Toubou Kinshi!
Sakurai Ryou always draws such good looking men. She also specializes in stories where one of them represses his homosexual desires, for whatever reason, while the other is fully honest and open about his attraction, and not inhibited by sex in the slightest. This is a series of short stories that have to do with variations on that theme, and how these various men connect, not just physically, but emotionally. In the third story, the theme is stretched to include a (dog) spirit-male/human-male coupling.
Koibi
Stories about gay pick ups and the desire for intimacy to extend beyond the physical. (1) An actor has been thrown onto the street by a former friend who wants him to start being serious about a career, only to be picked up by a restaurant owner with a spare room and a customer who thinks the actor is just his type. (2) The actor has an identical twin brother who happens to be a hairstylist and has just moved to town. (3) Two salarymen from the same company seem to be on the same wavelength until an evening of hot sex backfires. (4) The couple from the second story resolve some more issues. (5) A man who was traumatized in middle school for being gay, is so fragmented, he retreats into the persona of a child until he finds someone who returns his love.
Koukou Kyoushi
Sakurai Ryou's beautiful drawings of male bodies and emotional expressions add to a light story of two gay, but very masculine and sexy, teaching colleagues abandoning uncommitted hook-ups and "hitching their wagons" to each other. The second story broaches the serious subject of closeted gay men and homophobia in the workplace, but within the context of such a jokey D/s relationship with blackmail and humiliation, it left me cold and cheated. The first story is definitely the winner.
Ubatte Choudai