Kano Miyamoto

This is one of my favourite mangas, yaoi or not. This mangaka has a way of making me sad for days, and even after months, the emotions still come back while remembering small bits of dialogue or pictures.

This is one of those works that puts me at a loss for things to say, because I get that feeling the author and the story are much more intelligent than I, and I really don't have much business analyzing it's pros and cons.

Suffice to say... I'm the type that usually says realism makes things more sexy cause, well, uh, it feels more real, but this story still took me a while to get in to because it isn't your usual momentum building romance. It might turn off fans of traditional yaoi. The men show more are definitely more like gay men than the feminine bishounen who usually populate the genre. I mean that in both a good way (I don't like girly yaoi men), but also with some trepidation (I'm still a girl, and can't get away from the desire to see men in yaoi created the way I (a girl) would like them). But in the end, there was no way this blessedly more realistic, mature, intelligent, sometimes gently humorous story with its wonderful way of recognizing the cloudiness and jumble feelings of romance, love, and sexual attraction can have could NOT win me over in the end.

THANK YOU GOD for giving us Miyamoto Kano. This will not be the last time I read her. show less

Viz ruins everything they touch Overall the story is good. One I'd like to continue. It's got time travel and ESP and curses and pretty awesome for a BL manga.However ViZ's touch on this ruins most of it, with their goofy "dubbing" of the SFX, basically making this a "dub only affair", the replacing of if the vertical lines with "~~~~" is just bizarre and the final one that fucks things up is that... this was rated M for "Explicit Content" however there is none in this book. It might be show more different for the rest in the series BUT, none in this book which reeks of "same sex relationship are alway 'explicit' and must be hidden away from the eyes of non-adults" which is fucked up. This is what takes the score down so much is ViZ's fuckery. They ruin everything they touch. show less

Say Please is a pretty melancholic tale. Ryoichi is a male whores; he is a young guy who tries to earn his living in what it seems the easier way, but when he meets Sakura, one of his clients, he is enthralled. Sakura is an high school teacher who can't have an open gay relationship since he will risk to lose his job. So he engages in this relationship with Ryoichi, who spends long period in Sakura's home but he doesn't know if what they have is real or not: Sakura is pretty closed about his show more feelings and Ryoichi instead is open and friendly, an open book.

Ryoichi's character is best developed, in a way or another we can see how his feelings for Sakura are growing and why he chooses to embark in this relationship. Instead I don't fully understand Sakura: its cold behavior his only a way to avoid troubles at work or it's also a consequence of his broken relationship with another male partner? He really love Ryoichi, as it seems judging his attacks of jealousy?

The graphic is good even if not very detailed; the sex scenes are all left to your imagination, there aren't any graphic details. It's a mix of detached feeling and romanticism. I think this graphic novel is quite right for a young audience (but not 'too' young) and also maybe for all the newbies who want to test their interest in the yaoi world.

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