I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #Yamato Nase(2)

Famous television idol scares the bejeezus out of a neighbour by prowling through his garden and around the apartment complex in seriously fishy disguises. Neighbour doesn't watch the telly, ergo doesn't know who famous guy is. His lack of awestruck obsequiousness makes him attractive, but what happens when he finally finds out the actor really is all that? As with all Yamato Nase's work, the uke is obvious and looks very child-like, but the story seems to be headed toward light comedy romp.

Shinohara Satoru has moved from the country (and newly wed sister) to a 6-tatami mat apartment in Tokyo in order to achieve his dreams of independence. Izumi Yuushin, his new neighbour, tests that resolve to the limits as he is aware of all Satoru's shortcomings on the personal responsibility scale. How's that? Well, Yuushin is a free spirited kind of guy himself, and moved away from his own doting mother in order to perform as an actor in a theatre troupe, and it isn't as though he wasn't in that same boat himself, once. The gay attraction business is just a side effect from being caring individuals, but the free-spirited acting stuff throws enough doubt into this idiot couple's miso soup that there is actually some conflict, resolution and plot to go along with this little family soap opera.