Metalhead Next Door Mamita (2025)

This manga tells the story of two neighborsa shy metalhead and a broke graduate studentwho slowly learn about each other over shared meals, hoping for something more. Impoverished graduate student Kento nearly freezes to death outside his new, cheap, unheated apartment during a blizzard. He is saved by his neighbor Soushi, a quiet and somewhat frightening young man dressed entirely in black. Although Soushi gives off an aura that says keep away, his eyes, hidden behind long rocker hair, seem to plead for something else. Over the following year, the two share meals, but as time passes, closeted Kento finds it increasingly difficult to ignore his growing feelings. Will he maintain the peaceful, happy times he has grown to love, or risk everything for the possibility of something more?