I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #ghost(4)

Iku is an unsociable otaku who avoids human contact after moving to Tokyo, but has acquired the uncanny ability to see ghosts ... or, more specifically, the ghost of Seo Mimori, on the pedestrian overpass near his apartment. Once Mimori realizes Iku can see and communicate with him, he follows Iku home and soon the pair are living together, except for that one moment at 10:45 every night when Mimori returns to the bridge to re-enact his last corporeal act. Stung by the feelings of helplessness brought on by his mother's attempted suicide when the effort of raising Iku grew too hard after his father abandoned them, Iku swears he will never let Mimori experience the moment of his death again, and his passion leads to Mimori falling in love with him. Iku starts sleuthing to find out who Seo Mimori was and how he came to be on the bridge. This leads him, not to the grave that he fully expects, but to a hospital bed and a new set of problems which are addressed in Ohanu's beautiful, but confusing to follow sequel, 23:45 Re:. It takes some skilled and careful mining to extract the gold from this story and the sequel, but it's worth every moment.

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Weird story about a man who wants to take revenge on someone who jilted him by getting married to somebody else, but dies first, after getting smucked by a car, coming back as a spook in order to change history ... or is it, destiny?

Sequel to Ohana's 23:45 in which Mimori had a near-fatal accident and, while his body lay comatose in a hospital bed, his spirit astral-traveled to Iku's apartment and lived there until they eventually fell in love. When Mimori regained consciousness, his memories of his spirit life did not carry over and, so, when Iku confessed to him and explained what happened, it was beyond his comprehension and Iku was rejected. Mimori is drawn to him, however, and keeps finding reasons to connect and, when he can no longer muster scant reasons, his friends intervene, until the memories resurface as flashes of spirit bring them back to mind. Difficult to follow, but very rewarding to read directly after the original, this story affirms the power of the heart over the material constrictions.