I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #supernatural(121)

The origin story for the man-beasts, who fell to earth when chunks of the heaven worlds broke off ... (prequel to Wild Rose and Wild Fangs.)

A bunny-spirit boy and a fox-spirit boy develop a relationship in spite of their incompatibility. This scanlation is unlikely to be finished.

A tragedy and its grief return in the form of bad dreams and self-realization for a young structural engineer whose brother died crossing an untested footbridge. I wouldn't really call this yaoi.

A story about a boy who can see the colours of other people's auras, but doesn't necessarily know what those colours mean. All in Maruya Kae's beautiful illustrations.

A world where monsters and human exist on the same dimension, but are kept segregated by law.

The prince of a country in the midst of plague and turmoil meets a mysterious stranger, an angel in disguise, who once loved his grandfather in vain.

An absolutely stunning story about a trigger-loaded subject, father x son incest. It's handled with such originality and sensitivity, though, against a context of time travel, loneliness and alienation, that ... how does Ike Reibun transform something so icky into something so heartwarming and healing? By crafting a wonderful supernatural mystery like this. Stick around for the happy ending. This one's worth reading again and again. One of my favourites.

I suppose with the acceptance of homosexuality becoming more widespread, yaoi writers have to turn to different themes to ramp up the illicit "forbidden love" that gives these stories their psychological and sexual tension. Hence the wild-assed reinterpretation of Medieaval Christian Theology. Huzzah! It's downright weird seeing the Lord of the Flies drawn as a smoking hot rebel with a sharp uniform that will satisfy any costume fetish, as opposed to ... well, a pig's corpse in advanced putrefaction, but I'm glad I was spared the traditional depiction circa Heironymous Bosche et al. Still, I have to laugh whenever yaoi mangaka get their hands on something to do with this subject because it's always turned tits-over-teakettles. As usual per Kisaragi Hirotaki, gorgeous art and lots of UST.

Gods and nature spirits change into human form to help the humans who love them. A series of very sweet-natured short stories about a benign supernatural world that rewards those who are gentle and good.

Yaotomi has better luck than the average human being until he is "possessed" by the God of Calamity. Clever story premise with interesting characters and plot development. Unfortunately, it has been over a year since it was introduced, without any updates since, so it doesn't look as though it's going to be finished. Otherwise, it's a truly one-of-a-kind story, dazzling with originality and comedy.