I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #Yakuza(23)

This rollicking action thriller starts when undercover narcotics officer, Leaguer, accidently stumbles into evil drug lord Cider's den and is saved by a good cover story and the quick thinking of Yakuma, secret-assassin-come-male-prostitute, who's satisfying Cider's kink for public sex. Futuristic setting with robotic drones and a bombed-out skid row, this story never manages to seem heavy or oppressive due to the light dialogue and chemistry between Leaguer and Yakuma and their sassy side-kicks. It reminds me a little of Weiss Kreuz, although it never takes itself too seriously.

Blech. Tatsumi, the empty successor to the Komicho of a Yakuza gang, tries to run away in the arms of his male lover, but it requires accepting him on his sadistic terms, which include hardcore beatings and gangrape for sh*ts and giggles. There is a little jockeying with the yakuza brother, for no other reason, it seems, other than to throw in some incest so void of electrical charge, it can`t even muster a volt of shock, but mostly this is a shallow, dead-eyed, cold fish of a story that offers no reward for reading it. And unless you get off on beatings, it`s boring as a dry wank.

Rip-roaring suspense thriller and urban detective drama as a blackmailer saves a smelly derelict from some hoodlums and, recognizing him as someone from high school with whom he has a score to settle, takes him home. But who is this man, really?

Prequel to Rouge. The electrifying story of how Yamato, a waka, nurtures fealty from his fellow yakuza, then saves the junior student, Kaga Ai, from sexual exploitation at the hands of a gang of senior toughs. This explosive story treats sexual assault fairly realistically—no subliminal codification for ravishment fantasies here. But the cruelty is redeemed by heroism. Another great story by Katsuro Komachi. READ THIS!.

Katsura Komachi's amazing story of the romance between Nagato, a tough transfer student who ends up leading a gang of delinquents at the rough-and-ready high school he now attends, and Kaga Ai, a yakuza henchman whose loyalty to the waka, Yamato, is unshakeable after Yamato saved him from white slavery. The story is slow-paced and surprisingly authentic given the volatile subject matter and how gangsters tend to be tarted up into Cupcake Yakuza Brigades when yaoi gets through with them. It also treats sexual assault and exploitation fairly realistically (not the slightest subliminal codification for the purpose of fetish gratification at all.) In all, it's a sweet, incredibly fluffy tale of first love. One of my favourites.

Two short stories and a spin-off. (1) A hedge-fund manager, who always tries to buy off his sexual partners with money, hires a detective to find his former sex-friend in order to reclaim an exorbitant sum he stole. Neither anticipate what happens when they find him. (2) Drinking buddies turn into lovers, but can't seem to abandon the competitive streak in bed. (3) The lover who absconded with the hedge-fund manager's petty cash comes crashing into his past when a yakuza enforcer shows up and asks him to resume his duties as the heir. To put him off, the lover gives him a task he thinks is well beyond him: to make love until he comes. Interesting and with an authentic vibe, but not particularly realistic. Monden Akika has a thing for Ojii-samas and scruffy men.

Monden Akika loves scruffy oyaji-sans, and Detective Yagi is one scruffy old gay detective nursing a guilty conscience for feeling aroused at the sight of Amemiya, his kouhai, being violated by a psychopath, even though he put the man behind bars. Other stories in the series include a timid and straight-laced reporter who never owned up to his crush on a less inhibited colleague and the heir to a yakuza family and his very scruffy bodyguard.

Ryouichi, abandoned by his male lover, runs from debt collectors to a tea shop where he is permitted to sit and rest. Unbeknownst to him, he has wandered right into the spider's web.

Alternate reality where shapeshifting animals live alongside human beings, only animals belong to yakuza gangs. A human vigilante tries to bring down these gangs with his secret ally. BUT mostly it's just a reason to have rough sex.

Sumikaya Kei is a former AV actor and crew member who has cut all ties to the past and works the box office at the local cinema theatre complex. This is where he attracts the attention of Okazaki, a young man of apparently good standing, who thinks he's beautiful. Sumikaya agrees to be sex friends, but Okazaki wants more. This comes to a head when Sumikaya's ex-boyfriend, the treacherous AV Director who used to secretly film their lovemaking and sell the tapes, reappears, followed by an even more sinister figure who requires inordinate courage to confront, setting up the story for an interesting suspense thriller.