Masaki Michishita is just your regular run-of-the-mill typical guy. Just as he is happening to be running to a park washroom, he spots a man wearing a jumpsuit sitting on a nearby bench. As he spots the man, who is named Takakazu Abu, he suddenly unzips his jumpsuit and exposes his penis, asking "Wanna do it?". They then proceed into the washroom and have sex.
"Kuso Miso Technique" (lit translation - "Shit Soup Technique"), AKA "Yaranaika?" (lit translation - "Shall we do it?"), AKA "Kuso Miso Soup" (Just how many names can something this short have?), is pretty much an entirely unremarkable one-shot Yaoi manga. There's literally almost nothing to this particular Yaoi outside of this one short scene, which I've literally summed up in it's entirety in the plot description, so there isn't much to talk about the manga itself.
Would I recommend "Kuso Miso Technique"? Only if dudes literally peeing into other dudes butts is your thing. Personally, if I saw something called "Shit Soup Technique", I'd normally would not want to be a thousand feet of it. Now I have it etched into the recesses of my mind for the sake of a review.
But considering that the unremarkable plot setup and niche appeal, how did this end up becoming an infamous meme on the internet during the early 2000s? It's actually a really easy answer. The two guys have some of the most absurd facial expressions. Let's get into a bit of a history lesson. Bet you weren't expecting that in the middle of your Yaoi review, were you.
"Kuso Miso Technique" was first published in 1987 in the second issue of Barakomi, a Japanese gay-interest magazine. It didn't receive my fanfare upon it's release and was promptly forgotten for about 15 years until a few scanned images of the vintage Geikomi began circulating online via image boards in 2002. By popular demand, the full-length version was uploaded on Futaba Channel in 2003, and it soon spread to sites like NND and 2channel, becoming infamous for the facial expressions of the two main characters along with it's absurd plot, becoming a full blown meme in the process, and soon being associated with other memes like the lesser known and used "Breadfriend".
You've probably seen the faces of either one of the two lead characters in some reaction image or used in a meme somewhere and just didn't know it or didn't realize where it was from. And knowing where it actually came from makes the whole meme that much funnier in my opinion. Who would have thought that some random gay comic from the late 1980s would having lasting appeal outside of it's intended consumption.
