I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #cat(6)

Abandoned by his mother, Tai-chan lives with his alcoholic father, but keeps his spirits almost unbelievably positive and cheerful for all the abuse he fends off. His neighbour, Maa-chan, has been nursing a crush on him forever, but it takes a sexual attack at school for him to show his intelligence and quick-thinking. A story that deals with heavy, depressing subject matters, but never in a way that the characters are buried under distress. It remains light and cheerful and hopeful for the couple's future.

One-shot of a sex-friend relationship that develops into something more when an apartment owner asks his lover to look after his cat.

The adventures of Chii, a kitten who gets separated from her mother, and finds her way into a good family.

Feckless Umeya finds himself under the spell of "Socks" the cat (real name "Momoko") and her actual owner, "Sakura", a gloomy young man who attends the same university class.

Quickly improvisation saves salaryman Ryouji's freedom after his wallet is stolen by a cat and his chase leads him into the vacant apartment of a lonely man who arrives home drunk just as Ryouji starts to search. He calls himself a cat, and this is accepted at face value by his new "owner" who calls him Kotorou and treats him like a pet. A fun story, but Ryouji never gets his money back.

Sota and Koga's relationship didn't have an auspicious start. Sota dumped some used fishbowl water out the classroom window, inadvertantly soaking Koga and prompting the boy to make some rude remarks about his cat, who happened to sneak into Koga's house for the express purpose of killing his goldfish, a gift from someone he loved. Sota is a kindhearted boy, if not the most courageous fellow on the planet, and his attempts at atonement open some new possibilities for Koga, whose life has been more constricted than most, through no other fault than bad luck. This is a sweet and intelligent shounen ai which shows how life opens up when a person takes a few risks.