fujomom's manga / #salary men(12)

Sweet, fluffiness with a bit of smut thrown in. The art style is a bit older and the uke's are too feminine/young looking for my liking but the stories are likable and sweet enough to make up for it. First couple is about a seme "convenience" man (a jack-of-all-trades handyman) and an uke business man who's lonely and stressed. The second is a spunky uke convenience man in the same company and a detective sent by his family to keep tabs on him.

Well. Hot smut. Plots are a bit silly but whatever, I guess. Ch 1) one office worker is in love with the other one and then discovers he's a stripper on the side. This chapter was only ok for me. Ch 2) Company director refuses to marry so talks a part-time worker into pretending to be his gay "wife", conveniently resorting to boning each other to maintain their deception. I liked this chapter, found it amusing

Serious main character's working as a temp but is secretly a coporate spy. One day after a drinking party he gets caught sending info on his phone by the new boss, who then kinda, sorta forces him to stay at his apartment and be his lover. I mean, not really, it's more like he wants to keep him close. At first the main character plans on still sending info but then as he gets closer to the boss he quits being a spy. I thought this story was interesting and pretty unique.

Hm, interesting. Salary man has repeated nightmares about a boy from his past, 20 years ago. Suddenly the guy is working in a shoe store next to where he works and they run into each other constantly. They become close again and rehash the past that made them drift apart. There's a side story in here about a college guy who was raped and can't get over the shame that he still craves being penetrated again.

Ch1-3: A businessman gets discovered with a friend's S&M magazine by a coworker who then starts trying to have a sexual relationship with him, using S&M-like tactics to draw him out. Ch4: confusing story about a guy who tells another guy that they're engaged and he's a prince. Ch 5) rich writer takes in a detective who becomes his servant. They fall in love but then the writer finds out their relationship was a lie. The stories were nice in a very bland kinda way

So, I liked this as an emotional kind of read but at the same time, the lack of proper communication and the agonizing hesitation and boneheaded decisions all got fairly frustrating. I felt so bad for Rintarou, to love someone so deeply, for so long and when you finally confess to not have a proper response to that to drag on so long... so painful.

Ch1)Salaryman is reunited with an old college acquaintance that he used to have a crush on, but when he confessed long ago he was rejected VERY harshly and made to be the guy's lacky until he decided to end it all and dropped out of the college. In present day, at work he has a hard time understanding his old crush, he's both helpful and a jerk, but after they go out drinking the old crush tells him that he was just starting to like him back when he disappeared and had searched for him. This story was ok, but the crush was WAY too much of a jerk with zero consequences. ch2-3) A bit better. Butler purposely started working for a particular family because he blames them for crushing his smaller company, but starts to fall for the guy he's supposed to get revenge on. Then he finds out that they weren't the ones to ruined his company. Ch4)Cute. Businessman runs into a yaoi mangaka that he's a fan of and when they get to know each other he finds out that the mangaka is a virgin and he decides to to "help" him.

First couple) Sorta childhood friends are reunited when the president of a company hires his old friend as a secretary in name only. The president actually had feelings for his friend ever since he was a kid and only hired him to be able to spend time with him. The president tries to let him go but he’s miserable, and his friend can’t stand to see him in that state. The president constantly doubts, in tears every time, their forming relationship. This could’ve been annoying but instead it was kinda refreshing to see an emotional seme. Second couple) Tama is upset because he tried and failed to hook up with the friend from the first couple, but then he meets up with a guy in a bar who’s also heartbroken from an ending relationship. They comfort each other at a love hotel. This story was interesting because it’s one of the few mangas where both people are ok with being top or bottom. Third couple) Childhood friends are graduating and the popular one of the two has to move away. As a parting gift he asks his friend to masturbate and let him take pictures, which he does, but then the less popular friend finds out that the only reason whey he wasn’t popular with girls was because his friend scared them away. This couple was pretty amusing.

Really cute, pleasant read! Mizuno works at a design company and has a crush on a guy in the neighboring building, whom he can see through the window. By chance, he ends up sharing a table in a restaurant one lunch with the guy, Atsushi, and they begin to get to know each other. Mizuno discovers that Atsushi has secretly loved him for 10 years, since he was in high school and working in a convenience store. So sweet. Then there’s a cute chapter about Mizuno’s coworker Yoshimura, who falls immediately for a straight salaryman named Kunieda. He’s already scared to confess when he sees Kunieda wearing a wedding ring for the first time. Kunieda just uses it to deter women, though, and has already fallen for Yoshimura. Another cute story!

Hm, so this was funny and there aren't enough fudanshi stories, but there's one thing I had a BIG problem with. This is about Satou, a salaryman and fudanshi with a girlfriend (who dumps him), who lets his downstairs neighbor, Arihara, stay with him while his apartment is getting fixed. Despite being a fudanshi he'd never been that attracted to men in real life until rooming with Arihara. He has amusing BL fantasies about Arihara, growing more and more attracted to him. But then Arihara fucks everything up and fucks some random girl in a hotel, pretty much ruining a good manga for me! Then there's a second story about Teramoto, a gay playboy who gets caught by the librarian, Kurugaya, doing kinky stuff in the library. Kurugaya watches him like a hawk, interrupting any opportunity to hook up with anyone. Teramoto figures out that Kurugaya is into him, but gets spooked when he hears how serious Kurugaya is about him and pushes him away by saying something pretty mean. All ends well then Kurugaya stalks him one night and screws him silly. Fuck Arihara for spoiling this manga for me!