| Cut | |
| Genre: | Yaoi |
| Type: | manga |
| Author: | Toko Kawai |
| Publisher: | Biblos |
| Demographic: | Josei |
| Magazine: | Magazine Be × Boy |
| Published: | March 10, 2003 |
| Volumes: | 1 |
Cut is a one-shot Japanese manga written and illustrated by Toko Kawai. It was serialized in Biblos's magazine, Magazine Be x Boy, finishing at 5 chapters. It is licensed in North America by Digital Manga Publishing, which released the manga through its imprint, Juné, on March 25, 2009.[1] It is licensed in France as Juste au Coin de la Rue by Taifu Comics.[2] [3] Biblos released the manga on March 10, 2003.[4]
Sakaguchi is in a sexual relationship with his stepfather who is abusive, but he enjoys the pain because it helps mask darker memories from his past. He then meets another student with a troubled background, who may be the person to help him stop his self-inflicted pain.
Coolstreak Comics' Leroy Douresseaux comments on the author's "evocative art, in which she emphasizes emotion in body language, facial expressions".[5] Active Anime's Holly Ellingwood also comments on the manga artist's art saying, "the more serious overtones of this story give the artist a chance to show the more stark and dramatic side to her illustrations and imagination".[6] Pop Shock Culture's Michelle Smith comments on the scenes "involving incest and masochism" saying, they are "not played for titillation".[7]