I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #doctor(8)

I enjoy this manga, but Shirotani is so vulnerable, I hold my breath during every new installment of the serial, as though he would shatter into a million pieces and blow away. I also have to chill and let the transference triggers roll off because—hey! fantasy. I do hope it isn't the sort of 'psychological' story that leaves him even worse off than when the story started. Is that too much to ask?

After a tragic mistake involving a colleague, Yousuke decides to take up the physician's practice in the Japanese Alps. There, he is forced to take up residence in the home of Kazuhiro, who seems unsociable and difficult. As Yousuke gets to know him, though, he discovers that Kazuhiro's past has left him with difficulties coping with being alone or in enclosed spaces. Yousuke decides to meet the challenge of being a doctor in every sense, and healing this strange man. A good story about how things are not what they appear on the surface. A cute community of people surrounds and supports Yousuke and Kazuhiro.

Tanihara owns and runs a shabby corner smoke shop and confectionary and takes care of Chisuzu, the very cute daughter of his ex-wife. Older, careworn and hemmed in by responsibilities and circumstances, Tanihara has no hopes for the future, no dreams left, no thoughts that there may be someone out there who could love him. That is, until he meets Dr. Takafumi Saji, the physician who has taken over the local pediatric clinic, who happens to be gay and who is attracted to Tanihara's 'type'. A mature and easy-going story about real adult men. I liked it better than its prequel, Yume Musubi, Koi Musubi.

Childhood friends: one's a doctor, the other's a host who visits him to get his booboos patched up. On one such occasion, the doctor casually mentions he has a girlfriend which sends the host off in a fit and the result is a formulaic romance story trope.

Abuse-trope soap opera about a doctor, Motoki, with his own private clinic, who believes that he is in a one-sided love affair with a yakuza enforcer, Kashima, because Kashima is cold, arrogant and abusive toward him. A visit from Kashima's underlings gives Motoki some hope, but is it false? Kirishima Tamaki, like Tamaki Wren, has a particular drawing style in which her men seem to have strangely flat facial features, even in the midst of emotional upheaval. But it is a stylistic element, not an inability to draw.

A cornea transplant leads to an entirely new existential paradigm for a young man, who abandons his fiancée, and their planned-out life together, to chase the doctor who performed his surgery to Norway. The corneas belonged to the doctor's former lover, but the spookier, supernatural elements of the story are less important than the man's self-realization.

The story of a young assassin and the doctor, foresworn from his own violent past, who disarms him.

Hideo and Tomohisa, the two sweet characters we first met in Kimi to Parade, now share a sweet life together as lovers when their busy schedules allow them to meet up, but the couple must go through some heartbreak together.