I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #aniki(2)

Kotaro has a romanticized idea of what a big brother represents in the yakuza hierarchy, and he projects it all over Tojaro, who runs a flower shop. Together, they spend their days icing cupcakes and picking out china with subautomatic machine gun patterns for their wedding.

Setting aside that the main story combines yakuza and incest as an aniki uses a tougher love than the usual to rescue his younger sibling from imminent self-destruction, and that the side stories include a writer whose best inspiration for graphic gore and horror comes from romantic rejection, there is a streak of realism running through this manga which makes for a worthwhile read. Not that the stories are realistic and it inclines toward dramedy and, yes, sadistic psychological horror more than tender romance, but there is something refreshing and natural about the drawing style and the way the characters reveal themselves and their motives, which rescues it from being the same old yaoi.