Twittering Birds Never Fly - Recommendations

• Ch: 37
• 2021 - 2022

Jin is the most perfectly beautiful man Matthew’s ever seen. He’s also a high-ranking and violent criminal full of frustrated ambitions and equally frustrated appetites. But Matthew, a sculpture student prodigy, can only see the beauty—not the darkness. One way or another, Matthew will pay the price for his muse, with his body... or with something far more costly.

• Vol: 6+; Ch: 53+
• 2008 - ?

Yukio has never had an easy life, and now lives in a slum with his friend, Tetsu. With his younger brother, Jun, in hospital and hefty medical bills to pay, he inadvertently turned to a local mafia boss, Hyodo for help. Now Hyodo pays the fees in return for Yukio joining his ranks and so the boisterous and irritable teen visits once a week to play chess. Meanwhile, Tetsu can do nothing but look on from the outside, and despite his feelings for Yukio and his desire to keep him safe, his best friend remains oblivious. With unrest brewing between Hyodo’s gang and a rival faction known as "Snake", and Yukio’s past returning to haunt him, Tetsu is even more determined to protect his best friend; but just what is hidden in Yukio’s past and why won’t he tell Tetsu the full story?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2008

Kabu and Nirasawa have a troubled relationship, to say the least. Harsh yakuza lifestyle, torture, and violent sex are everyday occurrences for the volatile couple.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 7
• 2016 - 2017

Jimmy, a small-time thief is caught pick-pocketing by Reese, but instead of handing him over to the police, Reese makes him slog hard for a day at the bookstore where he works. Wanting to get back at Reese for the humiliation, Jimmy breaks into his place, where he finds out that Reese is a retired cop. He gets the hell out of there but somehow, he can't get Reese out of his mind...

• Vol: 5; Ch: 23
• 1993

At seven years old, Ryuji's yakuza parents were murdered in front of him, leaving him so traumatized that he erased the memories from his mind and started living with his new mother, his biological aunt. At seventeen years old, Ryuji comes home one day to find his unknown past had caught up to him. While ten years ago his mind protected him by forgetting, now his body protects him by fighting blindly until nothing was left but dead bodies, pools of blood, and... his little brother Tomoya. What further hell awaits him in prison...?

• Vol: 3; Ch: 9
• 2007 - 2010

Sakura Gari is a Taishou Era romantic story, ten years in the making. It centers around the 16 year old Tagami Masataka as he is aiming to find his place in life. While attempting to start prep school as a rounin he encounters Saiki Souma, the son of a distinguished noble of the Saiki Koushyaku family and becomes part of the Saiki household.

• Vol: 8; Ch: 38
• 2014 - 2021

Today’s top could be tomorrow’s bottom when playing the caste game! School is hard enough as it is, but when students are forced to play a cutthroat game to determine their social ranks—and subsequent treatment—all bets are off. It’s a cruel game where the card you possess determines your class rank. Azusa has the king, the most powerful of the cards, allowing him to rule his class however ruthlessly he chooses. But all bets are off when Azusa is double-crossed, shattering his pride as he drops to target, the lowest of the ranks. Now bullied by the very people he himself mistreated, Azusa is given a choice—become the new king’s plaything…or service the entire class!

• Vol: 2; Ch: 13
• 2012 - 2015

4 years after the events of Bi no Isu... Kabu was told by his father, that he is going to succeed the Umezaki group, but he is hesitant to do so. On the other hand, Sagawa, who is regarded as the successor of the group by everyone else, tests Kabu’s loyalty by giving him an ultimatum, to give up his company or Nirasawa. For Kabu, Nirasawa is not only a convenient pawn, but at the same time he’s a lover, that has captivated him with his unexpected cuteness. Will Kabu really send Nirasawa away…!?

• Vol: 12+; Ch: 88+
• 2001 - ?

Freelance photographer Akihito Takaba is captured by the very subject he’s been stalking in his viewfinder—the handsome and enigmatic crime lord Ryuichi Asami! The older man ravages him, both body and mind. Does this mean the end for the naive photographer, or will he live to shoot another day?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 7
• 2016

Keisuke Takaba is an alpha who has just transferred to a new job serving under the cunning sales director, Miyabi Karasuma. Takaba is disturbed to learn that Karasuma brazenly uses the discrimination he faces as an omega to his advantage by using sex to climb the corporate ladder, while his helpless beta subordinate Utou cares for him when the strain on his body becomes too much. Describing his first experience walking in on one of his new boss's orgies as "a portrait of hell", Takaba despises watching the man let himself be used in such a degrading manner. But when Karasuma begins making advances toward him, Takaba finds both his body and his heart reacting to the erotic man, respecting his strength and tenacity in spite of his loose morals. As his desire to make Karasuma his and his alone grows stronger, Takaba finds his resolve slowly weakening... How long before his determination to keep his superior at a professional distance fails utterly?