fujomom's manga / #slice of life(121)

Great! First two chapters are about salaryman. One is a gossiped about gay man, who is kinda traumatized from being outed by an ex to his co-workers. The other guy is a new boss, who goes out for drinks with him to get to know him. The gay salaryman gets super drunk and ends up oversharing all his troubles and the boss ends up falling for him. Boss is super hot, the one to push for them to be together, and a bit of the jealous/possessive type. Really loved him. The next story is about a out-of-the-closet construction worker, who makes an appearance in the first story, and a single father, secretly gay, shop-owner. They get close when the construction worker helps out the shop-owners daughter. I loved their story because it was mostly about them wanting love but afraid to because of fear and insecurities.

Two couples. The first is about a salaryman in sales at a book publisher who has to find slats minute translator. He gets sent to a used book store and discovers the translator is a guy he knew in college that would “steal” all the girls he liked. He comes to terms with his unresolved feelings for the guy and had to somehow breach through the walls the bookstore owner has around his heart. The second couple is about the bookstore owners former roommate and best friend who falls for a patron of the bookstore owner who is wary from having his heart broken by a straight guy in the past. Nice, moving plots. Slightly dated art style.

Interesting. This is about a group of friends and their relationship with each other. One friend is gay, one is in a relationship with a girl and one is recently broken up. The gay one doesn't get too involved in realtionships but gets an admirer one day when he helps a guy on the street who wasn't feeling well. The recently broken up one has a boss who has a crush on him. Interesting story!!

Guy collapses from the heat and is taken in by a nice family who revives, cleans him up and gives him a haircut. Then because he has no money he’s taken to the house of someone I’m assuming he’s going to work for.

Ch1-2) Two guys meet in a club, one is there for sex, and is “philophobic” (fear of love?), and the other one was confused about what the club was all about and was looking for a real relationship after being on the rebound. They agree to be lovers but I feel like neither really knew what they were getting into. Ch3)Two guys who are reunited at a middle school reunion and become more than just friends.

Haru is in love with his brother's best friend, Soudai, and follows him around, imitating the things that he does as a cry for attention. When the Soudai leaves the track team they're both in and applies to go to a far away college he rejects Haru's offer to visit him. Crushed, Haru can only care for so long about track and kinda falls into an acting career since he's good looking. Then one day Soudai contacts him after many years because his friends wanted to meet him. Their interaction make Haru think that Soudai always hated him, so when one of Soudai's friendly, earnest friends tries to date him he goes along with the flow because he's trying to get over Soudai. Finally, Soudai can't take the jealousy any longer and admits that he pushed Haru away because he was always anticipating Haru leaving him. He is a moron and kinda mean or else I'd give this 5 stars. Chapter 7 is an unrelated chapter about a gay man who get heartbroken and comforted by a scary-faced restaurant worker who is just waiting for his chance with him. I thought they were a really cute couple and I wish there was a whole manga about just them!

Keisuke runs into his first love randomly when he’s working as a freelance writer. Keisuke tried to act like he doesn’t recognize Kurata but Kurata doesn’t pretend not to, even asking if Keisuke liked him back in high school, 10 years ago. Kurata, who had always been straight then initiates what’s at first purely a sexual relationship. Keisuke can’t say no to Kurata because part of himself could never let go of his first love. Their relationship develops slowly over time, Kurata becoming possessive over Keisuke and Keisuke becoming less passive in their relationship. This slow-build, character-driven manga isn’t for anyone short on patience.

Two boys in the country who are dating while the end of school is upon them

A sweet, slow, slice of life story about two college boys who fall for each other. The popular, straight guy pursues the secretly gay, quiet boy with the excuse of getting him to join his curry club (of which he’s the only member)

Precious. I love yaoi dads! Divorced father is busy raising a daughter and trying to keep his head above water while working at a restaurant. A regular at the restaurant is always bringing a new boyfriend there and seems to be just terrible with relationships. Finally, one day the daughter gets sick and with no one else to turn to the single father and regular get much closer. It turns out the regular is an orphan and has issues with loneliness so he asks them to live with him. There’s some struggle with each other opening up and the possibility of the daughter going to live with her mother but it all works out. This couple is seriously adorable!