sharkbait's manga / #Slice of Life(272)

Uke has an unfortunate affliction which attracts creeps and sexual predators to him on a near-constant basis. Therefore, Seme is incredibly protective of his younger cousin (Uke). Despite being cousins, they are hopelessly enamoured with each other. Seme's secretary is worried considering Seme is the family's young master slated to take over the family business group (and somehow already the vice-president at 23).

Uke comes across his first love (Seme) at his work. After losing his wife, Seme is now a single dad to his son who is in Uke's class. As Seme is not particularly good at taking care of himself (ie cooking, cleaning, dressing like a normal person), so in the spirit of rekindled friendship Uke helps him out by teaching him, as he wants his student to have a functional human being as his parent. Along the way old feelings float to the surface and new feelings emerge.

The wholesomeness continues. And it introduces more characters and, would you look at that, a bonus couple with their own spin-off. Gods, I could read about these two forever.

Student Uke figures his maths teacher is gay because the man keeps gazing at a particular male student, then Uke blurts his thoughts out loud one day. Teacher Seme asks Uke if he's spread any rumours already and Uke replies by saying he himself is gay, so he won't. Uke starts spending more time with Seme in the maths prep room and they become closer, they fall in love slowly. The subtle sweetness and insecurities of falling in love are a really lovely read. When they eventually confess Seme asks Uke to wait a little while, till he's graduated, as Seme is very strongly against dating a student.

Two stories about best friends who like each other. In the first story two country-side boys (judging by the written accent) decide to watch a porn dvd together. Things escalate when they end up bringing each other to climax (ie handjobs). This habit continues till a classmate invites himself over as a third party, Seme gets jealous and he ends up confessing to Uke. Uke confesses in return and they live happily ever after. In the second story we again find two best friends, Nao of them has been in love with the other for a while Haruna hasn't quite figured out he likes his friend. Nao tries to do the shoujo manga best friend thing and setting Haruna up with the girl that likes him. It takes Nao bluffing a confession in her stead for Haruna to finally get with his feelings and realize that what he feels for Nao isn't plain old friendship.