Shiuko Kano

Kazuya wants to impress a girl by taking the high school entrance exam. So he turns to her younger brother Masashi to help tutor him. But Mashashi wants Kazuya for himself and demands sex as payment for the lessons!

When 801 Media announced they would publish hard yaoi, I was skeptical. I only consider it hard yaoi if the sex is graphically rendered (and cones of light had best not be anywhere in the book!). 801 has delivered exactly what they said they would. This manga is Hard yaoi with a show more capital H! There is hot sex right from the very beginning. I loved Ayano Yamane's Finder series, which was very graphic, but this takes explicit yaoi to a new level. The mangaka goes beyond simple intercourse and depicts sexual acts that I have only read in gay romance. These two even get it on in the bathroom at a movie theatre! Fortunately, the art is very well done. The people are proportioned correctly, there is shading and detail throughout and the men look like men. Everything a hard yaoi fan could want. So, why not 5 stars? The translation.

I had a difficult time in a lot of panels figuring out which man was saying what. There is a LOT of angst in the story, from both boys, and this lack of clear dialog was frustrating at times. The first "chapter" of the story, the boys have sex and it appears just casual on Kazuya's part. But, in the second chapter he is suddenly the reluctant uke, refusing intercourse. I wasn't sure at first if the second chapter was supposed to be a flashback. His resistance continues for another chapter or so before it becomes clear both boys are in love with one another. The story is a very good romance. Masashi is a seme who knows what he wants, but this is still his first relationship and "first time." This is Kazuya's first time with a man, and he already has self-confidence issues because of his lack of education. This naturally leads to tension and more hot sex. When Kazuya's motivations for taking the test are revealed, readers get a great conclusion to a sweet romance.

Overall, I highly recommend this yaoi. The translation by 801 leaves a little to be desired, but it didn't ruin my enjoyment of the book. I will certainly look for more by the mangaka. show less

This is a yaoi very different from what I have read till now, more dark and bad behaviour. It's an anthology of 4 stories.

Affair: Yoshi and Sempai were in the same baseball team, but Sempai was the bad boy and Yoshi the good guy. And as the playscript, Sempai got caught in a scandal and quit with baseball. Now he is an women escort and meets again Yoshi, and the heat of a young summer is still hot.

My dear mad dog: Hijiri and Kyouichi are stepbrother, Hijiri son of the mistress of Kyouichi's show more father. They grown up together and Kyouichi has ever treat Hijiri like a property, something he can use and abuse. But then Kyouichi's mother has a tryst with Hijiri and Hijiri got mad and jealously flares uncontrollable... this is a very dark plot, like a greek drama, full of amoral love and pain/pleasure game (not physical, more emotional)

One lucky guy: Takei is a vey lucky guy but not in love, and when he finds Hirose maybe he will be not lucky in the game, but he will be lucky in love. The less impressive in the story of the anthology, I really don't understand it a lot.

Love machine: Yagi and Tamiya are in the same university and Yagi makes a move with Tamiya but he back off. Then Yagi turns the table and now is Tamiya who chases Yagi around. And when he suspects that Yagi could have another guy, he takes charge of the situation.

Of this four stories without any doubt My Dear Mad Dog is the most interesting and with the better plot. It's also much more adult in content and development of the others. Affair is not bad and the draw is gourgeous: maybe only the cover worths all the yaoi.

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Dignity? What's that?

No joke, this volume was actually decent. I cringed like only 2 times?

Main character writes porn but is impotent. Main character doesn't feel like a father but has a smart-mouthed 15 year old son he barley knows coming to move in with him. Main character's son has a crush on a boy who has his own issues. Main character accidentally jerks off a guy in a porno theater and guy ends up obsessed with him much to main character's chagrin. Hijinks ensue. (Sorry. Does anyone else start to get tired of describing these things when the plots are all a mesh of things show more we've heard before and usually not the way they distinguish themselves anyway? ^_^;)

Kiss All The Boys is more of a comedy than anything. The story is of course all about the romantic and sexual desires and entanglements of the characters, but for the most part there's really more stress on the zaniness of each situation than making characters feel real and sympathetic or getting the reader to feel their romantic longing.

And while I might miss the other stuff, I'm a sucker for a manga with a good sense of humor, so I tried it. Unfortunately, this manga seems to come entirely from the humor school of "ridiculous = funny." And that's pretty much where I should stop this review, because you've lost me right there. Sure, ridiculousness can add to other kinds of humor when mixed together right. But as the sole technique for injecting humor in the story? On the other hand, this kind of humor is so common in manga that I'm sure many like it. But for those that like humor to be witty or clever or take some sort of intelligence, timing, and skill to create...you probably don't want to look here.

To the manga's credit, despite the very familiar tropes present in the plot, it's execution of these elements is a little less generic than usual. Making the main character equally (or more?) preoccupied with his son's situation and romantic issues throws off the focus from what we're used to, and it does make the plot seem fresher. Still, in the end, the main focus is the humor and the humor style was entirely uninteresting to me. If I want to read a silly comedy gay-father-and-gay-son-deal-with-the-other-being-gay yaoi, I'd opt for a reread of Satosumi Takaguchi's admittedly frequently ridiculous—but also clever, wry, tender, romantic, and infinitely more emotionally genuine—Shout Out Loud! to this any day. show less