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[insaneneko]

"Aiteru Door Kara Shitsurei Shimasuyo" (Into Your Heart Through the Door) by Yamada Yugi is the second in the series that began with "Saigo no Door wo Shimero!" (Close the Last Door!), about the older brothers of one of the characters in that first volume. I haven't read the first volume (or the one that comes after this one), which is possibly why I enjoyed this one so much--I typically hate it when a series focuses on characters other than the ones they started out with. This was one of those "forbidden love" stories in which the brothers struggle to sort out what they are in relation to each other (because "brother" and "lover" are usually mutually exclusive), nothing really new. But the manga gives enough background on the uke and how he thinks that, despite my personal annoyance at him at times, I on the whole felt very sympathetic. Maybe I was synchronizing with the seme, who is, in a word, hot. I like the way he is drawn (scruffy sexy is good), and I like the way he isn't really forceful in any way and yet doesn't come off as weak (too many times semes are either total pushovers or waaay too aggressive). The first volume is out in English (I think it's been animated as well?), this one has been mostly scanlated (images shared here), I have no idea what's happening in the third. I'm not sure I want to read the first or the third volumes, because I'm not big into triangles (first volume), and I liked how volume two ends and am not sure how things will be handled in the third...

On a completely shallow note, I really hate the cover art. It just doesn't sell itself. The manga art looks sooo much nicer. Odd, since usually the cover art is much nicer than the manga art...





those eyes!




those eyes (again)! that tongue!




naked dripping seme. XD




biting! gnawing! whatever it's called!




love that tongue action.




five o'clock shadow, oh my.



just...ugh...




blushing!




shoulder bite!



I want to buy at least this volume, but it was a Biblos title and hasn't been reissued yet. Arg, I really hate this whole reissuing business. I hear that some titles have different covers from the Biblos versions? XP


The Longest Night by y_c_reverse is a Silver Diamond fic that...amused me to death. I can totally see Shigeka's pained expression, as well as Rakan's complete cluelessness. XD

Comments

[zehavit-lamasu.livejournal.com]

hahah - I am a bit disapointed that the second volume doesn't pick off the first because I really enjoyed the love triangle XD. I hope the third installment does something with the characters of the first book and that DMP translate them fast enough. I don't buy Japanese versions of books that are now due in English (with aexceptions) and I stopped reading scanlations awhile ago...

[modorenai.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, I read Aiteru Door as well and I loved it... the basic premise of it is so typical and cliche, but it manages to be such a wonderful read thanks to the lovely characters and the execution. I skimmed through the Saigo no Door volumes and I think I like Aiteru Door better. Scruffy semes ftw! XD (And it's interesting, I'd never heard of five o'clock shadow before but somehow I've come across it twice in these past two days. 0_o)

And I read that Silver Diamond fic recently as well and it was great. XD