I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #twins(9)

Confusing and muddled. It starts off as a sweet romance and turns dark, then darker, revealing a horror-filled tragic backstory. Somewhere along the way, there's a suicide pact, and then, ghosts. Good luck making sense of it.

(1) Rin, owner of a host club, mistakes Ayamu as a potential suicide and brings him home to work as a housekeeper in exchange for free rent. Lack of communication leads to misunderstandings when Rin's twin brother and host, Ren, shows up and develops a liking for Ayamu. (2) After Ayamu rejects his advances, Ren decides to console himself with the newest host club member, Shion, only to discover that he has an irrational fear and hatred of men. When a belligerent former associate of Shion's appears, it becomes apparent that Shion's fear and hatred aren't so irrational. (3) Forgettable story about jealousy and meet-ups. (4) Cute story about the Goth clothing fetish.

Stories about gay pick ups and the desire for intimacy to extend beyond the physical. (1) An actor has been thrown onto the street by a former friend who wants him to start being serious about a career, only to be picked up by a restaurant owner with a spare room and a customer who thinks the actor is just his type. (2) The actor has an identical twin brother who happens to be a hairstylist and has just moved to town. (3) Two salarymen from the same company seem to be on the same wavelength until an evening of hot sex backfires. (4) The couple from the second story resolve some more issues. (5) A man who was traumatized in middle school for being gay, is so fragmented, he retreats into the persona of a child until he finds someone who returns his love.

A set of twins are fond of a train station attendant. When the female twin dies, the male twin attempts to take her place as the attendant's sex partner, except it becomes too painful to pretend that he's doing it for his own reasons.

Twincest story about a young man who pretends that every sexual encounter he has with his twin brother is because his brother is dreaming, and what happens when he discovers that his brother is wide awake.

Yaoi double-feature. The first story is about a friendship between a young man, a pair of twins and a strange, somewhat twisted, ritual where every time the young man is rejected in love, the male half of the twins consoles him. The second story is about an innocent young man who is targeted by the school gigolo. Katsura's stories have an authenticity that takes the strangeness out of some fairly twisted situations, grounding them in realism.

Oneshot about fraternal twin incest where each partner is dishonest about their love for each other, treating their trysts as casual rebound affairs. Not bad, but not particularly exciting and new either.

Twins compete for academic superiority with an unusual prize at stake.