Hanami's manga / #School Life(31)

This is definitively one of the more interesting yaois out there. The first story follows bookstore employees Ikeda Tooru and Azuma Kouji. Azuma is a sex service addict and one day gets a confession from the serious Ikeda. After noticing Ikeda’s cute mannerisms, Azuma kisses him and the kinkiness begins. Those two tried a whole bunch of fun sexual things. Toys, cosplay, bondage, sadomasochism, it was really interesting. Ikeda’s expressions and thoughts were just so cute, I liked how he studied and tried his best to make Azuma feel good. The second story was the weirdest and funniest of the bunch. Momoya Subaru accidentally grabbed school idol Nishikujou Masataka thinking it was his friend. From that moment Nishikijou decided Momoya was his boyfriend. From there things gets really strangely hilarious, Momoya tries to get away from Nishikujou but he, and his fangirls, keep setting traps for him. The mating dance thing killed me. I loved Nishikujou, Saeki and all of the fangirls. The last story is about coworkers Matsumae Taichi and Miura Reiji. Matsumae loves virgins and after finding out his superior was a virgin, he became interested in him. Only intending to keep him as a toy until he gets tired, the tables are turned when Miura becomes very interesting. I liked how Miura got the upper hand at the end, their obsession for each other was kind of creepy but oddly satisfying.

Hirose’s boyfriend Matsui cheated on him once again with a girl. Upset and heartbroken he cries near a shrine and puts a curse on his boyfriend. When he went back to apologize he found a black cat with the same wound as his boyfriend. He spends the rest of the day trying, through various methods, to change Matsui back into a person. This was hilarious. Hirose is such a gullible idiot. I didn’t like Matsui, if he wanted to stare at a girl’s boobs he should get a girlfriend or wack off to porn, he doesn’t have to keep hurting Hirose.

(1) Kagura Naoto is a very wealthy student who transferred to a public school. He fell in love with his classmate, Hayakawa Kou, and he will do whatever it takes to be together with Kou. This is one of the funniest mangas I’ve read in a while. Kagura is so adorable and over the top. Kou is a good match for Naoto, he’s serious and honest, and attempts to keep Naoto grounded. Watching him attempt to be a ‘normal’ guy was endearing and totally hilarious. His parents are also the best characters ever. They’re supportive of their son’s relationship and they are just so freaking hilarious I can’t even deal with them. It’s refreshing to see a story where rich people aren’t bad. (2) Vice captain of the judo club Ihara Koichiro is in love with his childhood friend, and captain of the judo club, Ninomiya Soji. When Soji declares that he has no patience for men who are weaker than him, Koichiro takes it as if he could beat Soji he could become his lover. What follows is something so facepalm worthy, you just can’t look away. Jeez, when Soji said Koichiro was slow he wasn’t kidding. The boy is so dense it’s actually really sad, but also kind of funny. (3) High school student and baseball player Uno Koji only has baseball in his mind. When his mother hires a tutor, Noda Kaoru, its love at first smell for Koji. He becomes entranced with Kaoru’s scent. It was an unsusal way of falling in love with someone but hey, to each their own. I enjoyed this story and I liked how their relationship kind of developed. I enjoyed Kaoru’s teasing, I thought it was funny.

Three stories that had the ukes be the sex slaves of the semes. (p.10-33;34-41;101-105). Okano Hiroyuki is a social studies instructor that becomes the sex slave to his student Tokiwa Munehisa, after he is molested in a train. I’m kind of indifferent to this story. The whole ‘I bully you because I like you’ thing is a hit or miss for me, and in this story it was a definite miss. Tokiwa was such a dick, I wanted to jump in and strangle him. To me there wasn’t any connection between those two characters, their relationship just wasn’t interesting to me. I liked Tokiwa’s interaction with the other couple more than his interactions with Okano. 3/5. (p.44-69;70-97). Nishio Atsushi is irritated by the fact that his classmate, Yoshino Yuto is constantly staring at his friend Tokiwa. After catching him peeping on Okano and Tokiwa having sex, Nishio makes Yoshino his slave. This was my favorite of the three stories. While Nishio was less of an ass than Tokiwa I still felt really bad for Yoshino. Nishio has a turbulent family situation, which causes him to take it out on Yoshino. I liked this more than the other stories because the characters and their relationship were more developed. (*Spoiler Alert: At least by the end of it, Nishio realizes he has feelings for Yoshino and graduates him from slave to lover.*) 4/5 (5-6). Shizuki Haru hates his physics teacher, Yamada Akihiko, because he’s convinced he’s gay. He harasses the teacher in various ways and gets divine justice in the form of becoming the teacher’s plaything. My least favorite of the three. Shizuki is a little shit, Yamada is hateful and there was no reason for Shizuki to be subjected to Yamada’s bullying. 2/5 I would recommend this if you like: dominant, possessive semes that like to bully their submissive ukes, bondage and the use of sex toys.

I have read this manga more than five times now and the feeling it leaves me with is akin to biting down on a broken tooth. I felt like I was on a rollercoaster ride that crashed and burned at the end. The story involves three friends, whom I will refer to as seme, uke and friend since none of them have names. The gist of it is: uke likes the friend, seme likes the uke, there’s a weird love triangle and they’re all jerks that deserve no sympathy. Like seriously I couldn’t find anything likeable about any of them. The ending is okay in my opinion, sure we don’t get a clear resolution of what happens to the characters after those last pages, but knowing these characters it’s not hard to imagine where they’re going. Overall, even with that ending I liked watching those three hurt themselves, it was painful but oddly enjoyable. If you’re looking for something dark, bitter, angst-y, with a love triangle and you don’t mind an open ending, this should be right up your alley. Also here is my opinions on all of the characters. I didn't want to put it in here because it contains spoilers. http://www.mangago.me/home/mangatopic/854507/