Hyouta Fujiyama

I decided to try a manga series since these books pass my way every now and then as steward of a Little Free Library. I hoped to learn about manga in general and see if it appealed to me. I picked up this series at random. To my surprise, the book was all about gay men with the protagonist being raped at the beginning by a moon spirit. After that initial shock, I continued to read the book and found it very entertaining. I even laughed out loud at some parts.

I'm now full of all kinds of show more questions about what I saw and didn't see in this book, but I'll ask my family and friends who are knowledgeable about manga regarding those details. I'm not sure how much of what I saw is common to all manga and how much is innate to this author or to this particular series.

I enjoyed this story enough to want to continue to read through the remaining three books in the series that I have in my possession. I also found someone else who is familiar with this author, likes this author's works, and wants to read my books when I'm finished.

What this book did for me was to inspire me to seek out, read and learn more about manga. I think this experience should be fun! show less

I'm finding this series fun, and now that I've finished Volume 2, I know I want to finish the whole series. I find the characters endearing. I like Ixto, the moon spirit. He seems very familiar to me, almost as if I know him outside of a book. I like Ral when he's a horse. I like that a book character can be a horse. I like the moon cat Coon who is always in the way. I also like the quirky way this author draws the characters. Jii is a servant so he's drawn very lightly, in a way that he show more almost cannot be seen. In addition, I find it weird and fun that all of the characters are missing different facial features at random - a nose here, one eye there, the other eye in a different picture. I have no idea why the characters are pictured in this way, but it's notable. show less

I'm reading this series to familiarize myself more with manga. I'm still curious to see what's going to happen next to the characters and already know that most of the plot is men getting it on with other men. I find that a lot of what's going on in the story is confusing. I can't keep the characters straight because many appear similar to each other. Some of the writing (er, printing) is so small that I can barely read it so I'm skipping it. I hope that doesn't matter so much. Rather than show more find it frustrating, it is arousing my curiosity. I like this series and am looking forward to reading Volume 4. I want to find out if the spell on Ryuka which causes him to be liked by men is ever broken. I'll continue to read this book to find out what happens.

One thing that I recently learned about manga is that all books of a series should be made available to a reader if at all possible. Reading individual books of a series alone sometimes put a story out of context or has the story make insufficient sense. I am eager to try out different kinds of manga to see which kinds appeal most to me. This has been a fun experiment so far. show less

I enjoyed all four volumes of this book. However, I found the last volume a bit confusing. I was having problems keeping the characters straight. I guess the ending was okay, but I wondered from the beginning of the series whether Ixto put a spell on Ryuka simply to change the latter's gender orientation because of the former's own desires. Would that have been fair?

I enjoyed this series enough to look for more books if the series were ever lengthened. I think that's a good recommendation show more coming from me who is new to reading manga. show less