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

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A variety of character-driven short stories with characters graphed according to common sense and ability to study and how they intermingle. Some interesting results. The drama is tempered with realism, even when the story has a supernatural theme..

Series of very realistic short stories on the theme of unrequited love, usually from a gay young man toward a heterosexual young man who is his friend.

A photographer with a fetish for male muscles gloms onto a track-and-field athlete who is self-conscious about his inverted nipples.

An old-school compilation of mainly PWP yaoi short stories drawn in a dated style. The stories aren't bad: (1) A rickshaw driver runs off with a client who turns out to be in denial about having a crush on him for years, (2) Just as a gay Tokyo-based hairdresser fears he's falling too deeply in love, his father dies, prompting a mad dash to Okinawa after turning off his cellphone and hiding his contacts, (3) A series of afternoon delight trysts between a Japanese salaryman and an American GI stationed in Japan turns out to mean more than either wants to admit, (4) A highschooler seme wants to make graduation as special as possible for his uke, and (5) A boy becomes inspired to learn piano after being relieved from a shock and fright by a dancer.

Prequel to Rouge. The electrifying story of how Yamato, a waka, nurtures fealty from his fellow yakuza, then saves the junior student, Kaga Ai, from sexual exploitation at the hands of a gang of senior toughs. This explosive story treats sexual assault fairly realistically—no subliminal codification for ravishment fantasies here. But the cruelty is redeemed by heroism. Another great story by Katsuro Komachi. READ THIS!.

Katsura Komachi's amazing story of the romance between Nagato, a tough transfer student who ends up leading a gang of delinquents at the rough-and-ready high school he now attends, and Kaga Ai, a yakuza henchman whose loyalty to the waka, Yamato, is unshakeable after Yamato saved him from white slavery. The story is slow-paced and surprisingly authentic given the volatile subject matter and how gangsters tend to be tarted up into Cupcake Yakuza Brigades when yaoi gets through with them. It also treats sexual assault and exploitation fairly realistically (not the slightest subliminal codification for the purpose of fetish gratification at all.) In all, it's a sweet, incredibly fluffy tale of first love. One of my favourites.

Not Takagi Ryou's best stuff by any stretch. Multiple stories which fall a bit flat and dull for lack of adequate character development and subtlety. She seems to do better with fantasies.

Starts off imaginatively, ends in trite. This Sentimental Journey movie clip-style exposition of a gay couple's life starting in school, ending in heaven, is carefully calculated to clunk all over the readers' heart-strings, culminating in an embarrassing final sex scene that gives the seme ED. That part, at least, was believable.