12-ji Kara Hajimaru - Recommendations

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2007

What if you were to meet your childhood friend again after ten years of separation? This was exactly the case for Mitsuya, a recently transferred company executive who found out that the person living three doors down from his new apartment was none other than Noboru, his older's brother best friend... and his first love. As a young and brash middle schooler, Mitsuya had forcefully kissed Noboru and drove him away. Deeply regretting his action, he kept a tight lid on his feelings. But now, being with Noboru again is bringing all those heated memories back, as if they were never gone to begin with.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 2008 - 2011

College student Haneji Kaoru is surprised when popular actor Aragaki Jin appears in his workplace. They were high school friends, but unable to cope with his deepening feelings for the playboy, Haneji cut all ties after graduation. But now that Aragaki has found him, he has no intention of letting Haneji go...

• Vol: 5; Ch: 25
• 2003

Stopping by his favorite bar in Tokyo's gay district, Yanagi picks up an attractive man, and the two spend a passionate night together. The next morning, however, the stranger proclaims that what they did makes him sick and then bolts from the room. With the weight of confusion and frustration crushing him, Yanagi thinks he'll never see the man again...until he finds out it's his good friend's twin brother, Arata. Even when confronted, Arata refuses to accept what happened that drunken night, so an angry Yanagi comes up with a plan to make Arata his sex slave as punishment... And so begins the first of five volumes filled with drama, angst, suspense, passion, sex, and love. Will Yanagi and Arata clear their misconceptions? Will Yanagi be able to fight the demons of his past? Will one possessive twin get in the way? Follow these two lovers in their struggle against all obstacles to find love and happiness together.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2006

Masumi Aikawa is getting married when he meets Haruji Ryouya, a young, up-and-coming floral designer. Masumi's fiance had insisted they hire Haruji as the designer for the wedding. However, Masumi finds himself drawn to Haruji- where can this attraction lead?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2018 - 2019

Yukito is treated poorly by the adults around him. His mother left him with his stepfather when he was young. His stepfather started abusing him soon after, as Yukito grew to look more and more like his absent mother. Yukito is sexually targeted by his elders, even his father's colleague, who forces himself onto him at a dinner that he attended instead of his father. Haruki Goto is the taxi driver that picked Yukito up after the "dinner." Half conscious and unable to walk, Haruki tries to carry Yukito but is caught off guard when Yukito punches him in the face. Will Yukito remember this night? What happens when they meet again, but this time with Yukito's father also in the car?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2014 - 2015

Mayama reunites with his old middle school classmate, Yumi. Mayama is captivated, but Yumi has a boyfriend. Then he learns Yumi's boyfriend hits him...

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2007

Kanou Osamu is a failed writer who has just been evicted from his apartment. As he's trying to figure out what to do, he bumps into his high school friend and roommate Satomi Tatsuo who offers him a place to live on 2 conditions. The first is that he can only stay for one month and the second is that he must listen to everything Satomi tells him.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 8
• 2010

Yuuta's kouhai Madoka used to be short, cute and agreeable but now he's just short. Without a job, constantly cheating on his girlfriends and with no place to stay, Yuuta is the only one left who's still willing to put up with Madoka's bad attitude while clinging to memory of the adorable kouhai he used to care for. However, when Madoka barges in drunk one night and coerces an unwilling Yuuta into sex will that be the straw that breaks the camel's back, or will it be the start of a new relationship for the two?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2009

One day Hatsuki was hurt on campus and was helped by Watakabe Tatsuyuki, the most famous idol in school. Hatsuki, being gay, secretly fell in love with Watakabe. However, Watakabe doesn't have any interest in Hatsuki until one day when Hatsuki found out the truth about Watakabe's words: "I killed my little brother."

• Vol: 2; Ch: 13
• 2017 - 2020

Akamine and Utsumi are two men linked by a dark past only Utsumi remembers: Akamine raping him six years earlier. But when Utsumi comes to exact his revenge, old wounds are reopened and the two become locked in a cycle of violence, betrayal, longing, and despair.