I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #childhood friends(68)

Ohara and Kawai, childhood friends and schoolmates joined by a mutual love for astronomy, discover too late that their friendship turned into love. Or is it too late? Ohara, chained to his father's debts, seems determined to protect Kawai from his passion, but Kawai won't cooperate.

Roommates Suga and Hara are such friends that people call them Sugahara, and they seem determined to keep it that way in order not to ruin their friendship. One day, however, masturbatis interruptis happens ... and now it's about misunderstandings, miscommunication and missed opportunities. So standard plot device.

A young man's heart reacts viscerally to the unexpected news that his longtime friend and drinking buddy is married. It continues to go through different paroxyms as new revelations crop up. A beautifully rendered oneshot that makes me feel so happy for this couple!

Series of vignettes based around the unlikely romance between cupcake yakuza loan shark enforcer and hetero, Asahi, and Kanna, an old schoolmate who ended up as a male prostitute in Soapland. Loneliness is the key to their cohabitation, but there isn't much indication of it, or why it draws them to each other. It's a premise I enjoy, and it would've been nice to see more of it in the story prior to their getting it on.

Manic-paced soap opera, the first 2 volumes in a long series of family dramedies, with the main emphasis on comedy, about the Obinata family of orphaned boys—except for the oldest, their sister Shima, a fire-breathing tigress of a journalist off on the hunt for wild news stories on a continent where she's likely to find some doozies, and who provides the pivotal engine that gets this plot driving, a marriage, followed in rapid succession by a desertion—and the two new Lost Boys who land in their The-Whole-World-is-Gay Never-Neverland constructed just for fujoshii. This one focuses on the love story between the eldest "Lost Boys", Taiga and Shuu, whose reticence to merge is informed by past hurt. Boisterous and noisy as any household of boys would probably be, there is just enough realism and slice-of-life to keep it interesting. The art is old school. Some of the scans are hard to read, but it's important to get this one under your belt if you plan to read the series. My favourite, so far, is the final one of the series, Hanaya no Nakai de. Respect is due to Sugano Akira for generating enough story and character to keep this series going on so long. It's up there with Kodaka Kazuma for massive volumes of entertaining boy love.

Cutesy-wootsy story about high school buddies, Otona and Osanai. Otona is hovering around puberty and wants to fall in love and be taken seriously as an adult. Osanai drops hints like crazy, but Otona is pretty slow on the uptake. And along comes Mr. Charisma, the new teacher, for added rivalry complications.

Two-shot by Chiba Ryouko featuring teachers, one sloppy, one neat, who work alongside each other and gradually fall in love—in the latter case, aided and abetted by one colleague's attractive smell. The second story involves neighbours and childhood friends, one weak, the other stronger, who have always been attracted to each other, but never knew. The stronger (and much younger) boy is always getting into fights, and it's sad to see his injuries.

Usual storyline about the high school otaku dork who transforms into a lovely swan when his glasses are removed, and who falls for his childhood friend, a looker who tries to protect him from those psychic slings and arrows of self-absorbed teenager types.

Not too exciting story about childhood friends, one of whom has jealous fits when the other gets a girlfriend, but can't be arsed to behave himself when there is no threat on the scene.

Hot Love in Cold Russia. Sensitive special ops spy meets cupcake yakuza for kidnapping and captivity sex. Scratches the uniform fetish itch.