sadslime's manga / #Masochist(3)

In high school, Katsumi harshly rejected his best friend Maki’s confession. Now, ten years later they reunite and Maki finds that Katsumi’s regrets from that time have caused him to seek out violent sex as a way of punishing himself. Maki can’t help but intervene and tries to help Katsumi forgive himself. I love the aspect of the one who was rejected not having trauma, but gently seeking to heal his friend. Though it’s sad, it’s still a sweet and gentle love. Side story about a city boy who moves to the country and the neighbor boy who takes care of him finding love.

Kazu's younger neighbor, Kei, comes to live with Kazu's family after a fire only to blackmail Kazu into sex. Kei's pretty stalkerish, but Kazu is a masochist and Kei wears him down. Smutty with good art, but the story was a bit of a miss for me. Not one I'll probably read again. Trigger warnings: Blackmail, noncon, rape, gangrape, BDSM.

Aitani is a tax inspector, but the constant abuse has warped his fetishes. Sakimura is a young man called in by the tax bureau for back taxes for the business he recently took over, and when he runs into Aitani on the street, he notices how getting hit turned Aitani on and pushes him a little further, starting a relationship between the two. But just as things start to get good between them, Aitani's office launches a huge tax investigation into Sakimura that shows he has connections with organized crime. Does Aitani really know Sakimura, and how much can he trust him? The reveal about Sakimura was actually done really well, but the bizarre thing is that it felt like they were ramping up to a big climax involving their jobs and the yakuza, but then once Aitani finds out about Sakimura, instead it just defaults to happy dating time. Felt a bit anticlimactic. Trigger warnings: noncon, S&M, exhibitionism.