Renai Ruby no Tadashii Furikata

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What, no review to Renai Ruby whatsoever? I guess I´ll make one then.
This manga is a collection of two short stories. In the first one, the focus is given on a coincidental meeting of two classmates from highschool. Suzuki, being tormented by Natsuo for long 3 years, is purposely abusing older Natsuo´s trust and plans to break up with him after their one-month anniversary. But as the time goes, will he still be able to do that..?
Second story focuses on relationship of two colleagues. Shifting between friends and lovers, due to the past experiences one of them is unable to open up and ... deepen his trust towards the other. But Shuuna is not giving up easily and slowly, but surely uses his charm and humour to persuade the latter one.
Art was outstanding, but what I liked the most were characters. All four were very different and despite the shortness of the story, they kind of grew-up on me. Not to mention that both stories have a lot of comedy elements within them. They are just sweet, romantic and any fan of BL will surely like them. For me, it´s solid 9/10.

The first story was good and ended cute, the second story...there was a lot left unanswered and unresolved which could have easily been resolved in the extra chapters they added at the end.


The 1st story focuses around a kid who was a nerd in high school who got bullied/bugged by a troublemaker who was sorta dumb, he grows up and changes his appearance and gains confidence (not too much since we see later on he still feels scared of the 4 delinquents who would use his gardening club room) He ends up coincidentally meeting the main bully/troublemaker who picked on him in high school ... and gets asked out by him thus he agrees while planning to break his heart after making him think he loved him.
That story ended cute and they communicate afterwards and the seme gets consent. There is a TW scene where when he told the uke about him being the one who he bullied he did almost force himself on the uke but he gets slapped and he stops so that TW incase anyone can't read something like that. There is no rape though.

The second story on the other hand was the one with unanswered questions, first off the uke doesn't smile like in high school and when the seme asks him why it makes it seem like he got SA'd or something but then he tells the seme he can't smile because he used to physically abuse his ex boyfriend however before he had said he had only had anal sex in high school so that confuses the reader because we see him physically abusing a man which makes you think for a moment maybe he is lying and it was him who got hurt which we later see him having a flashback of him getting physically bullied in high school.In the flashback he is told they hate his smile, and we see someone kicking him (in his point of view- 1st person point of view) but then the extra chapters at the end we see he was the 1st stories uke friend in high school so that leaves the reader confused because in the first story he was one of the bullies-delinquents. So that part is confusing and makes you wonder what exactly made him lose his ability to laugh and smile like before. Then also at the end of the chapter we get extras where you see his bf-the seme look at the guy next to him in that smiling pic and it's the uke from the first story and he wonders if that was the guy he used to have sex with in high school but we are told in the first chapter the uke from the first story is a virgin. So again we are left to wonder if the uke from the second story got SA'd and just never talks about it and it's an unresolved issue. That leaves the second story feeling confusing and incomplete.