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Celestia and Hades—mystical realms inhabited by angels and demons. It is these supernatural beings’ duty to watch over the human realm, making sure we are neither too good nor too bad...
Kaie is just another demon trying to rise up in the ranks of demon society by working in the human world. Unfortunately, he’s got one major thing going against him: his body, which looks like a man’s but is actually hermaphroditic! Luckily for him it isn’t permanent, and Kaie (with every intention of becoming a splendid man) has waited his entire life for the day when his sex would be decided one way or the other. But his plans hit a roadblock when he unwillingly gains the affections of Daina, the heir to the Celestial throne who happens to suffer from an unusual condition that alters his appearance depending on the time of day. Will Kaie’s dreams of becoming a real man fade when the charming angelic heir is so insistent on making Kaie his wife?
Kaie is just another demon trying to rise up in the ranks of demon society by working in the human world. Unfortunately, he’s got one major thing going against him: his body, which looks like a man’s but is actually hermaphroditic! Luckily for him it isn’t permanent, and Kaie (with every intention of becoming a splendid man) has waited his entire life for the day when his sex would be decided one way or the other. But his plans hit a roadblock when he unwillingly gains the affections of Daina, the heir to the Celestial throne who happens to suffer from an unusual condition that alters his appearance depending on the time of day. Will Kaie’s dreams of becoming a real man fade when the charming angelic heir is so insistent on making Kaie his wife?
232 pages, Paperback
First published November 25, 2007
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April 11, 2019
This is a pretty shitty yaoi. Kaie (the MC) is intersex and declares his gender as male so of course everyone has to misgender him all the damn time. He's coerced into a dress even though part of the marriage agreement was that he wasn't going to wear one.
There's a ton of "rape is love" and "It's not rape because you liked it" as well as Kaie getting a high libido and becoming uncontrollable nympho and wanting all the things he didn't like done to him.
There's also a TON of hate on women and becoming a woman. Plenty of gendered insults and the like.
OH there's also the fact that Daina is a kid in the daytime and there's lots of "I'm a 300 year old angel so it's ok to do sex stuff" and it's like NOOOOooooo.
At least Kaie LIKES Daina so it doesn't have that "I'm a straight guy that doesn't like you and you'll rape me into liking you." No here we'll just declare that "a man doesn't stop when he's told no" said to his husband whom is supposed to trust him and here Daina just fucking rapes his ass and then says "Whelp you liked it so it wasn't rape"
Also has the "Now this is a REAL rapist" trotted out to decalre that what Daina did was A-OK.
There's a ton of "rape is love" and "It's not rape because you liked it" as well as Kaie getting a high libido and becoming uncontrollable nympho and wanting all the things he didn't like done to him.
There's also a TON of hate on women and becoming a woman. Plenty of gendered insults and the like.
OH there's also the fact that Daina is a kid in the daytime and there's lots of "I'm a 300 year old angel so it's ok to do sex stuff" and it's like NOOOOooooo.
At least Kaie LIKES Daina so it doesn't have that "I'm a straight guy that doesn't like you and you'll rape me into liking you." No here we'll just declare that "a man doesn't stop when he's told no" said to his husband whom is supposed to trust him and here Daina just fucking rapes his ass and then says "Whelp you liked it so it wasn't rape"
Also has the "Now this is a REAL rapist" trotted out to decalre that what Daina did was A-OK.
May 7, 2018
2.5 stars
May 19, 2023
I thought this story was pretty cute overall. Nothing amazing, but I enjoyed the read.
March 5, 2017
Review originally published at mangaupdates.com in March, 2009:
Ridiculously Memorable.... Five stars.
I gave it a two, only because it did evoke emotional responses, and strong ones at that. I laughed, but not from clever witticisms. I cried, but not from traumatic interplay. My stomach clenched, but not from connection with the characters plights.
Sheer ridiculousness! The characters were silly, shockingly unrealistic and shallow. The sequence of events were nonsensical, and that is saying a lot for someone like myself who ADORES the fantasyland that is yaoi.
I don't know which was more scream-worthy, the child-man metamorphosis, the inane dialogue, or the brainless reactions and events.
Ridiculously Memorable.... Five stars.
I gave it a two, only because it did evoke emotional responses, and strong ones at that. I laughed, but not from clever witticisms. I cried, but not from traumatic interplay. My stomach clenched, but not from connection with the characters plights.
Sheer ridiculousness! The characters were silly, shockingly unrealistic and shallow. The sequence of events were nonsensical, and that is saying a lot for someone like myself who ADORES the fantasyland that is yaoi.
I don't know which was more scream-worthy, the child-man metamorphosis, the inane dialogue, or the brainless reactions and events.
September 6, 2016
When one of the lead characters gets coerced into being a Number One wife for a schemer or risk being demoted, it reads like something out of the sleaziest, tawdriest romance novel. But when the one doing the scheming looks like a little boy (most of the time) and his would-be wife is a masculine-looking hermaphrodite, we’re supposed to find this amusing. Hmph.
Between loud flailings from the exasperated Kaie to the persistent, intrusive molestations of his husband-to-be Daina, there isn’t a great deal of what you’d call plot. Kaie’s constant reiterations about how he’s going to be a manly man and that he doesn’t like kids vie with his undeniable attraction to Daina’s adult alter-ego, a tall, gorgeous form he adopts after immersion in a three-minute bath. (Points for that; that’s one of the most unusual methods of transformations I’ve ever seen in a yaoi light novel.)
In fact, Kaie’s fluttering loins at adult-Daina’s looks all but telegraph how this story is going to end. Throw in a pair of mischievous angels, an assassin, a potential adulterer and a succubus or two and what you’ve got is a trashy low-end Harlequin novel gussied up with supernatural gobbledygook.
The author’s afterword states this was intended to be a comedy. The back of this volume reads Drama/Romance. It’s none of these things. All aspects of this story, from the silly, repetitive arguments to an awkward attempted seduction, read as if written by the same inept scribbler who created “Immortal Beloved”, an infamous online novel considered by many to be the worst fanfiction ever typed.
This book is laughable, all right. It’s just not funny.
Between loud flailings from the exasperated Kaie to the persistent, intrusive molestations of his husband-to-be Daina, there isn’t a great deal of what you’d call plot. Kaie’s constant reiterations about how he’s going to be a manly man and that he doesn’t like kids vie with his undeniable attraction to Daina’s adult alter-ego, a tall, gorgeous form he adopts after immersion in a three-minute bath. (Points for that; that’s one of the most unusual methods of transformations I’ve ever seen in a yaoi light novel.)
In fact, Kaie’s fluttering loins at adult-Daina’s looks all but telegraph how this story is going to end. Throw in a pair of mischievous angels, an assassin, a potential adulterer and a succubus or two and what you’ve got is a trashy low-end Harlequin novel gussied up with supernatural gobbledygook.
The author’s afterword states this was intended to be a comedy. The back of this volume reads Drama/Romance. It’s none of these things. All aspects of this story, from the silly, repetitive arguments to an awkward attempted seduction, read as if written by the same inept scribbler who created “Immortal Beloved”, an infamous online novel considered by many to be the worst fanfiction ever typed.
This book is laughable, all right. It’s just not funny.
January 8, 2008
I'm usually not one to read yaoi novels for fear of them being written like really bad fanfiction, but this one was pretty funny. I also really like the artist Naduki Koujima - so the art with the book adds to it for me.
May 26, 2015
A cute quick read. I really had fun reading this book.
November 2, 2011
Slightly silly characters, quite entertaining though. :D
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