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Ookami no hakushaku~Eien no tsugai written by Goh Shiira and illustrated by Takatsuki Noboru is a pretty ridiculous but fun werewolf fic. Guy meets hot werewolf guy who claims they are soulmates, they have hot sex, there is an extended flashback sequence detailing the hot werewolf guy's past, they are pursued by evil hunters, they have more sex, and they live happily ever after. Some of my favorite details:

1. Only males become werewolves, so they go around fucking each other to find their soulmates.
2. Wolf sex!
3. Stupid uke realizes he could be walking into a trap but goes anyway to prove a point.
4. Studly seme comes to the (naked) ukes rescue!
5. Uke lashes out at seme and regrets it a second after the seme leaves.
6. Wolf sex!
7. Seme announces all of his achievements in his introduction to the uke. He also announces that he's writing a manuscript about werewolves based on his life and that it will be turned into a movie starring the world's most popular actor as him....And it actually happens.
8. Did I mention wolf sex?
9. The art.

In conclusion: It's so bad and so cliched, but so much fun.

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Hanamachi Monogatari~Tsuya koiuta~ is the novelization of the BL game by Togake Ally and illustrated by Takatsuki Noboru (the artist for the game). I sort of remember seeing pics for the game a while back, and I wasn't expecting much from the novel. It was actually a lot of fun to read. Completely and totally cliched and silly, naturally, but fun. Uke is a kid working as a much-bullied servant at the brothel his mom had worked at (before she met his father), but is picked up by seme to work at seme's much nicer brothel as a prostitute. There is something hilarious about how low-class brothel=prejudiced (uke's father was English) and blind to uke's obvious beauty while high-class brothel=accepting and appreciative. Er, in any case, the uke is very grateful to seme and believes firmly that the seme is very kind at heart. No matter what the seme does. No matter how bastardly the seme treats the uke...Because uke is the time-honored whore with the heart of gold. He's spunky and cheerful and sickeningly positive. He's also in love with the seme, so of course he can't help but crave whatever contact he can get from the seme, no matter how not-nice it may be.

Seme, for his part, has issues. He grew up in a very good home but was completely ignored by his father. He left his house and decided to run a very nice brothel while his much-cherished older brother became an upstanding military officer. He is lonely and vulnerable deep in his heart, but masks his sadness with a cold and calculating demeanor. He is usually very business-like and doesn't go around treating his prostitutes badly. Of course, his typical policy is thrown out the window when it comes to uke. Not only does the seme have the uke's first fuck (and has a really thin excuse for why he did it instead of having a paying client do it), he has the uke lots of times after that in the guise of "training" or "testing." In the end, though, the uke's pure and sincere love breaks through the seme's emotional walls and they live happily ever after, running the wonderful shiny happy brothel with shiny happy prostitutes...

The art is quite nice. Frankly, I don't think I'd have liked this as much if the seme wasn't totally hot. Glasses! Properly buttoned up! Repressed! I laughed so hard at all the lame excuses he made to himself to justify the silly shit he does to the uke. I wanted to pet him on the head a lot. Uke, for his part, wasn't that interesting but wasn't particularly offensive either. Sometimes these pure and sweet characters make me want to gag from the saccharine stickiness, but he was just kind of chipper. At least he didn't angst very much, even over the seme. He was mostly resigned, in a chipper way. ^^;

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