美智子's manga / #good(34)

"The trials and tribs of Tsuji, airhead, and Aizawa, the stoic, as they chart the course of gay relationship after lifelong friendship. Asou Kai is very perceptive at emotional content and behaviour. It makes for lively and interesting stories. Bonus, her artwork is attractive, too." the prequel is hokenshitsu made nan m?

"New to a blended family, affectionate younger stepbrother, Yuuto, falls for his sophisticated gay older stepbrother, Ryuusei, and does his best to repress his feelings for the sake of their family." And he really did....

i will explain the first story in details 1. tsuzuki hasn't seen his older brother, hajime, his only blood relative, in about 10 years. living this family-free lifestyle, he falls into some "bad" acquaintances (i found them very good friends, but i don't aprove the way they are/were living) firstly i will talk a bit about hajime: he left home when he was 24 years old, it is said later that he was in prison, because of some misunderstanding and took the blame (he stayed in prison about 10 years, just my guess, because it is said on manga that tsuzuki hasn't seen hajime about 10 years, same time when he left home) oh right, later is said that he became yakuza it's important to say that their father left several debts before dying, and hajime used these methods to pay his debts tsuzuki works helping a friend who runs a few call girls, and it caused trouble to his brother, who is yakuza hajime show up and tried to warn tsuzuki to stop working with that kind of thing, but he didn't listen to him and continues tsuzuki and his friends were caught by hajime and some yakuza, but only tsuzuki tried to resist and was severely injured. tsuzuki had to stay in hospital for 3 months because he broke his arms and legs, and hajime was the one who was in charge to help him recover hajime explained everything to tsuzuki and he started to understand everything they hasn't see each other for 10 years, so they were mm... distant? but with all these weeks they spent together, with so much physical contact, they were getting closer, just like how they used to be (and a bit more fufu) incest stories aren't my favorite, but some of them are good, like this one so bad that it is only a oneshot... 2. some old mans that can't find a job later one of them decided to follow his dream and they formed a team 3. a couple saw some woman being dumped and she thought one of them was making fun of her, so she cursed his lover but later their love broke the curse 4. did not like so i won't explain 5. a writer who can write just when his heart is broken

abandoned by his mother, tai-chan lives with his alcoholic father, but keeps his spirits almost unbelievably positive and cheerful for all the abuse he fends off. his neighbour, maa-chan, has been nursing a crush on him forever, but it takes a sexual attack at school for him to show his intelligence and quick-thinking. A story that deals with heavy, depressing subject matters, but never in a way that the characters are buried under distress. it remains light and cheerful and hopeful for the couple's future.

the bond between a shark and seagull spirit; a girl who helps fulfill a ghost's ties really touching story

"About a young man whose life revolves around the love hotel his late father left behind, the sense of pride he takes in its purpose and the censure he picks up from others. Throw into this mix a gay romance whose premise is based upon an impulsive lie he told to protect a younger brother whom he believed to be in peril from someone he believed to be a predator, and you have an excellent, thoroughly believable story with sympathetic characters who are doing the best with the fate they were dealt." unique and enjoyable, definitely one of my favorites!

itou-san, a mysterious man, wants to give money to kyosuke stop whoring himself, but he refused and due to that, itou-san starts to "help" kyosuke with his own way, what caused lots of problems i'm a little confused with the ending, but i liked the story didn't like the last story, it was a bit too much for me also, itou-san has a prequel (not translated yet)

six months ago a book store manager taught minami, an high-school student, a lesson about loitering and gave him a job since then, minami finds himself slowly falling in love with his strict and, sometimes, violent manager

"One night in his adolescence, Kayano, suffocated by his controlling mother, falls for Takao, a boy he finds beaten and left in a park. He discovers that Takao is greedy and grasping, and pretends to be a selfish jerk who plays cruel tricks on others. As Kayano meets each of Takao's ridiculous challenges, and carefully eliminates all the obstacles, he discovers a side to Takao that nobody suspected. Even though the characters in this story are so flawed and unsympathetic, and Takao, in particular, is such a manipulative jerk, it's a great story." very enjoyable

"two different stories about men struggling to come to terms with attraction to other men, linked together with a family connection and a bathhouse" first story is about an insecure baker who visits a public bath and catches the eye of the pushy attendant second story is about a high school kid from the bathhouse family and his childhood friend