I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #fave(38)

After 9 Hours tracks Deguchi as he develops a crush on the straight Onoda, but doesn't dare reveal his feelings for fear of rejection. The World is Full of Colour is about how Onoda and Deguchi negotiate their feelings for each other as they deal with the realization of mutual attraction, fear of betrayal, jealousy and moving past games. Realistic, truthful, yet light and breezy, this is one of the best yaoi mangas I've read, and definitely on my favourites list.

One afternoon at school, Mashita spies Matsushita sitting at his desk, resting his cheek against the top, and realizes that his friend is infatuated with him. After that, he compulsively toys with and teases him, deluding himself that it's to make Matsushita love him even more, but never realizing that his own heart was lost that day. One of Tenzen Momoko's great stories.

A simple story of how Kanda wins over Rihito who had repeatedly spurned his advances because he is bi, and to his way of thinking, may leave him in the future for a woman. What isn't so simple is how Kanda actually breaks through Rihito's resistance. Like most of Tenzen Momoko's stories, this one has a very pleasant, easy pace with many sparkly moments. Every time Rihito goes wide-eyed with surprise, a fairy is born.

Series of short stories. The first deals with a young man, Kou, who develops a crush on his gay neighbour, Hiroya, a salary man, and actively engages in helping him sort things out, just as he suspects Hiroya has fallen for his even more capable brother. The second two stories are interconnected school-life yaois, both involving idiot couples. But they are very endearing because Tenzen Momoko knows how to craft a good tale!

On his way home from school one day, Horikita Mei rescues a cat in a tree and falls on top of the extremely near-sighted Akihiko, breaking his glasses. To compensate, Mei works at Akihiko's secondhand/recycle shop and starts to fall for the easy-going flirt, but Akihiko has a secret which Mei wants to learn, and Akihiko won't share it with him. Can Mei become the sort of person Akihiko can depend on?

In a dystopian future and desperate for money to buy medicines that will save his brother's life, Yukichan agrees to sell himself as a sex slave and undergoes "pet training" from his friends, Masashi and Ryuu, in order to prepare for the auction. Zaria's smoking hot stories often cross a line into soul-crushing abuse, but this one is saved by Masashi and Ryuu, who are so cheerful and lusty and protective, it is impossible not to heave a sigh of relief at the not-so-surprising ending.

An impoverished and starving young man meets the grateful nature spirit of a potted flower he rescued in an alley. The fairy has a very sexy way of saving the young man's life.

Yuuen of the Forest Clan is told to dress himself as a woman and seduce Emba, the mighty hunter of the Lakeside Clan, in order to gather food. Emba is such a man, however, that Yuuen is completely smitten.