This is my first real yaoi. It's really good but very short for my taste. When it arrives I have thought: good, it's really thick, so I have a lot to read. But of 200 pages, less than 100 are about Akihito and Asami, the two main characters, and the other are all short stories by the same author (some really interesting, like Love Lesson).

Akihito is a young photoreporter; he captures the attention of Asami, a business man who probably is engaged in a drug traffic and with the mafia. Asami kidnaps Akihito and during a night of passion and non consensual sex, marks Akihito as his property. When he frees the boy the next day, Akihito knows he could never forget this domineering man. Everytime he meets him, he can't deny the passion he feels.

And Akihito lets the guy fly away everytime, knowing that he will return back to him. But he will do also everything to protect him from his enemies that could use Akihito as a pawn to draw him in a trap.

Akihito is really young. Maybe not in age, but in experience. But he has a strong wit and Asami is fascinating by his free spirit. And he is really possessive: Akihito could be free, but not free to fly in the arms of another man.

In this graphic novel Akihito is not ready to admit his desires for another man, above all a man with a not so clear past. If I had not yet ordered the next two books in this series I would be a lot disappointed in not knowing if ours two characters will continue their game of love.

Target is the first yaoi manga I ever read, and immediately hooked me on the genre. Takaba Akihito is a free-lance photographer who gets caught taking pictures of the wrong man - Asami Ryuichi. Asami is yakuza (Japanese mafia) and he captures Takaba to teach him a lesson in pain, and pleasure. But, one of Asami's rivals also takes notice of Takaba and decides to use him against Asami.

The storyline is an exciting backdrop for Yamane's exquisite and realistic drawings. Her art is some of the best found in yaoi, with clean lines, rich detail and good proportions. Unlike a lot of Yaoi, which draws the uke (submissive partner) like a flat chested girl, Yamane's men are undeniably male. The sex is graphic and inventive, with full genitalia. Readers should note that this includes non-consensual sex and BDSM.

This volume also includes three "bonus" stories at the end that are not set in the Finder universe. The first involves two school mates learning that their fathers are more than friends; the second involves a class president "welcoming" the new freshman; and the last is about a secret organization whose members have special abilities. This last story should have been turned into its own series. Yamane put in more detail than should be included in a short story, and it was very promising, but ended too abruptly. ( )