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

Yaotomi has better luck than the average human being until he is "possessed" by the God of Calamity. Clever story premise with interesting characters and plot development. Unfortunately, it has been over a year since it was introduced, without any updates since, so it doesn't look as though it's going to be finished. Otherwise, it's a truly one-of-a-kind story, dazzling with originality and comedy.

Two students at the same high school, Ume and Take, keep meeting up at a laundromat. This leads to conversation and, eventually, doing things together. Take has lots of brothers, a motorbike, a part-time job and he's popular at school. Ume doesn't say much. They go to the same school. They know girls in common. So far, it's real, but there isn't much sign of yaoi.

Mayu and Rina are cross-dressers by night, but ordinary schoolboys, Iishima and Amikawa, during the day.

The Greek God Eros is causing mischief in the eastern pantheon's heaven world, until his bow is tangled up in the eastern love god's red string of fate. Oh noes. What will happen next? Hopefully, a lot of cross-cultural exchanging.

Rip-roaring suspense thriller and urban detective drama as a blackmailer saves a smelly derelict from some hoodlums and, recognizing him as someone from high school with whom he has a score to settle, takes him home. But who is this man, really?

Nishida Higashi hit the ball out of the park with this one. Usually her yaoi, with its bickering McBickerson idiot couples and oneupmanship pissing contests, irritates me like chewing on food with eggshells in it. But I have to hand it to her, she kept her style but sanded off all the gritty edges. The men are still "all-male". The star baseball player Hidaka still thinks he's hot stuff as he plays around on his girlfriend and then, blames her when she dumps him for another guy at the start of a cruise. He still acts like a bear with a sore paw, aiming to make everyone around him as miserable as possible in order to punish HER. The ship's captain, Matsudo, pulls some really, really stupid stunts in order to protect his crew and, in his unreliably skewed eyes, his kid. But there's that kid, Yuuto ... soft, shy, wanting to make his friends happy. The things that Yuuto brings out of these men and the things these men bring out of each other, changes everything. It's so against Nishida Higashi's usual storyline and default characters, and it's so GOOD. Stick with this one, even during the goofy parts, because it's worth it.