I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone: Shameless

I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone: Shameless, known in Japan as Namaiki. (生意気。, lit. "Cheeky.") is a manga written and illustrated by Shiuko Kano. It is licensed in English by Digital Manga Publishing, which published I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone: Shameless in November 2007. It involves a construction worker without a high school diploma who falls in unrequited love with a woman who likes intellectuals. He approaches her brother for tutoring, but the brother agrees on the condition that the construction worker pay him in sexual favours. A sequel volume, Maybe I'm Your Steppin' Stone: Loveliness, known in Japan as Kawaige. (可愛気。, lit. "I Feel Kawai."), was published by DMP in February 2008.