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Serge Battour is the son of a French viscount and a Romani prostitute, and despite his kind nature and academic talent, is shunned by his family and his peers due to the color of his skin. He begins to attend Lacombrade Academy, his father's alma mater, in the hopes that there he will find a place to belong. Gilbert Cocteau is, like Serge, the orphaned son of a wealthy family, and is infamous at Lacombrade for his beautiful and delicate appearance, lack of dedication to schoolwork, and habit of prostituting himself to other students. He has no intention to connect with any of his classmates, instead devoting himself to his uncle Auguste. Due to a shortage of living space, Serge and Gilbert become roommates even though Gilbert's antisocial nature has in the past made it impossible for him to room with anybody. Serge, being sociable and idealistic, is determined to be friends with Gilbert; Gilbert is only interested in either being able to manipulate Serge or push him away entirely. To the surprise of both of the boys, however, the two eventually form a deep, albeit generally dismal, bond that leads to a romantic connection. In 1979, this series was awarded the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award for shounen/shoujo manga. For those who don't like yaoi - this manga is more of shounen-ai and the sex scenes are nothing like the ones you can see in modern yaoi mangas. A bit of warning: "Kaze..." includes scenes of rape and child abuse (but no shota).
Na-kyum is a young painter with an exceptional talent: creating erotic images of men. Though he has published a few collections under a pseudonym, he has decided to quit painting. Then Seungho, a young nobleman, barges into his life. A hell-raiser notorious for his insatiable lust, Seungho forces Na-kyum to become his private painter. However, the nights that await Na-kyum are beyond anything he could have imagined…
The story centers around the film crew for Idol Survival, the internationally popular television program where swimsuited idols compete in games. The crew arrives on the same isolated South American island that TerraSave member Claire Redfield is visiting on an investigation.
After the top office worker traveled through time and space to become the daughter of the silly and sweet heroine of a melodramatic novel, she dominated parent-child variety shows with her strength and became a national daughter! Come and see the national daughter who can complain and act cute. Wake up!
From Yaoi Is Life: Utsugi is an investigator working for a detective agency. When he's asked to track the wife of a college professor, Yamashiro, he discovers that she's cheating on him with another professor from the same university named Okuzono Shuji. But this isn't the first time it's happened. Okuzono has stolen away the women Yamashiro loves countless times before. These intellectuals are embroiled in a twisted and convoluted relationship, and now this young investigator finds himself thrown into the mix.
Nonokawa was reunited with his former best friend, Kouya, when he returned to his hometown after it sunk under the dam 12 years ago. It was also 12 years ago when he suddenly started lusting after his best friend... Will the feelings buried deep in his heart be exposed once again?
Sekine Keiichiro is handsome, intelligent, and popular. He's a jack-of-all-trades who's loved by women. Loved, that is, until they find out he's passionless and stoic and completely lacking in conviction. In a moment of self-reflection he starts hunting: Can anything make him feel? He's about to find out.
Our ages are different, our ways of life are different, everything is different. But...I just want to be with her. Because I've never been in a miserable, tragic romance, I can say that unrequited love is fine. I don't know why I fell in love with this person...it's a mystery. They have different personalities, different ages, different ways of thinking, different looks, different everything. This is the story of girls who clumsily make up for what's lacking in the other. These are new side stories. Not a rewrite of the original serialized twitter comic.
“My feeling for Daichi should not be known... forever." Mihiro has been secretly liking his best friend, Daichi, a clumsy high-schooler who has bad luck with women. When Mihiro got confused with his relationship with Daichi, his upperclassman started to approach him. But why does Daichi act like he's jealous? Even though he supposed to be head over heels towards his girl crush...
In order to win the heart of her dream boy, an obese girl joins forces with her cousin to lose weight… — An amusing take on the topic “obesity” and how the right motivation can work wonders from the author of Piano no mori and Hanada shônen-shi. -Bakaupdates Note: This is part of a collection of oneshots in the manga Gaki no Koro kara.
"A long war between the Grasslands and Zexen has taken a heavy toll. When a long-needed truce fails, a quest is undertaken to find the legendary Flame Champion, who saved the Grasslands in another war years before." The third of the Suikoden series highlights the struggle of the bearers of the 5 elemental True Runes; True Fire Rune, True Water Rune, True Lightning Rune, True Earth Rune and True Wind Rune; amidst the chaos that ensued within the Grasslands. Who is the mastermind and what is his/her/their purpose? Based on the PS2 video game, it is also loosely based on the Water Margin classics, though it's limited only to the gathering of 108 Stars of Destiny in order to restore order.
Rintarou and Kiyo are childhood friends from kindergarten. Rintarou was initially troubled by Kiyo's sudden confession, but after Kiyo left to study abroad in England, Rintarou started to see him as a possible romantic partner. Now, four years have passed and Rintarou is a child-caretaker, while Kiyo has just returned as a new professional soccer player. Rintarou is uneasy about all the changes that have occurred to them both while separated, but Kiyo tells him that "for this whole time, the only one I've liked is you"...
