I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #amnesia(5)

At a geological survey for rare metals in an isolated mountain cabin, Misaki meets a Kousaka, the lover who went missing in an accident five years prior. Kousaka, who now calls himself Yanagida, does not remember him, and Misaki is being pressured by another man to forget him completely. Meanwhile, a spy is intent on stealing their surveys and rock samples, leading to a fine espionage thriller and action adventure story with yaoi benefits.

Childhood friends who live under the same roof. One suffers from amnesia. The other from unrequited love toward the amnesiac.

Surprisingly touching story about two lovers, one of whom has a definite problem with communication and wants his gay lover to raise a loving family. Mix in a bout of selective amnesia based on an injury in which the other partner forgets who his lover is, or that they had a relationship, and out pops a sweet story about how love remains in spite of every outer circumstance.

Sequel to Ohana's 23:45 in which Mimori had a near-fatal accident and, while his body lay comatose in a hospital bed, his spirit astral-traveled to Iku's apartment and lived there until they eventually fell in love. When Mimori regained consciousness, his memories of his spirit life did not carry over and, so, when Iku confessed to him and explained what happened, it was beyond his comprehension and Iku was rejected. Mimori is drawn to him, however, and keeps finding reasons to connect and, when he can no longer muster scant reasons, his friends intervene, until the memories resurface as flashes of spirit bring them back to mind. Difficult to follow, but very rewarding to read directly after the original, this story affirms the power of the heart over the material constrictions.

Not even partial retrograde amnesia can destroy the attraction between Fuji and Kotou, two lovers who met in school, but it causes some problems for Fuji, who doesn't identify with homosexuality. Since the start of their relationship happened during the time period that his brain injury wiped away, he struggles to come to terms with his love for Kotou, who prefers to let things transpire naturally with no prompting, no matter what the emotional cost to him. A sweet and sexy romance, which satisfies that small place of insecurity which might reside in the heart of anyone who reached out first in love.