Comments on: Review: Boys Love

By: JRB

JRB — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:14:53 +0000

So is the movie an adaptation of the manga or is the manga an adaptation of the movie? I never figured that out.

By: Viki Lyn

Viki Lyn — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 02:56:44 +0000

I read the book and was disappointed with the ending. The dramatic melodrama didn’t fit with how the story was unfolding. I rented the movie through Netflix and didn’t realize it was the same story as the manga until too late. I couldn’t watch the ending. It was too painful.

By: Lissa

Lissa — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 14:41:11 +0000

I read this book as well before Shannon’s review was posted and I really disliked the ending too. It was so… in many ways non-existent and in other ways sort of insulting to readers. I’ve seen that kind of open-to-interpretation ending work before but this was certainly not an example of that.

By: JRBrown

JRBrown — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:07:55 +0000

As a reader who is entirely OK with both melodramatic melodrama and with Grand Sweeping Romances, I hated the end of this book. With the exception of a bare handful of feel-bad, emotional-slasher-movie yaoi that have never been translated, the entire point of the drama-o-rama yaoi is that after all the melodrama and the angst and the tears, the guys work out their problems and live happily ever after in a cloud of rainbows and bluebirds. Boys Love totally failed to deliver. I can't believe Tachibana's editor let her end the story that way.

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