Manga review: Love Control 1&2

The perverted bear Kumakun is back and ready to review all the BL manga he can get a hold of for your guys. First out is Love Control.

Story resolves around the interior decorator  Yamashiro and the bar and restaurant owner Okumura’s love affair.
Both characters are quite stubborn and in the beginning I was worried that this would stop the story from moving forward or make it a bit boring. Thankfully this is not the case and the uke is only stubborn to a point and then slides over to being cute and embarrassed, so the same can figure out what is going on.

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Manga Review: Saint Young Men

I found a delightful slice-of-life recently. If you haven’t read Saint Young Men you’ve missed a hilarious slice-of-life by Nakamura Hikaru. However surreal it sounds like the manga is about Jesus and Buddha spending their vacation in present-day Japan sharing a small apartment in Tokyo. Nakamura-sensei even throw in an odd couple twist to it. Nakamura-sensei’s rendition of the two divinities might be a whee bit different from what you know about them :)

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