![]() ![]() One day a young child runs up to him at the park and ends up sharing his onigiri. It makes him feel very uncomfortable.īecause of this he typically buys a ready made lunch at the convenience store and eats that and his homemade onigiri (rice balls) by himself. Being ostracized by these groups has caused him to have issues with eating with people. In Our Dining Table Yutaka is a lonely young man who doesn’t fit in with his family or his coworkers. He really introduced me to the whole concept of boys’ love stories and I still haven’t read many at all. I think it is a way to have a non-threatening love story that also doesn’t feel like you’re straying from your marriage.Īs with almost any manga I read I borrowed it from my husband because he reads far more of it (and of romance) than I do. It’s an oddly specific category that is usually more cute than sexy, more romantic than erotic. It is a boys’ love story which is a subgenre of manga and anime about male/male relationships that are written by women, for women. Our Dining Table by Mita Ori is a super adorable manga about one young man who meets another young man because of his even cuter little brother. ![]()
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