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To be frank, I didn't expect much from Kodomo ni naisho de written by Ioka Itsuki and illustrated by Kazuaki when I bought it. The blurb sounded rather hokey, but I was on an Ioka Itsuki streak (thanks to Mahiru no tsuki) and the cover art was oddly compelling (if not exactly my favorite kind of art) so I took a chance. I am so glad I did, because it turned out to be utterly delightful. The best part about it? The main characters are decent, nice, ordinary people who act mostly like sensible adults. It can be tiring to read about ultra-beautiful tragic/special/stupid ukes meeting ultra-gorgeous arrogant/brilliant/domineering semes and doing their ultra-shiny thing in one BL novel after another. So when I can get nice person meeting another nice person and they don't act out a soap opera, it's like a breath of fresh air. Torishima Yuuma is a young man who hosts a children's morning show. The children's book publisher salesman Shiozaki Tetsuya (who's not very good at his job) happens to see Yuuma interacting very well with some children in a bookstore and begs him to teach him what it is that children like. Yuuma decides to help him out. They become friends, but of course things don't remain that way.
I realized as I wrote the summary that I can't even begin to show just what makes the story utterly delightful without translating whole passages. The interactions between Yuuma and the children and Yuuma and Shiozaki are wonderful and sweet and what make the story...
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