March manga

[wednesday_10_00]

Nagi wears a "K" necklace. Because Nagi is subtle, you guys.


Seiya - Ueda Kiyo (heh)
1. A baker (pastry chef) and the salaryman who loves his cakes (and him).
2. Stepbrothers who are in love but either won't admit it or don't realize.

The first one is completely adorable (even if it's kinda stupid that a guy would run away while his boyfriend is in the shower because he's nervous about having sex). The second one is...eh. I'd like the characters, but they spent too much of the story acting like morons, and I really wanted there to be more after they finally got together. (So adorable when they coo over their new baby sister!)

Rakuda-tsukai to Ouji no Yoru - Ogawa Chise (sweh...)
A poor camel...camel herder? what's the camel equivalent to shepherd?...anyway, he saves a man in the middle of the desert, and it turns out the man is super rich and wants to repay camel boy, so he whisks him away to his oasis paradise.

So, I really enjoyed the title story and other long story that made up 3/4 of this book, but...the other two short stories are AWFUL. I laughed when the author said in her notes at the end that she considers the first one to have a happy ending. Really? Okay, then. IF you can forget/ignore those stories, this is a good book, but...yeah. The prince/camel herder one is just so darn adorable, though! I really wish the whole book had been about them. It's sad that even with the best friend camel dying--which I saw coming a MILLION miles away, it's STILL about a thousand percent happier than the two awful stories. Which I'm forgetting about. Yes. Instead I will think about camel boy being all Disney Princess and talking to the animals, because awwwww.

Boku wa Subete o Shitteiru 3 - Takaku Shouko (meh)
Wakura, Wakura, Wakura....for most of this book, I thought Wakura was super cute and wanted him to hurry up and get his own love interest (because seriously, barking up the wrong tree with Ayumi). A few months ago, in a conversation about characters and possible (random) character traits, spacealien_vamp mentioned, as an example, that a clumsy surgeon would be silly, and my reaction was: wait, a clumsy surgeon would be adorable. (He's not incompetent, see, he just has to work extra hard to make sure he doesn't screw up, and he has a serious inferiority complex, but his boyfriend knows how hard he works and really admires him for it and....) And not that Wakura is clumsy, per se, but he's still learning and thus not up to the level of the other doctor characters in the story, and something about him inspired the same sort of want-to-give-him-a-hug moe in me. But then he had to go and do something that really pissed me off (and Kanazawa, you did not come off much better in that scene). Still, omg, Wakura and his glass heart!



I might forgive him for being a jerk (maybe it was like Kai, he was possessed by aliens?), depending on how things go from here.

As for the Kaga/Kanazawa (or is it Kanazawa/Kaga?) story, I could not be more bored by it. Though I did actually feel some sympathy for Kaga when he got sick of hearing about how amazing Saikawa is, because seriously. Guys, he's not that amazing.

Koi wa Kakechigai - Suyama Toriko (sweh)
This is just a short story collection, but I really enjoyed it. Maybe mostly the first one, with the super-awkward Akimoto. Though...I mean, I get nervous about talking to new people, so I understand wanting to avoid that, but what kind of virgin thinks sex is going to be easier?

Also, we can add Suyama Toriko to the list of authors who write BL stories about two guys who actually identify as gay. (It's a short list.) Also also, for some reason I find the back cover really adorable.

10 Count 1 - Takarai Rihito (sweh!!!!)
[Did I get enough exclamation points on that? Probably not. Imagine a few more.]

Shirotani (who has a severe case of OCD) reaches the breaking point with his disorder when he hesitates in saving his boss because he can't stand touching people. The man who happens to save his boss, though, Kurose, also happens to be a counselor, and offers to help Shirotani get over his fears. The plan is this: Shirotani writes out a list (numbered from 1 to 10) of the things he can't do (i.e. hold the hand strap on a train), and then they'll go through the list and Shirotani will try to do them. Why is Kurose doing this for someone he just met? Well, he'll tell us Shirotani that once Shirotani reveals what his #10 ("There's no way I can ever do this") list item is.

I swear, Takarai Rihito is just going into my brain and picking my favorite stuff when she plans a story. Could I love this any more? Maybe if there were a cat or two hanging around. Beware the cliffhanger, though, it's a bad one. (Shirotani needs a hug! But he would hate it! ;_;) Thank goodness I've been buying Dear+ so I could read the next couple of chapters right away. Only I'm still all OMG GIVE ME THE NEXT CHAPTER OR I'LL DIE right now. I can't die, because I need to know what Shirotani's #10 is! ...I might need help.