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Usagi no Mori

Also known as Forest of the Rabbits.

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life

Shunta and Tamaki are one year apart, but they’ve kept up their friendship even as they attend different schools. Shunta loves to see his friend happy, but one day, he comes across Tamaki crying, and something fundamental changes within him, awakening sexual feelings he doesn’t know what to do with. Shunta realizes that his feelings are not right. They’re monstrous. Impure. As the two navigate high school, the lines they cross increase, leaving them to contend with Shunta’s growing feelings and Tamaki’s own desires.



Tags: Boys' Love , Coming of Age , Psychosexual , Male Protagonist , LGBTQ+ Themes , School , Nudity , Time Skip , Athletics

Hishakai Shindo

Also known as Depth of Field.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music , Romance , Slice of Life

One day after school, Hayakawa decides to stop by his usual secret spot on the roof, where he meets none other than Konno.

Konno is known throughout the school as being hard to approach and intimidating. Some have even called him scary looking. However, when the lens of his camera is focused on its subject, the once scary Konno becomes like any other high schooler enjoying their life.

Respect, envy, jealousy, and even an inferiority complex… All these feeling culminate inside of Hayakawa as the two get closer to one another. I mean, how could they not? After all, Konno has everything Hayakawa could ever want. Who wouldn’t be conflicted with such a guy by their side?

The unlikely love story between two ordinary high school students who’s paths coincidently cross, comes to life in Enjo’s Depth of Field.



Notes:
Originally self-published, was then licensed and compiled by Taiyoh Tosho for commercial release.
Includes two extra chapters.

Tags: Boys' Love , LGBTQ+ Themes , Male Protagonist , Photography , School , Coming of Age , Bisexual , Time Skip , Band , Nudity , Unrequited Love , Heterosexual

3-bansen no Campanella

Also known as While Being Seen Off by Campanella.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

Fresh from a break up with his boyfriend, Kanou is depressed, and he wonders where things went wrong. He thinks of committing suicide by walking straight to the upcoming train on his way to work, but a high school student stops him. Since then, Kanou seemed to always run into the boy who smiles or greets him at the train station every morning. Kanou dubs his savior 'Campanella,' a character from a book he read. Meanwhile, at work, Kanou continues to work hard as usual and finds himself being drawn closer to his boss. Will his new-found feelings bring him happiness, or will it end up in tears again?



Note: Includes one extra chapter.

Tags: Boys' Love , LGBTQ+ Themes , Male Protagonist , Bisexual , Work , Transgender , Nudity , Suicide

Tabun Kore kara Ai no Hibi

Also known as Love Is Probably Around The Corner.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance , Slice of Life

31-year-old Akio Ito is totally worn out and has finally quit his job after devoting his twenties to the craft of creating manga comics. He's down and glum when he's reunited with Hiroto Kuma, nicknamed "Kuma", a friend from high school with whom he once enjoyed manga and subculture. A year his junior, Kuma, who is now a bestselling novelist and a single father of young twins, always told Akio that he loved his work.
This is a story of love and salvation involving an easy-going novelist with kids, a self-deprecating former manga artist, and a pair of twins who are full of vibrant energy.



Notes:
Original serialization ran for 11 chapters. In the volume release, Chapters 5 and 6 were combined as Chapter 5, Chapters 8 and 9 as Chapter 7, and Chapters 10 and 11 as Chapter 8.
Includes one extra chapter.

Tags: Bisexual , Work , Boys' Love , Male Protagonist , Drawing , Parenthood , Primarily Adult Cast , Twins , Family Life , Writing , Nudity , Anal Sex

Me wa Kuchi Hodo ni Koi to Iu

Status: Finished
Genres: Romance

Having moved schools frequently throughout his childhood, Fujino has perfected the art of the false smile. Now his fifth school, his well-mannered smile is safely helping him make new friends, but one day, on the school roof, he finds a scarred boy sleeping there. That boy is the “Mad Dog”, the student all his classmates are afraid of. While Fujino is observing him, the boy opens his eyes, and then…

A youthful love story between an unsociable yankee and a ‘good boy’ honour student.

Tags: Boys' Love , Male Protagonist , Delinquents , School