... in a long while
[EDIT] It's been restocked in the store, yeah!!! guiltpleasure.ecrater.com/p/14… Go go go and don't miss this chance! You'll also get now a full color cute notepad illustrated by Kahira C'moooon guuuuyyyys!!! *cheers*
We purchased "New York Minute", btw. It's a "In These Words" doujinshi, but totally in context (some years before ITW actually. Asano's younger and all). It came home last Tuesday and I read it these two last days and... oh, man, so short but still SOOOOOOOO cute!! I love UST and I love the fact that Asano is "comfort" with David. He even takes a kind of iniciative for him and I love seeing him so happy and "sexually active-kinky" *_* I think I'm going to become poor thanks to this girls because now I want to buy EVERYTHING they will release
Yay!!! I definitely love this gals. Not to add they're extremetly kind and nice with their fans. They gave me some hopes in the BL industry. Their men are REAL MEN, with REAL feelings and REAL situations. And they're openly gay and they're not sorry for that (they love being gay, haha! I'm so tired of those guys in most of BLs that don't want to admit they're gay and are feeling tormented because they like men... lol). [END OF THE EDIT]
There's a studio called Guilt Pleasure (formed by TogaQ and Kichiku Neko). They're two girls thad I knew for two years or so thanks to the free novels they used to upload in their website with beautiful illustrations www.guiltpleasure.com/novel/in…
Honestly, most of the stuff I read from them before was a bit of... "out of my likings". But I still enjoyed their artwork, and became a bit of obsessed, especially after following them on Tumblr guiltpleasure.tumblr.com/
They started to publish paperback versions of their online novels, and they also started to publish in some BL Japanese magazines (Be-boy), including the story I'm going to talk about: "In These Words".
Well, it was thanks to Shannire I could realize about this and buy our own copy of the first manga they decided to publish in English with Digital Manga Inc. They opened pre-orders to get some gifts and the book signed by them. We didn't hesitated at all and purchased our own copy (it was only $20SD each, including shipping!! Buying wasn't a chance but a MUST haha).
It arrived home extremetly fast (in two days, shipped from USA!). And I couldn't wait and started to read it...
I'm not exaggerating when I'm saying I F*CKING LOVE THIS MANGA. You know HOW PICKY I am when it comes with BL/yaoi. But, oh, yeah, this is just... AWESOME.
Let's start from the begining:
"In These Words" was first an illustrated novel which they were publishing freely here: www.guiltpleasure.com/novel/IT… I started to read it and the first scene was already a sex scene. I didn't like that, but I gave it a chance and continued reading. And I got tired, bored, as always. I don't use to like BL/yaoi as a genre itself because it uses to be unrealistic and I hate the "lets-rape-you-and-after-all-you-will-love-me" :-/ And a ton of other stupid things that use to happen in many BL stories
So, I stopped reading. Then, I realized they started to publish the novel in Japan, so they dropped the free online version. Good. I was glad I didn't like the story from the begining because I wouldn't have any chance to read it (I don't like reading long novels if they're not in my first language).
But they decided to make a manga about that story and, after a while, publish it in English. As I said Shannire and me purchased our own limited copy (even knowing the story was kinda off, but the artwork totally deserves it!!) and it arrived home yesterday, and I started to read and...
...how can I change my mind this way? I didn't like when reading the novel but the manga is simply... PERFECT. AWESOME. It's uncensored (unlike the Japanese version which they have to censor due to stupid Japanese laws), but the best part is the fact that sex isn't any must. Actually, I thought it was a "porn" story under a slight plot, but it's just the oppossite. The PLOT is the MUST here.
It totally follows my likings in BL. It's a suspense story about a psychopath called Shinohara that the police want to send to the electric chair, but they don't have enough proofs to do that. They call a *super-hot-bishie* psychiatrist called Asano to analyze him and to try to make him confess.
Gosh, I f*cking love that psychopath O___OU His way to see things make sense at all and you can even feel kind of "identified" with him. And when reading, I wanted to quote and note his words. He's very smart, arrogant, egocentric, extremetly selfish... and sick. But as I said, EVERYTHING he sais makes sense and it's impossible to not understand him.
During the therapies, Shinohara tells the doctor what he did with his victims, and why. His way of thinking it's extremetly clever. (I must admit this story is a VERY +18 story, not because of the sexual content but the violence... there were a pair of scenes that really impressed me because of the guro X__X But I love to traumatize myself so... this is just perfect!! Hehe!). Asano, the psychiatrist, just listens, always with a non-impressed face, even when the psychopath starts to say very creeppy things about him like "I want to see you with ribbons of blood tricking down your legs" >_>U And he starts to say that he really loves him and stuff.
The doctor starts to identify himself with the victims thanks to the awesome details Shinohara tells about what he does ¡to his victims. And he dreams about it, where he's one of the victims and suffers the same tortures, rapes, mutilations, etc. So all you can think it's that the doctor is as mad as his patient. But... HOHOHO!! I won't tell you to not spoil but EVERYTHING has an explanation here.
Characters are awesomely built. Story is VERY realistic, dark and twisted... and men... men are just gorgeous. Guilt Pleasure's style always was one of my favourites because of their manly men and beautiful bodies and faces.
I can't wait until they release the second comic book. This first volume is a compilation of the first 5 chapters of the novel, and they're working now in the 8th chapter, so I think they will make the second manga volume when they reach the 10th chapter. Yup, long waiting will be long. But it will be simply WORTH.
In short people... purchase this (because I doubt you will find it online due to the fact that it's been licensed in English). If you're looking for a creeppy BL story with gorgeus artwork, awesome men, murders, tortures, violence, rapes and that kind of sweet stuff, "In These Words" will be what you're looking for.
Me, all I can say it's I've finally read an explicit yaoi Japanese manga that I've loved.
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