Kano Miyamoto

Two of Hearts is a slow-moving romance that takes as many steps forward as it does back, but it ends up in a satisfying, endearing relationship. Despite some snags in the second half and a bit of bad play by Haruya's editor, Two Of Hearts remains a wholly decent and entertaining boys' love drama that has me intrigued in Kano Miyamoto's other stories in English.

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Viz ruins everything they touch Overall the story is good. One I'd like to continue. It's got time travel and ESP and curses and pretty awesome for a BL manga.However ViZ's touch on this ruins most of it, with their goofy "dubbing" of the SFX, basically making this a "dub only affair", the replacing of if the vertical lines with "~~~~" is just bizarre and the final one that fucks things up is that... this was rated M for "Explicit Content" however there is none in this book. It might be different for the rest in the series BUT, none in this book which reeks of "same sex relationship are alway 'explicit' and must be hidden away from the eyes of non-adults" which is fucked up. This is what takes the score down so much is ViZ's fuckery. They ruin everything they touch.… (mehr)

Say Please is a pretty melancholic tale. Ryoichi is a male whores; he is a young guy who tries to earn his living in what it seems the easier way, but when he meets Sakura, one of his clients, he is enthralled. Sakura is an high school teacher who can't have an open gay relationship since he will risk to lose his job. So he engages in this relationship with Ryoichi, who spends long period in Sakura's home but he doesn't know if what they have is real or not: Sakura is pretty closed about his feelings and Ryoichi instead is open and friendly, an open book.

Ryoichi's character is best developed, in a way or another we can see how his feelings for Sakura are growing and why he chooses to embark in this relationship. Instead I don't fully understand Sakura: its cold behavior his only a way to avoid troubles at work or it's also a consequence of his broken relationship with another male partner? He really love Ryoichi, as it seems judging his attacks of jealousy?

The graphic is good even if not very detailed; the sex scenes are all left to your imagination, there aren't any graphic details. It's a mix of detached feeling and romanticism. I think this graphic novel is quite right for a young audience (but not 'too' young) and also maybe for all the newbies who want to test their interest in the yaoi world.

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