price：$3.64
Blu
Usually ships in 24 hours Core2Duoノートレビュー 's review (Great Read and Artwork) 『As always, Misaki's escapades are hilariously romantic, and so are the small bits of Hiroki x Nowoki.
Junjo Romantica: Usagi-san and Misaki get manipulated by Isaka, the editor into attending an award assembly. Comedy arises when Misaki meets a stranger on a train on the way who appears to have some connection to Usagi-san.
Junjo Terrorist: Miyagi a college professor, and Shinobu a teenager are introduced for the first time in this series. My least liked pairing because of the 17 year age gap. Trouble arises when Shinobu learns of his sister divorces the man he has been secretly in love w/. The problem is that Miyagi is straight.
Junjo Mistake: Nowoki x Hiroki get some laughs in a cute but short bathing adventure.』
(Great) 『My sister said she loves the book and it was delivered fast with no problems.』
(Complete beautiful story.) 『Ok, for those that love yaoi this is by far the best series I have ever read, the books are kind of explicit but the romance shown in this series is far the best. I have cried, I have Aawwed, I have laughed. At times the situations are so cute I just end up blushing. It isn't like other yaoi titles that just goes straight to the sex, this story is just that a story of pure romance which is what Junjo Romantica means. I highly recommend it.』
(the bestest) 『omg. *dies* this series is just....wow! its funny, cute, interesting, and serious all at the same time! i cant really tell in words how cool it is. i give it THREE thumbs up! *drools* soooooo freaking kawaii! junjo Romantica ga daisuki desu!』 『A congratulatory party is being held for Usami for winning the esteemed Kikumaru Award. Sparks fly between Misaki and Usami's older brother Haruhiko - what can this mean? Meanwhile, a young boy named Shinobu is convinced that he and Miyaki, Hiro's superior university professor, are destined to be, but Miyagi is determined to shut him out.』
price：$4.47
801 Media, Inc.
Usually ships in 3 to 5 weeks Core2Duoノートレビュー 's review (Lots of characters, a bit confusing but very steamy!) 『Wow, this one is confusing. Be prepared to take notes so you can keep all the characters and terminology straight. I had to read this one twice AND take notes. :-D That all said, I really do like this one. I like the plot and although there are a LOT of characters, they all bring something to the story so that is nice. So what is this one about? Wow, where to start. Our main character is Raizou Shichikawa. After the death of his grandmother he was basically left destitute and homeless trying to pay her death tax as they call it. The Mitou "family" agree to take him in as their housekeeper and cook in exchange for room and board. Immediately after his arrival, Raizou realizes this is no ordinary family. Each member of the family is a koto-dama which means they have the ability to create reality with words but only to curse people. They each also have their own kami-sama whose responsibility it is to protect and heal them when injured. The kami-sama are essentially paper dolls and not real humans. It doesn't take long for Raizou to set his sites on Kon, the only kami-sama that has no master. Oh, and did I mention that the only way the kami-sama can heal their master is through bodily fluids? I thought that might get your attention. Lots of kissing and um, "other" stuff.
What a fun story and quite sexy too! Lots of steamy snippets and explicit yumminess. The illustrations are nice and with all of these characters it is nice to see that the mangaka can actually make them all look very different. I didn't notice any problems with the translation or following along with the speech bubbles. As long as you don't mind possibly having to reread some spots to fully understand the story itself, I think you'll really like this one. Overall I highly recommend this series and can't wait to see the next volume.
Plot = A- (good, just a touch confusing) Characters = A (varied and plenty) Illustrations = A- Sexual Content = A- (not a lot of sex but a lot of sexual contact) Translation = A
Overall Grade = A- (just missed an "A" by .10 of a %)
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Surely there is a story line somewhere but I sure as heck couldn't follow it. Too many names, too many characters, too many tangents. ZE is very busy! In fact, it's not just busy - it's Byzantine!
Perhaps people who've been reading Yaoi much longer than I have may lay claim to more intuition about how to make sense of this paper-covered hodgepodge but - I admit it - I haven't a clue.
There's just a lot to be said for an easy-to-follow series like CHALLENGERS. Often, to quote Howard Crabtree's gay musical comedy WHOOP-DEE-DOO, "less IS more."』
(A brilliant read!) 『The story in Ze revolves around a number of characters and couples. The first volume starts when Raizou, a good natured student, starts working as the housekeeper for a rich household. It turns out that the members of the family are kotodama users, which means that they can cast spells/ curse people. Basically, using kotodama results in injury, so each user has a non-human `kami-sama', who exists to heal them. I don't really want to say too much about the plot but the story is about the different relationships around Raizou and his own relationship with Kon, a quiet, aloof member of the household.
Yuki Shimizu is definitely one of my favourite yaoi mangakas and I picked this up as big fan of her other work (including Love Mode). If you haven't come across her work before I definitely recommend it!
As with her other work, in Ze, the characters and story have a lot of depth. The artwork is also beautiful. There are quite a lot of characters in the household, which is a bit confusing at first. It took me a while to get into this series but once I got a grip on what was going on and who everyone was, it has just really grown on me. Although not completely explicit, there are a lot of hot, passionate scenes. If nothing else, Yuki Shimizu's work is always a guaranteed hot read!
The overall setup seems similar to Love Mode, in that different chapters/ volumes seem to focus on different couples. (The first two volumes are mainly dedicated to Raizou and Kon.) There are some darker themes but at the same time there are also a lot of light-hearted moments, which makes this an easy, entertaining read overall. In these volumes, Raizou, who is a very sweet, simple guy, especially breaks things up. The story between him and Kon is really moving and cute, I loved it!
Overall, this is a really engaging, hot read, with a lot of depth. If you're looking for something a little bit different, I definitely recommend it! 』
(A good start to a great supernatural yaoi series from the creator of "Love Mode") 『Ze volume 1 is just the first one out of a fairly long series (volume 7 is already out in Japan). So, it starts fairly slow, with a lot of characters introduced, and is fairly low on "yaoi action". I've already read a few subsequent volumes in the original, and though my Japanese is quite basic, I enjoyed the series quite a lot so far. There's a good reason why 801-Media branch of DMP (which specializes in fairly explicit (M/M) yaoi titles) picked up this series as opposed to their "June" (more "softcore") brand: things really start heating up in the next volumes. My current favorites are volumes 3 and 4, which are fairly hardcore. There's a lot of non-con and rapes between major characters (NOT Raizou and Kon, though) in volume 3, for instance, and there are some strong SM undertones in the relationship between the characters there. Yuki Shimizu does shy away from drawing sex scenes with the "obvious" frontal nudity, but little else is concealed, and her art style is just plain hot and sexy. So, overall, "Ze" is more explicit / "darker" as compared to "Love Mode", in my opinion. Also, the supernatural theme is quite interesting and original (there are no "shapeshifters" in this series, and it IS quite different from "Fruits Basket", for example), and becomes much less confusing with further volumes. So, if volume 1 disappointed you somehow, I do recommend to try further volumes, as it gets more exciting. And if you're hesitating whether to buy it based one somewhat lukewarm previous reviews, go get it! :) "801 Media" did a very good job with this edition (though, alas, no dust jacket after January 2009 for all their titles...): the translation is not awkward, no obvious typos or slips, and there's a color page, as it is usually the case with their books. I'm looking forward to their further publications of this series: volumes 2, and 3 and 4 are scheduled to appear later this year.』
(its ok) 『I dont know what to really say about this one but that it bore me a litle.So many things was placed on the platter , too many characters introduced, I find myself having problem focusing on the plot or plots.There is an attempt to deepen the characters but its not working very weel. It looks like there will be a volume two but volume I does not createl a pull to make me want to read volume II.The idea about human paper dolls are basically shikikami to me. One thing I really liked ,are the illustrations.Their pretty. This book has a very mild to mild moderate sex content.No "parts" are illustrated.』 『If Fruits Baskets was done as a yaoi manga, it might look something like this... Raizo has recently moved into a strange mansion upon the death of his last living relative. Given room and board in exchange for taking over the household chores for the half dozen residents, Raizo slowly comes to realize that the house is hiding some pretty dark secrets. Are his housequests more than what they appear? And will his attraction to the lord and master Kon prove hazardous to his health?』
price：$3.63
Yaoi Press
Usually ships in 24 hours Core2Duoノートレビュー 's review (Yaoi fan) 『I enjoyed the book very much, the art is pretty simple and the stories complex but it was a great read. Came in great condition and I plan to tell my friends.』
(Good But Not Great) 『I was really looking forward to this one once I read the summary. The idea of a wild west Yaoi was quiet fascinating to me as the wild west doesn't often get used in these sorts of things. I was happy to find the main story was actually quiet good including a bit of comedy (two guys arguing naked while strapped to a horse) and lots of sexualness which is what most of us fan girls look for in this type of things (am I right?). I would have enjoyed it if this story was a bit longer.
Of course it doesn't and there are a couple side stories. Unfortunately they aren't quiet as interesting as the first story and go even faster. 'Eien', the first story, is a vampire story centering around a vampire and the son of the mortal man he loved. It's kind of too quick although slightly interesting. It's just a story I've seen before so it's not so great.
'Cancellation of Darkness' is a strange story which involves demons and a young boy he seems to be in trouble with everyone he gets close to until he meets a man who understands his trouble. I don't much care for the art of this one, and I'm not a big fan of the paranormal if it's not ghosts or creatures of that sort. This ones even darker then the vampire one.
All in all not a bad book but I still say that if the main story had been longer it would have been a great one. It's probably still a good one to have in your collection^_^.』
(I want a Stallion!! Oh yeah~) 『Well, actually, I give this one a 3.5 rate, but unfortunately that option isn't available, haha.
Due to much hype from certain people here, a friend I know, and by the cover art, I guess I was expecting too much? Either way, I didn't enjoy this book as much as I would have liked to. The art was pretty cute (I love how they did the eyes!), but the story seemed way too rushed for me. The smex scene wasn't much to see (it was the first time I swiftly went through one just to finish faster). Though am I one of the few who actually liked the bad guy even though he did enough to make you hate him deeply (as a character)?
On the 2nd story, it was decent. Yay for vampies~! Would have loved to see this one continued!
The 3rd story was very different! It was awesome how it ended<3 Though I didn't like how either character was drawn.. it was pretty low in my opinion.
The last story I hate because it's only a few pages long before it leaves you hanging! I want to know what happens here too.
All in all, I think this book is worth getting if you get it half-off or something. If not, then borrow it from a friend and see if you like it before committing to buy.』
(Cowboys, vampires and demons. All in one book!) 『First I have to say that I like the classical Japanese yaoi manga's, but I also jump at any possibility to read a yaoi in a fresh setting. Like this one. The book consists of three stories.
The story 'Stallion' is set in the Wild West. Stallion (native american) and Josey (cowboy) both have enough reason to hate and want to kill Bill (no pun intended) (also cowboy), as they were both raped by him. But as they begin hunting Bill together they realize that there are more important things in life than revenge. I liked the story, even though the revenge thing is not new, but the drawings again are beautiful. I really like everything by KOSEN.
The second shorter story 'Eien' is about a vampire and a vampire hunter. The vampire hunter Ashen is hunting a vampire who has killed his father. Will he get his revenge and for what price? Again the revenge theme, but this time with a twist. Even though this is an older work by KOSEN, the drawings are already very good.
And the third story 'Cancellation of Darkness' is about a young men who is haunted by a demon. Kai is haunted by a demon since he was a little boy. Bradley, an expert in everything paranormal, wants to help him get rid of the demon and he succeeds, or does he? The drawings by Amelia Woo still seem strange to me at first, but as this is the second story by her I've read, I begin to like her style.
An overall enjoyable read with very good drawings.』
(Lovely artwork, good (although short) story) 『While it would have been nice to devote a little more time to developing this story, I still thoroughly enjoyed this book. As a Native I thought the treatment of the Native characters was good although sort of in the 'noble savage' vein. The artwork is very fanciful and stylized with wide eyed innocents with perfect bodies. YUM!』 『The Native American Stallion is out for revenge on the cowboy who ruined his life, but he has competition from Josey, another one of cowboy Bill's victims. Enemies at first, they unite to fight against their common adversary. They find they share a bond due to the horrible thing Bill did to both of them. Stallion and Josey are both damaged, both suffering. They find comfort in each other, and hopefully, satisfaction against their enemy Bill. If a main story by KOSEN wasn't already enough, readers also will enjoy a yaoi vampire tale by the talented duo. Sagan's father was killed by a vampire whose love was not reciprocated. Now the vampire sees Sagan as a new way for his love to be requited, but Sagan just wants him dead.』
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