
Question for Kou and Jun shippers and Kou and Hazuki shippers, what makes you ship Kou with Jun and Hazuki respectively? I’m honestly really curious. For the record I’m more on the Kou and Touya side but I don’t really have a strong emotional connection to them as characters or as a couple (I honestly find all of these characters annoying to some degree but I love this manga). I want to know because when I decided to read this, one of the tags (or a comment I can’t remember at the moment) I saw was love triangle, which made me hesitant to read it because I intensely dislike love triangles. But when I read it, I didn’t get the sense that there was a love triangle at all (at least by what I understand to be a love triangle=one person has feelings for two people and can’t choose). Kou only sees Jun as a brother and if I remember well, at some point Kou said he was scared of Hazuki but now only sees him as one of the warriors, a valued comrade. I don’t get the sense that Kou views either Jun or Hazuki in a romantic/sexual way, so I’m curious. Why do you ship them? Please explain it to me because I want to see your point of view. Also, please don’t fight in the comments over ships. Thank you! ヾ(❀╹◡╹)ノ~

I think it would be easier to answer this question if you just accept the fact that Kou is just so shippable. As you will come to see later, there are more people pinning for Kou. Personally I can see the chemistry in all of them have with Kou. Kou's character is just so amazing. Like his past life, and even more so now, he is all encompassing of everyone.
Kamio and Kou have an one sided dependency, and I find that a plus for the pairing. Kamio was very antagonistic towards Kou in the beginning, and becomes unable to live without Kou. In the beginning it is more out of necessity, but I think Kamio have come to care about Kou in his own way.
Then there is Jun. First they are brothers (cousins really) and that seems to be a hit in the yaoi community. Then there is also Jun's possessiveness of Kou, and how Kou treats Jun. There is something about possessive lover that gets you kind of excited. And this point can apply to all three pairing, since it is present in all of them.

I think a lot of the KouXJun shippers is also due to the fact that a lot of readers see Jun as Garai, and they want Garai to be with Raki who is Kou

Honestly, after reading his past I want nothing more than for Nishina to be happy, which is why I think he should run the hell away from Naoto as fast as possible. From what we’ve read so far in Escape Journey we know that even after breaking up and being apart, Naoto and Taichi love each other and want to be together. At the end of this chapter Naoto even says he doesn’t want distance or a break up and Taichi doesn’t want to break up either, he just wants some distance for whatever reason (I don’t get his line of reasoning). Someone like Naoto would only hurt Nishina even more, and quite frankly I don’t want that to happen. Plus we’ve seen throughout this second volume that Nishina is clearly interested in Naoto, he’s the first person he drew after what fuckface Aoi did to him (please excuse my adjective he just pisses me off so much), but there hasn’t been any indication thus far that Naoto views him as anything other than a friend, so I think the chances of Naoto involving himself with Nishina in a sexual way is low (the only guy he’s interested in is Taichi). The next chapter could change that, but for now I don’t think anything will happen with Nishina. I want Nishina to find his Shuuna and laugh and take blurry pictures during sex. This is my personal opinion, if you completely disagree with me that’s totally fine, everyone is entitled to their opinion just don’t eat me please.

I completely agree. 'Find his Shuuna' sounds so adorable.
On a completely unrelated notee it's so heartbreaking that we have to say things along the lines of 'Sorry for having an opinion, don't hate' when expressing ourselves. Just the absence of this one sentence can cause a person to be brutally verbally bashed.

We get Nishina's past! And it hurts. More drama with Naoto and Taichi, and that hurts as well. This chapter is just painful overall.
Side note: Now that I know Nishina's past I feel for him but if something happens between Nao and him (I think it's unlikely so far but this is Ogeretsu Tanaka we're talking about) I'm going to have a bf (bitch fit) and flip every table.
Here's the link: http://koyukiya.tumblr.com/post/145657384123/release-escape-journey-ch-10

No, I refuse, that can't happen. No more drama for those two. Okay it makes the story reaaaally realistic and not all butterflies and flowers and al. But no no no. They have to get their happiness soemtime. so, yeah, no, I TOTALLY REFUSE.

Well, it's complicated. I'm sure the chapter will be posted here very soon but I'll leave a spoiler, read at your discretion.
Taichi says he wants some distance between them to think about their future together. He says that being with Nao is getting harder but he doesn’t want to break up because for him there’s only Nao. Naoto says he doesn’t agree with either breaking up or putting distance between them and leaves.

That was the shittiest thing to do to someone you once loved. I felt so bad for Nishina! But yes now it's really clear that Nishina likes Naoto, at first I thought he was jealous OF Naoto but now it's pretty obvious that's not the case. Let's hope he doesn't go all creeper on us. I hope Naoto's "other men other than Taichi don't do it for me" stays true. If nothing happened with Fumi in the first volume I hope nothing happens with Nishina in this volume.

I think naoto wouldn't do that kind of thing to taichi even if they decided to keep distance. There's a huge possibility that nao and nishi will be close friends but not more than that. I just hope that with the problem they are facing, nishi would not use the photo he took to blockmail taichi just to make him leave naoto completely Σ(っ°Д °;)っ

i can't tell if Taichi is either selfish or caring in this case, i really dont understand his ,,distance statement'', what does he wanna achieve by saying that, especially when he is the one always chasing after Naoto, saying that he is the only one for him or how much he loves him and doesn't wanna lose him :|||||||||||

I really don't know what Taichi hopes to accomplish by "taking a break" if he's certain he doesn't want to break up with Naoto. We'll have to wait until the next chapter comes out. But at least to me, the possibility of something willingly happening between Naoto and Nishina is low, but then again I'm not Ogeretsu Tanaka.

well, after reading chapter 10 i started kinda shipping Naoto and Nishina but as you said the chances that they will end up togheter are rather low (we never know though) and for now i'm much more interested in Nishina's story and i hope Ogeretsu Tanaka will give him his own plot, with a happy ending

I don't think it's a good idea for Nishina to get involved with Naoto. As we've seen throughout the whole manga for Naoto there's only Taichi and vice versa, even after being apart for a while they gravitate towards each other in the end. It would be very painful for Nishina to get involved with Naoto knowing that he'll get hurt in the end, and I don't want him to be in pain anymore. I want him to find a man that will make him the happiest person in existence to make up for what that shitty Aoi did to him. This is just my opinion though.

I'm propably shipping Nishina and Naoto because i want Nishina to be happy. But you are right about Nishina finding a new partner who will love him the most, i hope that Tanaka will make a side story, she always makes that kind of plot twists, so we should just patiently wait. Btw i also would like to see Nishina and Aoi meeting again, not for some romantic reunion, but their encounter after what Aoi did to Nishina, their reactions or conversation would be very interesting to me.

That ticked me off. Not that he changed his mind. That he totally ignored Kei and he had to find out like that. Instead, he should have called him, said they need to talk, and next time they saw each other in person, had a "man to man" about what Aoi wanted now, not then. People do change. Minds and feelings change. It's the WAY Aoi totally acted like a pig, ignoring calls, not telling the truth, making believe to the girl that Kei was a stranger. THAT was terrible and painful and nasty.
Poor Kei. We understand him better now...but it's sad.

I think that Aoi was ashamed and regretted being with Nishina. If he had loved him he would have not acted like that. It's unforgivable, because he was the one who said he wants to be with Nishina forever and kept him dellusioned for a long time. if they met again and Aoi would say that he loves Nishina and he always regretted what he did, but Nishina would be taken already, well i would really want to see it! I would say TOO LATE very happily :33

I'll do the translation of only the text (since I only know how to use Paint), but if anyone knows if someone else is working on it, please tell me so I can stop. (●'◡'●)ノ

It's already translated in English, search for Fundash Yaoi on facebook and you'll find a download link for the chapter in English.

I'm going to preface this by saying that I absolutely love this series and I really love Yamamoto Kotetsuko's mangas. Now, I was (thankfully) wrong before on my gut feelings about the plot line of Kento and Take's relationship so I hope I'm also wrong on this gut feeling that I have. However, I swear to God if this goes down the cliche 'I'm breaking up with you because you're famous and I know what's best for you so fuck your feelings and opinions' route and Kento gets back (or lies about getting back) with the old man I will lose my shit. I HATE that plot line and I will drop this series if that happens. After the drama with Take and Kento I expect more than a cliche overused, situation. (● ̄(エ) ̄●) It's less likely to happen since Masato knows but still, finger crossed, and also the old man is still around so he's going to be relevant at some point.

Is it bad to say that I'm equal parts horrified and amused by this turn of events?
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I'm horrified because, I don't see it as @Digitalpixie does, I thought they meant well and it backfired kinda hilariously. I'm amused because of the overreaction on both sides. I can't criticize anyone for reading illegal manga scans because I do the same thing, the fact that I buy mangas is irrelevant since I still read mangas here. So I'm just watching this unfold from the sideline. ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭

sensei said that she had to alter some parts in the manga bec shes told that theyre too brutal so international readers tried to encourage and show her some love by tweeting her but unfortunately it backfired as she blocked them on twitter. thats the basic thing. to understand how things gone wrong u have to scroll down and read the comments below.

Oh i'm not trying to be rude or anything. I said that because i work in publishing, not mangas but books, and the matter of fact is that writing is a job like any other and the writer a product that the publishing house can sale.
So, if in the future, she or her editors want to expand to a international market she cant act like that. She's jeopardising a potencial market.
And to be honest she could had always used a translator,
But. who knows, maybe japanese editorial market is different ╮( ̄▽ ̄)╭

He's so freaking CUTE! How can you not love a dork like him! (๑♡⌓♡๑)
http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/akiyama_kun/mh/v02/c007.1/pg-13/
Damn, who knew feet touching could get so intense. (≧∀≦)
Meow. Meant to click thumbs up. But my fingers too big for the phone screen:(
It's okay, it happens from time to time. ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶