Hokay, so. Kurokawa Mitsugu is a typical salaryman. One day he's out drinking and his friend gets blitzed, so he takes him home. On the way, they bump into Tatsumi Tomoe, a young, confused, blushing little nerd WHO SHOOTS UKE BEAMS OUT OF HIS EYES. I'm not even kidding. Drunk!Friend, aka Deus ex Machina Isogai, pukes in Tomoe's jacket, leading Mitsugu to pay for it to be cleaned.

One somewhat convoluted story involving Tomoe being a naive ditz later, our hapless meganekko (glasses-wearing) uke is crashing at Mitsugu's house in the spare bedroom. He's actually in town to take the entrance exam at the local Super Exclusive University, so Mitsugu shows him around the school and is drawn in the by the UKE BEAMS OF DEATH.



Suffice it to say, Mitsugu falls for Tomoe, and before Tomoe gets on the train to leave town Mitsugu kisses him. He manages to get away with it using that lame "cultural misunderstanding" excuse. Tomoe winds up staying with Mitsugu long-term when he gets into his school. Cue the entrance of unhappy homo-hating brother Souichi and free-loving but EVIL American homo Rick. (They keep referring to themselves and each other as homos, so I can't help but do the same, sorry.)

Suffice it to say, what follows is the misadventures of Mitsugu trying to get naive (fuck it-- I'll go ahead and call him stupid) uber-uke Tomoe to fall for him, while keeping his over-protective brother from killing T. AND preventing EVIL AMERICAN GAYS from molesting T. (Aaand sorry for the shortening, but my pronouns were getting confused.)

It's hilarious. It's got great art, albeit kind of early-90s-shoujo-looking. No smexing, but it's funny enough that it doesn't bother me. Mitsugu looks way girlier on the cover than he does in the actual manga, and the EVIL GAY AMERICAN talks weird (they replace all his Ls with Rs, which can kind of make sense for Japanese people speaking English but which makes NO SENSE the other way around).

But those are things I'm willing to forgive for something that actually elicits giggles from me.

Mangaka: Takanaga Hinako
Censorship: N/A
Warnings: Silly, and EVIL GAY AMERICANS.