sadslime's manga / #Yokai(22)

Collapsed kappa is helped by passerby, proposes.

Lion dog forced by his sister to marry dragon god

Ritsu is a high schooler who just wants to revive his family's kendo dojo until one day he's suddenly confronted by the oni Kojirou who demands his family heirloom, the oni's mallet, in order to end a succession war among the oni. Ritsu is gradually won over and agrees to give it to Kojirou if he'll first use it to make Ritsu taller, but in attempting to do so, the mallet fuses with his body and Ritsu also learns the onis plan to invade and destroy humanity. Ritsu is betrayed, but Kojirou is delighted that he has an excuse to spend more time in the human world. And Ritsu finds he can't hold it against Kojirou for long when he sees how much Kojirou truly loves gyaru fashion, harajuku, and the whole of humanity. But just when things seem to be going well between them, Kojirou's brother arrives and announces it's time to go back. A fun read with a very unique seme and overall good characters. My only complaint was that to make it a happy ending, the author undermined the fundamental conceit of the underlying conflict which was a little anticlimactic and unsatisfying. Still cute. Trigger warning: dubcon.

In a modern world with several old families descended from animal spirits and monsters, ogres are known for being especially romantic as they fall in love only once with their "blossom of fate." Hana is busy working at her adoptive parents' restaurant and assumes rumors of the young ogre lord searching for his blossom have nothing to do with her, until she meets the ogre Mitsuki and feels the spark for herself. This story is all over the place. It's as if every chapter they introduce a new conflict only to either resolve it or forget about it by the end of the chapter, and yet it also feels like nothing really happens, perhaps because it doesn't build up enough. It wasn't compelling, but the boyfriend was good about consent, so there's that. If you want to read it for the smut, go ahead. No trigger warnings.

Tsubakimaru is a young half-ogre orphan who was kidnapped when his captors suddenly died and he met, Shii-sama, the evil god of the mountain, turned into an evil god when humans cut down his tree. The lonely god is overjoyed to find that the young child survived due to his oni blood, and Tsubakimaru decides to stay with Shii-sama to help him not be lonely. But as he grows, the excessive lust that onis feel begins to become a problem for the pure-hearted boy, while Shii-sama feels he needs to set Tsubakimaru free. But even as Tsubakimaru and Shii-sama are beginning to figure out their relationship and the mountain seems to finally be healing, villagers who see the young ogre become convinced they must destroy the evil god again. This story was 90% of the way there to being a tragic masterpiece, but then it just suddenly deus ex machinas it's way into a happy ending that doesn't really make sense. Also for some reason it decided to go with a weird tentacle hentai thing for a lot of the sex scenes, but hey, I don't judge. The relationships and characters are really well done though, and it's still worth a read. Trigger warnings: incest themes (guardian).

Yamato goes to get his master's favorite disciple Ietettsu only to find he's not quite the pious monk he was expecting, but as they journey together, he begins to appreciate Ietettsu's carefree nature and maybe desire more. A very cute boy love with no direct nudity and only one implied sex scene. No trigger warnings.

Akira Abe and Tamaki Homuraya are both teachers at a school, but one day on his way home, Akira sees Tamaki go with a man into a back ally, then grow a tail and ears. Akira drags Tamaki home and learns that he's a fox spirit who subsists off of semen, and he needs to feed, so Akira offers himself, only to find that when they kiss, Tamaki gains a seal on his tongue and becomes Akira's shikigami due to Akira's unknown onmyoji ancestry, making Tamaki the only man he can feed from. Both men know this relationship can't continue, but they also kinda like it? Trigger warning: noncon(hypnotism).

Esora is an unwanted child being passed from family to family until she ends up with no place to go and nothing to eat but leftovers she found at a shrine. She falls asleep there and wakes up in another world where she's sold as a human slave to Yahiro, a masked (yokai?) brothel owner who encourages the feisty Esora to take control of her own future by becoming the best courtesan in his brothel who can pick and choose who she sleeps with. While Esora is initially resistant, as time passes she begins to see the many sides to the people around her and their ways of life, and she comes to want to know more about Yahiro and his hidden face. He promises to show her his face when she becomes the top courtesan, but that isn't the only secret Yahiro is keeping as he also seems to have known Esora's mother. An interesting premise with a nuanced look at courtesan life and sex work. So far, I like it a lot. Trigger warnings: child neglect, child trafficking, sex work.

A selection of ghost stories, the first three chapters about a cat ghost and the last two about a cherry tree spirit. They’re a little strange, but honestly, the cat ghost made me cry, so don’t knock it.

Nanao was supposed to marry the lord of her clan due to her strong spiritual power, but when she was taken and marked by an ayakashi, she became an outcast in her home and lost everything. When the famous Lord Benitsubaki, head of the highest onmyo family, comes seeking a wife, Nanao is told to stay out of his way. But when he saves her after she was misunderstood, he doesn't seem to fear her curse at all and tastes her blood before declaring boldly that she's the one he's been looking for! The abused girl getting taken out of her bad situation by a new husband trope has been done before, but I don't mind seeing it again, and the setting is interesting. Trigger warnings: abuse, implied rape, implied bestiality, attempted suicide.