I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #school life(125)

Hikaru, the gormless older son, is envious of his brother, Hijiro, who seems to surpass him with accomplishments and relationships, without understanding the platonic nature of his friendship with a younger student. The art tends to make all the men look like boys.

A series of short stories about virginal gay boys.

A kindergarten teacher, fresh off the rebound from a partner who's playing straight for the sake of having kids, gets tangled up with a tutor, dumped in an even more humiliating (public) fashion, with a kid in his daycare. The kid has a precocious crush on him. Cue the complications.

A teacher is drawn to a quiet, over-dressed young man in his class who seems to be enduring abuse by fellow classmates. The reality is much, much worse. In fact, it's so bad, pity overwhelms any other feelings at this stage and the cross-dressing aspect feels wrong for all the wrong reasons.

Reluctant seme and red string of fate story with body-warming kink thrown in during a blizzard.

A high school punishment game prank leads to revenge porn blackmail.

A gay student falls for a teacher who harbours potentially embarrassing secrets that aren't nearly as dangerous as the ones the lovestruck student dreams up. A bit of a French farce.

A fellow's inferiority complex with his deformed clownfish. This story veered from light to dark, comedy to drama and back again so quickly, it gave me hiccoughs, and there are quite a few moments of high comedy and intelligence, but I'm not sure I can reconcile the seriousness of the crime, which seems to have been used as a plot device for dramatic intensity, to the slapstick of the opening and the post-climactic resolution. WTF, was that supposed to be a comedy?

Weird story about a man who wants to take revenge on someone who jilted him by getting married to somebody else, but dies first, after getting smucked by a car, coming back as a spook in order to change history ... or is it, destiny?

Besties, Ryuu and Hiroto, have the hots for each other but pretend to like girls instead until one of the girls seems to have a real chance of coming between them. The problem is that Ryuu tends to like getting his way a little too much. Fortunately, Hiroto is no pushover.