[COMPLETED] The Syllabus to Your Heart
Genre: Romantic Comedy / Yaoi / Supernatural / Slice of Life
Setting: Tokyo, Japan (Prestigious Meiji-Imperial University)
βSynopsis
βKisaragi Stell is a man of simple, albeit rigid, dreams. A beloved Literature Professor at a top-tier Tokyo university, he has spent his twenties convinced that a "traditional" life is his only path to happiness: a stable job, a beautiful wife, and a house filled with children. There's just one problem-he's thirty today, he's never been in a relationship, and he's still a virgin.
βOn the eve of his thirtieth birthday, after a desperate rant to a mysterious "Mind Reader" in a neon-drenched Shinjuku alleyway, Stell wakes up with a terrifying "gift." If he makes physical contact with someone, he can hear their deepest, most private thoughts.
βStell's plan is to use this power to finally understand women and find his "destined wife." But the universe has a sense of humor. While navigating the crowded university halls, he accidentally slams into Miyabi Ken, the Physics Department's resident "Ice King."
βKen is everything Stell isn't: cold, hyper-logical, and notoriously critical of Stell's "emotional" teaching style. They have been "rivals" for five years, or so Stell thought. But the moment their skin touches, the mental noise is deafening. Instead of an insult, Stell hears a voice trembling with decades of suppressed longing:
β"He's right here. He's so close I can smell the vanilla on his skin. I've loved him for five years, and he'll never know. I have to stay cold... if I melt now, I'll lose him forever."
βNow, Stell is trapped in a faculty lounge nightmare. To his face, Ken Miyabi is a robot who critiques his syllabus. In his head, Ken is a tragic poet who worships the ground Stell walks on.