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Our Family, Now and Forever Vol. 1
An endearing Boys’ Love story about changing ways, love, and family.
Naguru once lived a rough life as the leader of a gang, getting into fights in order to protect his friends. His loved ones all admired his strength and kindness, but also worried that his dangerous lifestyle would get him killed. When Hirao first met Naguru, he didn’t know about the man’s gang affiliation: all Hirao knew in that moment was that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with Naguru.
Hirao’s love for Naguru changes him, and eventually the rough and tumble gang leader becomes a father, with the two men raising their adorable son, Towa! Come join the loving family of three in this new BL series!
Naguru once lived a rough life as the leader of a gang, getting into fights in order to protect his friends. His loved ones all admired his strength and kindness, but also worried that his dangerous lifestyle would get him killed. When Hirao first met Naguru, he didn’t know about the man’s gang affiliation: all Hirao knew in that moment was that he wanted to spend the rest of his life with Naguru.
Hirao’s love for Naguru changes him, and eventually the rough and tumble gang leader becomes a father, with the two men raising their adorable son, Towa! Come join the loving family of three in this new BL series!
184 pages, Paperback
First published February 15, 2023
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December 22, 2025
This was v cute and loved the art work! While there were some parts that were a bit confusing and another part that I didn't like, they weren't enough to put a damper on my enjoyment.
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December 24, 2025this started off sooo good but the random time jumps were very annoying. one minute we’re in the present and then randomly we’re in the past with no warning :/
October 10, 2023
Ngay từ mở đầu mình cảm thấy đây là một câu chuyện dễ thương. Sự ngây ngô, hiếu kỳ và nghịch ngợm của cậu nhóc Towa rất đáng yêu. Quyển này có yếu tố LGBT parents, cặp đôi Herapi và Narugu sống cùng cậu nhóc Towa, và họ là một gia đình. Có nhiều khoảnh khắc nhẹ nhàng, lãng mạn và hài hước, mình cũng thích cách mọi người xung quanh đối xử với gia đình họ rất tử tế, cậu nhóc Towa cũng không thắc mắc hay bị ảnh hưởng sự tiêu cực nào - điều đó rất đẹp đối với một đứa trẻ.
Mình cũng thích nét vẽ của tác giả, nó thật sự đẹp, chi tiết. Ngay cả cơ thể cũng được vẽ rất đẹp.
Mình rất thích yếu tố về gia đình LGBT và nét vẽ của quyển này, nhưng thực sự mà nói mình không thích cách khai thác của tác giả. Chap 1 mở đầu rất ổn, nhưng sau đó mọi thứ diễn ra rất khó chịu về việc quá khứ của Naguru thế nào, làm sao mà Naguru quen biết với Herapi, mọi thứ chỉ khiến mình gượng và chẳng thấy thỏa đáng. Có ai mới gặp một người nào đó lần đầu rồi nói "Xin hãy kết hôn với tôi" không? :0 Càng đi sâu vào quá khứ của cặp đôi mình chẳng thấy hứng thú, vì nó được khai thác rất nông, mình sau đó cũng không thấy muốn biết thêm. Bên cạnh đó, câu chuyện về nỗi niềm của Naguru lại không rõ ràng, việc Naguri xuất thân từ đảo biển, đến Tokyo cảm thấy cô đơn thì liên quan thế nào? Cách tác giả liên kết câu chuyện của Naguru để tạo ra lý do lập gia đình cùng Herapi quá yếu. Đến cuối mọi thứ nhường lại cho cảnh H, và mình nghĩ có thể tập 2 sẽ giải đáp về thân phận của nhóc Towa.
Mình cũng thích nét vẽ của tác giả, nó thật sự đẹp, chi tiết. Ngay cả cơ thể cũng được vẽ rất đẹp.
Mình rất thích yếu tố về gia đình LGBT và nét vẽ của quyển này, nhưng thực sự mà nói mình không thích cách khai thác của tác giả. Chap 1 mở đầu rất ổn, nhưng sau đó mọi thứ diễn ra rất khó chịu về việc quá khứ của Naguru thế nào, làm sao mà Naguru quen biết với Herapi, mọi thứ chỉ khiến mình gượng và chẳng thấy thỏa đáng. Có ai mới gặp một người nào đó lần đầu rồi nói "Xin hãy kết hôn với tôi" không? :0 Càng đi sâu vào quá khứ của cặp đôi mình chẳng thấy hứng thú, vì nó được khai thác rất nông, mình sau đó cũng không thấy muốn biết thêm. Bên cạnh đó, câu chuyện về nỗi niềm của Naguru lại không rõ ràng, việc Naguri xuất thân từ đảo biển, đến Tokyo cảm thấy cô đơn thì liên quan thế nào? Cách tác giả liên kết câu chuyện của Naguru để tạo ra lý do lập gia đình cùng Herapi quá yếu. Đến cuối mọi thứ nhường lại cho cảnh H, và mình nghĩ có thể tập 2 sẽ giải đáp về thân phận của nhóc Towa.
December 18, 2025
OH I LOVE THIS!!!!! THIS MADE ME FEEL WARM AND GOOEY!!! ohhh my gosh i can see that it’s also the first volume so im so excited to learn more about them!! Defs one of my fave mangas this year!!! The story jumps around a lot but u can tell what was the past via Hirao’s fringe length hahaha
February 22, 2025
This was so incredibly cute. I can't believe none of Hakase's works have been picked up in English?? This follows a small blended family. It's honestly super wholesome with the mildest of angst regarding Naguru's motorcycle gang. It's just two boyfriends living a calm life and raising their son together. I keep waiting for something traumatic to pop up because it's too wholesome, but so far it's been pretty calm. It could change in book 2 though.
The story is a little confusing because you don't know where tf Towa came from. At first I was like okay this is omegaverse? Because when you first meet Naguru he's wearing a choker so I thought it was like a collar like they do in omegaverse. Towa kind of looks like Hirao too so I was like okay wholesome family content. Then I was like okay not omegaverse so Naguru got this kid from somewhere and Hirao loves Naguru and helps him take care of his son. Naguru also seemed to have a run in with someone from his past who could've been a woman so I was like oh maybe they had a moment and he ended up taking the kid? But THEN there's a scene where Hirao shows up at Naguru's door with a child and he doesn't know what to do because he won't stop crying so Towa is Hirao's which makes sense because he looks more like him, but like when did he get a kid?? So in conclusion I have no fucking clue where Towa came from and I'm hoping we find out in the second book. I'm expecting him to be like a Hirao's brother or nephew or something like that.
Anyway this story was super fucking cute with the right amount of smut. I'm still waiting for something sad to pop up, but so far it's just been wholesome fluff and I enjoyed it.
The story is a little confusing because you don't know where tf Towa came from. At first I was like okay this is omegaverse? Because when you first meet Naguru he's wearing a choker so I thought it was like a collar like they do in omegaverse. Towa kind of looks like Hirao too so I was like okay wholesome family content. Then I was like okay not omegaverse so Naguru got this kid from somewhere and Hirao loves Naguru and helps him take care of his son. Naguru also seemed to have a run in with someone from his past who could've been a woman so I was like oh maybe they had a moment and he ended up taking the kid? But THEN there's a scene where Hirao shows up at Naguru's door with a child and he doesn't know what to do because he won't stop crying so Towa is Hirao's which makes sense because he looks more like him, but like when did he get a kid?? So in conclusion I have no fucking clue where Towa came from and I'm hoping we find out in the second book. I'm expecting him to be like a Hirao's brother or nephew or something like that.
Anyway this story was super fucking cute with the right amount of smut. I'm still waiting for something sad to pop up, but so far it's just been wholesome fluff and I enjoyed it.
November 27, 2025
Aw, this is so cute. I love reading BLs about family/found family. I like how they’re already together when the story starts too. Ya don’t see that too often!
November 29, 2025
Wow. This was super duper extra cute. The couple... The baby... The family... Damn I'm hooked!
November 10, 2025
Love, love, love this. Unbearably sweet. I have a huge soft spot for BL about family, especially ones like this. I need 10 more volumes of domestic bliss STAT
September 17, 2024
Una història de found family molt entranyable, però misteriosa alhora amb fils sense resoldre, però que ho compensa per la sensació de plenitud de 3 personatges que encaixen a la perfecció. De les criatures més adorables que he vist mai en un BL ❤️❤️❤️
November 15, 2025
This was beautiful. Romantic, warm, and life affirming with gorgeous art that communicates so much with even just light and shading. There are a few unanswered questions that necessitate a sequel, but overall this could stand alone. I highly recommend it!
November 23, 2025
This book ripped my heart out, warmed it up and gently placed it back into my chest. My heart and soul just melted from the sweetness of this volume. Im excited for volume 2 😭😭😭
July 23, 2023
slice of life of a gay couple with a child ?
sign me up !
that was so cute !!
sign me up !
that was so cute !!
November 17, 2025
I'll have to think more about this one. If it wasn't a continuing series, I'd rate it pretty low, because the story really didn't make much sense. No idea yet if the second volume will resolve any of that?
The structure itself is really jarring. We start in the present, with Naguru (former biker delinquent, current restaurant chef) and Herapi (formerly rich? college student?) raising a precocious 3 year old, Towa. Through a series of disjointed flashbacks, we discover that Herapi had been working in a cafe when Naguru's biker gang walked in, and he pretty much fell in love at first sight.
I didn't understand the "shaft" joke - maybe a Japanese pun that wasn't translated/localized well? I assume Naguru was ordering an actual item, which Herapi misunderstood as a come on, but Herapi asking a complete stranger to marry him felt really out of nowhere. Naguru went along with it for a while, seemingly just in casual interest, with Herapi being a lot more hooked on him.
Their relationship fractured after a while because Herapi was worried about Naguru sliding more and more towards a yakuza path, even winding up in jail after attacking a police officer to protect one of his gang members. Naguru absolutely refuses to leave the gang - his Tokyo family - and tells Herapi he'll have to beat him in a fight if he wants him to stop.
So Herapi takes a hiatus from school, much to his family's dismay if they'd found out, in order to train as a boxer so he can fight Naguru. ? But then when the day comes, he tells Naguru he loves him too much to hurt him, and Naguru says "that's what I love about you" and then punches him in the face and leaves him for good.
Until Herapi suddenly shows up at Naguru's front door with a mysterious baby, Towa, who isn't his but whom he's suddenly, inexplicably, taking care of. (This felt like omegaverse for a while, but they're all very clear that neither Naguru nor Herapi gave birth to Towa and that it isn't a thing.)
The worst part, honestly, is that Naguru looks at baby Towa and decides, okay yes, this is the life I want, and agrees to quit the gang, work in his former gang friend's restaurant (that childhood friend had already left the gang without him), and live with Herapi. Which...makes it seem like he loves Towa and having a child more than he actually loves Herapi himself.
I do like the art, and their family of three is very adorable. Herapi and Naguru also have really good chemistry. But something about the story just feels a little off. I can't decide if a second volume is likely to fix it or just frustrate me more, so I'll have to think about whether I want to keep my preorder. I'm not sure the second volume has actually even been written yet.
The structure itself is really jarring. We start in the present, with Naguru (former biker delinquent, current restaurant chef) and Herapi (formerly rich? college student?) raising a precocious 3 year old, Towa. Through a series of disjointed flashbacks, we discover that Herapi had been working in a cafe when Naguru's biker gang walked in, and he pretty much fell in love at first sight.
I didn't understand the "shaft" joke - maybe a Japanese pun that wasn't translated/localized well? I assume Naguru was ordering an actual item, which Herapi misunderstood as a come on, but Herapi asking a complete stranger to marry him felt really out of nowhere. Naguru went along with it for a while, seemingly just in casual interest, with Herapi being a lot more hooked on him.
Their relationship fractured after a while because Herapi was worried about Naguru sliding more and more towards a yakuza path, even winding up in jail after attacking a police officer to protect one of his gang members. Naguru absolutely refuses to leave the gang - his Tokyo family - and tells Herapi he'll have to beat him in a fight if he wants him to stop.
So Herapi takes a hiatus from school, much to his family's dismay if they'd found out, in order to train as a boxer so he can fight Naguru. ? But then when the day comes, he tells Naguru he loves him too much to hurt him, and Naguru says "that's what I love about you" and then punches him in the face and leaves him for good.
Until Herapi suddenly shows up at Naguru's front door with a mysterious baby, Towa, who isn't his but whom he's suddenly, inexplicably, taking care of. (This felt like omegaverse for a while, but they're all very clear that neither Naguru nor Herapi gave birth to Towa and that it isn't a thing.)
The worst part, honestly, is that Naguru looks at baby Towa and decides, okay yes, this is the life I want, and agrees to quit the gang, work in his former gang friend's restaurant (that childhood friend had already left the gang without him), and live with Herapi. Which...makes it seem like he loves Towa and having a child more than he actually loves Herapi himself.
I do like the art, and their family of three is very adorable. Herapi and Naguru also have really good chemistry. But something about the story just feels a little off. I can't decide if a second volume is likely to fix it or just frustrate me more, so I'll have to think about whether I want to keep my preorder. I'm not sure the second volume has actually even been written yet.
August 4, 2024
Je ne savais pas à quoi m'attendre et finalement j'ai beaucoup apprécié l'histoire et les personnages que j'ai trouvé atypique !
April 27, 2025
J’adore l’histoire! J’aime le mélange de vie de famille avec les rappels des souvenirs de leur première rencontre, l’époque où Naguru faisait parti d’un gang de motards un peu voyous. J’aime la personnalité opposé des deux protagonistes et aussi le mystère autour de l’enfant qu’ils ont accueilli comme le leur. J’ai vraiment hâte à la suite.
J’ai mis 4 étoiles parceque je trouvais l’histoire un peu saccadé par moment. Mais rien de fou à faire ne pas apprécier l’histoire
J’ai mis 4 étoiles parceque je trouvais l’histoire un peu saccadé par moment. Mais rien de fou à faire ne pas apprécier l’histoire
September 4, 2025
y'a rien
on passe très vite au récit de la rencontre des deux adultes qui prend genre la moitié du bouquin, on a presque aucun moment de vie "famille" et la relation entre les deux gars et leur fils est vraiment vide (vu qu'il y a rien pour la montrer et l'approfondir !!!)
si on s'attends à une tranche de vie familiale d'un couple homoparental et leur enfant, c'est pas du tout vers ce manga qu'il faut se tourner
on passe très vite au récit de la rencontre des deux adultes qui prend genre la moitié du bouquin, on a presque aucun moment de vie "famille" et la relation entre les deux gars et leur fils est vraiment vide (vu qu'il y a rien pour la montrer et l'approfondir !!!)
si on s'attends à une tranche de vie familiale d'un couple homoparental et leur enfant, c'est pas du tout vers ce manga qu'il faut se tourner
November 19, 2025
Quedé con más preguntas que respuestas.
¿de donde se robaron ese bebé? jajajaja
Es un manga interesante, porque juega con el misterio de contarte la historia de esta familia, moviendose constantemente entre el pasado y el presente. Y la cosa es... siempre te deja con una duda sobre el pasado y supongo que eso se irá mostrando en un siguiente tomo.
Espero que la siguiente parte salga en un futuro cercano.
¿de donde se robaron ese bebé? jajajaja
Es un manga interesante, porque juega con el misterio de contarte la historia de esta familia, moviendose constantemente entre el pasado y el presente. Y la cosa es... siempre te deja con una duda sobre el pasado y supongo que eso se irá mostrando en un siguiente tomo.
Espero que la siguiente parte salga en un futuro cercano.
November 23, 2025
*Added note: I expected this to be Omegaverse, but finding out it's actually 'Found Family' is really sweet♡
I'm really loving all the characters and the love they have for one another.
I would say that it feels a bit jumbled sometimes. There's a combination of flashbacks and present-time chapters, but the way they are placed throughout this volume made the pacing feel a bit off.
Even so! I already know I'll be picking up volume 2, just cause of this cute found family of 3♡
I'm really loving all the characters and the love they have for one another.
I would say that it feels a bit jumbled sometimes. There's a combination of flashbacks and present-time chapters, but the way they are placed throughout this volume made the pacing feel a bit off.
Even so! I already know I'll be picking up volume 2, just cause of this cute found family of 3♡
November 20, 2025
this was so sweet and cute and evoked so many different emotions in me and I'm so sad we might never see more of them and have answers about the characters because it's been on hiatus for years 💔
either way it's not a bad standalone volume, it just leaves you with questions about details. it's still a really wonderful read, especially if you love found family
(will write a better review later)
either way it's not a bad standalone volume, it just leaves you with questions about details. it's still a really wonderful read, especially if you love found family
(will write a better review later)
April 10, 2023
Titre: Family now and forever
August 31, 2023
Esto es super tierno ｡◕‿◕｡
4.5/5 ✨
November 21, 2023
"Hey. I'm pretty sure, I was in Naguru's tummy. Am I right?"
That is so wholesome! Hoping to see from this wonderful family!
That is so wholesome! Hoping to see from this wonderful family!
February 9, 2024
No se me hizo que la pareja tuviera un increíble desarrollo pero la relación de los protagonistas con su bebé fue súper tierna.
February 15, 2024
Soooo cute!
(Uncensored, hot smex scenes)
(Uncensored, hot smex scenes)
March 17, 2024
Ugh, such a cute family. It's sweet with just the perfect amount of angst. Wholesome af.
May 26, 2024
😭👊🏻💕. No hay mucho que decir, fue realmente bello. Me gustaría ver más o al menos unos extras.
September 29, 2025
The whole dynamics is cuteee >\\<
November 23, 2025
I bought this one because there was a 3x2 sale and I loved it. Imagine if I hadn't bought it! It was freaky and sweet and made me cry - I loved the baby too. 10/10, will buy the next one.
November 25, 2025
the art is very good!! It's a cute story, and I'm looking forward to more (there's gotta be more, I have questions that need answers!)
December 1, 2025
3.75 stars
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