Maybe I should open an account here to leave "thumbs up" to every fabulous comment here, I'm still giggling with most of the things you've said here, especially with this: "this is good writing, when you create successfully such a poetic faith in the readers that everyone teams with a bunch of assholes, me included." Completely agree. But, there's some things that not exactly I dislike, more like, wait...you're still a yakuza Tatsu, why you're not giving Rogi what he deserves for how he's using you? Because deep down you're not such the badass that you're suppose to be? That's the only explanation that I can come up with the totally cheap excuse to present "hot scenes of S&M" that is, between two of the characters. And again, not that I'm complaining, just that for me lose a little of the sense of the plot, for me at the end is just the rebel child who doesn't want to be what's marked in the path for him and just go with the flow. In general I don't buy the reason the mangaka used to justify all the S&M according with the main plot: Yakuzas... but I'm still all in with this story because of the art (DAMN) and Nozomi is just a beautiful, wrecked man that even he took advantage of the love of his life at the beginning, he's still innocent and pure? in a kind of way and I just want to hug him forever.
In general, it's entertaining but, I prefer Jackass!, you can even say that the plot is ridiculous but the characters all of them, are delicious and the story caught you from the very beginning and I just fell in love with the atmosphere the mangaka created for that story. Well I'm already a fan of Scarlet and I'll read everyhting from her from now on.
eh eh eh, you're right about Nozomi but in the general mood of this story I'd say "who cares, he tricked him? well done, high-five" I mean, really. The guy so much needed to be fucked against a wall, that Nozomi just did it right, then, that guy has a seriously beautiful back, so Nozomi is justified, he's pure-hearted, but his small buddy is not. The art is amazing, details are breath-taking. I'm a fan of her job too, but I honestly prefer this one to Jackass, I like twisted stories, the only thing about this one is that when they get back together it stops being twisted becoming somehow ridiculous, but in a adorable way, so it's fine with me. I want to see them again. I even forgot, while I was writing all of that crap, the real reason I commented: I wanted to point it out that Tatsu complains about Nozomi going to work in his jerseys, but when he goes back to Rogi he's wearing what I suppose to be Nozomi's jersey. Maybe to feel a little bit more brave? Very sweet detail, indeed. About S&M, you say it is because it is a yakuza story? I know what you mean, it's a recurrent theme, but here again, really, seems to be there just because they are all a bunch of perverted guys. In real life, you do that to a yakuza's son for one reason only, you want to start a war that you are sure to win, otherwise you're dead. See ya, Rogi?…No, they exchange cups. Nozomi pay attention to that boyfriend of yours he seems incapable to dislike anyone with a penis (⌒▽⌒)
Its a war you want, ehh? #－.－) * gets mouse ready * ... * Scrolls with all my might until i reached the bottom of the comment * HA! BEAT THAT! (╯°Д °)╯╧╧
lol. Peace and love :)
"Nozomi pay attention to that boyfriend of yours he seems incapable to dislike anyone with a penis (⌒▽⌒)"
LOL you're right on that! (⌒▽⌒)
...ok, let's write some unpopular comment.
What a masterpiece! Beautiful plot, well written, amazing craft. It s so good everyone seems to forget that sweet and pure-hearted Tatsuyuki is a yakuza boss who will search for any person who didn't pay a rent turning himself into a demon. He looks adorable with those pin ears, yes, but still he deserve no mercy. 'cause he's not a victim, he's the bad guy. The one that will kill for money without a second thought on who he's killing (please spare me the "he's not like that, he proved it", he's not like that until they don't skip the rent, yakuza is not something you can bear with a light heart). No, really, there's no need to fell sorry for him, especially when nobody raped him.
Actually, in the first place he went there to pay a honor-debt - because for those kind of men when a woman escapes shouting help, to let her run is a matter of "honor", since the bitch costed her master a lot of money. So, he goes there and, from what we are shown, he gets an hard-on all of the time. Essentially, he's so sensible he's moved by the older man's nostalgia for his own father, which we can easily figure out a s a complete bitch as his own son. And, since he's there to clear his stained honor being senselessly fucked by his father old-flame, he learns a lot of perv stuff that he immediately put into use once he's alone with Nozomi again. Nozomi is really lovely, and we can forgive him everything, included the fact that, in his mind, his boyfriend is an heroic figure, not a lurid criminal.
Lets' be honest to the end, Rogi made him a favor, destroying Tatsuyuki's inhibitions, so he could finally release his true nature that is all about being fucked endlessly. On the top of this, the mangaka succeeds even in making us feel a little sorrow for Rogi - the man himself deserves a bullet in the head and nothing more - because, poor daddy, he's all alone now. I mean, really: this is good writing, when you create successfully such a poetic faith in the readers that everyone teams with a bunch of assholes, me included. Amazing, probably one of the best I read my whole life. I hope it will get a sequel where we'll be able to see a lot of murdered people in-between lovey-dovey scenes full of romantic glazes and hot naked guys. 5 stars.