muse ✨'s manga / #reencounter(186)

When the boy who rejected him in middle school joins their class - and worse, doesn't even remember him - Fujima decides to make him fall in love and reject him as payback. But then he remembers why he loved him in the first place.

This was SO sweet! A second grade teacher, Hitsuji, is reunited with the man he'd loved in high school - who is the single father of one of Hitsuji's students.

Love story between a model and designer.

Two stories: twenty years after a horrible breakup, two men reunite as coworkers A man being stalked since his rape years earlier has grown fascinated with his attacker

Unemployed and unable to find a job, Misumi drowns his feelings in sake and a one-night-stand with a handsome stranger he knows he'll never see again--only to encounter him at a soba restaurant a few weeks later. Sei gives Misumi a job as sake master in his restaurant and allows him to live above the restaurant with him. Their physical relationship resumes but Misumi, who has been burned by straight men before, is reluctant to grow closer to him and pushes down his feelings until someone from his past surfaces. A+ for slow build, good pacing, FABULOUS work details. Sometimes you know an author has no real idea of the industry where a character works, but that is not the case here. I don't know anything about sake but appreciated the little bits of information in this manga. This is definitely a story I will re-read! My only complaint is I would've loved a bit more of them together in the final chapter. ETA: There was a short 12th chapter added later, where they get to be a bit lovey and intimate!

A young man falls in love with a radio personality who helps him - and many others - overcome confidence issues, but due to his age, nothing further is possible between them, and their new friendship comes to an abrupt end. However, a few years later, when the young man is working in radio, they're reunited.

Members of an idol group fall in love.

Could not stay with this couple and had zero emotional connection to them, but I like the art style. ETA: I don't know what past!me was thinking. I really enjoyed this the second time through. Years after he cruelly rejects his kouhai, a man gets a second chance when he discovers he's dating his boss. (Things are not quite what they seem.)