takame's manga / #+ peculiar shop(5)

MC, uses sex (with him mostly) w/c usually helps cure love problems. ch. 1: policexpolice #soul mates thing ch.2: #salaryman, toy company office workers. baby-faced #megane uke x idealistic, naive seme ch. 3: husband x brother in-law. ch. 4: rivaling neighbor confectionary stores. stubborn tsundere uke x gentle seme ch. 5-6: two iceskating couples. #adult x minor #hunky bear-like seme x bratty uke ch. 7: priest threesome with MC.

⟫ Minori no Te > Yondaime Ooyamato Tatsuyuki > Jealousy. 〚 A series of manga overlapping each other. Each were an indirect sequel of the other but can be read as a separate story. 〛 What made me interested in it is the way mangaka presented the story. We start with some mysterious, smiling guy (acquainted to the yakuza) offering questionable services to customers and it started building up from there. The sexy massage sessions are hot. But it got more steamy when a guy from his past barged in his clinic. Thus started the love story.

(@Apr Edit: There's an extra? Oof reading) #interesting, unique manga w/ a mysterious feel. Mimori is bullied bcos of #different color of eyes (heterochromania) so he became a shut-in. The first time he went out to the world, he discovered this antique shop he liked. The owner noticed his eyes has a striking similarity to his deceased cat & felt it was destiny so Mimori got hired and they get closer as they work together. I like how Mimori opened up the heart of this man who uses smiling as his poker face.

My eyes played tricks on me I thought it's a new petshop of horrors manga... Or the band? LOL. #mysterious pet shop. Manga veers on dark & perhaps some mindfuckery. From chap.1, it'll be a collection of vignettes that will serve as "mysterious cases" that will go back to the questionable pet shop as we get to know the owner while we take on the persp of the salaryman who stumbled in & will unravel the shop's secret.

For some reason I can't get into it. A mysterious shop w/ unique services are a familiar concept in BL & there's a lot of great ones w/ similar format (sex therapist & minori no te among others) that I REALLY like but IDK? But don't get me wrong, IT'S NOT BAD. I read it till the end. Synopsis: An repatriate who came back to Japan for good ran an izakaya (traditional japanese restaurant) that is a little bit... unique. First, the owner is a quirky guy who acts and thinks like a weaboo despite being japanese & second, he is using it as a front to do some detective work with his mysterious, all-capable employees. And did I mention that he's gay? So yeah, in a nutshell this manga is about him helping those unfortunate gay men who stumble to his restaurant building. #reencounter romance started to develop around half of the story. Love interest is the okama that works on a gay bar that the group knew through their first job. Surprise, they actually knew each other since high school and the "amazing" owner cannot seem to recall that he actually confessed lol. Cute happy ending for the two!