Stigma
6.10.2020 - A story about how violence and hate only perpetuates itself - and how ultimately love, acceptance and forgiveness is the only thing that can ever end it. Seyhun and Boris both deserve to be happy, because too msny shity things have happened to them.
Old-fashioned Cupcake
17.10.2020 Volume 1 This story is about how a kouhai fell in love with his senpai the boss when he started working under him. A few years down the line, when he’s turning thirty and the boss is turning fourty...the unrequited love comes to light and they become a very lovely couple. The most lovely thing about them is how much they both bring out the best in each other, and how much they complement one another. Oh, the fact that the younger man LOVES his older man’s cooking (he eats it to the point of gettong hamster cheeks!) is adorable. And the say the older man isn’t really shy to say thing even if he blushes and gets embarrassed due to being sex shy a LOT is also lovely. Also, what starts with with girl talk (about how all the women keeps looking at how handsome the younger man is) at a pancake place and ends with boy talk (about masturbatory aids among other things...) over beer and food at home? Well, this couple’s story. Loved it. 30.1.2021 - Volume 2 The older man gets insecure when his superior at work notices his necktie around the younger man’s neck. Drama ensures, and they’re both so unhappy :( (ch 1-2) 24.7.2022 ch 3-5 They fought, and the older guy outed himself to his two collegues (the bosses), and they supported him being in a relationship this messy (with a younger man, and subordinate to boot), and the guys fought and so very much grown up, and made up, made compromises, and damn it my heart can’t take this much amount of reasonable realistic fluff! 20.10.2023 Vol 2 ch 6 - 6.5 + side stories 5.5-5.6 Onsen trip. Moving in together, Nozue proposing to Togawa. Them calling each other Saki (Nozue) and Minoru (Togawa). There’s this pointed scene in the onsen trip when an elderly lady at a ceramics shop treats them very naturally as lovers, and automatically changes a couple set of bowl into two equally large ones. And they both get so flustered because of the acceptance, and it’s so poignant. Damn it, this whole story just goes around your heart and makes it soft and fluffy! Even the sex, goddess damn it!, and it hits so in the feels!
Yoru ga Aketemo
3.12.2020 This mangaka seems to like drawing +30yo people in their ”first real relationships”, with ALL the akwardness that can entail. (I’ve read two of their works so far) In this one, a closeted gay office manager is healed (by his kouhai) from his first heartbreak, and after more than just some overthinking on both their parts, they become true lovers. It can’t be described as ”two idiots who fell in love”, but it sure FEELS like it. Especially with the kouhai getting antsy about seeing his sempai looking at him without glasses on: ”I don’t want to see your love for me disappearing from your eyes!” Loved it! <3
My Thirsty Coworker Has His Way with Me Every Night
1.2.2021 - This one has SO much different drama in it, and the couple in it is really nice. I like it SO MUCH. 11.1.2024 ch 13
Michizure Policy
30.5.2021, 29.2.2024 Manges to feel realistic, about two friends who become lovers, with the gay one of them being the insecure one and the straight/bi one really wanting to be together with him. Like, fluffy without the fluff. Two guys wanting to be clingy but in a guy-like-way.
Adam no Rokkotsu
9.6.2021, 13.12.2023 A man falls in love a man who has DID, and while living together help him both with the integration of his alters as well as with building up his mental health.
Koko Wa Yasashii Niwa