I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #fluffy(7)

Series of one-shots involving salarymen.

A cutesy-wootsy fluffball of a story about a trio of childhood friends, 2 boys and 1 toy-chihuahua-type girl, where one of the boys has a crush on the other seemingly oblivious boy, and doesn't know how to be vulnerable or needy in front of his friends.

Nope, no WTF!Japan moments here. No bird-luvin' or eating of eggs that may contain the embryoes of your half-chicken children like in one manga which will remain nameless. Here, chicken means wuss in the wateriest sense of the word, and Tatsumi is one gay stalker who can't even talk to his prey without dissolving into tears. When Queen of the BDSM Floor Show, Rai, gets the handsome bouncer/receptionist Taira to look after his stalker problem by teaching Tatsumi a little discipline, has he chosen the right sadist for the job? Takarai Sai can really lead readers into some strange back alleys in the city of yaoi, but this hasn't turned out to be one of them ... yet.

Don't let the sombre tone of the cover illustration fool you. So far (Chapter 1), this is a cute and well-paced story, which flirts with the edge of too much coincidence for realism without quite crossing over it ... yet. Yokoyama Naoki, a salaryman mired in gloom after his male partner and former colleague dumps him for a wife and child, keeps having fortuitous and random "meet ups" with Okada Yuumi, an eager and bright, young errand boy with romantic problems of his own. Is this a fluffy cure for heartbreak? Keen to see where mangaka, Hanakawa Chito, takes us.

Cute story of a couple with no real problems to speak of and no real conflict to generate plot. So cute story, but not particularly memorable.

Domestic couple story. Hajiwara, a single gay man who had been rejected as a child by his father and stepmother after the remarriage, vows he will never put another child through this experience and swears off all family men, no matter how attractive he finds them. Fortunately, he is no match for Yuuto Maki and his very cute son, Ritsu. There are moments in the story that give pause, but the overwhelming feel of the manga is cutesy wootsy.

Cutesy wootsy story of an unsinkably positive and sweet fluffball of a boy and the scary dude with the Sanpaku stare who falls for him.