Couple Who Love Buttocks 3 of 3, Private High School For Beautiful Girls 2, Very Sweet by Koutake Hiroyoshi (3L 11 May 2011 manga)

The Level Comics 5.11 release update will have to make way for Jump for joy! over not having to line up at the cashier holding a Couple Who Love Buttocks manga after May. The final volume streets this week, according to Angelzon. (Thanks, Lina-chan, for the tip.)

Futari wa Oshiri Ai © Takada Rie/Shogakukan [First serialized in Judy]
Shiritsu! Bijinzaka Joshi Koukou) © Yokoyama Mayumi/Shogakukan [First serialized in Betsucomi]
Published in Indonesia as Couple who Love Buttocks and Private High School For Beautiful Girls by Tiga Lancar Comic/3L

It would've been perfect if now that 3L has checked off Couple Who Love Buttocks from its To Do list, it focuses on the sequel Doctor's Love, but ain't happening. The follow-up to Kuraku × Asako appears to be stuck at volume 2, even in its home country. But I'm jumping the gun. In the prequel's finale —

His willfulness drives her crazy, but Dr. Asako still loves genius colorectal surgeon Kuraku Budou. (Her boss's pheromones got a lot to do with it.) Eventually, Asako's surgical ‘Prince’ reciprocates and they end up lovers.

Sadly for Asako, her love life continues on its zero passion track — perhaps their first date would change that?? It appears so, that is, until Kamizu the troublemaker shows up.

There's an extra working woman's romance one-shot, Blueberry Marriageable Age following the main Couple Who Love Buttocks story.

☆ I mutter about the equally Mature or   [DEWASA] rated Private High School For Beautiful Girls penultimate (volume 2) After The Cut. The preview of the seems to be safe for (almost) all ages premiere—Very Sweet by Koutake Hiroyoshi—huddles down there, too.

3L josei, shoujo and seinen manga (2011.05.11)

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1. Couple Who Love Buttocks (Futari wa Oshiri Ai) 3 of 3 by Takada Rie [Finale]

Futari wa Oshiri Ai 「ふたりはおしり愛」 by Takada Rie
Shogakukan Judy, josei
Volume 3 first published in Japan 2008.10

Related series
Doctor's Love or Oshiri Ai - Shinsatsuchuu (sequel; two volumes as at 2010.05)

2. Private High School For Beautiful Girls (Shiritsu! Bijinzaka Joshi Koukou) 2 of 3 by Yokoyama Mayumi

Shiritsu! Bijinzaka Joshi Koukou 「私立！美人坂女子高校」
by Yokoyama Mayumi
Shogakukan Betsucomi, shoujo
Volume 2 first published in Japan 2004.06

Related Series
Zoku! Bijinzaka Joshi Koukou AKA Bijinzaka Girls' High School Returns! (sequel; volume 1 per 2010.09)

3. [Premiere] Very Sweet by Koutake Hiroyoshi

Very Sweet 「ベリースイート」 by Koutake Hiroyoshi
Ichijinsha 4Koma KINGS Palette Comics, seinen/4-koma
This volume first published in Japan 2008.07

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Couple who Love Buttocks 2 and My Sweet Roommate 2 of 2 (3L josei and shoujo manga out now)

Futari wa Oshiri Ai © Takada Rie/Shogakukan [First serialized in Judy]
Published in Indonesia as Couple who Love Buttocks by Tiga Lancar Comic/3L

Yes, yes, it's been at least 10 days since these 3L manga—Couple who Love Buttocks 2 and My Sweet Roommate 2—made it to bookstore shelves, but since (1) it's only one more time that I need to line up at a cashier holding a Couple who Love Buttocks tome and (2) someone asked me what I thought about Couple who Love Buttocks and (3) I need something to get me out of my blogging slump, so post we go.

In the second to the last volume of Takada Rie's genius colorectal surgeon x assistant romance, biseinen Kuraku Budou-sensei continues to treat Asako little more than a ‘lurve slave,’ saddling her with housework in addition to her clinic duties.

Can Asako make Budou 'fess up to his real feelings? At least, enough to make her job a little less onerous?

3L promises that this second volume, still rated   DEWASA or Mature, will make you laugh until your sides hurt.

Couple who Love Buttocks 2 compiles 4th to 8th Hip! (chapter): To Compete, To Confess [sic] Each Other, To Fight, To Realize [sic] Each Other and The Encounter.

My Sweet Roommate 2 of 2 by Yamada Komomo

Mainichi Kimi ni Koishiteru
© Yamada Komomo
Shogakukan [Cheese!]
Published in Indonesia
as My Sweet Roommate
by Tiga Lancar Comic

Meanwhile, Yamada Komomo's My Sweet Roommate heads toward its Happy End...or does it? Because her brother moved in with his fiancée, Mei ends up living with Akira, his former roommate and the son of Big Bro's future wife. Propinquity has conspired to make Mei fall for Akira and wonder of wonders, she has screwed up enough courage to confess her feelings to her roomie and leave the megane bishie speechless. They should be getting closer, but...?

My Sweet Roommate 2 contains chapters 5th to Last (8th) Day, plus an Extra Story.

Tiga Lancar Comic manga (2011.01.11)

1. Couple Who Love Buttocks (Futari wa Oshiri Ai) 2 of 3 by Takada Rie

Futari wa Oshiri Ai 「ふたりはおしり愛」 by Takada Rie
Shogakukan Judy, josei
Volume 2 first published in Japan 2008.08

Related series
Doctor's Love or Oshiri Ai - Shinsatsuchuu (sequel; two volumes as at 2010.05)

2. My Sweet Roommate (Mainichi Kimi ni Koishiteru) 2 of 2 by Yamada Komomo [Finale]

Mainichi Kimi ni Koishiteru 「毎日君に恋してる」
by Yamada Komomo
AKA Every Day I Fall in Love with You
Shogakukan Cheese!, shoujo
Volume 2 first published in Japan 2009.05

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Can I Hug You by Hanaya En, Couple who Love Buttocks 1 by Takada Rie, Shinobi Girl by Kayono (3L shoujo and josei manga out now)

All three are rated   [DEWASA] or Mature.

Dakishimete Ii desu ka © Hanaya En · Futari wa Oshiri Ai © Takada Rie
Shinobi no Onna © Kayono (Shogakukan)
Published in Indonesia as Can I Hug You, Couple who Love Buttocks and Shinobi Girl
by Tiga Lancar Semesta/3L

Whoever observed that one should be careful of what one wishes for was really on to something. Because never would I have dreamed when I asked for 3L to license the prequel to Takada Rie's Doctor's Love that I would get it. (And within two months of the Doctor's Love premiere, too.) And now that it's supposed to be in stores, it would really test my GET! anything Takada Rie courage to walk up to a cashier carrying — Couple who Love Buttocks 1.

Because over and above the title's egregious singular/plural disagreement (Couple is singular, d*mmit!), how can you keep a straight face whilst hanging on to a manga titled Couple who Love Buttocks?? And for two more times after that at that? (The josei series spans three volumes.) Sure, the original 「ふたりはおしり愛」 does translate into some serious rear end love, butt! I mean, but!

ROTFLMAO over, here's the Futari wa Oshiri Ai synopsis:

Kuraku Budou. A ‘sinful’ man who makes flowers bloom in the hearts of his patients. But the genius colorectal surgeon turns out to be One Giant Ego, as Asako—living with, working for, and worshipping Kuraku-sensei—finds out to her mortification.

For once the biseinen doctor strips off his white coat, he transforms into one willful dude who upends Asako's life.

Only time will tell if Asako can withstand the doctor's overtures.

That there's a sequel implies...

Previews of the Shoujo with a Male Lead Can I Hug You by Hanaya En (Wolves Reward) and the Things Are Not What They Seem shoujo smut Shinobi Girl by Kayono (Ah! Itoshi no Caramel Boy) are behind the Fake Cut.

3L josei and shoujo manga (2010.11.27)

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1. [Premiere] Can I Hug You (Dakishimete Ii desu ka) by Hanaya En

Dakishimete Ii desu ka 「 抱きしめていいですか」 by Hanaya En
Shogakukan Cheese! and Cheese! Zoukan, shoujo
This anthology (four stories) first published in Japan 2009.06

2. [Series Premiere] Couple Who Love Buttocks (Futari wa Oshiri Ai) 1 of 3 by Takada Rie

Futari wa Oshiri Ai 「ふたりはおしり愛」 by Takada Rie
Shogakukan Judy, josei
Volume 1 first published in Japan 2008.07

Related series
Doctor's Love or Oshiri Ai - Shinsatsuchuu (sequel; two volumes as at 2010.05)

3. [Premiere] Shinobi Girl (Shinobi no Onna) by Kayono

Shinobi no Onna 「忍びのオンナ」 by Kayono
Shogakukan Cheese!, shoujo
This anthology (three stories) first published in Japan 2003.02

Source: Angelzon.com, retrieved 2010.12.04

Previews continued

Can I Hug You by Hanaya En

I'm afraid someone's going to take her away from me...

So goes honor student Ushio's predicament. Ushio's top-notch grades force him to choose between his girlfriend and studies at a Tokyo university. But he just can't help angsting over who might be putting the moves on his beloved Ruka—not known for her perspicacity when it comes to men (read: she's a little dumb)—while he's away.

Can Ushio's peace of mind, what little there is of it, endure a long-distance relationship?

Baka-Updates Manga points out in its Dakishimete Ii desu ka entry that this Hanaya En antho also contains shorts: Hitorijime Shitai, Suki to Ienakute and Majo Sweets.

Shinobi Girl by Kayono

By day I'm just a high school girl set apart from my classmates who, for various reasons, keep their distance; by night, however, I become one very popular host, mobbed by female guests. I am Shinobi Girl.

One day, Secretly a Woman Yuuka meets Renka, a female patron, and loses both her heart and...body!?

A unique love story between two who conceal their true identities from each other is how 3L hypes Shinobi Girl, known elsewhere as Secretly a Woman (from ShoujoMagic's scanlation). Baka-Updates Manga has synopses for the other two stories in its Shinobi no Onna entry: Butterfly Night with its the rogue who takes Princess Sheherazade's virginity for revenge premise and the Deal with a Devil Lovers in the Tower that Touches Heaven.

Iamque opus exegi,
~niki DBA 30uɐlnɯɐnɥ (花木蘭03)
Mistress of Adoxography

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