I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #mature(23)

Two short stories and a spin-off. (1) A hedge-fund manager, who always tries to buy off his sexual partners with money, hires a detective to find his former sex-friend in order to reclaim an exorbitant sum he stole. Neither anticipate what happens when they find him. (2) Drinking buddies turn into lovers, but can't seem to abandon the competitive streak in bed. (3) The lover who absconded with the hedge-fund manager's petty cash comes crashing into his past when a yakuza enforcer shows up and asks him to resume his duties as the heir. To put him off, the lover gives him a task he thinks is well beyond him: to make love until he comes. Interesting and with an authentic vibe, but not particularly realistic. Monden Akika has a thing for Ojii-samas and scruffy men.

Udou's bitterness and breezy cruelty towards others is rooted in an unrequited love for Kiyotake, a basketball teammate from high school. His misery and jealousy has prompted him to commit despicable acts against the very person he loved, twice. Now, in college, karma has caught up to him and his feelings are revealed in all their rawness, but what does Kiyotake have to say about them? Here is how one man's kindness can redeem someone who has fallen so completely. Ogawa Chise's stories often go over the top into outright madness, but this story hits all the right emotional notes without going too far.

A series of stories involving different obsessions and kinks: a fetish for hair,selfish demands over a lover's time, a photography fetish, the fear of being revealed as a homosexual, and emerging from a horrifying past through prison and cheating the yakuza.