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.
It was nice seeing the tea and cake shop couple again, (Bittersweet Cafe)plus you see him as a little boy. Plus it helps you understand why his uncle is so protective of him.
(part 1)Bittersweet Cafe (part 2) Love or pride (part 3)Blind love part of a group/yakuza, meets a guy whom keeps being attacked by other guys. agrees to sleep with him if he will get the other guys to leave him alone. Turns out, he was his first time, he was a virgin. Takes him home to meet his nephew Megumi. and at the Taiki's side, we have Shou, his loyal right hand. also from blind love. His lover takes Taiki's lover and tries to get him to give up disbanding the group. all is well that ends well.
The heir of a dwindling yakuza clan on a reconnaissance mission accidentally witnesses a young man giving his target a blowjob. Turns out, this young man just so happens to be a new student at his school. The student pleas with him to keep his secret and says he'll do anything. This being BL, you can imagine what happens next.
A spinoff to "Bittersweet Cafe," but I think it stands on its own just fine. Between the two manga, this author might be my new go-to for middle-of-the-road indulgent trash.
While I enjoyed BC, there wasn't anything exceptionally good or exceptionally bad about it. Not so with this prequel: it has higher highs and lower lows. There are some good things (the interactions between the characters were more dynamic, the stakes are higher, the uke isn't cutesy, the seme has a personality, the list goes on), but it has some not-so-good things (the characters are in high school but look and act like adults, there are more over-the-top tropes, &c). I must admit, however, that I enjoyed it. It is definitely classic BL in its plot points, but, much like BC, even having read a lot of BL I found it very, very readable.
Recommended if you're in the mood for something light with a little bit of a bite to it that deploys a lot of old tropes and, while it doesn't do anything new with them, still manages to be a fun read. See below for warnings
**CW** It starts with the seme blackmailing the uke for sex, and later on there is a scene where a third party rapes the uke. It's not presented realistically or brutally (it's sort of a non-event, all things considered; just something to gin up the drama with no real consequences), but it does happen onscreen. So yeah, warnings for dubcon and rape.
Bittersweet Café (Prequel)
Blind Love (Sequel)