I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #treachery(78)

Corollary to Kuroneko Kareshi no Itoshikata, the fourth installment to the popular werecat series by Sakyou Aya. When parental pressures complicate the love-lives of leopards, maybe it's time to let the castles and servants go. As expected with Sakyou Aya, there is lots of sex, but the focus is on the heart.

Iris, who consumes minerals for sustenance, hides a tragic past and a painful secret. Bent, a rock dealer, comes across him, seemingly by accident, but in spite of their growing attraction, leads him into greater danger. Aoi Aki's worlds are as mysterious and wonderful as her artwork, and this one is tinged with the bitter as well as the sweet.

Quiet Imai is dating Tooru, but knows almost nothing about him. One day, a man approaches Imai, purportedly to scout him for a job as a model, but it soon becomes evident that Mishima is there to get at Tooru. Imai succumbs to temptation when it is revealed that Tooru's father has arranged a marriage for him, but what will Tooru do to win back his trust?

Prince Raped-a-lot uses his wiles (yes, that's what I'm calling them and I'm sticking to it) to rope in General Sei and Powerful Courtier Touri to the cause of cleaning up the kingdom his father left in a shambles. Hijinks and treasonous treachery ensue. Doesn't look like this thing's going to be updated anytime soon.

Final installment in Takanaga Hinako's Kimi ga Koi series, which began with Kimi ga Koi ni Ochiru and continued with Kimi ga Koi ni Obereru. Rejected firmly by Kimono proprietor, Jinnai, procurement manager Kijima is swept away by the beauty of unknown newcomer Ichikawa's designs, even while he is dead set against the innocent man's growing infatuation. Ichikawa's resistance to having his designs showcased is rooted in a past marred by treachery and professional sabotage. Will Kijima overcome his own resistance in order to uncover Ichikawa's secrets and protect him? Or, having outed him in spite of Ichikawa's reservations, will he leave the designer to face his enemies alone?

This prequel to Wild Fangs follows the story of man-beast Mao's brother, Kiri, and the man who manages to subjugate him. It goes into greater detail on the subject of war and Kiri's role in the conflict.

In this sequel to Akutai wa Toiki to Mazariau, we learn the tragic mystery in Touji's past which explains his strange behaviour toward Natsume and that of his cousin. A harrowing story with a real Boo!Hiss!Villain involving murder, kidnapping, assault and rape, but with the realization of love to warm our heroes through it.

Fourth in Sakyo Aya's were-cat series.

Volume 6: Mujihi na Otoko "Merciless Man" in Sakuragi Mei's Warui Series. Isolated at college by rumours of his invincible homosexual magnetism, Nanao Shirahane is irresistibly drawn to Kuon Aikawa, another student whose nature is to fiercely attach to a partner and who, thus, despises Nanao, even when he starts to notice that Nanao's behaviour doesn't correspond with the person he is said to be. Mix in a professor who uses Nanao's loneliness, the result of those rumours, to advance his own agenda and you have a lively, and surprisingly emotionally wrenching story by Sakuragai Mei — definitely the best of her Warui series.