I Thot You Was a Toad's Topics (247)

My thoughts exactly hahahha

ROFL

Don't give premonitions tho I've hope!! (╮°-°)╮┳━━┳

Here we go: Ootsuki Mio's "Tonari Ni Kimi No Nukumori Wo" released over a decade ago: http://www.mangago.me/read-manga/tonari_ni_kimi_no_nukumori_wo/mf/v01/c001/

Or maybe they didn't know? Let's be honest, yaoi tropes are extremely limited.... I doubt that publishers/editors would knowingly allow plagiarism. Or maybe the two authors are friends and this is a remade version of the other one, with permission. who knows.

Without bothering to credit the original author? No offense, but that sounds like grasping at straws. This is not a typical trope story. The present one copies Ootsuki Mio's plot-point per plot-point. It seems to me that Yamamoto Aturu thought that, after a few years, nobody would notice ...

You read my mind and my subconscious.

Perfect explanation (๑•ㅂ•)و✧

Holy shit, for a second I thought this was a spoiler. I hope that doesn't happen!!

Unless Hibiki decides to trans.

My sober second thought was posted the same time as your comment. I suspect this is just mislabeled. If Hibiki does decide to transition, then obviously, the story turns from yaoi to shoujo. That's the only way the label would make any sense.

I doubt it. Mangago probably just put the wrong genre like before.

You're probably right. Trans stories are really rare.

Don't worry, it ia Yaoi and not shoujo. he Translator sayd it, was a mistake from Mangago XD

Have you read any trans manga?

There was one a month or so ago. I don't read shoujo, not because of the gender identity issue, but because I usually can't relate to the female characters in shoujo.

Don't worry its yaoi all the way, its just that mangago fucked up the genres lol
They fixed it now.

I'm curious, what do you look for in female characters?

That's complicated and I can't give you an easy answer. I like Fuu in "Samurai Champloo"; Kanzeon Botsatsu in Minekura's "Saiyuki" series; Riza Hawkeye, Izumi and Winry in FMA (although I would prefer if Riza was Mustang's superior officer, and think she would've made a better leader); Faye Valentine in "Cowboy Bebop" ... sometimes; almost every female lead in Hayao Mizaki's animes, especially Ursula in "Kiki's Delivery Service". But these manga aren't shoujo. About the only shoujo character I like is Haruhi from Ouran HSHC.

Thanks!

Yeeee, Haruhi!! :>> Have you ever read Warau Kanoko-sama?

well everyone is different, some are more, some less naive...
i wouldnt want my ass to be shown around school, thats an open door to bullying etc

And how is bullying different than what he's being subjected to?

And, yes, of course everyone is different. I just think that the somewhat less than definitive photo of his "butt cleavage" on that cellphone carries a lot less currency than the mangaka imagines, and most boys I ever known would react with a "pfft."

I think the take away is supposed to be that the one being blackmailed is actually more into it than he's showing us, the readers. Even the blackmailer has shown surprise at how easily he goes along with it. I think we're supposed to realize that he is kind of going along with it because he doesn't really actually mind. Its easier when you're actually curious about something to go along with it and tell yourself somebody else is making you do it so you don't feel responsible. I mean, the recent chapter makes it seem that way. But really, I agree with you. Super unrealistic.

And there we have tihe plot basis for about 70% of the yaoi ever written. No surprises, just a bit jaded and smartmouthy. Some of those low riders exposed everything—pimples, hairy warts and all. If that didn't bother them ...

Yeah, this one felt especially weak which is why I believe its as I said. Otherwise a teenage boy would not care having his damn crack exposed when his alternative is having a dude he doesn't know sexually harass him. Like.... boys care less about that shit than anyone. And like nobody is going to believe, if the picture was sent around, that there wasn't a normal reason he wasn't wearing underwear other than that he's a pervert. Because honestly, as much as we all love gossip its hardly ever true and we know it. Also, he could just play it off easily like he hadn't pulled them up yet. And who are people going to think is weirder, a dude who MIGHT not be wearing underwear or the dude snapping pics of other dudes in the bathroom while they're peeing.

That pretty much sums up what I think. Except, I would add that it's such a shoujo/traditional romance perspective to be blackmailed by slut shaming, one of the reasons I wandered over to yaoi and continue to stick with it.

Kamon Saeko drew a terrific kink story where the uke got caught stealing the seme's undies, which he grabbed on a complete cackhanded whim in the first place. Not all of Kamon Saeko's plot devices work, but that one did because I could believe that a pair of idiot boys would pull shit like that. The stakes are just high enough to justify the response "Okay, you got me. I'm perving on you." And once the buttsexing began, all was finally right and balanced in romantic comedy yaoiland.

I figure the embarrassment factor in this story is missing the sense of overwhelming personal attraction to each other that wipes out the violation, keeps the story light as air, and makes the romantic comedy part satisfying. Violation is heavy. It makes a story serious, and unless it's clear the pair are hot and bothered to the point of senselessness by each other, drags the tone down. Maybe the "You make me so damned horny" will come in later chapters, but if it hasn't started yet for me ...

okr?? what part of this manga is simple??

The days, according to the title. I'm baffled.

(Although I like the story very much.)

LOL me too. i can't hold back from anything she writes, really

Fantastic writer. Even her lesser work is a cut above most of the mangas out there.