I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #school daze(58)

This is Shinju Mayo's first yaoi and it couldn't be more obvious. Take this story, for example, where Mamiya Nagisa, the mediocre math teacher at an all-boys school, is a (shoujo)girl in every sense except the twig-and-berries. His supernatural hetero-suppressing pheromones turn all the boys and men ... LITERALLY ALL the boys and men gay. Gay as Liberace. Gay as pretty and witty. And then they turn into rapists. Now, I don't mind my yaoi rockstars having moments of damsel-in-distressdom. I don't really mind them having shoujo-girly hobbies like baking bacon cookies or embroidering and beading their very own yakuza shoulder holsters, but I do like it if they are actual boys. (And, yes, this review is heavily dosed with irony.)

Cute shounen ai about a boy who can see the red string of fate which ties future love partners together, except his now ties him to another boy.

Hitsuji has fulfilled his dream of becoming a school teacher when a student shows up late with a flashy looking father who he refuses to acknowledge as his father.

(1) A cutesy courtship between a bashful company president and a sunny delivery man. (2) The angel of destiny screws up tying a red thread on the pinky of a lonely 30-year-old virgin so that they can have sex together. (3) A competitive entry-level salesman uses the thought of sexual power over his sempai to aim for first place in the company. This one's quite sexy. (4 and 5) Schoolboy idiot couples. (6) A salaryman, constantly harassed by his Shachou at work, a man who was his sempai at school, decides to turn the tables and accept his offer. (7) The same couple decide to actually do the deed, but end up having hallway sex in front of a mirror. Most of the stories are fairly stock, although the third one seems more memorable to me. I wish there had been a continuation of that one instead.

Cutesy-wootsy story about an otaku's relationship with a classmate with a habit for crossdressing, and his friends from school who get confused over the otaku's seeming unfaithfulness.

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.

Mitya, isolated as a "gaijin", and Asahiko, orphaned and beaten by his previous lover, Mika, meet, fall for each other and begin a torrid affair that blocks out the existence of everyone and everything else. They finally heal each other enough to start opening up to more friendships when Mika returns just to mess things up.

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.