I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #prostitute(2)

Double feature: first story is about a sadistic actor with a fetish for asphyxiating his partners, and the manipulations his producer goes through behind the scenes to satisfy his kink without attracting unwanted attention from the press, and where that leads. The second story deals with a young man who falls for the jilted lover of his best friend, a man who is now married and expecting a baby, which appears to take its inspiration from the single Alexander Pope line of poetry about "Who breaks the butterfly on the wheel?" The first story has an ironic ending. The second is lovely.

Sumikaya Kei is a former AV actor and crew member who has cut all ties to the past and works the box office at the local cinema theatre complex. This is where he attracts the attention of Okazaki, a young man of apparently good standing, who thinks he's beautiful. Sumikaya agrees to be sex friends, but Okazaki wants more. This comes to a head when Sumikaya's ex-boyfriend, the treacherous AV Director who used to secretly film their lovemaking and sell the tapes, reappears, followed by an even more sinister figure who requires inordinate courage to confront, setting up the story for an interesting suspense thriller.