SpringHaze's manga / #Established couple(4)

What a lovely little manga, it's so cute it makes me sad. Ages are 55 and 65 and they're at a stage where it matters less than 40 years ago (yes, that's roughly their time together, can you believe), but instead they now have the problem of one retired househusband getting bored at home and the other rushing from work to spend time together - looking forward to being retired together, but man, the 10-year age gap is soon going to be tragic ;_;. There are flashbacks to their younger days, when seme-kun was trying to make uke-san love him (who is older, in his twenties, and very confused about his feelings) and promises him forever (and he delivers, these cuties). Edit: Chapter 2 tells the story of their getting together and it's such a gentle thing. Edit: Chapter 3 is about their getting married and it's the cruel reality of same-sex couples in Japan, who have to go via the adoption route in order to become a family. Kazuhiko is hit by a car so Makoto adopts him as his son in order to be able to visit him at the hospital. They are so sweet <3 Edit: You know, we could have done without the extra at the end, don't you think, sensei? Makoto dies, of course, and Kazuhiko makes him the usual altar in their home. There's no despair or sadness though, and I appreciate that immensely, he loves him still after a lifetime together and they have wonderful memories together. Makoto dies in his 80s so they are together for a long, long time.

This is a sequel to Oreshika Shiranai Karada and I was over the moon when I saw it was scanlated, I had known of its existence for a few months (on this note, it would be so fab if this site offered a way to subscribe to or track a mangaka's works so that I could actually get wind of new stuff in this lifetime). This has incredible character growth and a relationship so sweet and tender, while Yuuma still struggles with believing he got the hot guy and he is treasured. One important note is that there is a side of Ryouhei that is thankfully somehow not prominent enough to turn me off which is his fame as a band singer (they are now university students). Yuuma had the potential to bore me to death with his insecurities and quiet nature (they both seem to have private conversations with themselves and conclusions they arrive at on their own instead of talking it out), but he takes charge of things from time to time and is so adorably in love with Ryouhei that I had to forgive him and love him, too. Ryouhei is the real MVP though, he is moving from the sleazy playboy persona and becoming someone who wholly belongs to one person and he is so committed to treasuring Yuuma, he is so tender to him, teases him during sex but touches him with so much care and love. They move in together and consider marriage and I hope we see more of them, cause they are such a sweet couple.

Very sweet and fluffy as a cloud, episodic chapters. It recently got a tankoubon in Japan so there's a lot of extra pages that will get scanlated as well. Love this mangaka's depiction of love, it's very sweet and uplifting and drama-free.