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The popular and out-going Kanata keeps making eye contact with the reserved, quiet Akira on the hallway, wondering why that happens. One day, he finds Akira on the stairs to the rooftop, listening to hard rock. Realizing that there's much more to Akira than meets the eye, Kanata decides to befriend him.
Haru and Gaku are classmates and close friends, both in their last year of high school. Haru is the type of boy who dreams of having a pretty girlfriend soon. Gaku is madly in love with him.
Hajime is a 20-year-old who keeps fantasizing about the moment he will lose his virginity. It will be soft, sweet and gentle. Because he has this perfect idea of what it would look and feel like, he calls for a male sex worker. The male sex worker, Ryota, comes, does his job and leaves. The problem is it was nothing like Hajime imagined. To make things worse, Ryota turns out to be a student at the same university.
In a dystopic world where plants and animals have mutated and took over the world by infecting and killing humans, An Zhe is a little mushroom. After he takes the appearance and identity of a dying boy, he decides to roam the land of humans in search of his stolen spore. But the land of humans is dangerous, as they murder anyone who might be infected or a non-human in disguise. And the most dangerous of them all is Lu Feng, The Arbiter.
I read the novel and cried my eyes out.
1950. Japan has lost the war and it's been occupied by American forces. Sei, a homeless former Japanese soldier, is now working as a waiter and having one night stands with women to have a bed to sleep in. One day, Jim, an American soldier, invites him to a drink and tells him he likes him. Sei doesn't want to spend time with the enemy, but he sees in Jim a ticket to escape the hopeless life he lives.
Some pages are out of order here. I recommend reading it on MangaDex.
Yuusei and Itsuki have been best friends their entire life, but lately Yuusei has been colder than usual, trying to isolate himself as much as he can. Itsuki won't allow it.
Hajin is the youngest son of an influential family and has everything: beauty, intelligence, kindness, loving parents and a childhood friend who might love him as more than a "friend". When he goes to school to study Confucianism, he stumbles across a poor young man who is always injured and who would do anything for money. Hajin feels like helping him.
violence, sexual assault, (possible off-screen r*pe), manipulation, suicidal thoughts
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The Boy is an innocent, troubled teen looking for his place in the world. The Wolf has a place in the world, one's that's very dangerous, but he's not sure it's the right one. One day, their paths in life cross.
violence
Apollo is in desperate need for money. Because it's a well-paid job, he accepts the offer to become a "teaser" at a brothel called Shangri-La, specialized in men. His work? Prepare the "birds" (sex workers), tease them, wash them, please them, anything but have intercourse or fall in love with them. Because he's unexperienced with men, Apollo is introduced to Phi, one of the popular birds, to train him.
violence, mentions of p*dophilia
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