TOP MANGA OF THE WEEK

1) Loveliness ~ Maybe I'm Your Steppin' Stone Hirosue Kenji the convenience store clerk has a huge crush on his regular customer Mogi Kousei. When he finds out that Kousei's son is going to the same nursery as his niece, he takes the opportunity to get closer to his dream date. (Kousei was introduced in chapter 4 of I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone) 2) Loveliness ~ Passion Honey Mejiro Yasushi goes home after a hard day's work and finds his lover/cousin cheating on him. He heads over to Kousei's place for a drinking session and Nakano Shunji the grouchy co-worker joins them. Yasushi discovers Shunji's secret in the middle of the night. (continuation of Shunji's story in Otonage.) 3) Loveliness ~ Passion Baby Yasushi learns more about Shunji's painful past and his dependence on Kousei. 4) Loveliness ~ Charm Point Kenji doesn't understand why Kousei and his ex-wife is divorced even though they get along fabulously. He feels uncertain about Kousei's feelings for him, for he could start dating other women again. 5) Special Illustrations Includes: - About Delicacy Kousei and Kenji discuss public baths. - The Best! Shunji and Yasushi is finding his place hot and tight. - Kousei and Kenji's cosplay See Kousei as a host and Kenji as a construction worker. 6) Daylight Kosaka is obsessed with bikes and displays little interest in anything else, while his classmates are drooling over girls. Hotta his classmate has other matters on his mind as well...

From Storm In Heaven: It's all the little things that Ikeuchi does that makes Shinoda want him. Shinoda's been gay for as long as he can remember, but he's still a virgin. Then he falls in love with Ikeuchi, a younger man on the same basketball team. However, Ikeuchi has a girlfriend... is there any way Shinoda can make him want him?

From BLU: From modern-day tales of romance in Seattle, to eerie stories from historical Japan, to Yoshinaga-sensei's depiction of the class conflicts that fueled the French Revolution... In these unforgettable tales, there's a little something for every BLU fan! And perhaps best of all, the characters Claude and Antoine (a young aristocrat and his butler) are introduced in this volume. Catch up to their later adventures in Fumi Yoshinaga's 'Lovers in the Night'! *Contains a oneshot called True Tenderness. 'Ai towa Yoru ni Kizuku Mono' (Sequel)

Haruto and Ikuto have just transferred to a boarding school. Beautiful Ikuto is instantly a target for the boys all around! And as his brother Haruto desperately protects him, the School King, Ouga, has his own plans in mind!! All-boys school has never been this dangerous!! (from back cover, translated by Nakama)

Licensed.... This time focusing on the two elder brothers of Kenzou Honda... Shouichi Honda goes to the Asian imported product shop to collect the tax. There he happens to meet an importer, his younger brother, Junji who had run away from home. When Shouichi returns home, Junji is already there having a card game with their parents. They realize how their feelings have not changed since they made love only once 10 years ago. Relaited story: Close the Last Door: Saigo no Door wo Shimero Included is an extra side story.

1) 34 pages chapter about how Takumi came to live in the derelict apartment building. Not scanlated. 2-5) Takumi Kusunose is a man who loves the company of others and simply cannot abide being by himself. When he took responsibility for his company's losses by paying out of his own pocket, it nearly broke him. As a result, he was forced to move into a cheap apartment, but what happens when the sexy blonde guy next door begins making sexual advances at Takumi...?! And what happens when Takumi's former secretary shows up, turning Takumi and his neighbor's potential relationship into a love triangle?!

Taka-chan, an honor student, desires his less-than-brilliant childhood friend, Ken. Taka-chan plots the seduction but Ken keeps doing things that disrupt his plans. Will these two ever get together? One-shot. From Baka-Updates: High-schooler Takayuki is considered a cool elite; all his peers are sure his thoughts are about nothing but serious, important subjects. However, they're mostly just wild fantasies about his childhood friend, the cute but simple Ken. Using all his cunning and wiles, Takayuki's determined to win over Ken.

Socially awkward Aono was perfectly happy working in Quality Control as but fate would have it he's been transferred to the Sales Department?? As if being ridiculed by his co-workers for his nervous stutter isn't bad enough, he's thoroughly mortified when the departmental star Gouzaka overhears him having a breakdown on the roof. But no matter how often he pushes Gouzaka away or how fast Aono runs Gouzaka is always there by his side...

1) Sweet Spring Tomoyuki was having a secret relationship with his boss until one day the boss decides to break up. Pretending to be happy about this matter, Tomoyuki meets the window washer Katsuhiko and accidentally breaks his arm. Then he decides to help Katsuhiko until he gets better. 2) Cherry Boy Akira has a boyfriend, Yoshiki, but he doesn’t feel ready to take it further than kissing while Yoshiki has expressed the fact that he would like to take it to the next step. What will Akira decide? 3) The Downfall Masami always feels aroused in kinky situations. One day, in a very crammed subway, a man presses himself against him while being erect and or course, this arouses Masami… 4) Change of Seasons The Professor Asaoka becomes the obsession of an Hokkaido student, Koyanagi, who's visiting the campus... The young man doesn't hesitate to take the "lead" despite Asaoka's protests.

1. Let's Live Together The boss who arrived with the staff transfers is, in spite of being my boss, super cute. Toda-san came from the Kansai Branch, and somehow ended up freeloading at my house...! When I come home I'm greeted by a half-naked Toda-san, at night we share one bed and Toda-san rubs against my back...!! Wha-what?! I've been embraced!! This kind of life seems like the sweet life of living together with your lover... or so you might think, but between two men is it "living together" or "homosexuality"? What am I thinking!! - From Nakama 2. Fight With Love Kitada Aki has been stuck taking care of Otoda Jun since highschool. Lately, though, Jun has been saying bad jokes about being in love with Aki... what should Kitada do? 3. Secret Meeting When Sasuke's father died, Zenjirou swore to stay by his side. Sasuke was taken in by a brothel to be raised as a male prostitute from childhood, while Zenji spent years searching for him. Zenji finally found him... but Sasuke/Yakumo* reached 16 and has already been bought for mizuge (losing-the-virginity ceremony). Will Zenji's love be unrequited, or will they both be partners in a forbidden love? Can Zenjirou watch the only one he has ever loved be owned by another man? A story of love between a prostitute and a young master. *Yakumo is Sasuke's "shop" name. 4. Pure Thread of First Love A "prequel" to Henai Prince. This is the story of the younger Takahshi brother Kenji and and the youngest of the Satou brothers, Youhei. It's not exactly a prequel as it is about different characters. 5. Clumsy Lovers Hashimoto-sempai is always yelling at Nishi. All the other soccer players say that Hashimoto is bullying him, but Hashimoto actually loves Nishi very much... he just doesn't know how to express himself well. Their relationship stays forced, until Hashimoto finds out Nishi is going to Italy to go pro... 6. Let's Pass Time Together Extra on Matsushita and Toda from chapter 1

A young Chinese boy, Lee-Ren is purchased from his poverty stricken mother by a Japanese official for sexual purposes in 1910. Thus begins the 'owned' life of Lee-Ren in his master's household, where he is alternately sold out and used within. Jin, the naive young son of the master, grows up with Lee-Ren. This is the story of their tumultuous relationship.

Toshiya takes in his former teacher's unruly son, Tetsu, as a favor after Tetsu gets into some trouble with the mafia. Tetsu does everything he can to get Toshiya's attention, including having sex in his room, bringing home random guys, and molesting Toshiya every chance he gets. Meanwhile, Toshiya is gradually seduced by the store manager at work. The store manager and Tetsu fight it out through violence and more passive-aggressive techniques in hopes of getting Toshiya's affection---or his body, whatever.

1) Sambika: In a far country ruled by a beautiful Duke who seems to have formed a peculiar relationship with his right hand, Lord Yuri, there are cases of unexplained deaths... they would involve a vampire according to the spreading rumour. ~ Pg. 3-35 2) Killing Moon ~ Pg. 37-76 3) Life of the Machine: Koreya Takane, a famous scientist, had enough of the constant obligations required by his position when all he really wants is to be left alone with his work. That's how, in order to satisfy his taste for solitude, he build up a mechanical clone of himself... But what if it becomes impossible to distinguish the replica from the original man in the end? ~ 80-115 4) Prince of Monster: A kind prince with strange red eyes who had been locked up by his uncle decides to end his misery... without knowing the grief it'll cause to his brother. He suddenly reappears 13 years after but what if he really has become the “Prince of Monster” as he used to be called? ~ Pg. 116- 150 5) Bye Bye Mizuhara (From EoP)

A boy at a mysterious school has been splashed with a 'reducing potion' and he's searching for a way to cure himself.

From Attractive Fascinante: As an elite Moral Order Committee President, Sakaguchi Chiaki, never told anyone about his secret. However, only Mizoguchi, one of the members, understood him. Sakaguchi’s uncertainty stepped in before their term ended. Where is the borderline between friends and lovers? When their bodies touched, that borderline fused together with their feelings. When they met again later, would the borderline still exist?

[From: Mangaupdates] A continuation of the oneshot Kaizoku Game in Ousama Game that features the rest of Kuuron's pirate crew. 1) Yuuki's older brother got caught at his pirate lover and was imprisoned on the ship. In the time he is being supervised by a cook. All the meals prepared are untouched and the cook got angry since all the crew recognized his talent... And the problems all start when some people don't like the relation between them... what will happen... till they have a good ending? 2) Rika, the first mate of Kuron, has been in love with Kuron for 8 long years. Even so, he never confessed his feelings and so he relieves his "other love" off the pirate ship. But one of this sex friends joined the crew... and decided to help Rika... but all that made Rika have other thoughts... what will he do? Accept the help...??!!

The so-called “Hard-boiled man” famous novelist, Takamura, came to a seaside village and encountered a youth named Midori, who bewitched Takamura with his jade green eyes. But before the cynical novelist realized it, he was dragged into a small hostel ran by Midori’s family! Later, Takamura learned that both Midori and him shared similar heartbreaking childhood experience, yet Midori never lost his faith and trust. In anger and frustration, Takamura violated Midori! How would these two come to terms with their feelings for each other?

From Boys On Boys Love: Katou is a member of the high school swim club. Matsuoka has come to bring him lunch and use Katou as his stress relief punching bag yet again. To the sympathy of his club mates, impulsive Katou totally falls for him, saying with a shy smile that Matsuoka is cute… Even as Katou treats Matsuoka kindly and tells him that he loves him, Matsuoka remains a total tsundere, leaving doubts to linger in his heart!

Shouji is a successful businessman with one problem: his next door neighbor and childhood friend Niki who can't do anything without his help. Where will these two end up? From Baka-Updates: Lazy, deadbeat manga author, Niki (pen name: Kaoruko Goutokuji), finally caught his big break! Except for one problem: his almost supernatural inability to do just about anything! But with a hot, elite business man, Shoji Tatsuhiko, as his childhood friend who constantly looks out for him, who can blame him?

Follows the rather tempestuous relationship of two writers and touches on the lives of those they interact with. Both those that hate and/or envy them and those that love and/or like them. Not a modern story, it seems to be set at least several decades ago, before computers at least. Despite this, it doesn't have a dusty, out-of-date feel to it, more like a slow-tempo modern story. Vol.1 Hitodenashi no Koi (1999) Vol.2 Itooshii Hito (2000) Vol.3 Omoware Bito (2001) Vol.4 Hitori ni Shinai (2002) Vol.5 Aisareru Hito (2004) -officially dropped by Game Over or Continue after finishing up v2-

[From Attractive Fascinante]: Naruse Sachi left his student ID at Happy Villa. His kouhai, Kunisaki picked it up and wants to return it. But does Kunisaki expect any favor in return? Sachi-chan kawai-ness is making Kunisaki all nervous and excited. Will Sachi accept being pursued by this first love of his life, his kouhai, and a guy on top of that? Sequel: Naturalist no Kare

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Born of an Incubus clan, Tsukiya has had enough of the pain that comes from only bringing death to the human men he comes to love and so closes his heart, and denies himself from ever again feasting on human souls. Gento, the ever persistent demon that he is, has never been far from Tsukiya's side and has seen him mourn the death of many lovers, never understanding why Tsukiya continued to seek a love with these mortals that would forever bring him nothing but pain. Now years later can Gento, still ever pursuing Tsukiya, finally win over Tsukiya's heart for himself, and can Tsukiya help a young Incubus through the pain that comes from falling in love?

Story about the relationship between twin brothers,Yuichi and Ryoji in a sexual relationship. In comes a 3rd guy, what will happen next?! Note: Very hardcore/graphic yaoi including incest, bondage, blood and toys.