I Thot You Was a Toad's Manga

Mitya, isolated as a "gaijin", and Asahiko, orphaned and beaten by his previous lover, Mika, meet, fall for each other and begin a torrid affair that blocks out the existence of everyone and everything else. They finally heal each other enough to start opening up to more friendships when Mika returns just to mess things up.

Two students, hot-shot first year, Sekiya, and the lesser talented, Nagashima, who have been vying for the attention of their popular sempai, Tatsumi, at the archery club, stir up some school daze drama and are forced to hold hands in public to make up for it. This has the side effect of making them fall for each other. Interesting side story about Tatsumi's attraction to the faculty member who supervises their club. Not bad stories.

An office worker with an inferiority complex challenges the gorgeous wet-dream of a colleague to an ejaculation contest to see who is the most ... cumly?

A traumatized accident survivor deals with his night terrors by losing himself in casual sex until one of his encounters refuses to be treated like a tool. In order to make his case, he employs actual tools ... a vibrating sounding tube, in this case. Sexy and hot.

Blech. Tatsumi, the empty successor to the Komicho of a Yakuza gang, tries to run away in the arms of his male lover, but it requires accepting him on his sadistic terms, which include hardcore beatings and gangrape for sh*ts and giggles. There is a little jockeying with the yakuza brother, for no other reason, it seems, other than to throw in some incest so void of electrical charge, it can`t even muster a volt of shock, but mostly this is a shallow, dead-eyed, cold fish of a story that offers no reward for reading it. And unless you get off on beatings, it`s boring as a dry wank.

A sweet but insecure assistant shopkeeper struggles with communicating his true feelings to his lover.

Multiple stories of standard cute yaoi scenarios. (1) Cupcake yakuza, (2) Misunderstanding about purity, (3) Prodigal returns to now-legal adult. Not bad, but mostly forgettable.

This is plagiarized, an almost exact copy of 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/]

There are a lot of preposterous notions in this manga, almost enough to make a reader yell "Rubbish!" and hurl their tablets across the room. Take the nonsense that any client who presents enough of a security risk to be stationed on an actual secret floor in a legitimate luxury hotel would be referred to as Mr. Secret Floor instead of the Japanese equivalent of Mr. Roberts or Mr. Jones, like everywhere else in the world. Or the idea that a writer, even a bestselling one like, say, Stephen King, would have enough clout or power to demand that their business partners either abase themselves, or go back to the office empty-handed. Setting aside the wealth-porn and power-pandering to concentrate on the story, it turned out to be a much better read than impressions left after the first couple of chapters. It really did. So, if you can grit your teeth for a little while, stick to it until the end, at the very least you won't feel uncontrollable rage. Probably.

The romantic trope which drives the story along is whether Yagami, the diva-like best-selling writer, is exploiting first-time editor and wide-eyed man-child Aiba. They're certainly having sex. And a whole lot of it. But because the readers, like Aiba, can't tell if (a) Yagami demands humiliating sex from everyone in a business relationship with him, (b) the collection of pretty boys cluttering up his reception room comprise an actual sex-harem, or (c) one manipulative rival, in particular, out-foxes Aiba for Yagami's heart, let alone his business, most of the sex turns out to be unsettling instead of hot. Aiba, though still not as independent as I like 'em, turns out to be pluckier, more positive and more in possession of a spine than all earlier indications, and Yagami isn't quite as much of the obnoxious, self-centred and toxic boor as he first comes across. This is what makes this story worth reading until the end.

Short stories themed on a sex tour company, which in the hands of Nishimura Shuuko, usually involve kinks. This one includes the 'King of the Ridge' public sex slave story. Unfortunately, the first story also includes the typical Interfering and Manipulative Bitch of Yaoi stereotyped female character.