I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #detective(9)

Secret lovers enjoy a rare tryst at a gorgeous Japanese hotel during a break from their dangerous careers.

Starry-eyed newcomer to the police force, Hinari, dreams of following in the footsteps of the gentle cop who looked after his neighbourhood beat when he was a kid. Instead, he is unwillingly pulled into the orbit of Yasoshima, the dry, ironic medical examiner who deals with Crime Scene evidence. At first, Hinari is outraged by Yasoshima's trickery and sexual harassment, but slowly Yasoshima wins him over. The police procedural and CSI elements are really a thinly veiled excuse to put Hinari in compromising positions with Yasoshima, but this is a classic yaoi story and all ends well.

Detective Torimaru is frustrated in his efforts to catch Kaitou Hato, in spite of the puzzles and clues with which the cat burglar taunts him. Kaitou Hato is the secret identity of the café owner where Torimaru's task force go to unwind. When the detective's outrage turns to infatuation, he is even more frustrated, especially when it becomes apparent that there is another partner is Kaitou's life, as well as a specific reason behind Kaitou's seemingly random targets. A fun mystery with a lively police chase theme.

Detective story where Detective Hishima discovers something so mysterious and suspicious about his roommate and lover, Enoziku, a brilliant ex-police detective whose eyesight was damaged by a flash-bomb during a bank robbery, that he doesn't know what to think or believe anymore. To what aim has Enoziku deceived him all this time, and what will he do once the truth is revealed? Short, action-packed and sexy.

PWP dressed up as action adventure.

Nagai, a detective with the organized crime unit of the police force, suddenly acquires a roommate in his feckless former schoolmate, Kitihara, just as he cracks a bank book fraud ring. Kitihara comes and goes, building up anticipation and longing in Nagai, but he is full of secrets and some of them don't look very savoury. It will be interesting to see if Norikazu Akira takes this into suspense thriller territory, not just police procedural with a side of fluff.

This rollicking action thriller starts when undercover narcotics officer, Leaguer, accidently stumbles into evil drug lord Cider's den and is saved by a good cover story and the quick thinking of Yakuma, secret-assassin-come-male-prostitute, who's satisfying Cider's kink for public sex. Futuristic setting with robotic drones and a bombed-out skid row, this story never manages to seem heavy or oppressive due to the light dialogue and chemistry between Leaguer and Yakuma and their sassy side-kicks. It reminds me a little of Weiss Kreuz, although it never takes itself too seriously.

Two short stories and a spin-off. (1) A hedge-fund manager, who always tries to buy off his sexual partners with money, hires a detective to find his former sex-friend in order to reclaim an exorbitant sum he stole. Neither anticipate what happens when they find him. (2) Drinking buddies turn into lovers, but can't seem to abandon the competitive streak in bed. (3) The lover who absconded with the hedge-fund manager's petty cash comes crashing into his past when a yakuza enforcer shows up and asks him to resume his duties as the heir. To put him off, the lover gives him a task he thinks is well beyond him: to make love until he comes. Interesting and with an authentic vibe, but not particularly realistic. Monden Akika has a thing for Ojii-samas and scruffy men.

Monden Akika loves scruffy oyaji-sans, and Detective Yagi is one scruffy old gay detective nursing a guilty conscience for feeling aroused at the sight of Amemiya, his kouhai, being violated by a psychopath, even though he put the man behind bars. Other stories in the series include a timid and straight-laced reporter who never owned up to his crush on a less inhibited colleague and the heir to a yakuza family and his very scruffy bodyguard.