Reload series by Ioka Itsuki and illustrated by Kunisawa Tomo

Reload, Truth, and Grow Back are in a series by Ioka Itsuki and illustrated by Kunisawa Tomo about a police detective and a guy who works in a police lab. This series is supposed to be a seme vs. seme who will win type of situation. Kawatou Kazuma, the police detective, is straight. jinguu Satoshi, the lab dude, is gay. They both have fucked a ton of people. They meet, they snark, and they become attracted to each other. But who will top? I didn't realize this was the gimmick of volume 1 because I read volume 2 first so I knew who got to be seme in the first book. Each volume is set up around a case (or various incidents that turn into a case). The cases don't suck, per se. I just don't care much about them. This series is heavy on conventions, both of the genre and series-specific type. Some conventions desperately need to be ditched, but they are not so irritating that they'll keep me away. What attracts me to this series and keeps me looking forward to the next book is the interaction between the two. They are macho guys who initially have an antagonistic relationship. Even after they acknowledge their attraction they are still at odds because they both want to be seme. Even after it's more or less settled, the guy who gets the dick up his ass (I was going to write "gets the short end of the stick" but...) is not satisfied. He wants his turn, and they argue about it quite a bit. I'm hoping either the author has them switching OR the uke decides that he can take control from the bottom instead of stubbornly holding onto his ideal of what he should be doing (fuck not be fucked). It's not like he doesn't get a lot of pleasure from being fucked. Despite his stubborn pride, in the end he loves having sex, in whatever form, with the guy he'd fallen for.

I've been meaning to summarize these books but have come to realize that I can't be bothered to do it. So...I share the pics instead. XD They are quite nice.


( Reload )

( Truth )