I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #Katsura Komachi(4)

Prequel to Rouge. The electrifying story of how Yamato, a waka, nurtures fealty from his fellow yakuza, then saves the junior student, Kaga Ai, from sexual exploitation at the hands of a gang of senior toughs. This explosive story treats sexual assault fairly realistically—no subliminal codification for ravishment fantasies here. But the cruelty is redeemed by heroism. Another great story by Katsuro Komachi. READ THIS!.

Katsura Komachi's amazing story of the romance between Nagato, a tough transfer student who ends up leading a gang of delinquents at the rough-and-ready high school he now attends, and Kaga Ai, a yakuza henchman whose loyalty to the waka, Yamato, is unshakeable after Yamato saved him from white slavery. The story is slow-paced and surprisingly authentic given the volatile subject matter and how gangsters tend to be tarted up into Cupcake Yakuza Brigades when yaoi gets through with them. It also treats sexual assault and exploitation fairly realistically (not the slightest subliminal codification for the purpose of fetish gratification at all.) In all, it's a sweet, incredibly fluffy tale of first love. One of my favourites.

Yaoi double-feature. The first story is about a friendship between a young man, a pair of twins and a strange, somewhat twisted, ritual where every time the young man is rejected in love, the male half of the twins consoles him. The second story is about an innocent young man who is targeted by the school gigolo. Katsura's stories have an authenticity that takes the strangeness out of some fairly twisted situations, grounding them in realism.

A series of short stories about all the ways boys have to avoid admitting they are in love with someone.