Life in Smokey Blue

Kanade Shinichiro, a working adult living in Tokyo, has decided to hide his homosexuality and never fall in love again due to bitter memories from his school days. One day, he reunites with his high school best friend, Mashiro Kosuke, who he once had a "special" crush on. After meeting for the first time in six years, the two face their pasts and begin to move forward while re-examining themselves. A heartwarming boys' love story about two people who sometimes hurt each other but also clumsily love each other.

Kazuma, back in Tokyo after returning from America, reunites with his middle school friend Ren, now the top designer at their company. It’s their first meeting in 10 years since an abrupt farewell. Ren was Kazuma’s best friend and first love, but he avoids discussing their past, fearing rejection due to his feelings for Kazuma. Despite this, the two reconnect one night.

Both are japanese BL about a bit older, moody writer and his new assistant who only came to help because of some favor to pay back but it develops into something more sexual with feelings very quick.

The Novelist / The Pornographer has a lot of parts and some people are confused about the order, so here is how it aired:
1. The Novelist (season 1)
2. Mood Indigo (season 2) (some say to watch this first but it chronologically came after Novelist and contains the backstory of characters that you are not supposed to know yet in Novelist ok? it is mainly a prequel but also has parts that play after Novelist, so it is also a sequel)
3. Spring Life (short movie)
4. The Novelist / Pornographer: Playback (movie)
5. Continued Spring Life (also short movie)

Onoe Satoshi is a reporter for Dash!, a gossip magazine famous for its celeb scandal stories. The magazine owes its success to its stakeout teams, who catch stars in the act. When Satoshi is paired with the sloppy photographer Kaburagi Motoharu, the two immediately clash. Satoshi prides himself on his writing and ethics, while Motoharu is careless and rude. But as they try to nab the biggest scoop, their rivalry turns into something more, and they start developing feelings for each other.

Azuma Sakutaro is a 38-year-old gay man who is currently unemployed. In the past, he worked as an ace pharmaceutical sales representative, but when his performance began to decline in his mid-thirties, he became increasingly anxious as people around him moved forward with marriage or career changes. Feeling left behind, he eventually reached his mental and physical limits and suddenly resigned. Now he lives at his sister’s house, spending his days sleeping late and going out at night.

One evening at a gay bar, Sakutaro is nearly forced into a hotel by a man he just met. At that moment, he is helped by Kuji Shizuka, a former coworker and rival from his pharmaceutical company days. Eight years earlier, the two had competed as top sales representatives at the same company, and on the day Kuji left the company, they spent a single night together.

Kuji now works as a medical translator and lives a different life from before. Their unexpected reunion after eight years brings their once-sealed, one-time relationship back to the surface, setting their lives in motion again as they reconnect.

Azuma Sakutaro is a 38-year-old gay man who is currently unemployed. In the past, he worked as an ace pharmaceutical sales representative, but when his performance began to decline in his mid-thirties, he became increasingly anxious as people around him moved forward with marriage or career changes. Feeling left behind, he eventually reached his mental and physical limits and suddenly resigned. Now he lives at his sister’s house, spending his days sleeping late and going out at night.

One evening at a gay bar, Sakutaro is nearly forced into a hotel by a man he just met. At that moment, he is helped by Kuji Shizuka, a former coworker and rival from his pharmaceutical company days. Eight years earlier, the two had competed as top sales representatives at the same company, and on the day Kuji left the company, they spent a single night together.

Kuji now works as a medical translator and lives a different life from before. Their unexpected reunion after eight years brings their once-sealed, one-time relationship back to the surface, setting their lives in motion again as they reconnect.

Ootani and Tachibana have been inseparable since high school. Now that they're in college, they live together, they're happy and everything seems perfect. But their little world is disrupted when they meet an old high school friend, Yuki, who seems to have a crush on Tachibana, making Ootani feel jealous and insecure. Will Tachibana really choose him over a pretty girl?

Azuma Sakutaro is a 38-year-old gay man who is currently unemployed. In the past, he worked as an ace pharmaceutical sales representative, but when his performance began to decline in his mid-thirties, he became increasingly anxious as people around him moved forward with marriage or career changes. Feeling left behind, he eventually reached his mental and physical limits and suddenly resigned. Now he lives at his sister’s house, spending his days sleeping late and going out at night.

One evening at a gay bar, Sakutaro is nearly forced into a hotel by a man he just met. At that moment, he is helped by Kuji Shizuka, a former coworker and rival from his pharmaceutical company days. Eight years earlier, the two had competed as top sales representatives at the same company, and on the day Kuji left the company, they spent a single night together.

Kuji now works as a medical translator and lives a different life from before. Their unexpected reunion after eight years brings their once-sealed, one-time relationship back to the surface, setting their lives in motion again as they reconnect.

Azuma Sakutaro is a 38-year-old gay man who is currently unemployed. In the past, he worked as an ace pharmaceutical sales representative, but when his performance began to decline in his mid-thirties, he became increasingly anxious as people around him moved forward with marriage or career changes. Feeling left behind, he eventually reached his mental and physical limits and suddenly resigned. Now he lives at his sister’s house, spending his days sleeping late and going out at night.

One evening at a gay bar, Sakutaro is nearly forced into a hotel by a man he just met. At that moment, he is helped by Kuji Shizuka, a former coworker and rival from his pharmaceutical company days. Eight years earlier, the two had competed as top sales representatives at the same company, and on the day Kuji left the company, they spent a single night together.

Kuji now works as a medical translator and lives a different life from before. Their unexpected reunion after eight years brings their once-sealed, one-time relationship back to the surface, setting their lives in motion again as they reconnect.

Azuma Sakutaro is a 38-year-old gay man who is currently unemployed. In the past, he worked as an ace pharmaceutical sales representative, but when his performance began to decline in his mid-thirties, he became increasingly anxious as people around him moved forward with marriage or career changes. Feeling left behind, he eventually reached his mental and physical limits and suddenly resigned. Now he lives at his sister’s house, spending his days sleeping late and going out at night.

One evening at a gay bar, Sakutaro is nearly forced into a hotel by a man he just met. At that moment, he is helped by Kuji Shizuka, a former coworker and rival from his pharmaceutical company days. Eight years earlier, the two had competed as top sales representatives at the same company, and on the day Kuji left the company, they spent a single night together.

Kuji now works as a medical translator and lives a different life from before. Their unexpected reunion after eight years brings their once-sealed, one-time relationship back to the surface, setting their lives in motion again as they reconnect.

Azuma Sakutaro is a 38-year-old gay man who is currently unemployed. In the past, he worked as an ace pharmaceutical sales representative, but when his performance began to decline in his mid-thirties, he became increasingly anxious as people around him moved forward with marriage or career changes. Feeling left behind, he eventually reached his mental and physical limits and suddenly resigned. Now he lives at his sister’s house, spending his days sleeping late and going out at night.

One evening at a gay bar, Sakutaro is nearly forced into a hotel by a man he just met. At that moment, he is helped by Kuji Shizuka, a former coworker and rival from his pharmaceutical company days. Eight years earlier, the two had competed as top sales representatives at the same company, and on the day Kuji left the company, they spent a single night together.

Kuji now works as a medical translator and lives a different life from before. Their unexpected reunion after eight years brings their once-sealed, one-time relationship back to the surface, setting their lives in motion again as they reconnect.

Azuma Sakutaro is a 38-year-old gay man who is currently unemployed. In the past, he worked as an ace pharmaceutical sales representative, but when his performance began to decline in his mid-thirties, he became increasingly anxious as people around him moved forward with marriage or career changes. Feeling left behind, he eventually reached his mental and physical limits and suddenly resigned. Now he lives at his sister’s house, spending his days sleeping late and going out at night.

One evening at a gay bar, Sakutaro is nearly forced into a hotel by a man he just met. At that moment, he is helped by Kuji Shizuka, a former coworker and rival from his pharmaceutical company days. Eight years earlier, the two had competed as top sales representatives at the same company, and on the day Kuji left the company, they spent a single night together.

Kuji now works as a medical translator and lives a different life from before. Their unexpected reunion after eight years brings their once-sealed, one-time relationship back to the surface, setting their lives in motion again as they reconnect.

Azuma Sakutaro is a 38-year-old gay man who is currently unemployed. In the past, he worked as an ace pharmaceutical sales representative, but when his performance began to decline in his mid-thirties, he became increasingly anxious as people around him moved forward with marriage or career changes. Feeling left behind, he eventually reached his mental and physical limits and suddenly resigned. Now he lives at his sister’s house, spending his days sleeping late and going out at night.

One evening at a gay bar, Sakutaro is nearly forced into a hotel by a man he just met. At that moment, he is helped by Kuji Shizuka, a former coworker and rival from his pharmaceutical company days. Eight years earlier, the two had competed as top sales representatives at the same company, and on the day Kuji left the company, they spent a single night together.

Kuji now works as a medical translator and lives a different life from before. Their unexpected reunion after eight years brings their once-sealed, one-time relationship back to the surface, setting their lives in motion again as they reconnect.

same main male lead actor. In one they are co-workers, in the other they are ex rival co-worker. both about midlife crisis