Sleeps In Sunbeams's manga / #gay marriage(2)

I loved Shun and Ryosuke’s story. It was very different because it included gay marriage and meeting at a dating party. Falling for each other involved getting to know each other and sharing similar dreams for the future. Very sweet with some beautiful art.

Two couples who are friends have their own stories in this volume. The couples are very different with only obsession and intensity their similarities. The first has childhood friends now in a committed relationship but there is no peace between these two. The seme is negative in his outlook. He doesn’t like people, tends to flare up when teased by his lover. And he is totally, irrevocably obsessed and in love with the man who took his hand when they were boys. It’s not an easy story to read, and not because the seme seems so abrasive. I was bothered more that the uke kept him in the palm of his hand and wouldn’t even say that he loved him. The second story I liked more. Again, these 2 knew each other when young and had a master/ slave step brother like relationship. The seme seems like a total jerk but he is actually quite complex and very much in need of his slave on a deep, emotional level. These two had more honestly in their relationship and I really loved the obsessively intense passion between them both.