Original Story and Spin-Offs

A father is stressed beyond his capacity to cope while trying to raise his preschool-aged daughter while working in a Japanese restaurant. He is saved by a hopeless flirt and serially unfaithful gay customer who is attracted to him, but he is straight and very suspicious of such a flighty man. The relationship takes time to develop and is full of realistic emotional responses. The daughter is adorable and the ending is full of cheer!

Motoharu's affection for Akira is thwarted by family expectations and cultural standing — NOT, as one would expect, on his side, but levied upon the hapless Akira, whose responsibility toward his mother's benefactors outweighs his personal choices. This story is, both, tragic and sweet, and both the young men still manage to express what is in their hearts, even though duty supercedes individualism in the time and setting of this story.

Law student, Arikawa Youichi, has portentous dreams about someone named Misaki, an enigmatic and formless "presence" activated by a pretty floral crystal pendant that Arikawa suddenly found in his possession (the result of a mishap), never realizing that Misaki Shouta is a man whom he met by accident and happenstance, on two prior occasions, and heard about by rumour, once, thus setting the scene for a story about predestined love.

Two boys with wildly different personalities meet at school over a musical project, connect and go through their last year of high school, with all its incumbent transitions, together. Sweet, slow and clear.

A series of vignettes continuing the relationship started in Doukyuusei dealing with illness in the family, graduation and moving forward in life in spite of the fear that distance and personal differences brings. Very mature and realistic story, which also happens to be quite romantic and pure.

Harasen, the lonely music teacher, whose crush on student, Sajou Rihito, in mangaka Nakamura's Doukyuusei series went nowhere (in no small part as a result of his own scruples; Harasen doesn't touch students), attracts the attention of student, Aoto Sorano. Sorano is fascinated, but blocked by the same scruples, and tries in his clumsy and inexperienced way to make things right between Harasen and Sajou, and, when that does not work, to console and heal him as far as Harasen will let him.

The relationships which have been established in Nakamura's Doukyuusei yaoi romance series continue through college.

Artbook for the Doukyuusei series by Nakamura Asumiko, including the 20th birthday celebration and marriage of Sajou and Kusakabe.

Two stories. The first story is a prequel to Kare No Barairo No Jinsei where a gay man has trouble believing that an otherwise straight man might fall for him. In the second story, a man is shaken by the idea of the world's end. One loose end he cleans up is to reconnect with a former schoolmate with whom he was infatuated, but who is now depressed and at a standstill, re-igniting the man's desire to take care of himself. Hideyoshiko's stories move slowly & carefully, but are

A sequel to Ringo ni Hachimitsu (http://www.mangago.com/read-manga/ringo_ni_hachimitsu/) Hideyoshiko's story continues of the courtship and early relationship between Natsuke and Komano two gay college men. Natsuke has always known he was gay, and Komano is a heterosexual who is only gay for Natsuke. It shows their insecurities, particularly Natsuke's, who was badly used by selfish and closeted lovers, and interactions. Hideyoshiko's stories are quiet and calm, with nothing extreme.