muse ✨'s manga / #reencounter(186)

A man with the ability to hear plants speak meets a twice-divorced man with no clue how to be in an adult relationship and they have sex involving terrible plant puns, break up, get back together in France, and buy an apartment with a garden. Unnecessarily dramatic.

Very silly and sweet boys from adjacent office buildings who fall in love (really quickly).

Two men who'd known each other briefly in school reunite as adults. One of them is gay and has loved the other since high school. The second story is about Kudo from the yakuza thing I read this morning; features major character death.

Several years after they broke up, Oikawa steps onto his apartment balcony and realizes he and Iwaizumi are neighbors.

After he accidentally sleeps with the company president's son's wife, a man is rejected from his project team and his apartment, but he's offered a job as the son's live-in servant.

The morning after his high school reunions, Izami wakes up in bed with a former classmate who is now a best-selling novelist.

This opens with a story of an adopted brother in love with his older brother. It ends with the low-key Free AU, complete with Haru/Rin ending fanart! Yay.

I think I would’ve hated this story in my twenties, so maybe it’s my age, but I appreciate its quietness. I was so, so moved by this. Two people who broke up because of a stupid lie come back together gradually seven years later. There’s no groveling or dramatics. After a period of time, they speak once about what happened and choose to move on together. The characters are reflections of their surroundings - Ishizaki the ever-moving ocean, Mishima the lighthouse. They both make a foolish decision that harms the other: Ishizaki with his lie, Mishima when he doesn’t illuminate the lighthouse. And together, they patch up the house they will live in as adults. This really touched my heart. Seven years ago, as they were leaving high school to begin their futures, Ishizaki - who was going away to Tokyo for school - lied to his boyfriend and said he'd never loved him, hoping it would be what Mishima - the grandson of the island's lighthouse keeper - needed to give up on him. But Ishizaki never forgets him, and when he returns to the island years later because of his father's help, he learns that Mishima has become a shut-in.