I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #salary men(11)

This one is all about men's boobs and the trouble a guy can (and should) get into for dissing them.

Ace marketer, Ishikawa, out-performs everyone in the marketing department of this highly competitive firm, but when he has a bad day, he takes out his frustrations by sexually assaulting his gay co-worker, Takayama, who has just landed a big contract. Will Takayama be able to turn this into victory? Tsunoda Ryoku always spins a good story, and her workplace dramas actually involve people working at their jobs. This one requires moving past the rape-trope (which Blue claims — April 24, 2014 10:27 pm, http://www.mangago.com/home/mangatopic/520995/ — was incorrectly translated according to her licensed copy), but unlike most of these sorts of stories, this one ends with a more equal power distribution than it starts off with. It's worth reading for that alone.

Human/animal hybrids with some of the more endearing and aggravating traits of their pet natures work for a temporary replacement worker agency, developing relationships with the owners who hire them.

Series of one-shots involving salarymen.

It's a good thing that Sakurai Sakuya is so good at depicting sex, because those pages upon pages of smut featuring a manipulative seme, wolves around every corner and a borderline infantilized uke is terrific compensation for the wild-assed story premise and screwball comedy that makes me feel wrong for enjoying it so much. Baby talk and doe-eyed simpletons are not really my thing, but you need them for the stuff this company prez tries to pull off. My favourite moments were the ones where Aki shows he has some spine, wibble-y and tear-stained as it might be.

Whirlwind romance between two strangers on a train with some complications thrown in by an ex-wife looking for additional divorce funding.

Light realistic stories about various themes. (1) A young man is pursued by his boss, upon whom he once had a crush, but who he wants to discourage as he is now married. A gay neighbour intervenes, but won't step into the gap to replace him, even though the young man is just his type and is more than willing. (2) A mysterious loner of a boss and the young man who has a crush on him and discovers his extreme domestic habits. (3) A company secretary and the president's son, forced to share an apartment under extreme circumstances. (4) The secret language of flowers and a young man's love for a man he once saw in his youth.

Sakisaka, a gay salesman, cannot make up his mind whether to treat his touchy-feely mentor at work, Toujou, as a love interest or a rival, and Toujou persists in sending him very sly and scheming mixed messages. Since this is yaoi, which has foregone conclusions, I expect Toujou will end up every bit as crazy over Sakisaka as he hopes; it's just a question of how unpredictable or original the journey to that foregone conclusion will be. So far, with Toujou's wild marshaling and maneuvering, it looks promising.

A hotshot senior administrator in a multinational corporation shakes downs a corporate spy right at the start of this manga, seizes control of his cellphone and takes him prisoner. Espionage thriller start which sets up the seme/uke roles at the get-go, and now needs to reconcile the hero/villain chasm and resolve the mystery plot holes, hopefully in a fresh and unpredictable way.