Customer Reviews

Party (Yaoi)

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Mamoru, a twenty year old college student, angstily confesses his love to Natsu, only to have his love instantly and cheerfully accepted and returned. The joke is that this happens on Page One, which is different. But from Page Two onward Kaiya seems stumped for anything else to do. The first section of the book has the boys fluttering around in a silly way that is meant to suggest youthful passion, but by the end I was already bored, and Mamoru's "love" was already proving unhealthy and creepy.

For Section Two, Kaiya decides a plot might help: A female "friend" provokes a silly, goofy, little misunderstanding, which causes the guys to temporarily break up and get back together again. This silly, goofy little misunderstanding is, of course, "Rape!" (So much for different.) Mamoru-the-rapist insists it isn't a big deal because "We're boyfriends after all". Natsu holes up with the "friend" who provoked the incident in the first place, a lovely girl who tells him that it was his fault for saying "no". (This is funny.) In the end, Mamoru says he's sorry, Natsu says "I'm sorry TOO", and for more on how this relationship turns out, I refer you to my old criminology professor, who can direct you to many case studies of similar relationships. Trust me, they get even more side-splittingly amusing as time goes on. The last third of the manga involves two supporting characters.

This was originally published ten years before being collected in book form. Expect a pretty big difference between the interior art and the cover art. Or just get something else: WORDS OF DEVOTION was good.

Light, heartwarming and sweet soft Yaoi with likable characters. One which features a female playing a strong supporting role, first causing the couple to split then getting them back together. A nice contrast between this strong willed lady and the awkward couple as they fumbled around in their love life. Fine as a stand alone but better if there is at least a second volume with a resolution on one of the guy's close friend's unrequitted love. Sappy me would have preferred for the said friend to have a closure.

One irritating factor. The introduction chapter does point to a lesbian couple and other Yaoi relationships which are never explored. So it leaves me wondering. But I like this mangaka's light style and the characters.

I love Tatsumi Kaiya's books. This and Love Training are two of my favorite yaoi manga. I love the different characters and the different stories you get with each book and the artwork is amazing every time.

I too found this to be a sweet soft yaoi. I liked the overall feel of it and the interaction between all the characters. But, this was more like a series of short stories and I agree with a previous reviewer that it did seem alittle vague and unfinished. The little diagram at the beginning showing the relationships between the characters ended up being almost more confusing than helpful.

This is one of those yaoi books where the uke is sexually reluctant and the seme is the aggressor. I must admit that I like it much, much better when both both guys are totally into it :-)! But I didn't interpret the fight between the characters in one of the stories as a rape. Maybe I'm wrong because the incident was only implied and not shown. My impression was that the seme was acting too needy, insecure and aggressive and the uke got fed up and punched him out - yea for the uke! Like I said, I could be wrong in my interpretation so if you are the kind of person who is really bothered by this, you might want to skip this book.