Manga-ka: Tokiya Shimazaki
Publisher: 801Media
Rating: Mature (18+)
Released: August 2007
Synopsis: “Gifted with intelligence and looks, student council president Azuma confessed his love to Mizuki, and with a little push, they “successfully” started dating. The entire school has even officially recognized their relationship. So you would expect things to be progressing smoothly… This is the second installment of the super popular series about Mizuki, with his gradually changing feelings, and Azuma, who is confident he can make Mizuki drunk on life and his love.”
Love is Like A Hurricane’s second volume continues right where the first left us. Mizuki continues with his exhaustive efforts to stop Azuma from overwhelming him but is constantly foiled, swept away in a torrent of love, sudden advances and envy-driven affections. Minor characters continue to add more to the plot and offer short breaks between Azuma and Mizuki’s emotional game of cat and mouse. A side story near the end continues the escapades of the brothers from the first volume as well.
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Manga-ka: Tokiya Shimazaki
Publisher: 801Media
Rating: Mature (18+)
Released: May 2007
Synopsis: “Getting your breasts or butt grabbed on a train in Japan is a common experience for some women. So when Mizuki finds himself getting molested first thing in the morning on the way to school, he can’t believe it. Worse, the perpetrator isn’t a nasty old man but the school student council president, Azuma! … Can Azuma convince Mizuki that they are a match made in heaven?”
Love is Like A Hurricane’s title story begins with young high school student Mizuki on his morning commute to school when he suddenly finds himself the victim of a molesting pervert. It turns out that the pervert was none other than his school’s student council president, Azuma. Azuma has taken a strong liking to the spirited Mizuki and now it’s battle of wills, one which Mizuki seems unable to avoid and even less able to win.
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Author: Kawashima Tadashi
Manga-ka: Adachi Toka
Publisher: DelRey
Rating: Older Teen (16+)
Released: October 2007
Synopsis: ”A strange virus is making its way around the globe, causing its victims to commit suicide. It less than a week, it’s a lethal pandemic. Now a group of Tokyo teens who have survived the outbreak are wondering why they are still alive.”
Life continues as usual for high school student Kano Taisuke until one day a mysterious rumbling in the sky acts as prelude to a worldwide pandemic of suicides. Thousands are dying around the world and some of those who survive are acting oddly, some exhibiting strange abilities and a lust for death. After witnessing first hand the peaceful face of another victim, Taisuke, finds himself in the middle of global chaos.
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Manga-ka: Makoto Tateno
Publisher: Deux
Rating: Mature (18+)
Released: November 2007
Synopsis: “The Konoe and Kazuki families have been fighting like cats and dogs for generations. Masaya Konoe and Yuma Kazuki attend the same elite high school and are known to all as arch rivals, but do they really hate eachother? Masaya still cherishes a childhood memory of a time when Yuma shared a ‘treasure’ with him. Now they share a secret attraction. Can they control their passion? Burning desire has a way of erupting into flames!”
Hate To Love You is the premiere yaoi manga of Makoto Tateno, best known for her popular boys’ love series, Yellow. The story is a self-proclaimed Romeo and Juliet type story staring Masaya and Kazuki, future heirs to their family’s respective companies and next in a long line of rivalries between the two groups. The two shared a secret childhood friendship that’s grown to be something very different, but is it love or hate?
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Manga-ka: Fumi Yoshinaga
Publisher: BLU Manga
Rating: Mature (18+)
Released: August 2007
Synopsis: “From modern-day tales of romance in Seattle, to eerie stories from historical Japanese fantasy, to Yoshinaga’s further depiction of the class conflict before the French Revolution. The characters Claude and Antoine, a young aristocrat and his butler, are initially introduced in this volume; we see their further adventures in Lovers in the Night.”
Truly Kindly is a compilation of short stories by Fumi Yoshinaga, a follow up to her previous compilation, Lovers in the Night, and includes a return of its title characters. Ranging from surprise endings to the short and sweet, it’s a diverse collection of character driven stories for which its manga-ka is known.
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Authour: Shinobu Gotoh
Manga-ka: Kazumi Ohya
Publisher: Tokyopop
Rating: Mature (18+)
Released: September 2007
Synopsis: “Takumi, a boy from humble origins, prepares to begin his second year at the school. Held back by psychological issues, Takumi’s indifferent attitude has garnered him no friends and the reputation as a cold fish. Then along comes Gui, a wealthy and charismatic student born in America. Gui is the only person who doesn’t see Takumi as odd, and the two become friends. But how will the two cope when Gui confesses his love to Takumi?”
The Takumi-kun series was originally a series of boys’ love novels by Shinobu Gotoh, adapted years later into a six-part manga series by Kazumi Ohya. With each manga volume of this series individually titled, June Pride, is the given title of volume one and here readers are first introduced to Takumi Hayama, the focus of the story. Taking place in an all boys’ school, readers follow Takumi and his peers through their years at the secluded and prestigious Shidou Academy.
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