I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #childhood friend(3)

Calorie

Complete | Sakuragi Yaya | 2002 released

"I want all your firsts." Jun steps forward when Toshiyuki finally gives up his unrequited gay love for his heterosexual childhood friend, Yasoshira. The rest of the story explores how they overcome their reticence and have a real relationship. Sakuragi Yaya understands and depicts emotions clearly. This is one of her best, a yaoi classic.

Mahoroba Days

Complete | chishanomi | 2000 released

Interesting story about a Shangri-La style city run by deer men-spirit-type things. Since they are primarily animals, they are ruled by nature and go into a rutting season. Since they have human capacity for transcendence, though, the male deer-men saw off their horns in a ritual prior to rutting so they don't skewer each other. In this story, el supremo deer commander of getting messages from gods doesn't want to mate with all the usual flora and fauna, but has his sights on his regular human-schmuck-roommate-servant guy, who is turning out to be tsundere. Funny and unusual set-up. Let's see where this goes.