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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I saw the anime before attempting to read the manga. Just to let you know, they're very different. The manga has some definite non-con that the anime glosses over. Shuichi and Eiri meet at a different point in their life--Shuichi is still in high school for one thing and is living at home with his mother and sister. Basically, I went into this manga with some preconceived notions of what was going to happen that I immediately had shattered. Your first sign that the manga and anime have diverged? The drawing style is very different--where did my pink haired cutie go??? This was a very average shounen-ai manga that has sentimental value at least as one of the very first of the genre to cross the Japanese-English language barrier. no reviews | add a review
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Shuichi Shindou is determined to be a rock star, and he's not about to let the fact that he's a high school student with no experience and no band stop him. He's found his charismatic guitarist, he's got them a gig - and now he's ready to show the world what a genius he is with his powerful lyrics. When novelist Eiri Yuki overhears his amateurish verse and puts the young musician in his place, Shuichi is crushed. He just can't get the mysterious writer's criticism out of his mind. As Shuichi inserts himself into Yuki's life, desperate to prove his potential, the two find their futures inexorably intertwined, as if by fate. But Yuki doesn't believe in fate. The force that brings them together is much more primal - it's gravity. And nothing they do can stop it. No library descriptions found. |
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So nothing happens in this first volume, to the extent that...I wonder if I somehow read the scans wrong, or they were cut off at an odd point. Yes, the wind blows his lyrics out of his hands, and yes, he jumps in front of Yuki's car FUCKING MORON YOU COULD HAVE BEEN KILLED. It's a desperate, desperate bid for his attention and UGH. I totally bought it as a teenager, too, given that the melodrama was so high! I questioned NOTHING. Not Shuichi's stalking of Yuki, not his harrassment of Yuki, not Hiro's arguable sexualization of Shuichi. Shuichi seemed not to notice this, though. He's willfully ignorant of a bunch of stuff and comes across as stupid plus naive. Yuki and Shuichi met ONCE for less than five minutes when the lyrics blew away, and Shuichi unleashed his considerable stalker powers and unhinged emotions. This is marketed as EROTICA. Nothing happens sexually in the first volume I read, and I remember even sixteen years ago, consent was blurred when it DID happen.
I had no idea I would wind up hating the first volume so much. Friendships are not shown. We, the audience, are just supposed to accept it. Yuki's a bestselling romance author at twenty-two? Sounds like plagiarism to me. I've--it--it's just so unlikely. There's no romance or chemistry between Shuichi or Yuki. Yuki hates him and Shuichi won't leave him alone. Tohma is just tossed in there for no reason. Yuki's sister is there to--what? Shuichi jumps to conclusions so much that I'm wondering if he doesn't have back injuries yet. Shut up and slow down, little boy. To the adults in this: stop laughing at him, sit him down, and explain his behavior is wrong. You irresponsible jerks are just encouraging him.
This is a terrible introduction to yaoi manga, dated and melodramatic even for its time, and I wouldn't recommend it for anyone. It's boring, repetitive, and stupid. I'd say go read "Kizuna" or "Loveless," but those books can be acquired tastes. I remember being shocked by how blunt ""Kizuna" was compared to "Gravitation," which is shonen-ai in comparison. "Loveless" had an actual plot, which I couldn't get into at the time so I put it down. Shrug. ( )