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Faceless Strangers | Eros Unleashed
Last Train Home
Alone in a Crowd…
Content warning: This story contains explicit content and sexual situations that may offend some readers. All depicted characters are 18 years or older.
Mayumi hadn’t been in America for more than a few days, but she was already bored. Good shows, but she could watch them back home. Movies, check. The carriage ride in Central Park was lovely, and seeing the Statue of Liberty was a dream come true, though she’d been disappointed to discover that, without a months-old reservation, glimpsing it from the far shore was as close a look as she was allowed. She’d already seen it like that in a dozen romance films, the framing shot of a dramatic kiss. Boring.
Take away the handsome leading man, replace the bright, sunny sky with dull slate-gray clouds, and there you had it: the Statue of Liberty. Or the story of her life. She couldn’t exactly blame America for that one.
The fans were nice, at least.
Of all her manga titles over the past seven years, the yaoi fantasy about an elf prince and college boy falling in love just had to be the one that caught on in the West. Not the isekai adventures of a computer programmer turned magical-girl heroine or the slice-of-life romance about an overworked librarian finding…