When it comes to the host with the most, Yuu is number one! And anyone seeking his affections and time must pay quite the price. Lucky for Miroku, a part-time employee who is completely devoted to Yuu, he gets special access to the host's attention. But Miroku's obsessive behavior is interfering with Yuu's work and calls for some much-needed discipline.

What he doesn't expect is the way Miroku's eyes light up with desire at the suggestion! With a firm grip and some tough love, this obedience training is something they'll never forget.

Wolfhound has story by and art by IROHA MEGU. English translation is done by Jacqueline Fung. Lettering by Rebecca Sze. Published by Seven Seas Entertainment (November 10, 2026). Rated M.

Rebecca Silverman
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I always appreciate it when a manga doesn't glamorize sex work – and the host club the protagonists of this story work in does, in fact, count as sex work. Yu's mother was a hostess at a club that also encouraged its workers to sleep with clients, with the result that he was born, and despite his biological father meeting Yu and his mom twice a month to give them money, she had to continue engaging in sex work in order to support her child. To say that this wasn't a great life for little Yu, and one that sent him straight into sex work as well, might be an understatement. While I wouldn't say he hates or resents his work (which would be a fair assessment of how he feels about his mother), he's just as plainly not happy.

Enter Miroku. Miroku was a champion karateka until a massive ACL tear destroyed his dreams of getting karate considered for an Olympic sport and future competitions. Meeting Yu outside a convenience story gave him permission to try something else with his life, and he quickly applied for a job as a waiter at the club where Yu works. It's clear that that one interaction with Yu had outsize importance to Miroku, but it takes Yu most of the volume (a whopping 292 pages) to fall for the younger man. That's the greatest marker of their very different lives: Miroku feels safe falling in love with someone and devoting himself to them, while to Yu, those things only mean danger. He's not unkind to others; he's taken in a high school boy who appears to have had nowhere else to go. (But, uh, I think he occasionally sleeps with this minor, so…) But he's not going to trust someone just because they like him, something we can see the value of in his client Hina.

Hina is, simply put, an obsessed stalker. I use “obsessed” here not as a superfluous statement, but to indicate that she's another level of stalker entirely – not only does she merely stalk Yu, she also abuses Miroku and later tries to kill one or both of the men. She's meant to be the other side of the sex work coin: she's not a sex worker, but her inability to understand that it's just a job for Yu leads her to truly unbalanced acts and to spending a ruinous amount of money. She's contrasted with his other regular client, Yuri, who has a very healthy understanding of what Yu does – and also doesn't appear to want actual sex from him, either.

Wolfhound appears to be related to two other works by the same creator, and as of this writing they're only available on futekiya's service. Yu's in one of them, with Ren, the boy he took in, from what I can gather from the afterword), so I suspect that this may not be quite as standalone as advertised. But it's not difficult to read and understand and I like that the men all have different figures. It's good but not great, and if you don't mind a scene of someone getting a neck piercing or that chapter 0 seems to contradict the happy ending, it's worth a read.