I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #magic(5)

Series of short stories surrounding a mysterious bartender/magician/sex therapist/male prostitute who mends the broken hearts and relationships of gay couples using illusions and hypnosis.

The intertwined lives of ultra-comely alien shapeshifters who band together into their own entertainment company and restaurant for safety. So far, it just seems to be a vehicle for admiring bishies, all of whom are incredibly hot and talented and perfect, not that there is anything wrong with that. I just hope that the intrigue ramps up soon as there is only so much "Gee, you sure are handsome and perfect and ultra-talented" before it gets a bit more of the same.

Hot apprentice-Devil just made a contract with a gormless college kid of three wishes in exchange for his chastity. Since this is a battle over gormless college kid's soul and Screwtape's flame-free living quarters, I expect there will be some drawback to this arrangement that shows up ... eventually? So far, there doesn't appear to be any.

A magician saves a timid slave. The enraptured slave tries to trick him into falling in love with him by swallowing a potion which he believes transforms him into the most beautiful sort of man.

Alternate reality in which dragons were used in a battle which seems to be styled on the Siege of Leningrad circa 1944. Like most of Inariya's work, this story is geared to meet the fetish for smartly tailored military uniforms on a burly, blond, wild-dog giant paired with a cold, cruel and dainty smaller man, along with BDSM in which the uke is Dominant. Like most of her stories, even when the relationship heats up with sex, there is always a violent and hostile undercurrent to the relationship. It's interesting, but cold.