Ai To Kairaku No Jouken
A bunch of decent one shots. Ch1) Guy has lost all interest in having sex with others after having sex with a salaryman who then starts running from him for some reason I'm still confused about. Ch 2) Janitor of a model's apartment building calls his smile disgusting, which ticks off the model, and the janitor thinks he's cute when expressing his real emotions. Ch3) Cousins living together. The younger cousin seems to dislike the older one, but it's really only because he has a crush on him
Hatsukoi
Multiple stories all about the people living in the same apartment building. ch1) Ushio is the landlord of a struggling apartment building that he inherited. Ryou is a carpenter who comes to fix it and recognizes Ushio, who was a childhood friend of his that he had a falling out with. 2)Kazuaki and Kunio are freshly graduated college boys who are in a relationship and just beginning to live together. Kazuaki is starting to feel anxious about their relationship, worrying about it falling apart one day. When he expresses his worry Kunio is upset and disappears for a week, showing up at Kazuaki's parent's house. 3-4) Narumi is a good guy who takes on a friend's debt and is hounded by Tsuji, a yakuza-style debt collector. Tsuji, though, can see he's a good guy and treats him better than most debt collectors will. This are thrown off when, upset at the idea of Tsuji never coming around anymore, Narumi hides his last payment, pretending like he doesn't have the money. 5) Isecchi is a college boy getting his first apartment and discovers his old high school dormmate, Kunnai, whom he once did sexy things with, is moving next door to him. Kunnai asks to stay in his room because his room's ceiling is leaking. Isecchi is struggling to hold onto his self-control when Kunnai confesses that he's always liked him and had purposely followed him to college and the apartment building. All these stories were cute! This was one of those everyone-is-gay mangas lol
Sukoshi Fushigi na Kakuu Trip
Multiple stories. ch1)This takes place in a world where everyone can float when they're happy. Fuji is in love with his friend Nanao but is struggling to hide his feelings, so as a result can't ever float or fly. He even tries to run away and avoid him all the time. But Nanao is persistent and pursues Fuji, eventually confessing that he's liked him since middle school. ch2) Stylist he an easy-going kind of guy and accepts anyone into his life who likes him, even if it means cheating on them. But one day after his boyfriend finds out he runs into a guy dressed like a girl who is sad because his lover is getting married to a woman and wants to get revenge on the cheater. The main character begins to realize the error of his ways and at the same time is drawn to the crossdressing boy.
Happy Honey Life
Translation a bit spotty at times. These are all unrelated one-shots. They’re ok, inoffensive but a little bland. The last one was the most emotional and probably the best, even though it’s kinda sad
Marude Hajimete No Koi Mitai Ni
Pretty decent, all nice stories. Lots of salarymen in this one. 3 couples. 1)Shy salesmen is struggling to make quota when he meets an architect while going door-to-door. The architect falls in love with him at first sight, making him his lover and assistant. But the assistant feels like he’s not good enough for the architect. 2) Interviewer runs into an old kouhei, now freelance camera man, who seems to dislike him. Turns out that the kouhei has loved him since high school and has been trying to get over him. 3) Salaryman is in love with his boss and they’d become close over time, but suddenly his boss grows distant. When they’re both at the office late and lose power they finally confess their feelings in the dark.
Haru no Nioi
A bunch of sweet, fluffy one-shots! The first is about a florist and customer and doesn’t have much of any relationship development. The second is about a guy who returns to his hometown to help take care of the family store and get over his broken heart. He’s reunited with and old friend and he starts falling for him. Loved this chapter! 3) Highschool boys dating each other, both wanting to take the next step in their relationship but nervous.
Specialite o Douzo
Ch 1-3) A man eats out all the time to avoid eating at home and thinking about his ex-bf. He goes into a tiny new restaurant and meets the owner/cook, whom he falls for. Troubles crop up because he worries about troubling the owner. Sweet story. Ch4) High school classmates. One is a escort and barely making it through school so the other student tries to help him, including paying for his time when he has trouble getting ahold of him. This one was ok. Ch5) Salaryman is gated by everyone and abused by his ex-lovers so he seeks professional help. The psychologist he’s falling for tells him he has the ability to make people into sadists, but the psychologist is already a sadist. I didn’t like this last chapter, I felt sorry for the salaryman.
Love-letter Of Flowers
Bunch of fluffy one-shots. Most of these are student/teacher stories, except for the last one which is a salarymen/coworkers story. I didn’t care for the 2nd story (the blackmail one)
Cello Mellow
A bunch of sweet, slow-paced one shots. This was a very pleasant read, all around.
Kizoku no Aoi Kuchizuke