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Ima Ichiko: Rakuen made ato môchotto vol. 1
A BL manga about a two-timing finance company employee, mountclimbers in debt, mountclimbing yakuza, and ... umm ... no, that's not making any sense.
Kawae is asked by his devorced wife Sayuri to run her father's travel agency for a week while her father is in the hospital. It turns out the agency is in debt, and although Kawae tells himself it's not his business anymore, he ends up getting involved. Here, he meets Asada who is working for the finance company the travel agency is borrowing money from, who also happens to move in next door to him and who is obviously sleeping with his married boss, Kikuchi. And, well, Kawae is attracted to Asada who can't leave Kikuchi (although I want to smack him for that, and kick Kikuchi's ass), and stuff happens.
No, strike that: a lot of stuff happens. Ima Ichiko's pages are filled to their edges with dialogue, spread over twice as many panels as your average shojo manga. This might annoy me and make me think she ought to write a novel instead if she's going to do all the story-telling with words anyway, but this isn't the case at all: Ima draws fabulously and she knows how to utilize various manga-effects perfectly. Combined with an entertaining story that would work lovely even without the BL, and great characterization of all characters, this is a wonderful piece of manga.
See, it's because of manga like these that I can't stop reading BL ...
Category: BL manga | Posted by Alicia at October 1, 2004 11:54 AM
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That is not clear for me completely.Anyway thanks for your thoughts.
Regards.
Posted by: whitening at March 7, 2007 11:21 PM