I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #drama(235)

The story of a young assassin and the doctor, foresworn from his own violent past, who disarms him.

A Ikebana Iemoto has a bondage and humiliation kink that isn't being satisfied by his male lover. When he is blackmailed into sex by a film director that his brother rejected, all hell seems about to break loose. Kitazawa can really draw unhinged men.

Astrophysicist fellow, Kawamoto Kuroki, has cast his wandering gay eyes on Koroki, another doctorate student in the Astronomy department, who he met during a particularly magical meteor shower viewing one night. Sadly for him Koroki is solely fixated on the professor, and there is no attachment to his desire. So what is a jaded maneater like Kawamoto to do? A richly developed and realistic story about mature love, the lack of expectations and personal sacrifice. A very satisfying read!

Pleasant and slow-paced story about Makoto, a Japanese chef, who finds himself admired by his childhood friend and neighbour, Kota, even though he has taken care of him all his life. Makoto is scared to place too much faith in those feelings. Ayaku's watercolours are stunning.

An oldie ...

Very cute story about a scruffy, older guy, Yamada, who saves a young student, Chihiro, who is semi-passed out drunk in a park after suffering his first episode of unrequited love for another guy. Realistic, slow and kind (so far), there are many lovely moments and the art is beautiful. I particularly love the scene where Yamada wishes for all his luck in love to pass over to Chihiro.

Abuse-trope soap opera about a doctor, Motoki, with his own private clinic, who believes that he is in a one-sided love affair with a yakuza enforcer, Kashima, because Kashima is cold, arrogant and abusive toward him. A visit from Kashima's underlings gives Motoki some hope, but is it false? Kirishima Tamaki, like Tamaki Wren, has a particular drawing style in which her men seem to have strangely flat facial features, even in the midst of emotional upheaval. But it is a stylistic element, not an inability to draw.

(1) A bored student discovers that his teacher is a vampire who uses pills to suppress his urge for blood. Then he decides to play with his teacher. (2) A secret room behind the science lab becomes a private space for two lovers when time seems to phase in and out. (3) The astronomy club has one member, and there is a reason for it.

Childhood friends who live under the same roof. One suffers from amnesia. The other from unrequited love toward the amnesiac.