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

Series of short stories surrounding a mysterious bartender/magician/sex therapist/male prostitute who mends the broken hearts and relationships of gay couples using illusions and hypnosis.

Jun's secret crush on Hayato is fulfilled and his heart is overflowing with bliss, until Hayato's former lover returns and it seems as though Jun is being pushed out. Must he passively accept this turn of events? What intrigue is behind the reappearance of Hayato's former flame? A bittersweet romance compounded by communication problems and insecurities.

This one is all about men's boobs and the trouble a guy can (and should) get into for dissing them.

Mitsuya was always chasing after his brother and his brother's friend, Noboru. In time, his feelings for Noboru turned to love and he forced a kiss on him, which was violently rejected. Shocked, Mitsuya shut his heart off from the world until 10 years later, a fateful reunion provokes shattering self-realizations. This story has a maturity and realism that elevates it beyond standard yaoi. The main character is a jerk, but surprisingly sympathetic. One of my all-time favourites!

Sex battle between the Demon King and the Hero, who are like a switched-at-birth idiot couple.

Onodera has little patience for players, and when he starts working as an instructor at an art college, that's exactly what he thinks of Higa Rikamura, the sculpture instructor whose eye he's caught. Higa proposes a wager where the first person to fall in love bottoms, but things end up taking a serious turn when an anonymous stalker threatens and preys on Onodera. There are some very beautiful drawings in this manga, but it looks like it will never be finished.

Tsuge Kazuma is severely beaten and left to bleed out on a public street where nobody stops to help him except Tsuge, who brings him home and cleans him up. He is smitten by Tsuge and wants to make a meaningful contribution to his life, especially when their boss absconds with the company's bankroll, but he has no specialized training or job skills which allow him to be more upstanding in that regard. Suzuki Tsuuta deals with this fraught subject with a very light approach.

A side story to Yaoi Epic Yattaraneeze! Chisato, a high fashion hairdresser, still bickers with his production co. lover, Kanae, but finally manages to assert autonomy over his career decisions. Of course, this sets him up as a target for revenge from a villain from his past, but it turns out he doesn't need Kanae to do everything for him after all. There is some mild kink, but this is a plot-based action story involving yakuza and whimsical fashion models.