Alone In My King's Harem (Yaoi) (Yaoi Manga) [Paperback]

Lily Hoshino (Author, Artist)

Book Description

Series: Yaoi Manga | Publication Date: November 1, 2005

In the title story, a concubine falls head over heels for his king. But what happens when the king's ambitions blind him to that love? In another story, troubled circus acrobat Hibana finds comfort in the arms of another circus performer. But there's more twists to the story than Hibana's flips through the air. In the next story, a loving servant of a prince lets himself be put under a magic spell in order to spend one cherished night with him. The following yarn is about Canary, a very unusual boy who is owned by an old woman who exploits his talents, and the young stranger who meets him and teaches him about love. The manga concludes with two stories of students Okabe and Hidaka, and their exploration of their feelings for each other.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Digital Manga Publishing (November 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1569709378
• ISBN-13: 978-1569709375
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 6 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,289,948 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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32 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Stay away!!!, November 18, 2005

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Carolyn "Dedicated Yaoi Fan." (NSW, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alone In My King's Harem (Yaoi) (Yaoi Manga) (Paperback)

I bought this Manga expecting Yaoi, I was VERY disappointed. The Seme look male. The Uke are all dressed like girls, all of them look like eight year old girls with their clothes off and there is no actual evidence saying they ARE boys in some stories. No gentials nothing. It seems to stress even more their girls. There is no action. No plot. Nothing. The stories are dull and boring and DMP made a huge mistake ever picking this title up! As soon as I got home, I flipped through it and shoved it on eBay straight away. It's a horrible title for any Yaoi Fan, as I am. This IS NOT YAOI! Don't make the mistake I did and waste $12, you can buy something 100 times better like something from BeBeautiful.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Skip this!, January 11, 2006

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R.Parklane (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Alone In My King's Harem (Yaoi) (Yaoi Manga) (Paperback)

It is annoying that DMP keeps classifying everything with a hint of boy's love as Yaoi. This book is of course not Yaoi. The stories cannot even be classifed as Shounen-ai as the ukes merely resemble flat chested females. Some of the stories are sweet, if you like a dose of sticky sweetness, but the drawings of the ukes simply put me off.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Short, sweet stories., November 17, 2005

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A.C. (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Alone In My King's Harem (Yaoi) (Yaoi Manga) (Paperback)

This was the hot commodity at the DMP table at Ycon, and I can see why! The art style is very delicate and elegant. Many of the pages are beautifully designed around the text, breaking out of typical manga paneling. I was a little surprised I enjoyed the character types so much, too, because usually I do not like long haired boys. But the stories and characters were so sweet they won me over.

The first three stories (except Night Circus) are fantasies which lay out relationships between the main characters and show us why and how they come to love each other. This can be a challenge to do in a short story, and I've seen many other manga fail in this area. The settings and back stories are very inventive! I especially loved the story of a boy with such a beautiful voice that he is kept locked away and forced to sing only at night: the Canary. He meets a man who tries to set him free and begins to sing only of him... Night Circus seems like a successful experiment in storytelling, a series of equal-sized panels depicting a dreamlike romantic sequence. This is my favorite. I do agree these could have used more explicit scenes, but that's a personal preference.

The last two stories, unfortunately, are typical generic yaoi dreg. A student asks another student, "I heard you'll do it with anyone, how 'bout me?" So they do it. In the next chapter, we find out they fall in love. And... that's it. Hopefully since these two chapters were published, DMP manga will turn down the zillions of similar unimaginitive series and we'll be left with nothing but fresh material.