I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #romance(460)

A sweet but insecure assistant shopkeeper struggles with communicating his true feelings to his lover.

Two students, hot-shot first year, Sekiya, and the lesser talented, Nagashima, who have been vying for the attention of their popular sempai, Tatsumi, at the archery club, stir up some school daze drama and are forced to hold hands in public to make up for it. This has the side effect of making them fall for each other. Interesting side story about Tatsumi's attraction to the faculty member who supervises their club. Not bad stories.

A short story about time travel used to avert a tragedy. Nowhere close to the quality of Ike Reibun's Not Equal, but not an awful story either. The lack of conflict and stock supernatural plot structure takes away from the romance, and got in the way at times.

Series of standard yaoi oneshots.

Kuju Siam presents another intricate story on Shinto themes, this time involving the Inugashi, powerful dog monads who take priests as mistresses in order to purify the souls of dogs. Aoi stumbles upon one such priest, Hakumei, and uncovers a connection to the spirit world that he never imagined, unleashing secrets and reactions from those who love and serve these supernatural beings. This is a complicated tale with a fairly realistic style of exposition which takes a little time to unstitch, but it's well-worth the effort.

Romance buds between Tetsu, who grows unorthodox vegetables, and Yui, the local chef who transforms his produce into dishes at the restaurant, egged on by 'Secondary Character', the good fairy restaurant helper, who writes satires on Yui in a blog, and cockblocked by Evil Persian Cat who knows Yui is allergic to him. Oh, and there are recipes in each chapter. MWUAHHahahahaha!

After collapsing from work exhaustion, Nagisa returns to the fishing village he abandoned after Minato, the friend he loved out of a trio of highschool mates, drowned to death in an infamous pond, where he sets up in his dead grandfather's derelict house, and reunites with the remaining friend, Kaito. The story starts with ruminations on divinity and existential angst.

Twins compete for academic superiority with an unusual prize at stake.

Interesting story with beautiful art, told from the third-person perspective of Kunishige Yuu, a middle-schooler in a sort of not-quite-absolutely-platonic love with his beautiful would-be model school-chum, Umeko, and carefully raised by a very responsible older brother, Gaku. After stealing and using Gaku's invitation to a high-art photography exhibition by the famous Hodaka Kurushima in order to impress Umeko, Yuu discovers that his brother has a secret from his past. So far a very satisfying read!

Sota and Koga's relationship didn't have an auspicious start. Sota dumped some used fishbowl water out the classroom window, inadvertantly soaking Koga and prompting the boy to make some rude remarks about his cat, who happened to sneak into Koga's house for the express purpose of killing his goldfish, a gift from someone he loved. Sota is a kindhearted boy, if not the most courageous fellow on the planet, and his attempts at atonement open some new possibilities for Koga, whose life has been more constricted than most, through no other fault than bad luck. This is a sweet and intelligent shounen ai which shows how life opens up when a person takes a few risks.