I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #Beautiful Art(114)

Another uncensored cracktastic hot and hilarious sex adventure from Sera, with a plot pulled straight out of some buttcrack somewhere.

Good stories about mutual attraction and patience in love. These couples wait for each other to be ready. Very realistic, if simple and straightforward, and this gentleness gives them a romantic quality. Kujou Aoi's art is very beautiful, if somewhat traditional.

Who is the D/s in this relationship? A timid-seeming salaryman rents hardcore BDSM porn from the local rental outlet, sparking interest from the clerk.

Multiple emotion-oriented stories about men discovering their attraction to each other in a variety of scenarios and settings, rendered in Minazuki Akira's beautiful art. Gentle-paced and accentuating realism and realization.

Ogata, the stoic bouncer at a flashy danceclub, develops a fascination for Saya, a patron of his club, who always seems to pick up girls without doing anything to them. So far so easy and real, usual Ogeretsu Tanaka. But wait for Chapter Three where plot complications come with a vengeance.

A gorgeous collection of stories by Minezuki Akira: (1) The first story isn't as engaging as the other two. In it, a fast-food manager falls in love at first sight with a proficiency expert sent by the parent company to monitor his shop. (2) A ghost or demon who feeds off of human warmth falls in love with a medicine seller who travels on his mountain during a snowstorm. (3) A sculpture student falls in love with his mentor, an artistic genius who sculpts by touch. The art is so beautiful.

O.o Bizarre plot set up which involves a male harem providing gay sex to the "Haramibara", a special male who can become impregnated and give birth. Aoki Soubi, family-less dude, ends up on Deliverance Island and is raped by 3 wild-eyed brothers, then turns the tables on them. Mpregs' aren't my thing, but kudos to Hashiba Mizu and her editor for sheer ... I dunno, splooge?

Broken arms, broken ribs, this calligrapher needs to start absorbing some calcium to build up his bone density. Of course, then his young cousin would have to find another excuse for letting him jump his bones.

A overstretched and teetering vignette which feels as though the mangaka was working through personal discomfort with certain themes, primarily age disparities between sex partners, one underaged, and straight boys experimenting with gay sex. The set-up of an averted gang-rape, however, is all out-of-proportion as a plot-device means of establishing an adolescent's attraction toward his saviour, compared to the hints of male prostitution which merit barely the bat of an eye. The former wipes out all semblance of realism, but the latter depends on it. The resolution is all mature tenderness, self-awareness and concern, quite the about-switch compared to the initial casualness of the encounter which involves infidelity from both. Is the adult self-aware, or not? Partially, I guess. Is it realistic, or not? Elements of it are, enough to provoke some thinky-thoughts—not particularly profound ones, although better than most yaoi, and certainly enough to reveal that the mangaka shows promise. The art is beautiful. I liked it and would like to see the author do more work, but with the guidance of a very good editor who understands realism and can urge her to discard the more excessive stretches.

Hideami, former reigning host, returns to the home he had left in disgrace long after his father's death, defeated and in debt, to beg money from his rich day-trader of a brother, Yukiya, whom he once raped. It was his father's discovery of this violation that led to his expulsion from home, and he learns that this same father's dying wish was for Yukiya to look after the old home and take care of Hideami. Yukiya's terms for looking after Hideami are increasingly intimate. An authentic and interesting story with a very colourful cast of side-characters.