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

A wide range of mainly school-setting stories about friends becoming gay lovers. Some of the earlier art and translations are a bit rough and threw me out, but towards the end of the volume, both the translation and the stories improved drastically. The last story, about the real cost of adulthood, is excellent.

Hibiki's school friend, Chiaki, attracts a lot of attention from other guys even though he's straight, something which Hibiki uses to his advantage in order to score. He overplays his hand with Chiaki's latest "stalker", Nakamura Hajime, in a surprising twist, but everyone goes home happy.

A cutesy-wootsy fluffball of a story about a trio of childhood friends, 2 boys and 1 toy-chihuahua-type girl, where one of the boys has a crush on the other seemingly oblivious boy, and doesn't know how to be vulnerable or needy in front of his friends.

Series of short school-centred stories. The last one, involving a tragic past, is the most interesting.

Two very different one-shots. (1) A highschooler blackmails his tutor into sex by threatening to reveal that he has a crush on his older brother. This one has a spectacular plot twist and is very engrossing. (2) Zany comedy about a highschooler who spends so much time chasing after an unrequited love, he completely neglects to notice someone who is in love with him. The first story is much more absorbing than the second, but it doesn't look as though this collection of short stories is going to be finished since it hasn't been updated in forever.

A slip of the tongue sends Matsushita into the arms of a blackmailer, not that he minds. A story about being comfortable enough to let a partner take over responsibility for sexual wellbeing.

Series of short stories.