Sleeps In Sunbeams's manga / #student(7)

Great story telling helps make this sweet story hard to put down. I love the younger, kind seme, always a favourite for me.

This is one of the sweetest stories ever drawn. Tiny but feisty, college student Isumi Sakuraba is ID checked late one night by Officer Amasawa who mistook the pretty faced youth for a minor on the streets. The little tsundere met Amasawa again at his place of employment, a local convenience store frequented by the local police. At this second meeting the the tall officer with the sunny disposition and sweet smile sought help choosing a meal and Sakuraba (a member of the cooking club) selected a thoughtful combination of foods that was received with much appreciation. This is the beginning of a new friendship where as the reader I fell for Sakuraba’s cat like eyes and rare smiles, and Amasawa’s gentle sweetness and kind ways. Their romance was so endearing it was sad to turn that last page.

Home room teacher, YoungJin Han has fallen for a fellow teacher HoYeon Jung, who isn’t interested in him in that way. Drowning his sorrows, he falls in with a handsome older guy, Sanghyun for a one night stand only to have an awkward meeting with him as the parent of a troubled student. While trying to dodge the determined pursuit of his handsome one night stand, YoungJin finds himself ‘saved’ by his ex, JiKook Park. As if he isn’t popular enough, while YoungJin is trying to avoid being seen by the waiting JiKook and Sanghyun, he is approached by a young college student who has fallen for him, Junwoo. That’s the messy setting for this story. Who will the popular Mr. Han choose? The gentle and patient (mostly) Junwoo? The strangely insisting and familiar ex, JiKook? Or the debonair and good looking one night stand, Sanghyun? It’s a good romp of a story with all these characters and the potential for romance for more than Mr. Han. My favourite won the affections of the much sought after uke, so I am more than happy with the story.

Proudly out, gay university student Mukai Tsumugi enjoys spending his time on a gay social site where he shares his hobby of creating cute things. It’s also the perfect pickup place for the cute “Bee” (as he is known on the site). One of his favourite people to talk to is Chiitan, and the two eventually set up a meeting. But the man who turns up is nothing like Bee expected. This towering, intensely intimidating man must be a yakuza! And so begins this wonderful story of opposites attract; a beautiful young man with a bit of a slutty nature and a scary faced man with a heart of gold. I loved it!

Amiable workaholic, Koichi has just moved into his own apartment. Holding two jobs, he is determined to build a nest egg and to live a peaceful life. That was soon to end as one night as Koichi stumbled upon one of his regular customers, the good looking yet unfriendly Reiji, trying to help an abandoned kitten in the pouring rain. Little did Koichi know, but soon Reiji and the kitten would be taking up space in his home and his heart.

A delightfully fluffy story about a household of 6 males and their new live in housekeeper. While the whole family were integral to the charm of this manga, it really was the capable and caring “mom” Kano, and the oldest brother, the “tsun tsun” Kaname, who were the focus of all the fluffy romantic feelings. Pretty artwork and some really likeable characters make this a must read shounen ai.

Definitely not your typical Yaoi. For 19yo University student Hitoshi Arai, his ordinary life is about to take an extreme turn. Enter 29yo Mah, a 6’2” wildcard who doesn’t play by any of the rules. When Mah first bulldozes into Hitoshi’s life and home, he terrorises the younger man, something that he finds endlessly entertaining. But there is something so cute about the awkward crybaby and there is some unexpected kindness in older criminal that they both end up being drawn to each other. So open the pages for an awkward mismatch that is unexpectedly wholesome between 2 extreme opposites.