TachibanaChiharu's manga / #connected by white line(2)

3 stories; 2 tengu, cousins, strangers' chance meeting. All of the stories have decent art with decent character designs. The tengu story is pretty average; a bird tengu saves a dog tengu after he's hurt and nurses him back to health. the dog tengu is stubborn and standoffish because he's been mistreated his whole life. he leaves and bird tengu chases after him. cousins with like 5yr age gap -- older cousin w/job always takes care of younger cousin who is a bumbling klutz. older cousin treats him specially, and the younger cousin notices. things come to a head when older cousin is exhausted from overwork and kisses younger cousin, who likes it. 3rd story is a guy is on a hot spring trip he was supposed to have with his gf, but she dumped him beforehand. at the hot spring hotel, mc is walking near the front desk and someone is trying to get a room but none are left. mc agrees to share with him for payment and companionship. stranger ends up doing a bj after mc passes out, and then he wakes up and they bone. after 3 days of bonding and boning, they part again as strangers, but then run into each other back in tokyo. the best of the 3 stories is the last one, but it's only still pretty average. the tengu one is the longest by far (the other 2 are 1-chapt each), but honestly just very average and dull. there isn't really tension and it's hard to really feel anything for their relationship other than it feels like because they are the leads they should be together. the 2nd one feels very overwrought, probably because it's just 1 chapter. everything is rushed and w/melodrama. this idea could work if the story were much longer but as it is, it just feels like all stereotypes and cliches. the 3rd story at least had some tension. it isn't that believable but it's a good, infrequently done sort of story where two strangers are thrown into a situation together and have a whirlwind relationship that ends quickly. it's compelling, but not compelling enough to drag the whole comic up from average. the 3rd story probably needed at least 1 extra chapter to wrap up the reunion in tokyo better. all in all, it's readable but not that compelling. since it's short you can read it between super long comics, but don't expect anything great here.