manga log

This CD has a plot. It goes something like this. Futaba (Miyata Kôki) is one of those androgynous uke boys. He lives with his uncle and aunt who run an inn at a ski resort. Some important corporate dude is closing down the resort, so he follows this dude to town to protest. There Futaba meets Asahina (Narita Ken), the big strong seme guy, whom he mistakes for the corporate dude. It turns out Asahina is the corporate dude's bastard (literally) brother, and that he is a trained private eye for some organization called UNCLE JSIA and is investigating some mysterious crime or other related tot he corporate dude. When Futaba learn about this, he hires Asahina to figure out why the corporate dude is closing down the resort, and says he'll pay with his body (haha, typical). And thus, Futaba, Asahina, and Asahina's colleagues (Miki and Kamiya) investigate.

Make no mistake ... I only know those names and finer plot-points because I'm reading the booklet as I type. You don't seriously expect me to remember any of that? Because, dude, I don't. I'm not a very auditory inclined person -- there is a limit to junk I can understand and remember from hearing it, sadly. (Yes, this did make me a bad student in school. Shuttup.) That's one side of it. Another is that this CD just has too much going on. I understand the novel this was based on was the first title in a series, but still! Fuse (Miki Shin'ichirô) just sort of hangs around and talks about random things with Asahina, while Homura (Kamiya Hiroshi) is silent for the most part and has some cryptic dialogye with Futaba for a few minutes. I mean, what is the point?! Why are they there?! And why the unnecessarily good cast?!

So it was no wonder that when the drama reached its end and the big mystery was solved, I no longer cared about it. But hey, if you can follow and understand this stuff on tape, maybe it'll be a good CD for you.

And oh, I should probably mention that the smut is okay. There's a lot of seme!grunting, though, so beware. Miyata is an okay uke -- not as sweet and whiny as I had expected, but then I had expected the worst.