1979, the start of summer, faculty member of the science department Dr. Ukai is in the middle of a lecture when he first lays eyes on a visiting student from the humanities department, Toki. Toki is quiet, with a stoic air about him... and Ukai realizes he's completely fallen for him. However, ever since Ukai lost his long-time friend and secret lover Amakata, he's been hiding the fact that he is gay, keeping his feelings bottled up for no one to know of. One day, Ukai notices a student has been following him around and trying to get closer to him. As things start to become more than just a minor issue, Toki steps in to help. Ukai offers to take him out to eat as a way of thanking him, but it seems there's more to things than just a simple meal...
Toma Sugawa is a cool-headed, unsociable businessman. For some reason, he's not in a relationship, and he spends his life watching the days go by. One thing that has become a part of his daily routine is waking up one of the tenants in his grandfather's apartment complex. That tenant is Kaoru Aida. He has countless alarms go off, and still doesn't wake up until Toma comes in to wake him. On top of that, he asks Toma to wake him up the next morning, without a lick of remorse. With an attitude like that, of course Toma is on the verge of snapping. But one day, Toma goes to wake him up as usual, and Kaoru, still sleepy, pushes him down?! Enjoy this clumsy, blooming love story between an inconsiderate guy and a guy still stuck on his ex!
*This volume compiles ch. 1-6 of "The Seduction of the Deep Sleeper"
Natsuno, a poor scholarship student, runs into some trouble at his job with Toji, a son of the powerful Kirishima family who happens to go to the same university. They met in the worst possible way, but somehow, Toji takes a liking to Natsuno and follows him around everywhere. Natsuno is exhausted from work, school, and now dealing with the assertive Toji. However, despite his bad first impression, Toji is actually very friendly and kind, and Natsuno starts to fall for him.
Takakura and Yatsuka, who attend the same university, are such close friends that they live together. However, when Takakura told him "I have feelings for you," Yatsuka started rushing things forward without stopping to think it over?! I like you... But now's not the time!! It's a love affair that twists itself into knots while these two guys impatiently race around and around only to get nowhere.
"That does it; my life is over now, for sure...!" -- Though he's good at his job, due to a stubborn streak and an overly serious attitude, office worker Sakura tends to take on too much. But he has a secret - after sunset on the weekends, he becomes "someone else." However, his junior coworker Arima sees him in this other form, and Sakura even gets stuck sharing his secret with the guy...!! Can straight-laced, earnest, bespectacled Sakura handle the onslaught from his blank-faced, pushy junior on top of all the rest of his stress?!
One day, my older brother came home with a young coworker, and I'd never seen someone so innocently, earnestly, uselessly in love as this guy was. What does he mean, just looking is enough for him? Getting off is obviously the better option here. His attitude was a novelty to me, as a notorious slut (and card-carrying bottom to boot). So at first it was out of curiosity, plain and simple, that I laid hands on him without a second thought (figured I'd let him show me the sexual side he can't show to the one he so virtuously loves). That was the idea, at least...
High school sweethearts Akiharu and Teru were as happy as could be. However, those happy days did not last for very long. Teru, who was aiming to become a professional soccer player, had an unexpected accident one day... After losing out on his soccer career, Teru began to grow sullen and mean, almost like he'd become another person, and finally the damage spread to Akiharu, too... "I'm telling you to go sleep with another guy!" Following that order from his beloved boyfriend Teru, Akiharu smothered the pain in his heart and set out for a gay bar...
Playboy Yamada and earnest Takahashi. Oddly comfortable around each other despite being complete opposites, these two were always together. They took it for granted that those days they shared would go on forever, and yet... Even after going their separate ways, they often overhear gossip about each other. The passage of these two years has only deepened and complicated their feelings. They cross paths again, and in that moment, what course of action do they take...?
"I've missed you, Shota…" "Tohru... Me, too...!" I still can't get used to it no matter how many times we do it, so sometimes it hurts a little... But it feels so good... When Shota returns to Tokyo after visiting home, he and Tohru enjoy a long-awaited reunion. He brings back happy news - he's come out to his family and told them that he's dating a man - and the pair's love starts heating up from there! But in the midst of that happiness, Shota starts to worry that he isn't the right match for this handsome older man and is only a burden on Tohru, and misunderstandings begin to grow between the two of them...
On my first day working part-time at a bookstore, the trainer Kai was so mystifyingly handsome that the very next day, I impulsively asked him out!! He was so quick to agree that I couldn't help asking, "Are you sure you understand what I mean?" But he fired back with a heated kiss and said, "You mean this, right?" That blitz attack had me completely head over heels, but then I learned of a rumor about Kai: "He'll hook up with people, but he never lets things get serious." Huh...?!
"I've been in love with him...ever since that day when he cried underneath the fake, starry sky. I didn't initially intend to confess to him. I only wanted us to be closer - to spend more time together... So how did things end up this way...?" Kawai is a member of his high school's Astronomy Club. He grows close to Ohara, his fellow classmate, when Ohara helps him out with his club's exhibit for their last school festival. After the two graduate, their paths begin to diverge, little by little...until one fateful day. So close that they can feel each other's breath, yet so tragically distant. A romantic tale of two men constantly just beyond each other's reach. Chasing after one another, like shooting stars.
One day, Hane, an office worker, pays a visit to a high-class gallery space. There, he meets Takakura, the gallery manager. The two of them hit it off immediately! With his angelic features, one would never expect that Hane is actually a fan of the artist Fujii, famed for his salacious artworks. Takakura finds himself drawn to Hane's indescribable charm, so much so that they meet every weekend for drinks. However, everything changes when it turns out that Hane actually has quite the extraordinary relationship with Fujii, that favored artist of his...! A sweet, soft love story between a gentle gallery manager and an airheaded office worker, chapter 1!
Kanae Sakura lives with his university's folklore studies professor, Tsubaki. In exchange for free room and board, he helps out at the bar that Tsubaki runs - a bar that caters only to supernatural spirits. Crazy, right? However, everyone has secrets. Even Kanae.
Rokuro is a company man who excels at his job. Currently dating his boss's daughter, he seems to have a bright, stable future ahead of him. However, in reality, his heart's been closed off ever since his college relationship fell apart because of one mistake. As his mind is plagued with worry, wondering if he'll let his past relationship control his entire life, he spots Rui, his ex from across the street one day. Against his better judgment, Rokuro begins walking by that street daily, just to get a glance at his past lover. A bitter love story of two men, and the anguish and torment they experience over their once-lost relationship.
I know you, though I doubt you know me...... Five years ago, while keeping his face hidden, he spent one unforgettable day and night with another man. When a total coincidence brings them back together, the long-banked fires of his passion reignite and he finds himself once again desperately yearning for the other man.
"From all appearances, that customer seems to be the type of person who's truly good to the core, and as hard as I tried, I couldn't bring myself to be annoyed at him..." Sachi works at a hostess bar as wait staff and absolutely hates people who most would consider to be "good-natured". He hates one particular male customer above all -- Sasagawa, who is anything but your ordinary "good person." He bumps into Sachi and nearly makes him spill alcohol all over himself. Sasagawa protects Sachi and even goes so far as to try to tip him. Sasagawa's kindness has everyone spellbound. Sachi, however, refuses to be fooled by people like Sasagawa. Why does Sasagawa's kindness give Sachi the sinister urge to screw him over...?
"If I win, I get to do whatever I want to you, right?" Shou spends his days on the receiving end of his very intense father's wrath. Shou lets out his pent-up frustrations at a bar, with a little game. What kind of game, you say? The salacious kind -- the man who outdrinks the rest gets to spend the night with Shou. However, one day, a mysterious man named Ichijo disrupts Shou's game and even goes as far as to lecture him on it! What happens when an irritated Shou tries to give Ichijo a piece of his mind...?! A clumsy love story between an unfriendly hottie and the heir to a traditional inn!
"I'm the type of person who can't draw what they've never experienced. Kurose, please, won't you show me how it's done...with your body?"Boys' love comic artist Mashiro only wishes to create romantic stories that touch people's hearts. So when his editor Kurose tasks him with drawing a sex scene for the first time, he finds himself in a bind. As unease fills his virgin soul, Mashiro decides to visit a shrine rumored to bring good luck to comic artists. But after he makes his prayer, a being possesses him... Instantly overcome with a surge of sexual desire, he starts coming on to Kurose! Lessons have begun for our talented yet crude editor and innocent BL comic artist-turned-seducer.
Kei is totally, utterly, completely in love with Tsurugi! But he's also tormented with uncertainty. Is it just him that feels this way? Is it safe to call them boyfriends? Even while agonizing over questions like these, Kei always plays it cool around his beloved Tsurugi. When they have sex, though, Tsurugi's adorable charms reduce Kei to a helpless puddle of a man, and today is no exception - he might as well be a devoted puppy wagging his tail at full force. Love is flooding through everything in this mature BL that's just as fluffy and sweet as it is smutty!
At Toto First Bank's head office, the competition is cutthroat for its elite employees. Matsuda and Kato are members of the sales department on the 21st floor. Having joined the team at the same time, Matsuda sees Kato as his ultimate rival. Whether it's in regards to their conquests with women or their reputation at work, whenever Matsuda thinks he's one-upped Kato, he ends up getting overshadowed by Kato's accomplishments, much to his chagrin.One evening in the office, Matsuda finds out his girlfriend has cheated on him, severely wounding his pride. But when Kato sees his frustration, he says the unexpected. "You have bad taste, obsessing over these boring women. You should choose me"... And the very next moment, Matsuda finds Kato's lips meeting his own!