muse ✨'s manga / #futekiya(28)

A country doctor finds a man with his throat slit, bleeding out in the snow, and takes him home. And then they fall super in love and have a ton of sex! And adopt a kid for a while, meet old friends, make some great food, and grow old. No death, but we see them together many years later. I cried. One character is a former prostitute. He'll use this to his advantage at one point (he sleeps with someone to get something even though he's in a relationship), and we also see flashbacks of him with his former lover. He and his current partner are very happy.

A boy feeling suffocated by his overprotective mother becomes entangled with the man who molested him on a train. This was fascinating and oddly sweet. Obviously not a road map for real life but an interesting story.

Two years into their relationship, Takahiro is in an accident and loses all but the earliest memories of the man he's built his life with. Everyone agrees not to tell Takahiro about what their relationship truly was, and so he struggles to build a friendship with someone he barely knows, frustrated by his missing two years but refusing to be given spoilers. SPOILERS: I appreciate that he never gets his memories back but comes to love his partner a second time.

The sequel to "Young Bad Education." The relationship survives graduation, medical school, and they eventually live together. A series of short stories about their life together. Nothing sad, just fluff, although I cried at one point I was so moved.

One evening, a high school student finds his homeroom teacher drunk on a bench and is shocked when the teacher kisses him, confessing he's watched him since his first year but has tried to forget him. Angry but interest piqued, the student proceeds to stalk the teacher, gradually eroding his self control. Teacher student with a teacher who is actually conflicted about the way he feels!

When college student Erwin injures novelist Levi in a bike accident, landing him in a cast, he agrees to work as his transcriber - except that Levi writes porn. For a month, Levi dictates erotica to him that Erwin painstakingly writes down, but as the novel approaches its end, things Levi has said to him begin to unravel. Their names weren't actually Levi and Erwin. I forget their names. I found this because I saw the first episode of the prequel's (?) drama adaptation on Facebook and landed myself here. This was interesting. When they finally kissed, I was relieved, but their relationship is ambiguous at the end. I get the feeling they will be together eventually, but it ends on an odd note.

A year out from a failed relationship, a lonely tailor is mistaken as someone intending to commit suicide and stopped on the platform by a high school student. That encounter changes his perspective, and he grows closer with his boss, whom he ends up falling in love with. Heartwarming and looks to be traditionally drawn in ink.

Yoshino celebrates his 30th birthday by visiting a gay bar for the first time, and gives his first time to Rou, an attractive younger guy who is flirty but not serious about him. They put each other through the lack-of-communication roller coaster and end up together, with the promise of (I presume) a ring in the box Rou brought home.