I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #age gap(47)

Hikaru, the gormless older son, is envious of his brother, Hijiro, who seems to surpass him with accomplishments and relationships, without understanding the platonic nature of his friendship with a younger student. The art tends to make all the men look like boys.

Series of short school-centred stories. The last one, involving a tragic past, is the most interesting.

Years after leaving, Asahi returns home to his parent's restaurant in Kanagawa, ostensibly to help out his recently widowed mother, but mainly to heal his own heart which has been shattered by the betrayal of his gay lover in Tokyo. Asahi's mother puts him in charge of looking after professor Yuzuru Togame, who lives in such a state of preoccupation with his research and writing, that he can't be trusted not to walk off a train platform. A night of rebound lovemaking turns out to be a similar sort of platform for these two men who couldn't be further apart in personality, but who complement each other with an amazing intensity. This is one of those wonderful pitch-perfect yaoi treasures!

Arrogant little prick, who we are clearly not meant to like, tries to bully an experienced older actor with a secret dominant side, has his ass handed back to him (used) and is surprised to discover he likes it. Rape-trope yaoi for those with a humiliation/submission kink.

A 29-year-old man, returning to his late mother's house, meets a cross-dressing senior high school boy who doesn't seem at all interested in drag. Upon meeting the boy's mother, the man learns that the outfit is actually a uniform intended to punish the boy for confessing that he is gay. Promising start, but the story slows down after with no apparent climax or resolution around the main conflict, which is—in spite of a red herring about inappropriate age-differences—between the boy and his mother, or rather, the mother and her prejudices about homosexuality.

A tragic backstory underlies a highschooler's methods of thanking adults for general kindness and small acts of generosity. His neighbour, a much older adult salaryman who was on the receiving end, wants to sort that, but isn't sure of his own motivations. Nor is this reader. Is he planning to exploit the teenager, or help him learn to value himself as someone of worth beyond a sex-toy? I assume the mangaka is going for a "love heals all" angle. The realistic responses from a survivor of sexual molestation are worth a mention, just not sure where they are taking this story.

Very thick young man shows up on famous novelist uncle's luxury apartment doorstep to say thanks for support since his parents died, ends up doing major gratitude housekeeping and barely escapes from gratitude surprise buttsexing up until the end of the story.

Heita lives with his retired grandfather in a small rural community boarding house that closed after his grandmother died, while he attends school and looks after the one remaining boarder, Miharu, a university researcher who seems incapable of looking after himself. He has some vaguely realized feelings toward Miharu which he expresses by preparing luxurious bentou and sharing the futon during rainstorms. Meanwhile, Miharu's feelings for Hei-chan are hardly vague, but he is an adult and Heita isn't, and that seems to mean something in this story.