sadslime's manga / #Yaoi(725)

Yuki is an ordinary bartender who often gets into fights with his favorite customer, Godai, a playboy flirt who also happens to hunt down beastmen for his job. But Yuki has two secrets: one, he's been in love with Godai ever since Godai picked him up off the street, and two, Yuki is a half beastman, the very thing Godai lives to kill. When Godai moves into Yuki's place and starts to get handsy, Yuki isn't sure how he'll keep either secret under wraps. Then the day comes when Yuki finally meets Godai's boss, said to hate beastmen more than anyone, and recognizes him as the one Yuki's mother told him to seek out for help before disappearing, leaving Yuki confused and unsure who is truly the most danger to him. I like the main couple, but their story feels a little unfinished. Trigger warning: violence, kidnapping.

Jiro is a beauty school student who one day finds young rich boy Tooru apparently drowning and shouting Jiro's name! Turns out, Tooru's dog is also named Jiro, and the two become friends with Tooru quickly falling for Jiro, though Jiro has never thought of a homosexual relationship before. No trigger warnings

Mr. Haruno is a CEO who likes to sleep around to blow off steam. His secretary, Mr. Hasuda, agrees to take care of his pent up needs to get him to stop playing around. But Mr. Hasuda refuses to go all the way, making Mr. Haruno increasingly desperate. Turns out, that was his plan all along.

Haebeom is just a sushi restaurant owner who happens to look like a gangster, but after one of his few regulars, Sang-Ah, steps in to help with a rowdy customer, the two get to know each other better and Sang-Ah invites Haebeom to his show at the aquarium where Haebeom learns that Sang-Ah is a mermaid (which this world just has). But after the show Haebeom finds what seems to be another worker forcing himself on Sang-Ah and chases him off, only to learn that Sang-Ah needs to take in human saliva once a day to transform his tail into legs. Haebeom offers to give Sang-Ah the daily kiss, and the two quickly get closer, but just when they finally go all the way, Sang-Ah pulls away without telling Haebeom why. I love Sang-Ah's visuals so much, they make the whole story for me. Trigger warnings: noncon, kidnapping.

Anthropomorphized cat Leo is a stray who's always taken in other abandoned kittens, so this time when he meets the abandoned dog, Milky, he doesn't see it as any different and takes him in. But unfortunately for Leo, while Milky is delighted to be a part of the group and quickly falling head over heels for Leo, Leo's second-in-command is ready to risk everything to get rid of Milky and get the group back to normal. Not my favorite anthropomorphized animal read, but nothing about it was bad. Trigger warnings: animal abandonment, violence.

Tomoya loves cute and fluffy things, so when he sees first-year student Aki sneeze and briefly show dog ears on his head, he knows they have to be friends. He finds out Aki is part wolf and agrees to help him hide his ears and the two become close. But just when Tomoya takes the first step past friendship, Aki loses the ability to hide his ears at all! Cute and sweet school love story. No trigger warnings

In the "cake/fork verse" (I can't believe this is a thing) Fujimine Aoi is a "fork" who can't taste any food and Saeki Mitsuri is a "cake," or the one thing forks can taste, leading some forks to lose themselves to cannibalism. Aoi changed schools to avoid a fork, so he's shocked when he first meets Mitsuri and accidentally knocks down Mitsuri's cake (literal). He feels so bad he goes back and Mitsuri says he can make it up to him by joining the baking club and keeping him company. Despite Aoi's misgivings, the two become close and he starts to enjoy his time in the club, but when he starts to develop feelings for Mitsuri, Aoi realizes their relationship will forever be overshadowed by the nature of their being as "cake" and "fork." I don't know who made up this verse, and honestly, I'm not a fan, but I do like the characters, especially Mitsuri Trigger warning: cannibalism, kidnapping.

When Fujii Takahiro and Kotou Tarou were in high school, the two didn't get along. So how is Fujii supposed to make sense of his life after he gets amnesia and wakes up as a 19 year old living with Tarou? The story weaves between the past, showing how the two moved from friends to more interspersed with Takahiro grappling with his attraction to someone he's trying to see as just a friend. This one is a classic to me and I think it's one of the best written yaois I've seen as far as pacing and character development. Trigger warning: incest themes.

Watase is a sub who wants to top, but he can't seem to find a willing partner. Resigned to his sexless life, he goes to a club to at least get some play, where he meets the dom Touma. But to his surprise, Touma is a dom who wants to bottom, and it seems like they were made for each other! But just when their relationship seems to be going perfectly, Touma starts to notice some changes in his body...I'll be honest, I think this one has a really good setup that it totally betrays with it's "twist" two separate times, so it didn't win me over at the end. Trigger warning: attempted rape. SPOILERS: Okay, so the setup is meant to challenge the "norm" or the idea that a bottom is naturally in the submissive position, which is interesting and something that shouldn't be set in stone, so it's great to challenge the idea. But then it totally betrays that premise by having Touma turn into a sub, thus reinforcing the idea that by bottoming, he's awakened his submissive side. Then it introduces the major conflict--Touma is a switch and he can't control when he's a sub! How can he stay with his partner who is a sub? This is interesting and could have had a really emotionally fraught but satisfying conclusion. But no, they just toss it aside with a quick, oh, actually he's a switch too! Because again, if you're topping, you must be a dom, right? It was just so frustrating for me to have it completely betray the setup by reinforcing the stereotypes it began by questioning. So good characters, but probably too frustrating for me to read again.