Michiru Sonoo

After losing the ability to speak due to stress in his business consulting company, Doi had no choice but to be placed on medical leave, but no therapy or medication ever helped. Just as he thought his professional life was over, he walked by accident into an empty soba shop... where he found healing, the worst soba he had ever tasted, and the most handsome man he had ever seen in the face of Anri Masato, the owner. But who is Anri Masato, really, and what kinds of secrets does he keep? And why does his soba taste so awful!?

Originally shared on social media as a pioneering entry in the “old man yaoi" genre, this is a heartfelt story of two lives that continue to find their way back to each other. After transferring to a new high school under difficult circumstances, Hisaki meets Akito, a bright and sociable boy who will one day become his partner. Where Akito is warm and open, Hisaki is withdrawn and weighed down by his past. Though Hisaki resolves time and again to cut ties, fate brings them back together at key moments throughout their lives. Now, after decades of distance, reunion, and quiet longing, the two have finally found a place to rest-together. After thirty years, their connection is far too deep to be called a beginning.

For 20 whole years, Ishida and Kimura have been meeting each other once a month, for a weekend in the hot springs, at first as carefree students on their bikes, later - as professionals with busy work schedules, always as friends, month after month. 241 trips. Except, their trips are a secret. Except, neither of them ever married, and nor do they feel lonely because of it. Except, there are unsaid things between them that want to be said...

Iku ran away from it all - from his school, from his home, from the burdens and expectations of his influential family. It's not an easy life, drifting from one part-time job to another, but he wouldn't have it any other way. Except, one day he helps a handsome, almost ethereal stranger through a social anxiety attack at a fancy party where he serves tables, and his life changes. This man is the famous author of illustrated books, Mito, and he wants to keep Iku in his life at all costs - including inviting him to live together in his mansion! How will the man who doesn't believe in love and the man who invents fairy tales for a living find their path together?

This Ends Tonight/Konya, Ore wa Kimeru 「今夜、俺は決める」by KINOSHITA Keiko 「としのさ夫夫」 by Tatsumoto Mio Goat and Wolf‘s Table/Yagi to Ookami no Shokutaku 「ヤギとオオカミの食卓 」 by Nagabe A comedy about a married couple, a wolf and a goat. How far will curiosity about someone else's food go? 「久見社長の新婚事情はご内密に。」 by Suzuki Hako 「百年の約束 ～転生して結ばれた夫夫・人間界を司る神×神薬研究をする神～」 by Ohya Kazumi 「今日は何の日？」 by Aopome 「オレたちの薬指事情」 by Mekajiki 「温泉で秘密のお泊り、241回目」 by Michiru Sonoo 「やくそくするからうなずいて」 by Ogawa Sonohara As Long as You're Next to Me/Tonari ni Kimi ga Iru Nara 「となりに君がいるなら」 by Yoshii Haruaki Corporate worker Yoshinaga Mikiya and programmer Yamaguchi Shunnosuke are together in a so-called same-sex marriage. Their daily life consists of everyday activities like sharing meals and going shopping, yet they find profound happiness in such an ordinary routine. This is what happiness looks like for two married men living together.

Melon is clumsy and bad at everything - he knows this much about himself, and he's never let it bother him. What does bother him, though, is that he has no money, no place to stay, he's quit school, he's hungry, he's in a city he doesn't know well, and it's raining... And yet, he meets someone who's having an even worse day than him, one Kawai-san, who wastes no time in inviting him up to his apartment for a hot meal and sex. Melon decides on the spot that he'll be Kawai-san's kept boy! Why not? Kawai-san is rich, and Melon, as it turns out, likes sex with men. But are things between them really that simple...?

A collection of three extra stories for Boku no Mii-chan, previously self-published as doujinshi: My meteor (星のさかな) Mii-chan collection (ミーちゃんコレクション) The stars I want to see with you (君とあの星が見たい)

Best friends turned lovers in a single night...? "The only one who can ever be with someone like me is you!!" Office worker Isejima suddenly goes down on his knees to propose to bar owner Yakumo, his best friend of ten years. Jilted by his bride-to-be before their wedding, Isejima pleads his case about being single for the rest of his life and his fear of dying alone. Taken aback by Isejima's ardent words, Yakumo nonetheless feels moved enough to unthinkingly accept!

"Anyone will do. Find me someone who can get married immediately," Yamanouchi Morio said to his senpai, who works for a matrimonial agency. Maybe such a request would not have been so shocking, if it hadn't come from a man who had been a full recluse for the last 10 years. However, his senpai, in his shock, makes a mistake and sends Morio a tall, blond foreign man who doesn't speak a word of Japanese and is running from a troubled past himself...!?

It's a high-tech love triangle! College student 'Yul' Yurugi develops "DD," a conversational AI with the voice, personality, and manner of speaking modeled entirely after himself. To boost its conversational function, he entrusts DD's core to a gentleman expert in AI development. “Your voice is lovely and sweet… I could fall for you.” Yul eavesdrops on their training sessions but, the sweet words addressed to DD felt as if it's him that is being seduced, and his heart is now unwittingly pounding?

From good morning to good night, working like a horse, aiming for the betterment of Japan's tomorrow… that is the duty of a civil servant (Koh-Boku), a public official of Kasumigaseki. One such Koh-Boku, Kyuu-san, has Kashiwagi by his side, a super-elite who is a dozen years his junior. Even though he thinks that he really should push his junior to stand on his own, he couldn't bear to be parted from the pleasure of working passionately every day with Kashiwagi…

Anthology of extras for series run in Dear+ and Cheri+ magazines.