I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #Comedy(251)

A boy with lacklustre study skills is sent to his cousin's summer home for tutoring and to study up for university entrance exams. Although he gets extra lessons, it isn't like the typical tutor x student yaoi. There is a real sense of connection and joy which happens first making this quite a refreshing and heartwarming story. There is a charming side story about manicurists.

Chitose has the bad habit of hit-&-run seduction on gay men, teasing them until they fall for him, then dropping his heterosexuality like an anvil over all their hopes. But the tables turn when he comes across Narita, who turns seduction into a different sort of game, gambling that he can successfully seduce Chitose within a month, but no other stakes are declared, and no ante put up. So what does Chitose have to lose?

Cute story of a couple with no real problems to speak of and no real conflict to generate plot. So cute story, but not particularly memorable.

A highschool letter of confession goes amiss causing years of grief and frustration for these two. The story is cute, but the art work is a bit strange.

Fluffy and cute little oneshot about a stern pastry chef, rendered grim from ridicule over his taste for fluffy, cute and sweet things, and the boy he rescues, who fell on hard times, but decided to fall for him instead.

Shinohara Satoru has moved from the country (and newly wed sister) to a 6-tatami mat apartment in Tokyo in order to achieve his dreams of independence. Izumi Yuushin, his new neighbour, tests that resolve to the limits as he is aware of all Satoru's shortcomings on the personal responsibility scale. How's that? Well, Yuushin is a free spirited kind of guy himself, and moved away from his own doting mother in order to perform as an actor in a theatre troupe, and it isn't as though he wasn't in that same boat himself, once. The gay attraction business is just a side effect from being caring individuals, but the free-spirited acting stuff throws enough doubt into this idiot couple's miso soup that there is actually some conflict, resolution and plot to go along with this little family soap opera.

Series of oneshots and two-parters all dealing with seduction.

Wizard and real estate agent go house-hunting together. Some evil force tries to interfere with their plans and gets discovered and dealt with. I kind of wish that Imai Yuumi showed me that story instead of telling it to me in snatches between the more mundane angsting over 'he loves me, he loves me not'. Still, the story is cute so far. It is will be more exciting later on, won't it?

Boke and tsukkomi comedy duo deliverymen get all hot and bothered in the cab of their truck, exchange some cheesy dialogue which wouldn't work in real life, then explode in a frenzy of splooge. Ride 'em cowboys.

Multiple stories about fear: (1) Aizawa is the Kaizuki Delivery Service's most notorious customer, a fully grown man who never answers the door unless he's wearing a rabbit mask which fully obscures his head. This weirds out Kajiyama Ryouta, the rookie delivery boy, who can't help but dream up strange scenarios and reasons for this odd behaviour. The truth is much more mundane, crippling shyness, but the cure is trickier than either expects. (2) A pianist is paralyzed with performance anxiety until an admirer finds a way to help him break through it. (3) Fear of pain causes a man's lover to constantly reject his amorous advances.