Restart After Coming Back Home by Cocomi

 

Hotheaded Kozuka Mitsuomi left his home in the country for a sophisticated life in Tokyo. Unfortunately, at age 25, he's fired from his job and returns home in disgrace. As he tries to rediscover himself, he meets Kumai Yamato, a man about his age who was adopted into his community while Mitsuomi was away. The sweet and even-tempered Yamato is hiding his own pain, and as the two men connect, they start a journey together.

My Rate: 9 (amzn.to/4amIhuQ)

Send Them a Farewell Gift for the Lost Time by Cocomi

 

For four years, Naruse was swept up in his love for his novelist boyfriend, Toui. But tiring of his flightiness and lack of commitment, Naruse finally walks away from his relationship.

Or at least, he tries to. Every time he runs into Toui, they seem to get tangled in one another's emotions and end up sleeping together. They argue and fight, then afterwards comes the pang of regret. Maybe their relationship is doomed to fail. Or maybe, it just needs a new angle...

My Rate: 8 (amzn.to/4amIyhm)

The Sadistic Ghost Doesn't Allow Me to Sleep by Tokishiba

Yuuji falls for his coworker and receives a wedding invite from him. He drowns his sorrows then goes to bed frustrated. During the night, he gets haunted by a sexual ghost. The next night, the ghost appears again and it seems that the ghost is interested in him.

My Rate: 8 (amzn.to/3VDy7kM)

Tableau Numéro 20 by est em

 

Ten years ago, while still a student, Maurice stumbled across an illustration in an artist's sketchbook that instantly captivated him. A drawing of a beautiful youth with sad, gentle eyes, an expression that spoke of love and forgiveness. Now settled into his successful career as an art restoration expert, Maurice is shocked by the sudden appearance of a young man who looks exactly like the one in the drawing. Who, in fact, insists that he is the one in the drawing... A collection of short stories by the incomparable est em.

My Rate: 8 (amzn.to/3xeXoHT)

Sleeping Moon by Kano Miyamoto

 

In order to solve the mystery of a rumored curse that brings early death to the male descendants in his lineage, Akihiko Odagawa goes back to stay in his family's ancestral home. One night, he experiences a time slip that lands him 100 years in the past! There he meets Eitaro, a student from the Meiji Period who is also trying to solve the same mystery. Bridging the gap between the past and the present, the two men traverse time and space as they work together to unravel the family's secret.

My Rate: 8 (amzn.to/3vz8abp)

Scandalous Seiryo University by Kazuto Tatsukawa

 

Yuichi Hajizume is a dictatorial Student Council President. He rules over the campus and the teachers with an iron fist! However, Yuichi is curious about a straightforward and earnest new student... Will this bring a new age of terror to the campus?

My Rate: 8 (amzn.to/4cANRuX)

Endless Comfort by Sakuya Sakura

 

Young businessman Kuzumi has just returned to his childhood home where he must contend with the memories he left behind and Yuu, the handsome new dog trainer with a troubled past. It's virtually love at first sight, as they immediately connect and know they have to help each other to heal the emotional scars from the past.

My Rate: 8 (amzn.to/4axYH31)

Yarichin Bitch Club by Tanaka Ogeretsu

 

In an extracurricular experience gone hilariously wrong, innocent Takashi Tono accidentally joins a club of young men who put the “dick” in “valedictorian.”

At an all-boys’ boarding school deep in the mountains, hapless transfer student Takashi Tono joins the Photography Club, only to learn too late that the club’s main extracurricular activity is offering its sexual services to the student body! Now that Takashi’s surrounded by bedroom aces, can this virgin survive a day, much less the whole school year, as part of the school’s most lascivious club?

In a bid to stave off the sex quota required of the promiscuous Photography Club members, first-year Takashi Tono has protected his virginity by fake-dating fellow club member Yu Kashima. But while Kashima’s affections are real, Tono still has a crush on his sweet-and-sour classmate Yacchan—and so does club upperclassman Tamura! When confessions spill out, hearts will break! But could something even more scandalous be afoot when club president Akemi reveals a long-held secret?

My Rate: 8 (amzn.to/3vwsB95)