jama's manga / #Cute(93)

Older rough brother switches bodies with younger sweet brother. Older bro falls in love with Akiyama (y. bro's bff). They finally switch after a lot of fun events :D

Akira works at a fruits and vegetable shop to support him and his younger step-brother. His block is being torn down by a company so he decides to be a lover to someone from the Hayashi company. He meets the son of the owner and they fall in love. Cute story.

The artwork for this manga is gorgeous and delicate, as are the stories, although their threads are so subtle and character-centric, they can be a bit tricky to follow, all interconnected by a common character or precipitating event in common. (1) Sunose, a straight university student falls for his cat-like and uncommunicative gay professor, Yukimura, who is too bashful and insecure to admit the love is mutual, even after a frank conversation behind closed doors with former lover, Kitakami, reveals Yukimura's true feeling and is overheard by his beloved, Sunose; (2) Backstory: it seems that Kitakami, a renowned painter, makes a habit of revealing, too intimately, the inner souls of his models, who usually also become his lovers, just as he paints their nude bodies too explicitly. Although the hitherto heterosexual, Yukimura, is forewarned of this propensity, he throws caution to the wind and agrees to be both Kitakama's model and lover, although he refuses to promise his heart or his fidelity. (3) Seiji, Akira's stepbrother, invites himself into Akira's workplace, a mahjong gambling parlour, to coax him into returning home, unleashing a storm of feelings that Akira has never been able to resolve about being abandoned, first, by his mother and, then, by his lover. A small cameo by Kitakami, in high school, links this story to Yukimura's. (5) Sarashima Satoshi, Akira's co-worker, also happens to be his roommate. He is blessed with above-average intuition and discovers, through the slightest sign, one of which Akira cannot possibly be aware, that Akira is depressed because he was abandoned by someone with whom he once regularly slept. The main plot engines are driven by abandonment, loneliness, recklessness or subconscious signals which reveal too much, followed by feelings of being overexposed and too vulnerable, withdrawals, inadequate communication and misunderstandings. One of my favourites!

Suga has been in love with his roommate/childhood friend Hara for awhile. Unbeknownst to him, Hara feels the same way but since high school. The two finally break the walls of ignorance when a mildly drunk Hara catches Suga masturbating while smelling his coat. The two make a really cute couple :)

Heart-wrenching story of a man who is afraid to hold back the one he loves, and a man who loses his memory but not his feelings. Not as emotional as Mou Ichido, Nando Demo (http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/mou_ichido_nando_demo/), but definitely worth the read. The man with amnesia, Shizuka, can't explain his feelings for his customer Sakai (Yukihiko), and slowly attempts to bond with him. He soon discovers they were lovers and his memory returns :)

Daiki, a university student, fell in love at first sight with his beautiful, black-haired classmate, Mitsui. One day, when he went to a goukon, he sighted a person near the store who looked like Mitsui. After Daiki had followed that person, what he saw was Daiki dressed as a woman. Turns out Daiki is a rental boyfriend who doesn't have a preference for gender. Daiki is from a rich family but works hard to earn enough of his own money to rent Mitsui. The two end up living together :3

Cute but short. The uke in this story somehow falls for a transgendered man. Nice drawings :3