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Short introduction to Like the Beast:

Tomoharu Ueda is content being a police officer in his neighborhood. He likes helping people, and in return, people like him. One night, he gets visited by a yakuza who turned to be the victim of the underwear thief he caught the previous night. The yakuza is Aki Gotouda, the heir of the Gotouda group, who thanked him for catching the thief. To Tomoharu’s surprise, Aki confesses that he has feelings for him. Thus starts a forbidden relationship between a police officer and a yakuza.


10. Junjou Romantica

Description: Misaki Takahashi has little hope of getting into a university, so his older brother Takahiro’s friend, Usami Akihiko, offers to tutor Misaki as a favor to Takahiro – for Usami is secretly in love with him. However, as time passes Misaki realizes that he has uncomfortable and budding feelings for Usami. Meanwhile, Hiroki is a man who can’t get over an unrequited love with Usami in the past – and with the help of Nowaki, he may finally learn to love again. These couples and more experience the joys and sadness of love between men under the most unlikely conditions.

Number of Releases: Vol: 25+; Ch: 90+

Release Year: 2002


9. Rutta to Kodama

Description: Ruizaki Takao has a new roommate: transfer student Miyagi Kodama. Ruizaki’s a rough guy who gets into fights all the time, but he’s gentler around Kodama (who gives him the nickname ‘Rutta’), and the two eventually become close friends—until one day, out of the blue, Rutta confesses that he’s in love with Kodama…and thus begins their relationship.

Number of Releases: Vol: 3; Ch: 21

Release Year: 2009


8. Mitsugetsu sura Ryakudatsu no Hate

Description: The elite police officer in charge of the organised crime division has been kidnapped by the yakuza to get back on his crack down on their turf. He awakes and finds himself in Hong Kong about to be gang raped by a bunch of men for entertainment purposes. In the nick of time, the enigmatic and mysterious Lau Fei Hung saves his ass. 

Number of Releases: Vol: 1; Ch: 5

Release Year: 2009


7. Beast & Feast

Description: Detective Kazuha has landed a murder case that brings him back into contact with a man who once attended junior high with him. Back then, their relationship was like oil and water, and it certainly seems to be the case now as well: while Kazuha is a police detective, Hyoudou is a member of one of the notorious yakuza groups. Hyoudou claims to be willing to bargain for some very important information pertaining to Kazuha’s case. His price is unacceptable, however. Demanding Kazuha, himself, as payment — the refusal given seems to not be an option he will accept! Now, not only after a cold-blooded killer, Kazuha finds himself stalked by his very own beast of a different sort. Will he catch the killer and come out with his heart, body, and soul intact?

Number of Releases: Vol: 1; Ch: 6

Release Year: 2007


6. Furachi na Keiji-san

Description: A detective, Takeda Issei, for the sake of destroying a yakuza group, surrenders his body to a yakuza member, Ishii Suguru, in order to obtain insider information. Even though Takeda has a rule where “I refuse to have a lover or a special person,” the reason Ishii becomes his lover is――.

Number of Releases: Vol: 1; Ch: 6

Release Year: 2014


5. Tired of Waiting for Love

Description: Having been sentenced to 5 years in prison for dealing drugs, yakuza Kyousuke Sawaragi just wants to finish his sentence and start a nice normal life far away from his past. So after parole, when he literally runs into former cellmate Shuuya, he’s in no hurry to renew their acquaintance. Fate seems to have other ideas though, having the yakuza and Shuuya repeatedly cross paths with him. Can he really turn his back on all of it, especially if it holds out his one chance at finding true love?

Number of Releases: Vol: 1; Ch: 6

Release Year: 2009


4. It’s Only Love (Yugi YAMADA)

Description: Izumi is a dedicated single parent haunted by his past while trying hard to make a future for him and his son. First suffering the crippling loss of his closest friend after their junior high graduation in what was an ego destroying personal rejection of their friendship, he then went on to lose his young wife due to complications of childbirth. Thankfully, his seemingly tough yakuza brother in law, Sawaragi, was there to lend a hand when he needed it most. Things seem to be going swimmingly well until his childhood friend makes a sudden reappearance, throwing Izumi into emotional turmoil. Just what is Takatsudo playing at, wanting to hang out like close friends again after all this time? Izumi’s determined to find out just what is going on before his heart is crushed beyond repair this time…

Number of Releases: Vol: 1; Ch: 6

Release Year: 2007


3. 100 Blossoms To Love

Description: Kotaro has always admired the life of the “honorable outlaw” that he’s seen so often in the yakuza movies of his youth…and it doesn’t hurt that he’s set up to inherit his grandfather’s role as the local yakuza boss! One day, after witnessing the quiet florist, Toraji, capture a purse-snatcher single-handedly, he declares him the ideal Big Brother he’s always looked for in the syndicate. From that day on, Kotaro stalks Toraji at his flowershop, all the while falling in love. Toraji’s dark past, including a criminal record from his affiliation with the yakuza, has hardened his heart against relationships…but will the ever-doting Kotaro help plant the seed of love to blossom once more?

Number of Releases: Vol: 1; Ch: 7

Release Year: 2010


2. Negai Kanae Tamae

Description: Kinukawa Yuusuke is a second-class pianist who earns a living by playing in small clubs. Things become complicated when Fukami, a yakuza boss with mesmerizing looks, becomes a regular at Yuusuke’s piano bar. As Fukami’s appreciation for Yuusuke’s piano playing grows, so do Yuusuke’s feelings for him. Although Yuusuke knows he shouldn’t be attracted to such a dangerous man, he finds himself unable to stop thinking about Fukami. And so, one night in a desperate attempt to get Fukami’s attention on something other than music, Yuusuke spills a drink on him…

Number of Releases: Vol: 3; Ch: 15

Release Year: 2005


1. Tokyo Yabanjin

Description: Kano Fubuki simply looked too young for his age. That was all well and good, but people found it hard believe that he was a bonafide detective, especially Kagetsuna Daimon, the head of a yakuza group involved in a current investigation. But when Fubuki is kidnapped, he’s about to find out that Daimon has more of a personal attachment to him than the criminals.

Number of Releases: Vol: 1; Ch: 4

Release Year: 2002


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