I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #love triangle(16)

Rivalry between a stepbrother, Mitsuya, and a childhood best friend, Satoru, for the affections of a rather clueless young fluff-head, Shin, rendered in Kanda Neko's appealing drawings and downy soft writing style.

A series of short stories about gay schoolboys. The first is a trio of childhood friends who cannot bear to separate as they grow older, and so expand from an original couple to a threesome. The second story is related, and shows the successful dissolution of the triad. The third involves gambling for a Master/Slave relationship, and getting real about circumventing incest. The fourth story has a similar theme about non-exploitive relationships, only with a promiscuous young man. There is lots of sex and passion, but it all seems to go a bit too far to make the jump from romance to realism.

Threesome! Haruki and Ikumi both love Hiroo, but Hiroo still harbours delusions of not being gay. Poor boy, it's yaoi. He hasn't got a chance.

What appears to be a standard half-brother x half-brother incest story acquires suspense when it looks like Masayuki, the heir to his father's company, is being deliberately targeted and sabotaged.

Yuki is the fulcrum between his childhood friends, Chihiro and Ryuutarou, in this love triangle soap opera by Hiro Reiichi. Yuki is also an amateur mountaineer amongst professionals in a dangerous sport, and it's on one of these expeditions that he receives and accepts a love confession, which has the expected consequence of banishing the third friend from their circle of intimacy just as tragedy strikes. But all is not fair in love and war when it comes to yaoi, so this otherwise perfectly structured yaoi romance acquires a sentimental and slightly clunky resolution. Even so, it's a lively story and one of Hiro Reiichi's better ones.

Three friends reunite at a bar several months after graduating from high school, but two of the friends seem to share secrets and the third feels left out.