Endless Comfort, Sakuya Sakura, June Manga.

I admit it up front–I bought this manga for the plucky great danes on the cover.

Look at these faces!  (Note the dark grey nose at the far right, just peeking into the frame!)

The art isn’t bad, either, and I enjoy yaoi, but it’s the dogs that got me to buy this one. 

Yeah, yeah, dogs, mutters someone in the audience, so what?  And to this I say: Endless Comfort is a bit like Zoo Borns, except with porn, deftly handled relationships, and a well-written exploration of the healing of wounds from child sexual abuse.

Uh.  OK.  Maybe not the best ad-copy summary I’ve ever written.

And yet, I feel, fairly accurate.

Let’s try this again.  Endless Comfort is about Kuzumi, a wealthy man who returns to his mother’s manor house in the suburbs which she left to him after her death two years.  The manor house is where he spent his weekends as a child, and it houses the family servants (who helped to raise him), three great danes, and a new dog trainer named Yuu.
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