This book is the typical yaoi plot. Man rapes hero, hero falls in love with rapist. This book goes even so far as to say there are different types of rape and some are better than others. I give it a second star only because this doesn't consume the entire book and is mostly devoid of sex for the m...
3.5
Straight boy makes friends with bi boy. Straight boy discovers he is not so straight. Straight boy and bi boy go out, nonexclusively. Formerly straight boy's old childhood friend (f.) is sad her love, which formerly straight boy had never noticed, will never be returned. Formerly straight boy is...
Kinsei Private School (apparently a popular setting for Hyouta Fujiyama; there are a bunch of related manga coming out from June) is an all male school that's 90% gay or bi. This is a fantasy setup a la David Levithan novels rather than a political one a la Harvey Milk High School. Nanase, who is ...
There's nothing special about Hyouta Fujiyama's storylines and her art can be downright clumsy, but I find something about her characters terribly endearing. Maybe it's the way so many of her POV characters, once they realize they're in love, don't beat around the bush: they declare themselves stra...
More salarymen, because sometimes it's nice to get away from jailbait. Youichi Nanase, the older brother of Kouichi from [book:Ordinary Crush], has just found out his baby brother is gay, and isn't happy about it. He spills his sorrows to his friend and work colleague, Renji Tsutsumi, and then feel...
There's nothing special about Hyouta Fujiyama's storylines and her art can be downright clumsy, but I find something about her characters terribly endearing. Maybe it's the way so many of her POV characters, once they realize they're in love, don't beat around the bush: they declare themselves stra...