I Thot You Was a Toad's manga / #school daze(58)

Serious art nostalgia for the 1980s, like something straight out of Banana-Fish or Kusatta Kyoushi no Houteishiki: boy acts like a dork in front of The Big Kahuna (another ordinary bloke in his class for whom he's got the hots) working himself into awkward crack!spasms while trying to reach out and make friends. Could be fun.

Tsuda starts to notice Endou, the kid with the wild mop of hair who sits in front of him in class, but Endou makes a point of ignoring him. This makes him interesting to Tsuda, who isn't interested in much of anything, let alone anyone.

Threesome! Haruki and Ikumi both love Hiroo, but Hiroo still harbours delusions of not being gay. Poor boy, it's yaoi. He hasn't got a chance.

Stories about high school boys who develop crushes on each other. The art has a gestural quality.

One schoolboy falls for another at first sight, simply because his face resembles that of "an angel", or rather, a porcelain doll that his mother collected. Unfortunately, when he realizes his angel is a boy, and a surly, bad tempered one at that, everyone freaks out at "the homo" proving the general adage that school is shitty and soul-crushing. Fortunately, "the homo" seems to have some good friends who don't care about that.

Another school-based story. This time childhood friends suddenly stop talking to each other after a night of drinking, and one of them can't remember why, although the other one seems to remember quite clearly.

It followed all the rules. The adult teacher did not initiate physical contact with the student, etc., etc.. He waited until graduation and adulthood. But the story is lifeless and dull as fuck, even with potentially cute characters. That's because it's written according to rule. It might as well have had a good social mores stamp of approval, but it doesn't make it any more interesting to read. I mean, seriously! Did they have some kind of committee meeting to decide what was proper to include? It's like the story was written by a committee.

Good stories about mutual attraction and patience in love. These couples wait for each other to be ready. Very realistic, if simple and straightforward, and this gentleness gives them a romantic quality. Kujou Aoi's art is very beautiful, if somewhat traditional.

Threesome, twincest, masturbatio-not-quite-interruptis, self-lubricating butthole, PWP ...

This starts off as a comedy about a boy with incredible misfortune who gets conned into joining his school's gardening club so the sempai who run it can scam the school for money. Then the story gets dark and serious with tragedy and treachery in the past.