't know how to respond to his friend... 11-12) A return to Togawa / Shima

6 Chapters Asano is a defence attorney who gets framed for drug trafficking in a foreign country whose language he doesn't speak. He meets an attractive playboy-type named Tanaka who has also been arrested, and despite his better judgement, Asano is convinced to make an escape... but he doesn't intend to leave Tanaka behind! As the two make their escape from the police, it is revealed that Tanaka is suspiciously adept at this sort of thing...

5 Chapters Yagi is a 39 year old businessman who compulsively hides who he truly is behind the guise of the perfect boyfriend and coworker. When his best friend Seiji drags him to a mixer full of 20/30-somethings he meets a young 24 year old man in similar circumstances named Tooru. Yagi makes pleasant conversation but Tooru ends up getting under his skin without realizing it due to his upbeat yet blunt attitude. When Yagi finally makes his escape, Tooru has already seemed to grow attached to him... and they keep running into eachother on top of that! It seems that nothing he does will make Tooru any less eager for his friendship...

Dropped Anthology — Functionally a Oneshot 1) Oda is a gay masseuse who has a thing for one of his regular clients, Hasumi. During a massage one day, Oda inquires about Hasumi's relationship, and Hasumi confesses that he's been dumped because of his erectile dysfunction leftover from past trauma. Oda jokingly offers to help him cure his impotence, but Hasumi jumps at the chance! There's no way Oda can say no to his hopeful excited face, but will he take things too far...?

5 Chapters Yuuki is concerned about his new handsome junior Natsumi who, despite being popular among girls, is unfriendly and serious. Soon Yuuki finds out that Natsumi likes him after Natsumi confesses... But easy-going Yuuki has always gone out with anyone who confessed to him, and finds it easy to accept Natsumi's confession and start dating him! It isn't long before Yuuki finds out that Natsumi is a virgin in every sense of the word—he's never even fallen in love with anyone before—but despite that, Natsumi turns out to be full of surprises for him, which only serves to make Yuuki more intrigued by his colleague...

5(+1) Chapters Mutou has just moved for university, and meets his neighbour after struggling with a tree branch blocking his window. Uematsu is a translator who impresses Mutou with his knowledge of plants, and he invites his new neighbour into his somewhat overgrown garden, which captivates Mutou at first sight. It becomes standard fare for Mutou to toil away in the garden day after day while Uematsu teaches him about it. However, when the rainy season starts, Uematsu falls into a depression and determined to make his neighbour smile again, Mutou learns about his past...