A King's Lesson

by Aoi Futaba, Kurenai Mitsuba

Sui is a brand new student at a boarding school. His dorm master is a sexy stud college student called Daira, aka "King." Sui's develops a crush on Daira which slowly deepens into mad love, only to be reciprocated by harsh words and a cold shoulder... Out of the blue, Daira forces himself on Sui! Hurt and confused, Sui turns to his childhood friend, Sosuke for comfort...

Genres: Manga, Yaoi, Shounen Ai

184 pages, Paperback

First published October 3, 2007

Reviews

[Briana Lawrence · Rating 1 out of 5]

The creators of “Level C” bring us a story that attempts to have a plot and very little sex. Having read all of “Level C” I didn’t expect much from this manga. At most it might’ve given readers pages of hot sex with an extremely simple plot. However, this story tries to have more plot than sex. That’s not a bad thing, a healthy dose of plot goes great with boy sex, the only problem is that the plot in this story is terrible.

If you’re going to do the “rape equals love” scenario then please don’t solve the problem in less then twenty pages. If you end everything with happy rainbows and flowers in an unbelievably short period of time your readers will most likely be sickened by those final love confessions. And if you’re going to do the “best friend love triangle," then develop it in more than just a few panels of the manga.

Daiki’s coldness towards Sui is too sudden. The final attempts to make his actions justifiable by saying he doesn’t know any better is a pathetic way to get a happily ever after. Sui is too forgiving of the situation. After being raped he’s all smiles and in love with Daiki all over again. Sosuke’s romantic love for Sui comes in random spurts that don’t fit in the story at all. He also has to win some kind of award for being the worst friend ever since he lets Sui pursue his love for Daiki, even after knowing how much Daiki hurt him.

Perhaps if things weren’t wrapped up so neatly, or at least stretched into a multi-volumed work, this story could’ve been better. As it stands this manga isn’t worth anyone’s time.

Original, longer review here: http://www.mania.com/kings-lesson-vol...

[Kerrie D'Ercole · Rating 1 out of 5]

Man this was a terrible Shounen Ai.
Like real bad story, okay art, meh on the smut.
Not sure how its at a 3+ and not a 1 or 2 star.
Do not recommend.

[Reader17 Der · Rating 3 out of 5]

I enjoyed reading this. Sui is a new student a broading school where an old friend of his is staying. They have a dorm master Daira aka “king” who Sui has feelings for. Daira treats him badly, and says harsh things to him. But that is because Daira doesn’t know he has feelings for Sui, and as they start develop he is not used to having feelings. This story has Sui helping Daira overcome his issues.

[scarlettraces · Rating 2 out of 5]

non-con warning