Meeting You (Yaoi) (Paperback)

by Mio Tennohji (Author, Artist)

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Product Description
When Tooru confessed his love to classmate Himejou, he wasn't expecting violins to start up in the background or the clouds in the sky to part. He was expecting a simple yes or no answer. But instead of a simple reply, Himejou decides to tease Tooru and sets up various trails of love he must complete to prove his affection! Will Tooru get fed up with these weird conditions and humiliating acts? Or will Himejou get serious?

Product Details

• Paperback: 152 pages
• Publisher: 801 Media, Inc. (October 21, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934129267
• ISBN-13: 978-1934129265
• Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #624,987 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars As a hard yaoi lover, this is a pass for me..., January 28, 2009

By	The Yaoi Review - See all my reviews

Meeting You is comprised of three stories, the last two being indirectly tied together through the characters' work place. The first story is the title story, Meeting You and is a school drama. Himeshiro is the very popular seme and Touro, the infatuated uke. Hiimeshiro gets asked out a lot and tends to not trust new suitors due their expectations of him that he feels he can't live up to, which subsequently causes them to leave. When Touro decides to profess his love for Himeshiro, Himeshiro decides to test his feelings for him by essentially humiliating him and treating him rather poorly. The first chapter covers these trials whereas the second chapter delves more into their budding relationship. There is also a bonus chapter at the end for this couple, which is humorous. Meeting You is the only story where the uke is very young looking, blushes excessively and cries, which tends to get old. Plus it makes it harder to understand why Himeshiro would treat him so harshly when his personality just doesn't seem to warrant that sort of treatment.

The second story, How to Find a Gentle Kiss, is one chapter and is about two old friends reconnecting through work after a misunderstanding three years earlier. The plot of this one is also a little cliché; one friend confesses his love for the other and then runs off and goes overseas. They lose touch until accidentally seeing each other again after three years only to find out they work at the same company. The last story, Mornings at the Bus Stop, is loosely tied to this one and is about two guys who meet at the bus stop every morning and through these short encounters fall in love with each other. One of them works at the same company as the two guys from the second story and they appear in this story as well. This is probably the most graphic of all the stories for what is shown and how short the story is. Each story shows some graphic detail but I don't feel Meeting You as a whole is as graphic as her more recent story, Don't Rush Love.

Mio Tennohji's stories tend to run on the cliché side when it comes to her plots and her seme and uke roles. I recently reviewed Don't Rush Love and felt it suffered the same issue. I don't dislike this one as much as far as plot is concerned since there are different stories going along and I thought the story about the two at the bus stop was kind of cute although the love at first site bit does tend to get a little old. Lust at first site is ok too! Her characters are tall and rather lanky and the ones in this title are cute but not overly sexy in my opinion. The sex scenes are explicit but a little toned down from other works I've seen but overall they were pretty good. The translation is good and speech bubbles aren't hard to follow. The illustrations are nice and the book itself was one of the last to get a dust jacket and comic strip on the inside back cover. One thing to note is that the four panel strip in this one is not 801-chan but one that is about the two main characters from Meeting You.

Overall, I didn't hate the book but I do think it is rather mediocre. Don't Rush Love had a bad plot but the characters were sexy and the sex was graphic and plentiful, which made up for it. Meeting You has a slightly better plot but the sex isn't as good. It's not bad, it's just not enough to make me want to recommend this book for fans of hard yaoi.

Characters = B
Plot = B
Sex = B+
Translation = A-
Illustrations/Book Design = A-

Overall Grade = B+

4.0 out of 5 stars Light hearted explicit enjoyable Yaoi., December 2, 2008

By	R.Parklane (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

I enjoy the main story, Meeting you, which has a nice plot. 3 parts in this story. In the first part, the seme does come across a jerk as he manipulates the younger uke, justifying it as a test of the younger boy's sincerity. The uke may be your typical uke but there is something about his sincerity, innocence and gullibility which I find endearing. The second part finds the seme more caring and loving towards his silently suffering uke. Maybe the mangaka could have make this more angst filled as reference is made to their classmates' distaste of their relationship. The last bonus short chapter is really funny as the uke's imagination runs wild! The sex scenes are explicit and I always like the way the mangaka draws the lower body parts. LOL.

The second short story on 2 close school mates meeting 3 years later lacks somewhat in depth.

I enjoy the 3rd story on a younger seme who meets his uke everyday at the bus stop. Wish this one is longer.

I like this mangaka's unique artwork. Her boys have a somewhat innocent air about them which makes the explicit sex scenes somehow more naughty. This is an earlier work than "The sky over my spectacles". An enjoyable explicit Yaoi if you are not looking for more angst. And of course good quality from 801media.