Heuristic's Manga

Note: Resume at chapter 3

Two stories in total, both with a somewhat somber tone (but happy endings.
The first is a thinly sketched but oddly moving narrative about an aspiring artist and son of a successful corporate family who fell in love with a man only to re-encounter that man as his sister's fiance. It explores the pain of leaving everything behind for love, and the few panels dedicated to his relationship with his sister are oddly moving.
The second is about an FBI underling who is recruited to guard a former agent on death's row who has been given total liberty in his last days to solve a case.

These are stories with unusual premises. In spite of my discomfort with the second (as a US Citizen, the paranoia about terrorists and subsequent overreaches and racial profiling that happened are a little to close to home for me to fully be in favor of characters who work for the FBI), these are worth checking out, particularly if you want something that is a little different from your run-of-the-mill salarymen and school life stories.