Ai wo Utau Yori Ore ni Oborero - "I would rather drown in you than sing of love"

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/ai_wo_utau_yori_ore_ni_oborero/

I...

I am so confused. In the face.

Also, in the pants.

Sorta.

::peers through fingers and cackles::

Summary: Akira Shiraishi, a young high schooler with girlish features even though he's a guy, joins Blaue Rosen, Mizuki Sakurazaka's band. Their high school life is anything but typical: Mizuki is the prince of her all-girl school while Akira is the princess of the neighboring all-boy school. How will their relationship progress while others try to get back their prince/princess?

It takes Japanese visual gender conventions and gives them a wedgie. And then a blow-job.

The guy looks like a shoujo manga girl...which sorta looks like a guy. And the girl looks like a shoujo manga guy...which sorta looks like a girl.

CUE THE AUDIENCE'S DEEP DEEP CONFUSION. Seriously, all the related comments in the forum are some variant of "wtf?" and "huh?" and "I like this! But I am deeply confused...(in the pants)"

Also, it seriously lends proof to my theory that japanese het (or at least shoujo het) is more slashy than their slash (which is still overrun by girl-with-a-penis syndrome).

Mossore

http://www.mangafox.com/manga/mossore/

There's sorta a mostly one-sided m/m relationship in this manga, but it's not why I love it.

I love it because I actually HURT myself laughing and my stomach is still sore the morning after.

It's visual humor and ironic humor and satire and random humor and crack humor and you kinda just want to yell at the author, "What CRACK were you *ON*??" but you can't actually get the words out because you're loling so hard that you're choking on your own spit.

And it's sneaky too! You'd be reading along, all innocent, and then you get to somewhere volume 2 or 3 and realize that your face hurts and you don't even know WHY.

Also, I can so relate to Chitrose's problem. x.x

Summary: Chitose never listens to what people say, he always hears something slightly different from what they actually said. Mostly his results are just frustrating, but when his friends, Yakushima and Haneda, get injured and punished because of his inattention, Chitose knows he has to do something. But when he decides to try mind reading, his results are unexpected to say the least.

...or at least that's what the site gave me...

...it's not really about that at all.

If anything the series is about a group of friends who are deeply, deeply dorks, and their hijinks. (I love the little person screaming from Haneda's mouth...::dies dies dies::)