This manga is composed of three short, but sweet love stories. There was a big lack of character development due to the length, but it was a pleasant read nonetheless.

Thank you so much to IPG and NetGalley for providing me with an e-ARC; it is greatly appreciated.

The NetGalley description for this manga does not reveal that this is actually three short stories, so I was quite surprised by that ! The first follows two co-workers, where one is a single dad. (These are the characters featured on the cover) The second is about a college student and a high school senior, and the last follows two college students attending the same university.

In my opinion the first story is the best, and feels the most fleshed out of all three, but obviously they all suffer from not being able to go into much detail about the characters themselves. These first two stories were a lot more graphic than I was expecting, but that's on me for not checking the manga's rating beforehand. It made the first story feel a bit weird though, where we'd be in the middle of an intimate scene in one panel, and the next is the child.

These next two stories we barely got any context for the characters, so it was difficult to care about them. Adding the insta-love aspect to them made the relationships develop at the speed of light. The formula for all three was generally the same as well, so there wasn't enough deviation from the first story for me to be as invested in these other two.

I think this manga would have been more successful sticking to one story, as the art is cute, but there just isn't enough substance to justify picking this one up.

This one was really sweet! It is three books in one which I enjoyed, but I also felt like the stories and characters could have done with more content/development. All in all though, this was a very wholesome and easy read.

It'd be a clear 5 star read for a teen me but now? Nope. I found the story a bit more simplistic for the subject matter. That's fine, It's a mini manga and angst is not required Everytime, but three story with a very similar base story

<b> 1. i like you but Don't know how to act about it,
2.oh shit little misunderstanding,
3. gosh you love me too...
4.HEA </b>

It seemed repetitive.

First story, <b> Would you like to be a family </b> is my personal fav from this lot. It's about a wallflower (Again not explored properly) and his boss from work and his son forming a relationship that blurs the line of friendship and love. I love the art style as well.

<b> Kuma's Feeling </b> is the second story which follows a confused guy seeking for love in a senior. My problem is showing Kuma naive and inexperience author tried to make readers sympathized for him, now he did stalk a guy, forced Himself on him, after not receiving a reciprocation his reaction was pretty manipulative . I found his character downright creepy. So when his love interest finally submitted, I could not care less. It's sorta unhealthy.

<b> First Love Psychology </b> the last one is another similar toned story With a psychology student and a freshmen in the center. Fluff is there, swoon is there but It's too simple for my liking.

All in all, It's a very weird assembly of stories. I wish last two were more like the titular one. 3 star rounded up. <b> Thanks Netgalley & Tokyopop for sending me an arc copy </b>

Would You Like To Be A Family? is a cute boys' love manga that consists of shorter stories. The main story is about Takemura who's gay and was harshly rejected in school, and thus he is now quite antisocial. At work he meets Natsui, they get to know one another and Natsui is a parent too, although not the biological father to a boy. So we have a heartwarming family story here. There's also school stories where boys find each other and whatnot. The manga is steady and small in a sense, which works nicely and the tranquility is something you can almost touch. The atmosphere is peaceful, but contains lots of feelings too. I just wish Koyama had concentrated on the main story more, since all the stories are quite short, but every single of them them would've worked as their own longer story.

The art looks nice and Koyama's style reminds me of Isaku Natsume a lot. It's simple and angular in a way, but curious and eager at the same time. Would You Like To Be A Family? is a steady one and makes you feel warm inside. The kid approach is realistic and good too and that's hard to do well especially when we are talking about BL. So points for that. A soft and cute manga surely.

For my first foray into BL manga, I'm glad it steered more towards the cute and chaste side of things; the first and third stories stuck with me more (in terms of the characters, their meet-cutes and the trajectory of their feelings), but it's a good mix of fun and fluff for anyone seeking a solid first step into the genre.

Thank you to NetGalley and TOKYOPOP for kindly passing on this ARC! 💫

“Would you like to be a family?” is a stand-alone manga both funny and comforting about love and family. Takemura is a loner whose life intertwined with Natsui and his little child, giving him the chance to realize what it means to have a family and live with someone that love and cherish you.

The story revolves particularly around Takemura and his feelings, giving very few pages to the development of the characters and their falling in love.
Generally, the story seemed rushed because after the first couple of chapters it switched to two other characters, Kodama and Harada, leaving only a couple of pages at the end of the story for the first couple, Takemura and Natsui.

I would have love to read more of the two main characters’ story, their background, their relationship and even the experience of starting to live with someone new. All in all, it’s a great story with good drawings, but it seems rushed in many parts.

I really enjoyed the first part of the manga where it's the family couple! It was so cute and I just wanted more of them for the entire manga. I didn't really care the the second or third couple in this book. I think the author was trying to put too many couples in one book and it wasn't really making me like the characters or get attached to them. I would love to read more of the first couple. I thought it was pretty cute!

Fun and sweet, fluffy if lacking a bit in development/depth, but showing a development in the genre that I appreciate

When I was in my teens I watched and read a lot in this genre, most significantly Junjou Romantica. Time has progressed and in this bundling of three stories we not only have a gay family with and adoptive child (a bit light on the whole problems of single parenting, but really different nonetheless), but also a story wherein the tropes concerning relationships (a.k.a. The taller, older, experienced person being on top and in the lead) is switched around.

I’d enjoyed seeing how Takemura and Natsui their relation, from the first story, turned out, and I feel that something like that would have added a bit more depth to the other two stories as well.

The last story stands out least, with me quite constantly thinking: what kind of classes do a third year psychology student and a business school major have together?
Also it’s nice to see there is almost no backlash from society to the respective relationships in this bundle, given a vibe of some kind of progress.

Enjoyable and a 3.5 stars rounded down from me.

I liked the first story about coworkers Takemura and Natsui but I wish that the characters and their relationship was more developed. I didn't feel like I got to know them and the change in their relationship was very sudden, plus I thought it was strange that they didn't talk about what happened until weeks later. While I didn't feel like I connected to the characters, I did like the tropes of sunny single dad x grumpy workaholic coworker. I'm happy that despite their differences they made their own family and happily ever after. As for the other stories, I felt pretty meh about them. They are even shorter than the first story and, for me, lacked emotional impact.

This manga has three stories. Neither one interacts with the other, so they can stand alone.
The love scenes are on the tame side, which I am totally fine with. The author focuses more on the characters and plot than random, raunchy, explicit sex scenes.
The stories are more wholesome than complicated or dark.
Takemura is a loner. He prefers to keep to himself, a lesson he learned in high school. Take has no interest in socializing until a colleague at work pesters him. Natsui is Take’s opposite. He is well liked by all of his co-workers and peers. Natsui is also a single father. The two men run into each other in the supermarket, and Natsui invites Take over for dinner.
Natsui is a sweetheart! He refuses to allow Takemura to alienate himself. Natsui tries to include Take in all social gatherings, at work and outside of work.
I feel for Takemura. The incident at school scarred him from putting himself out there. He just does not want to experience that kind of hurt again. I like how Natsui’s influence is slowly helping Take become more approachable.
This is my favorite story of the whole manga. I guess I like the single father finding love with a man angle.

Kuma’s curt demeanor and scowly appearance makes people assume he is a delinquent. He is a third-year at high school. Yagi is an elite college student. He breaks up with his boyfriend in front of Kuma and his boyfriend’s younger brother. Something about Yagi’s expression haunts Kuma. He vows to make Yagi forget his ex and to make him happy.
The story felt a little one-sided to me. I wish it would have focused on Yagi, enough to give me a feel about his character. Mainly, the story felt like it was all about Kuma and his accepting his feelings.

Harada is a friendly and outgoing first-year college student. He is studying business. Kodama is a reserved and standoffish third-year college student. He studies psychology. Harada insists on becoming friends with Kodama after helping the older male when he fell ill. Kodama cannot help but psychoanalyze Harada’s “supposed” feelings.
I simply could not get into this story. It just fell flat to me.

I was so excited for this one!

The premise of a little family coming together and a shy guy, Takemura, finding his forever family with Natsui and his son seemed so cute but it just ended up being a barely fleshed out insta-love story along with others that weren’t even as engaging. I read the whole book and can’t even tell you what I liked about the other stories because the characters were so bland.

Skip this one.

Thank you to Netgalley and TOKYOPOP for letting me read this arc in each for an honest review.

*Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this arc in exchange for an honest review*

This was a sweet, albeit disjointed and forgettable, BL anthology. The manga primarily follows Takemura, a grumpy workaholic who is used to keeping others at a distance as he falls for his coworker Masaki, who also struggles with loneliness while taking care of his adoptive son Mori on his own. I wish this solely anthology could have just focused on the first story with Take & Masaki to allow further relationship development, but since each story was so short I really couldn’t get myself to connect to any one particular story or character. I did think the jealous/competitive dynamic between Takemura and was super cute and a fun though.

The premise of this reminded me of Our Dining Table by Ori Miya, but while the premise was similar they’re different stories.

This was a short collection of three different stories. Would You Like to Be a Family? was a cute workplace romance that also had elements of single parent trope. I liked the development between Natsui and Takemura, and how they became a family with Mori.

Kuma's Feelings was also really cute with a high school senior realizing he likes a college student and wanting to make him happy. It was all around really sweet, especially with how Kuma came across scary and like a hoodlum, but is really very sweet and spends a lot of time petting cats.

The third story was The First Love Psychology, and was probably my least favorite, though it was still cute. It was an interesting play on miscommunication and wondering how romantic and platonic love differ. I think I would have liked to see if explored a little more.

Overall this was a cute manga that I had fun reading and was a nice, light break from the day.

I enjoyed reading this book but there really wasn't enough meat to the story. There was a main story and then some mini-stories about the character's past that I were rather not there in place of more of the main plot. It was also explicit in a way that I thought was just, wrong for the story? I'm not against NSFW comics but dang where did that even come from?

Three stories (and a brief follow up to the title story) of men finding love.

In the first two coworkers come together as the more outgoing draws out the withdrawn and make me him a part of his little family.

Kuma was my fav. He appears shady, but is a sincere, caring high school student who develops a crush on his friend’s brother’s ex.

In the last story, set in college, again another more reserved character is drawn out by a charming, open guy.

They each feature the classic misunderstandings and miscommunication common in boy’s love stories. Each is pretty short so the development happens quickly but it’s not over the top or rushed.

I'd like to thank NetGalley and the publisher for providing me a review copy of this manga in exchange for an honest review.

Would you Like to Be a Family? follows two different couples in two different short stories.
What is similar about these two unrelated couples is that they both follow the grumpy x sunshine trope.
The stories are incredibly heartwarming and full of fluff~ fluff galore~ it's fluff all around. With a tiny bit of smut, nothing explicit though.

The characters in the first story are both adults and they are work colleagues. In the second story the characters are in college and of course, they go to the same one. To be perfectly honest, I enjoyed the first storyline a lot more than the second one. I guess that's a personal preference.
The dialogues aren't the cleverest nor the smoothest, but they make the story work.
Also the art style was nice and clean. I enjoyed it quite a bit.

I recommend this manga to anyone who's into yaoi fluff and found family.

This manga is so cute, and I love the characters! I especially love slice of life and family manga, so this was perfect. It was warm and fuzzy, and I loved the dynamic between the couple and the adopted boy. It was my favorite story, but there were three couples that are in the form of mini stories. While I enjoyed each section, my favorite was definitely the family oriented one at the beginning.

This manga is awesome!

There are two stories following different characters.

The one at the beginning is an adult romance and the other that follows a young adult.

The genre is yaoi. However, it's beginner friendly.

I love their stories. The characters are realistic.

The artstyle is clean and the art sequence a treat to the eyes. It's easy to follow and well done.

Happy endings and lots of good feelings.

Thank you author/artist and the publisher for the advance reading copy.

Great art and story!! The characters were cute iand so was the love story will definitely read more of this series!!!