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

Cute and fluffy story about a clumsy and overly persistent men's underpants salesman and the stern, megane department store procurement officer with a taste for sweet pastries who figures out a much better way of retaliating for the young man getting under his skin. Oh-ho-ho!

Sex battle between the Demon King and the Hero, who are like a switched-at-birth idiot couple.

Another 5-volume installment in Sakyou Aya's werecats series. This one deals with lion, Shiou, and his half-brother, Michuru, whose feline identity hasn't popped out of the closet yet, as they negotiate their difficult, dangerous, emotionally fraught relationship between the minor distractions of rogue government agents trying to weaponize them, parents trying to whisk one of them off to Paris, school, career and two other cat-siblings, just the usual. And to top it all off, no sex.

A series of short stories by Mio Junta: (1) A waiter with an unpleasant personality attempts to mimic the Prince character in his sister's role-playing game and snags himself an actor who comes with a surprise twist. (2) A serious swimming teacher finds himself learning some fast lessons from a grocery store clerk who knows more about kids than he does. (3) A young man experiences insecurity when he notices how attractive his lover is.

A misbehaving diva of a failed actor, Nanami Jin, is sent to a doujin mangaka's studio to learn how to be a proper model, the career he gave up when his idol, supermodel Kase Yutai, retired. Jin keeps up his tantrums and egotism until he discovers that this mangaka happens to be Kase.

Keisuke is caught masturbating by classmate, Shinohara, just at the moment of orgasm. Now Shinohara has broken up with his girlfriend and is obsessed with watching Keisuke come. Fun and smutty hijinks ensue.

Now that their college students days are finishing, Haru thinks that his friendship with Kazushi, a friendship which began in early childhood, will continue to coast along at a platonic level indefinitely, so it's a crushing shock when Kazushi kisses him and confesses. At first, Haru reacts poorly, but when he sees Kazushi leaving him behind, he is overwhelmed by unrealized feelings. Realistic and smart, this is quite a good story about boys grappling with adulthood and self-realization.

Hibiki's school friend, Chiaki, attracts a lot of attention from other guys even though he's straight, something which Hibiki uses to his advantage in order to score. He overplays his hand with Chiaki's latest "stalker", Nakamura Hajime, in a surprising twist, but everyone goes home happy.

Shinohara Satoru has moved from the country (and newly wed sister) to a 6-tatami mat apartment in Tokyo in order to achieve his dreams of independence. Izumi Yuushin, his new neighbour, tests that resolve to the limits as he is aware of all Satoru's shortcomings on the personal responsibility scale. How's that? Well, Yuushin is a free spirited kind of guy himself, and moved away from his own doting mother in order to perform as an actor in a theatre troupe, and it isn't as though he wasn't in that same boat himself, once. The gay attraction business is just a side effect from being caring individuals, but the free-spirited acting stuff throws enough doubt into this idiot couple's miso soup that there is actually some conflict, resolution and plot to go along with this little family soap opera.