Love fashion
| Manga | |
|---|---|
| title | Love fashion |
| country |
 Japan
|
| author | Yuki Shimizu |
| publishing company | Biblos |
| magazine | Be × Boy |
| First publication | 1995 - 2003 |
| expenditure | 11 |
Love Fashion is a Yaoi - manga of Yuki Shimizu , which appeared from 1995 to 2003 in Japan and has been translated into several languages. The series' stories revolve around an escort agency for men and affairs and relationships that arise around them.
action
The high school student Izumi Sakashita goes to a date that his friend Konno arranged for him. But despite the expected woman, a man appears who introduces himself as his date. Although Izumi is disappointed, he spends the evening with Katsura Takamiya and then has a lot of fun until he ends up drunk in bed with the much older man. The next morning, Izumi is furious and when Katsura learns that Izumi is not the prostitute whom the Blue Boy agency brokered for him. He is sorry for everything and he helps Izumi home, but he is disgusted by him. Finally, Katsura even confesses to him that he fell in love with him, while Izumi more and more doubts not to be drawn to him. And since Izumi's mother Katsura is sympathetic and reliable, he always comes to visit the family or Izumi should stay with him while she is away. Izumi Katsura slowly opens up - and after a while he gets to know his friend Reiji Aoe, the managing director of Blue Boy , and with time also others from the agency. Eventually, Izumi admits he fell in love with Katsura and the two become a couple.
Further stories about the couple and other people around the Blue Boy agency follow .
publication
The series initially appeared from 1995 to 2003 in individual chapters in the Be × Boy magazine published by Biblos . This brought out the story in eleven edited volumes.
A German translation of all volumes was published by Carlsen Manga from 2005 to 2008 . An English version was released by Tokyopop in 2006 under their Boys' Love label Blue . The manga was published in French by Taifu Comics .
reception
Jason Thompson calls the drawings in the series "extremely scary and unattractive" and, with the dingy atmosphere they create, partly in contrast to the stories. These are sometimes written in a sophisticated way, for example by inserting daring scenes through dreams. "Humorous banana-eating scenes" are also a plus.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jason Thompson: Manga. The Complete Guide . Del Rey, New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-345-48590-8 , pp. 434 .
Web links
- Entry in the Incomplete Manga Guide
- Entry at Anime News Network (English)