Trigger
ch.1 & 9: #yakuza #older uke #ossan #assasin #elopement drama yakuza style ./ Ch. 2: kinda cute with abundant pick-up lines #rape to love #love at first sight with ceo x thief. ./ chapter 3-4: a young man delved himself into this gambling circuit (even when it could be dangerous) just so he could take a #revenge for his uncle. / ch. 5: #office life. #bully lover. poor normal uke always had his lovers snatched away by this elite co-worker. ./ ch.6: when he met this college acquaintance his irritation flared once more. but when the guy wore glasses he's totally shaken and confused. ./ ch.7: #reencounter story of a tour guide (seme) x foreign crowned prince (uke). the vacationing prince took the chance to make the embassy staff tour him around. they were distant relatives through marriage. / ch. 8: a job-hunting guy suddenly got roped into this weird dressing up game by some rich guy. #yakuza #rich seme x #no job simple young man.
Saiyaku Wa Boku O Suki Sugiru
When Ikumi turned 17, a lot of things suddenly started happening. First, the arrival of this transfer student. Second, there's this flower mark that appeared in his chest. And finally, accidents kept happening around him. The dream seemed to come true. With all that, He had a talk w/ Ichijyou (the transfer student) and agreed that they must survive this one year w/o a scratch in order to live. {Lore: Because of an old binding contract, every one hundred years the fate of the Ichijyou and Houshaku families are bound to cross together. At that time, All misfortunes will happen to Houshaku while the wounds are going to be transferred to Ichijyou. For the whole year, the pair of that generation will share the same fate.}
Ake Nure Goyou ni Furu Yuki wa
ch.1-3 & 6: #yakuza who had just lost his foster father (yakuza leader) x a #kind unloved bocchama of a chanoyu (tea ceremony) family. bonus oneshots 4: college, #foreign setting. #megane uke x #popular handsome seme. always drawn to each other. uke broke his glass and that's the start of their correspondence 5. guy who had a #memory loss due to #trauma. the cause and solution for it is only one man that he have to remember.
Gives
One of my favourite yakuza stories. bittersweet and oh so beautiful. i like how they ended in a more realistic note instead of the usual fairytale happy ending. It got all my favourite elements in it. Action, evil plans, decrepit yakuza guys and guns and most of all, manly way of loving. 〚 SPOILERS / SUMMARY BEHIND THE CUT 〛 Story-telling a bit disjointed but I guess the mangaka styled it so to make the readers aware of the confusion the uke feels. wakagashira x subordinate. gay seme x straight, baby-faced older uke. SUMMARY: A man woke up without memory, not even his name. Somehow, he felt this is all too familiar and even without any knowledge, he felt the yakuza vibe from his self and his saviors. HE'S NO DELICATE FLOWER so even if he can't remember anything, he took the life he had now as it is w/o drama. At least he's alive. As the days gone by, he is starting to somewhat confirm some feelings that he doesn't want to voice out (dude, you're sweetly inlove since chap 3) to this guy who loves lying to him. But like any other honeymoon, it will soon be over. @ chap. 5, there was already an unrest from the Kawaguchi-gumi but it turned out that there is another party involved at the last scuffle that happened. And now they took him to some warehouse. Seeing the watch here at the location where he and his group were buried made him remember. Then it proceeded to the backstory of the time Harada had a contact with the sandaime/3rd's heir apparent. (the current 4th) -=SO WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN THE PAST=- Yanase group is one of the many sub-groups that composes the bigger Kawaguchi group. The Kawaguchi Kumicho stated the Yanase boss (Tanaka-dad) and Kumicho's own son, Ebina-san to be the heir apparent. The problem started when the kumicho formally declared that it's the Tanaka-dad who will inherit the seat. OFC, biological son got angry since he expected he'd get the position. (BTW This is a normal problem in a yakuza group whose leadership succession does not base on blood. That's why other grps prefer a fixed succession of father>son to lessen power struggles like this) So he contacted this newbie from the Yanase group that he has been eyeing for a while & promised him money and position if he got successful. Judging from chapter one, a considerable time has passed before the plan was put into action since Harada already has a considerable position (and better-looking state) when the assassination happened. Also, it seems like all those few years he has been feeding Ebina-san information about the group's activities. You can't just obtain deeper information as a newb. So finally, the time has come for the plan to be executed. Ebina-san lured Tanaka Sr. and his group to the warehouse & right then and there, he killed his dad, the aging Kumicho together w/ Tanaka Sr. They then spread false information that the Yanase clan turn against the Kawaguchi group and used it to justify the murder of the whole Yanase. Early on, Harada requested for Tanaka Jr, which is Hajime to be left alive. Old Ebina approved but the problem is the deputy. (the block-faced guy). He is not too keen on keeping Hajime alive, even kicked his head for good measure w/c most likely caused some head trauma that temporarily made him amnesiac. Deputy returned to the Kawaguchi estate and reported that they have all buried the Yanase six feet below and reasoned out that "the dude fought back so we have no choice but to off him" bullshit. Shocked, Harada rushed over the crime scene and that's where the first scene started. Harada (seme) is a very complicated man. he is an ambitious, materialistic and very unfeeling man. Yet at the same time, he is sweet when it comes to Hajime and spoils the latter like crazy. He realized that he can't part with this man, and deeply regretted that he did not take action of his feelings before this all happened and swore to himself that tragedy will never happen again and he will be true to his heart. When Hajime "died", it literally shooked him to the core. That is where that "I can now be kind to him" statement all around the manga came from. He's like a pot that has tipped over, and just like it, his emotions and passion gushed out unbridled probably at the sight of the one he loves in the brink of death. -=.=- So we go back to the recent time. Pleading for life in a yakuza group is really hard and risky. Harada is the perfect yakuza and that's why the leader scouted him early on, seeing his potential. The only inconsistency he had is his strong desire of saving the one and only yanase group wakagashira, hajime. Thankfully, after testing him, the yondaime lost interest and let them be, expecting that Harada would get revenged on by Tanaka (hajime) someday. What the whole group don't know is that it's not money or ambition that is the driving force behind this weird action of Harada's. But Sukai is privy to their development so he was (cutely) upset on what is happening. Fully aware that Hajime will most likely kill now that the "magic is gone" (memory recovered), Harada marched back to their house. But Hajime alone know it best... Harada's sincere kindness to him. He went back to their house and thought all the things that have happened till now, the Harada of the past, the Harada of today, and those glimpses of emotion from Harada that only he can see and feel, he have thought about it too. I love how in the epilogue Harada talked about forgiveness to the kids. In a way, it has to do with his and Hajime-san's life but as adults, they have their own complications. So even if Hajime did half-forgiven him by letting him live, it's not that easy to reconcile like these innocent kids do. It's not easy to get over your parent and your group's death, especially if the main cause is the one you unfortunately fell for because even love cannot just easily solve this chasm between them. It's as realistic as it gets. And so Harada continues to atone for his sins and turned into some puppy seme spoiling his uke. I do wish that we get an omake where they finally can talk to each other face to face. Uke's age: BAKENEKO SCANS SAID THAT IT'S TYPO MISTAKE. Hajime is actually older. I suspect it since Harada is using keigo/respectful language to Hajime So since Harada is 28, that makes Hajime more or less 30? At the last chapter he was called "ojisan" and japanese kids had the habit of calling someone around 30-39 ojisan already. Alright, here's the link https://bakeneko-scans.livejournal.com/8572.html As a bonus, Sukai is of college age around 19 most likely if Hajime can call him a kid.
Beasts
Oneshot. A restaurant owner got inbetween a yakuza mess when an old bloodied man took shelter on his resto. I like it. Manly couple FTW.
Ikoku Irokoi Romantan
Foreign place, blond ship captain x yakuza bocchama on tour. #arrange marriage between childhood friends & both knew what they are getting in (they intend to remain just friends). Wife plan a romantic hook-up up w/ a rich, foreign lover but ironically, husband beat her to it lol. -Note: It has an anime adaptation! Watch sexy in real time. Go!. (≧∀≦)
Takaga Koidaro
⟫ Takaga Koidaro > Aiso Tsukashi. The story of Izumi, the brother in-law (of Sawaragi). For the posters asking, YES. They are connected. He & Sawaragi were not meant to be but do not worry about him. It will be his turn to be happy on the sequel. #reencounter. Izumi's somehow got reconnected to his old schoolmate and his mysterious job. #hate to love. This is the guy that "rejected" him. Now that his wife is dead and he's left with a kid, this feelings he had for this irritating guy never faded and it seems like with this fateful reencounter, he's falling all over again. In the end, the both of them are just misunderstanding idiots. It's never too late for a second chance for the two of them.
Aiso Tsukashi
Takaga Koidaro > Aiso Tsukashi 4 yrs after Takaga Koidaro. Sawaragi served #prison time & met this beautiful young man who tried to seduce him. Now free, he's determined to turn over a new leaf but #reencountered the guy. (omake: Makoto: (MC's nephew) the UNDISPUTED CHAMPION. I love this brat. ^o^ note: - Izumi, the husband of his departed sister had an appearance at the last episode together with his lover. -colored in the first few pages.
Love or Pride
the sagami yakuza group universe: ⟫ Love or Pride > Blind Love > Bittersweet Cafe. Yakuza bocchama seme x uke is a part-timer at the restaurant handled by the clan. some small-time yakuza family squabbles. #kind seme x #beautiful uke omake: future manga in the same timeline as bittersweet cafe, a grown-up megumi.
Heart Strings