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About a Love song
Ein Liebeslied über verbotene Gefühle und die Sehnsucht nach Nähe
Der Musiker Hoshina ist schlecht darin, Liebeslieder zu schreiben, obwohl er sich sehnlichst wünscht, endlich mit seiner Musik Erfolg zu haben. Doch seit Kurzem fühlt er sich von der erfrischenden Art seines Arbeitskollegen Seto, immer mehr angezogen. Nach einem heftigen Wolkenbruch nimmt Hoshina den völlig durchnässten Seto mit nach Hause verbringt die Nacht mit ihm. Doch am nächsten Morgen stellt Hoshina fest, dass Seto jünger ist, als er gedacht hatte, und wird von Reue geplagt. Währenddessen wachsen Setos Gefühle für seinen melancholischen Kollegen, der trotz seiner inneren Konflikte immer versucht, aufrichtig zu bleiben.
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1 von 4 Flammen. Erotik spielt in diesem Boys-Love-Titel eine kleinere Rolle. Ideal für Einsteiger*innen.EinzelbandEin herzerwärmendes Liebesdrama zwischen zwei Männern, die zwischen Vernunft und Sehnsucht abwägen müssen.
Der Musiker Hoshina ist schlecht darin, Liebeslieder zu schreiben, obwohl er sich sehnlichst wünscht, endlich mit seiner Musik Erfolg zu haben. Doch seit Kurzem fühlt er sich von der erfrischenden Art seines Arbeitskollegen Seto, immer mehr angezogen. Nach einem heftigen Wolkenbruch nimmt Hoshina den völlig durchnässten Seto mit nach Hause verbringt die Nacht mit ihm. Doch am nächsten Morgen stellt Hoshina fest, dass Seto jünger ist, als er gedacht hatte, und wird von Reue geplagt. Währenddessen wachsen Setos Gefühle für seinen melancholischen Kollegen, der trotz seiner inneren Konflikte immer versucht, aufrichtig zu bleiben.
Weitere
1 von 4 Flammen. Erotik spielt in diesem Boys-Love-Titel eine kleinere Rolle. Ideal für Einsteiger*innen.EinzelbandEin herzerwärmendes Liebesdrama zwischen zwei Männern, die zwischen Vernunft und Sehnsucht abwägen müssen.
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April 27, 2024
cw - age gap (~ 10/15y)
that was adorbs !!! love how mitzuki is mature and wants seto to be something and not kept from becoming someone before actually be with him
that was adorbs !!! love how mitzuki is mature and wants seto to be something and not kept from becoming someone before actually be with him
December 16, 2025
I wish I would've read the description of this one before starting it. I am so tired of high school student x adult romances. I kept reading because Hoshina seemed really guilty about his feelings after learning Seto's age, but it was just used to cause more drama.
April 21, 2025
wenn ich aufhören soll, hau mir eine rein
Die Geschichte war toll - es handelte sich um eine Slow Burn Romance mit dem Trope Age Gap. Die Diskussionen rund um den Altersunterschied war omnipräsent.
Meiner Meinung nach, war es ein bisschen viel hin und her. Ein klein wenig weniger Drama wäre auch absolut ausreichend gewesen. Wohingegen der Schluss sich um 180 Grad gedreht hat und meiner Ansicht nach eher unpassend erschien. Als wäre das Happy Ende hingeklatscht worden.
About a Love Song las ich, da es sich wie White Liar um einen Standalone handelte. Der Artstyle gefiel mir sehr gut.
Die Geschichte war toll - es handelte sich um eine Slow Burn Romance mit dem Trope Age Gap. Die Diskussionen rund um den Altersunterschied war omnipräsent.
Meiner Meinung nach, war es ein bisschen viel hin und her. Ein klein wenig weniger Drama wäre auch absolut ausreichend gewesen. Wohingegen der Schluss sich um 180 Grad gedreht hat und meiner Ansicht nach eher unpassend erschien. Als wäre das Happy Ende hingeklatscht worden.
About a Love Song las ich, da es sich wie White Liar um einen Standalone handelte. Der Artstyle gefiel mir sehr gut.
April 27, 2024
Le grooming c’est pas de l’amour mais une emprise psychologique
Le résumé qui dit que ça aborde le consentement ???? Svp les editeurices faites votre travail correctement
Le résumé qui dit que ça aborde le consentement ???? Svp les editeurices faites votre travail correctement
December 12, 2025
Mostly I'm very confused by the Volume 1 on the cover, because I can't find anything on Japanese sites that indicates this is an ongoing series. I certainly wouldn't mind more...but it's a little hard to judge something that may or may not be a complete tale where it stands now.
It does mostly feel complete. There's a big time jump at the end - 4 years - so I'm not entirely sure what a sequel would do, because I really don't think the in between time would be that interesting of a story to explore. (It'd be four years of friendship and no physical contact (fine) and very likely with Hoshina dating other guys in the meantime (not fine) because a rock star is not going be a saint...)
I have to wonder if Tokyopop just messed up with their labeling. It wouldn't be the first time an English publisher (*coughSevenSeas*) got something very wrong about one of their licenses, simply by making assumptions about it based on the mangaka's author work. I'll just keep an eye out and be happy to revisit this world if more crops up.
This was a very interesting story that's probably a bit closer to 3 stars, but I'm bumping it up because I really like Natsuno's writing style. There's a complex emotional depth that comes out in At 25:00 in Akasaka that's handled similarly here.
Hoshina is a 28 year old singer and songwriter in a band he's had since high school, much to his parents' dismay. They'd always assumed it was a youthful hobby that he'd get over - his dad is apparently some medical bigshot and would've wanted him to follow in his footsteps. His band isn't huge, but it's got a loyal set of fans, and he's able to make a decent living from it plus a part-time job at a convenience store.
One of his coworkers is a younger guy whose presence brings a lot of quiet joy to Hoshina's life. They don't know each other too well, but Hoshina absently finds Seto attractive and is drawn to him enough to take him home when he's standing outside in the rain, unwilling to go home.
They end up sleeping together, even though Hoshina tries his best to have some self-control (see again: rockstar behavior), and in the morning he finds out...Seto is a decade younger and not actually the college student he'd thought he was.
This sets off a whole progression of events that are frustrating for both of them, with Hoshina genuinely actually trying his best now to distance himself from Seto before he sways his life too far in any one direction. Seto is still young enough to look up to him and potentially make life choices he'd regret later on, or simply grow out of...leaving Hoshina alone when he did.
Seto very reluctantly allows himself to be pushed away, despite his deep annoyance at Hoshina telling him on the one hand that the decisions he makes now about his career and his future are his own and are worth sticking to...while not trusting him to make up his own mind about how he feels about Hoshina.
Reasonable thought processes for both of them, honestly, and I was kind of expecting a much bigger timeskip when we first see Seto scowling about Hoshina's band's breakout success.
This is one of the bigger issues I have with Natsuno's other series, actually: the way pretty major projects like movies or tv shows seem to have in a rather condensed amount of time. Maybe tv gets filmed super fast in Japan, but I'm still not sure how Hoshina's band could go viral from his love song, have maybe that same song (?) be the theme for a tv drama, then do a whole rush of interviews and promotions and televised music festival appearances, all in a single year.
...During which Seto is still in high school? I guess maybe he'd met Hoshina at the very start of his senior year, but it truly would've made a lot more sense for him to have been partway through college by the time he saw Hoshina's band making it big.
Honestly, at first I'd thought it was maybe even a time jump to Seto as a working adult and teacher, the dream he'd been afraid to tell his teachers and parents with their high expectations for him. But Natsuno probably didn't want to make a story that angsty that would separate the two of them for that long. I get that. Some of the structure just felt a little wobbly.
Still, I liked the characters, including the side ones - Hoshina's bandmates and Seto's mother - and I appreciate how much they were wrangling with their feelings and dreams. It's the sort of stuff Natsuno does well, and I'll always give their stories a try.
It does mostly feel complete. There's a big time jump at the end - 4 years - so I'm not entirely sure what a sequel would do, because I really don't think the in between time would be that interesting of a story to explore. (It'd be four years of friendship and no physical contact (fine) and very likely with Hoshina dating other guys in the meantime (not fine) because a rock star is not going be a saint...)
I have to wonder if Tokyopop just messed up with their labeling. It wouldn't be the first time an English publisher (*coughSevenSeas*) got something very wrong about one of their licenses, simply by making assumptions about it based on the mangaka's author work. I'll just keep an eye out and be happy to revisit this world if more crops up.
This was a very interesting story that's probably a bit closer to 3 stars, but I'm bumping it up because I really like Natsuno's writing style. There's a complex emotional depth that comes out in At 25:00 in Akasaka that's handled similarly here.
Hoshina is a 28 year old singer and songwriter in a band he's had since high school, much to his parents' dismay. They'd always assumed it was a youthful hobby that he'd get over - his dad is apparently some medical bigshot and would've wanted him to follow in his footsteps. His band isn't huge, but it's got a loyal set of fans, and he's able to make a decent living from it plus a part-time job at a convenience store.
One of his coworkers is a younger guy whose presence brings a lot of quiet joy to Hoshina's life. They don't know each other too well, but Hoshina absently finds Seto attractive and is drawn to him enough to take him home when he's standing outside in the rain, unwilling to go home.
They end up sleeping together, even though Hoshina tries his best to have some self-control (see again: rockstar behavior), and in the morning he finds out...Seto is a decade younger and not actually the college student he'd thought he was.
This sets off a whole progression of events that are frustrating for both of them, with Hoshina genuinely actually trying his best now to distance himself from Seto before he sways his life too far in any one direction. Seto is still young enough to look up to him and potentially make life choices he'd regret later on, or simply grow out of...leaving Hoshina alone when he did.
Seto very reluctantly allows himself to be pushed away, despite his deep annoyance at Hoshina telling him on the one hand that the decisions he makes now about his career and his future are his own and are worth sticking to...while not trusting him to make up his own mind about how he feels about Hoshina.
Reasonable thought processes for both of them, honestly, and I was kind of expecting a much bigger timeskip when we first see Seto scowling about Hoshina's band's breakout success.
This is one of the bigger issues I have with Natsuno's other series, actually: the way pretty major projects like movies or tv shows seem to have in a rather condensed amount of time. Maybe tv gets filmed super fast in Japan, but I'm still not sure how Hoshina's band could go viral from his love song, have maybe that same song (?) be the theme for a tv drama, then do a whole rush of interviews and promotions and televised music festival appearances, all in a single year.
...During which Seto is still in high school? I guess maybe he'd met Hoshina at the very start of his senior year, but it truly would've made a lot more sense for him to have been partway through college by the time he saw Hoshina's band making it big.
Honestly, at first I'd thought it was maybe even a time jump to Seto as a working adult and teacher, the dream he'd been afraid to tell his teachers and parents with their high expectations for him. But Natsuno probably didn't want to make a story that angsty that would separate the two of them for that long. I get that. Some of the structure just felt a little wobbly.
Still, I liked the characters, including the side ones - Hoshina's bandmates and Seto's mother - and I appreciate how much they were wrangling with their feelings and dreams. It's the sort of stuff Natsuno does well, and I'll always give their stories a try.
December 10, 2025
Hoshino needs to make up his mind and stop acting out or claiming he can't control himself. On the one side, he is genuinely trying to do what is right, but on the other, he ends up essentially stringing Seto along and giving him small pieces of false hope only to dash them until he figures things out. The age gap is a little strange as well, so it's understandable, though Seto does seem to know what he wants and is legal as he puts it. Though there isn't much detail towards the end, it seems the boys are together for some time before Hoshino can be convinced to speak his feelings and actually act on them. Despite all of the emotional drama, Seto seems to be exactly the wake up call Hoshino needs to pull his life together and focus on his success.
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December 18, 2025
Rating: 3.5*
Not usually one for teen x adult especially a 10 year age gap, but this one did it well. The adult acknowledges the fact that he could be taking advantage of this kid and tries to put distance between them. They don't really come together again until he's older and even then it's not immediate. I enjoyed the writing and I'm interested in seeing where the story will go.
Not usually one for teen x adult especially a 10 year age gap, but this one did it well. The adult acknowledges the fact that he could be taking advantage of this kid and tries to put distance between them. They don't really come together again until he's older and even then it's not immediate. I enjoyed the writing and I'm interested in seeing where the story will go.
October 19, 2025
3.5 stars ⭐️
November 30, 2025
something soft for a quick read, not a whole lot of spice (if you just ignore the bonus chapter 🤭). would definitely recommend heheheh
December 4, 2025
I appreciate that the older half of this couple has zero interest in pursuing the relationship until the younger half has time to grow up. Eighteen may be legal, but it's still very young.
December 19, 2025
very sweet
Want to read
June 29, 2025ชอบเพราะว่าพระเอกเล่นดนตรีแล้วมีฉากที่นายเอกเห็นพระเอกเล่นดนตรีแล้วเริ่มชอบ? แต่ว่านายเอกยังเป็นเด็กม.ปลาย โดยที่ตอนแรกพระเอกคิดว่านายเอก็เป็นนักศึกษาและเริ่มความสัมพันธ์กันตอนจะจบเล่มตอนวันจบการศึกษา
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June 26, 2025
Cute and sweet. I didn't mind the age gap at all. I didn't see any grooming in this book and who the fuck cares, because it's fiction! I love to read about things I would detest & abhor in fiction because it is not reality. It is absolutely okay to like the fact that an underage character has sex or falls in love with an adult character. I love age gap romance, because I like to see the how they handle the generational gap and how it brings them closer. I wouldn't have cared if Seto-kun was 14!
This BL is just mid for me. I just wanted a but more and the translations for it was off.
This BL is just mid for me. I just wanted a but more and the translations for it was off.
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