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グラビテーション [Gravitation] #3
Gravitation, Vol. 3
Determined to become a rock star, Shuichi Shindou is discouraged by some harsh criticism he receives, and must find the strength to overcome his fears and keep trying.
216 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1996
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March 27, 2025Volume 3 introduces an inconvenient fiancée to explore the relation between heterosexuality and homosexuality while shedding some light on Japanese television in all its quirkness. Along the way we are introduced to a horrifying short early manga that Murakami-sensei herself tells us she is very unhappy about.
By the time Gravi was being serialized, women as obstacles in BL were already a staple. This is a trope that still occasionally pops up although I do not think it is as productive as it once was. Enter Usami Ayaka, Yuki's 16 year old fiancée. Her role, at this stage at least, is to throw a wrench into Yuki and Shuuichi's relationship.
Her edge, so to speak, is that by being a girl she is protected by the ruling, structuring and above all socially enforced- and accepted- heterosexuality. Gravi does not go into the complexities of 恋が僕等を許す範囲 1 Koi ga Bokura wo Yurusu Hani 1 but it frames the issue in basically the same lines, even if expressed in different terms: Yuki and Shuuichi's "love" cannot fully interact with the public world because it has no actual rights therein (thus, would be "koi", as per the Motoni-sensei's definition) while Yuki and Ayaka are on the road to a fully expressible kind of "love", the kind that is doubly confirmed as such by the engagement (thus, would be "ai").
There is a crucial difference not so much in the articulation of these concepts as of actual circumstances involved in each manga. Motoni-sensei's boys are actually involved in active sexual relationships with their respective girlfriends while Yuki has not seen Ayaka for two whole years and while the engagement is somewhat official, he barely acknowledges it as it was decided by his family. More on the subject of a 16 year old being engaged later on.
This, however, may not matter all that much because the more salient point is how Shuuichi feels and reacts to this. As is to be expected, he does not take it well. Interestingly enough, he is not mad at Yuki for not telling him about this as much as he is about his telling Ayaka about their being a couple. This makes some sense as Ayaka confronts him at the studio, telling him to back off and that two guys being together is "filthy". . It is a defining moment of heterosexuality asserting its "rightful" position in the hierarchy of interpersonal relationships.
Shuuichi asks about Yuki's feelings regarding Ayaka but Yuki, in borderline trollish fashion, does not actually answer. Shuuichi has reasons- or thinks he does- for thinking Yuki is in love with Ayaka because he was so kind to her when they finally got to see each other again. This is something that tends to happen with "cold fish" characters, any kind of emotional reaction that is not snark is read as intensely meaningful. A clumsier and very mawkish version of this phenomenon can be seen in お金がないっ 01: the horrible rapist seme's moments of "kindness" are interpreted as really impactful not despite his criminal conduct but because of it.
Gravi does not take this to such an extreme but it is worth noting that this kind of thing happens even when the character in question is not emotionally cool. The very gregarious, friendly, always willing to help kind of character often has their crushes agonizing over not being "special".
In this case, Shuuichi feels he is backed into a corner. He voices this to Tatsuha, Yuki's brother, in terms that are close to Motoni-sensei's but also differ in one crucial matter. Shuuichi accepts that Ayaka is a more legitimate partner for Yuki but he also bows out, at this point, because he thinks he is only one of Yuki's lovers. It is unclear whether Shuuichi is bundling Ayaka in these but be it as it may, Yuki's having several sexual partners is a point of contention.
Tatsuha offers an alternate point of the view, the one that eventually settles it and, more interestingly, one that explains the whole manga's- and dare I say, most of BL's- take on sexual orientation. According to Tatsuha, Shuuichi just happened to fall in love with a man; he did not fall for Yuki's looks or because he is a man. In these few lines, much is implied. Namely, if Yuki were a woman, Shuuichi would presumably feel the exact way (and perhaps the other way around as well).
What I find most interesting and important is that sexual orientation is, in this sense, not a matter of identity. At least, it is not primarily that. It is, first and foremost, about behavior. This explains much of what often feels so odd about BL. Why so many characters worry about "turning gay" by having sex with another man. And why so much of the queer experience is elided altogether: no early crushes on boys (unless they are "the one"), no being in the closet to friends and family, no worry about such things at all until they encounter "the one" and behavior sets in. That it is Tatsuha, the bisexual character (dare I say, the "official" bisexual since, as mentioned before, I think Shuuichi and Yuki both qualify) who puts all this into words is very telling. Tatsuha's being bisexual is referred to by Murakami-sensei's in a comment as part of what makes him so "outrageous" a character. One wonders just why this should be singled out when the cast is "outrageous" enough as it is. My personal theory is that Tatsuha's bisexuality is highlighted in this way precisely because sexual orientation is about behavior more than anything else.
In other words, he is not simply a man who is attracted by both men and women (the manga functions along with this dichotomy so I will do as well for the sake of all reviews), he is a man who is having sex with both men and women. He is described by Murakami-sensei as "shady", in fact, "even shadier" than his brother.
When it comes to Yuki, he is not identified as bi, probably because his promiscuity with female partners is already well established. In other words, there is already behavior established. It is worth mentioning, though, that a lot of Shuuichi and Yuki's interaction and conflict revolves around this, even if the actual terminology is not used (at least not at this point, this may change later on).Spoiler for later volumes:
There is more going on, of course. Bisexuality is routinely demonized a bit all over so it makes sense BL should do it as well. More often than not, BL ignores it altogether but when it goes out of its way to point it out, it is hardly ever positive or even neutral. In fact, even something that is very BL adjacent like Adekan, Volume 01, the two leads who spend most of their time getting entangled in really sexy ways- complete with one of them being stark naked more often than not- react with disgust when another character self-identifies as bisexual.
BL has evolved a lot since Gravi but it is extremely interesting how very modern titles, even those who go out of their way to do away with a lot of toxicity, fail so hard when it comes to even addressing bisexuality as a possibility. 佐々木と宮野 1 Sasaki to Miyano 1 by Shou Harusono immediately springs to mind. Being a very self-referential title, in which Miyano is a self-professed fudanshi (portmanteau term for a boy who likes BL) and thus ends up almost unavoidably reading his budding attraction to Sasaki in the lenses of this kind of fiction (even as he fights against it), it makes some sense that he would not consider that he may be bisexual. But the manga started running in 2015, and considering how much he agonizes about "but I'm not gay but I like him but I'm not gay" it is still startling that he does not do a very simply google search. Miyano seems oblivious of the notion that queerness is a spectrum, at all. You are either straight, or you're gay. End of story.
In a surprising twist, in this regard, Gravi has a greater level of understanding despite, well, everything. One cannot help wondering if perhaps Harusono-sensei is actually offering a kind of critique to the limits of BL by hampering Miyano like this, as the direct result of his sole interaction with any kind of queerness being this kind of fiction. It is worth mentioning that what seems to be the final answer in this manga (it is still being published so it may still change) when it comes to sexual orientation, is precisely the same line Gravi- and the genre as a whole- take.
Back to Gravi, that it is the bisexual character who reaches the conclusion Shuuichi is supposed to arrive at, namely, that Ayaka and him are on the same level since they both love Yuki, may hint at Tatsuha, for all his "shadiness", being more aware of sexual identity as such. This may be an overreach, after all there are only so many characters who can play this supporting role but normally it is Hiro who does it. It does make more sense it should be Tatsuha as he knows everyone involved but still.
Tatsuha's take is the right one, too. Shuuichi's breakthrough moment comes when he realizes this as well and results in his telling the audience at a concert that "Yuki is mine", while Yuki and Ayaka are both present. While this lends itself to ambiguity, the press assumed "Yuki" is a girl (as a given name, it is very often attributed to females), this very public act of affirmation pushes "koi" into the domain of "ai". Which is to say, the very act of speaking up reinforces what is being said. It elevates homosexuality to a position that is not subordinate but on par with heterosexuality.
The question of where this all leaves Ayaka.. She is obviously in love with a man who is notorious for sleeping around. She has not seen him for two whole years and assuming they were already engaged/and or in love with him then, she has been in this emotional limbo since she was 14.
That Ayaka is way too young to be in this situation is not mentioned. As an omake of sorts this volume bundled an earlier manga in which a 18 year old student spends the entire time obsessing, drooling and fantasying about his 11 year student. Here too the pairing is heterosexual but it is played entirely for laughs which is extremely uncomfortable.
Yuki having this engagement decided against his will is pretty shoddy but has clearly not hampered the way he lives his life. From what we see of Ayaka, she has been pining for Yuki for at least two years, and this is an eternity in the life of a teenager. She even gets shoujo-vision when she finally meets Yuki, complete with flowers bursting across the frame. Not to mention she ran away from home in Kyoto, all the way to Tokyo, just to see him.
Ayaka was handed a very shoddy hand in all this and it is not properly acknowledged. To be fair, Murakam-sensei tries her hardest at rehabilitating her. Ayaka apologizes to Shuuichi, congratulates him on his musical achievements and takes the high road as defeated love rivals tend to do in shoujo. At least those who are not absolute monsters. I expect Ayaka was never meant to be a villain, at all, but unfortunately there is a background in which characters like hers devolve into shrews. If anything, Mika fills this role as does Seguchi, to some extent, but even they have their very good reasons for being on the fence about Yuki and Shuuichi's relationship. They are not just viciously against it out of their evil ways.
Speaking of evil ways, (spoiler for later volumes, and TRIGGER WARNING)
The rest of the volume is taken up by a quiz game where Bad Luck has landed an appearance. This kind of show is a staple of Japanese TV and often nothing short of bizarre. Variety shows in which celebrities, whose status as "famous" can be quite tenuous, play games against one another while interacting with a live (or a simulacrum) audience and cooky hosts of the highly enthusiastic kind. The format has not changed much since the 90's and to this day you will find this kind of show on daytime TV.
That a band would be asked to take part and not actually perform may seem strange but it is actually not that rare. The main point of these shows is to present entertainers as "real" people, hence the running gags and sense of self-parody that pervades the whole thing. This makes it ideal Gravi fodder. If anything, I am a bit surprised the show was not amped up more. The anime did go in this direction, interestingly enough.
Overall, volume 3 is a fascinating take on how BL views questions of sexual orientation, the hierarchies it builds depending on socially dependent elements and how all this factored in creating certain formulae on which much of the meta-genre still engages with to this day. Gravi may not have been the first manga to bring this into play but because it was so influential, it ended up having long lasting repercussions even if even finding the manga is something of a challenge these days.
UPDATE, 27/3/2025: The manga is about to be get a rerelease in English, I am curious to see what kind- if any- reception it will get.
By the time Gravi was being serialized, women as obstacles in BL were already a staple. This is a trope that still occasionally pops up although I do not think it is as productive as it once was. Enter Usami Ayaka, Yuki's 16 year old fiancée. Her role, at this stage at least, is to throw a wrench into Yuki and Shuuichi's relationship.
Her edge, so to speak, is that by being a girl she is protected by the ruling, structuring and above all socially enforced- and accepted- heterosexuality. Gravi does not go into the complexities of 恋が僕等を許す範囲 1 Koi ga Bokura wo Yurusu Hani 1 but it frames the issue in basically the same lines, even if expressed in different terms: Yuki and Shuuichi's "love" cannot fully interact with the public world because it has no actual rights therein (thus, would be "koi", as per the Motoni-sensei's definition) while Yuki and Ayaka are on the road to a fully expressible kind of "love", the kind that is doubly confirmed as such by the engagement (thus, would be "ai").
There is a crucial difference not so much in the articulation of these concepts as of actual circumstances involved in each manga. Motoni-sensei's boys are actually involved in active sexual relationships with their respective girlfriends while Yuki has not seen Ayaka for two whole years and while the engagement is somewhat official, he barely acknowledges it as it was decided by his family. More on the subject of a 16 year old being engaged later on.
This, however, may not matter all that much because the more salient point is how Shuuichi feels and reacts to this. As is to be expected, he does not take it well. Interestingly enough, he is not mad at Yuki for not telling him about this as much as he is about his telling Ayaka about their being a couple. This makes some sense as Ayaka confronts him at the studio, telling him to back off and that two guys being together is "filthy". . It is a defining moment of heterosexuality asserting its "rightful" position in the hierarchy of interpersonal relationships.
Shuuichi asks about Yuki's feelings regarding Ayaka but Yuki, in borderline trollish fashion, does not actually answer. Shuuichi has reasons- or thinks he does- for thinking Yuki is in love with Ayaka because he was so kind to her when they finally got to see each other again. This is something that tends to happen with "cold fish" characters, any kind of emotional reaction that is not snark is read as intensely meaningful. A clumsier and very mawkish version of this phenomenon can be seen in お金がないっ 01: the horrible rapist seme's moments of "kindness" are interpreted as really impactful not despite his criminal conduct but because of it.
Gravi does not take this to such an extreme but it is worth noting that this kind of thing happens even when the character in question is not emotionally cool. The very gregarious, friendly, always willing to help kind of character often has their crushes agonizing over not being "special".
In this case, Shuuichi feels he is backed into a corner. He voices this to Tatsuha, Yuki's brother, in terms that are close to Motoni-sensei's but also differ in one crucial matter. Shuuichi accepts that Ayaka is a more legitimate partner for Yuki but he also bows out, at this point, because he thinks he is only one of Yuki's lovers. It is unclear whether Shuuichi is bundling Ayaka in these but be it as it may, Yuki's having several sexual partners is a point of contention.
Tatsuha offers an alternate point of the view, the one that eventually settles it and, more interestingly, one that explains the whole manga's- and dare I say, most of BL's- take on sexual orientation. According to Tatsuha, Shuuichi just happened to fall in love with a man; he did not fall for Yuki's looks or because he is a man. In these few lines, much is implied. Namely, if Yuki were a woman, Shuuichi would presumably feel the exact way (and perhaps the other way around as well).
What I find most interesting and important is that sexual orientation is, in this sense, not a matter of identity. At least, it is not primarily that. It is, first and foremost, about behavior. This explains much of what often feels so odd about BL. Why so many characters worry about "turning gay" by having sex with another man. And why so much of the queer experience is elided altogether: no early crushes on boys (unless they are "the one"), no being in the closet to friends and family, no worry about such things at all until they encounter "the one" and behavior sets in. That it is Tatsuha, the bisexual character (dare I say, the "official" bisexual since, as mentioned before, I think Shuuichi and Yuki both qualify) who puts all this into words is very telling. Tatsuha's being bisexual is referred to by Murakami-sensei's in a comment as part of what makes him so "outrageous" a character. One wonders just why this should be singled out when the cast is "outrageous" enough as it is. My personal theory is that Tatsuha's bisexuality is highlighted in this way precisely because sexual orientation is about behavior more than anything else.
In other words, he is not simply a man who is attracted by both men and women (the manga functions along with this dichotomy so I will do as well for the sake of all reviews), he is a man who is having sex with both men and women. He is described by Murakami-sensei as "shady", in fact, "even shadier" than his brother.
When it comes to Yuki, he is not identified as bi, probably because his promiscuity with female partners is already well established. In other words, there is already behavior established. It is worth mentioning, though, that a lot of Shuuichi and Yuki's interaction and conflict revolves around this, even if the actual terminology is not used (at least not at this point, this may change later on).Spoiler for later volumes:
There is more going on, of course. Bisexuality is routinely demonized a bit all over so it makes sense BL should do it as well. More often than not, BL ignores it altogether but when it goes out of its way to point it out, it is hardly ever positive or even neutral. In fact, even something that is very BL adjacent like Adekan, Volume 01, the two leads who spend most of their time getting entangled in really sexy ways- complete with one of them being stark naked more often than not- react with disgust when another character self-identifies as bisexual.
BL has evolved a lot since Gravi but it is extremely interesting how very modern titles, even those who go out of their way to do away with a lot of toxicity, fail so hard when it comes to even addressing bisexuality as a possibility. 佐々木と宮野 1 Sasaki to Miyano 1 by Shou Harusono immediately springs to mind. Being a very self-referential title, in which Miyano is a self-professed fudanshi (portmanteau term for a boy who likes BL) and thus ends up almost unavoidably reading his budding attraction to Sasaki in the lenses of this kind of fiction (even as he fights against it), it makes some sense that he would not consider that he may be bisexual. But the manga started running in 2015, and considering how much he agonizes about "but I'm not gay but I like him but I'm not gay" it is still startling that he does not do a very simply google search. Miyano seems oblivious of the notion that queerness is a spectrum, at all. You are either straight, or you're gay. End of story.
In a surprising twist, in this regard, Gravi has a greater level of understanding despite, well, everything. One cannot help wondering if perhaps Harusono-sensei is actually offering a kind of critique to the limits of BL by hampering Miyano like this, as the direct result of his sole interaction with any kind of queerness being this kind of fiction. It is worth mentioning that what seems to be the final answer in this manga (it is still being published so it may still change) when it comes to sexual orientation, is precisely the same line Gravi- and the genre as a whole- take.
Back to Gravi, that it is the bisexual character who reaches the conclusion Shuuichi is supposed to arrive at, namely, that Ayaka and him are on the same level since they both love Yuki, may hint at Tatsuha, for all his "shadiness", being more aware of sexual identity as such. This may be an overreach, after all there are only so many characters who can play this supporting role but normally it is Hiro who does it. It does make more sense it should be Tatsuha as he knows everyone involved but still.
Tatsuha's take is the right one, too. Shuuichi's breakthrough moment comes when he realizes this as well and results in his telling the audience at a concert that "Yuki is mine", while Yuki and Ayaka are both present. While this lends itself to ambiguity, the press assumed "Yuki" is a girl (as a given name, it is very often attributed to females), this very public act of affirmation pushes "koi" into the domain of "ai". Which is to say, the very act of speaking up reinforces what is being said. It elevates homosexuality to a position that is not subordinate but on par with heterosexuality.
The question of where this all leaves Ayaka.. She is obviously in love with a man who is notorious for sleeping around. She has not seen him for two whole years and assuming they were already engaged/and or in love with him then, she has been in this emotional limbo since she was 14.
That Ayaka is way too young to be in this situation is not mentioned. As an omake of sorts this volume bundled an earlier manga in which a 18 year old student spends the entire time obsessing, drooling and fantasying about his 11 year student. Here too the pairing is heterosexual but it is played entirely for laughs which is extremely uncomfortable.
Yuki having this engagement decided against his will is pretty shoddy but has clearly not hampered the way he lives his life. From what we see of Ayaka, she has been pining for Yuki for at least two years, and this is an eternity in the life of a teenager. She even gets shoujo-vision when she finally meets Yuki, complete with flowers bursting across the frame. Not to mention she ran away from home in Kyoto, all the way to Tokyo, just to see him.
Ayaka was handed a very shoddy hand in all this and it is not properly acknowledged. To be fair, Murakam-sensei tries her hardest at rehabilitating her. Ayaka apologizes to Shuuichi, congratulates him on his musical achievements and takes the high road as defeated love rivals tend to do in shoujo. At least those who are not absolute monsters. I expect Ayaka was never meant to be a villain, at all, but unfortunately there is a background in which characters like hers devolve into shrews. If anything, Mika fills this role as does Seguchi, to some extent, but even they have their very good reasons for being on the fence about Yuki and Shuuichi's relationship. They are not just viciously against it out of their evil ways.
Speaking of evil ways, (spoiler for later volumes, and TRIGGER WARNING)
The rest of the volume is taken up by a quiz game where Bad Luck has landed an appearance. This kind of show is a staple of Japanese TV and often nothing short of bizarre. Variety shows in which celebrities, whose status as "famous" can be quite tenuous, play games against one another while interacting with a live (or a simulacrum) audience and cooky hosts of the highly enthusiastic kind. The format has not changed much since the 90's and to this day you will find this kind of show on daytime TV.
That a band would be asked to take part and not actually perform may seem strange but it is actually not that rare. The main point of these shows is to present entertainers as "real" people, hence the running gags and sense of self-parody that pervades the whole thing. This makes it ideal Gravi fodder. If anything, I am a bit surprised the show was not amped up more. The anime did go in this direction, interestingly enough.
Overall, volume 3 is a fascinating take on how BL views questions of sexual orientation, the hierarchies it builds depending on socially dependent elements and how all this factored in creating certain formulae on which much of the meta-genre still engages with to this day. Gravi may not have been the first manga to bring this into play but because it was so influential, it ended up having long lasting repercussions even if even finding the manga is something of a challenge these days.
UPDATE, 27/3/2025: The manga is about to be get a rerelease in English, I am curious to see what kind- if any- reception it will get.
March 8, 2018
Shuichi might misunderstand, but the reader is privy to more. And all signs point to fidelity.
Okay, then. Reading on.
Okay, then. Reading on.
March 14, 2010
I liked this volume, the fact that underneath all the crazy, there's actually a very touching romance there. I know that this manga isn't to be taken seriously, but when we get these small glimpses of the characters' real feelings, they shine even more brightly!
Didn't care for the bonus story, though.
Didn't care for the bonus story, though.
May 9, 2023
dropped at around 40%. as a famous Nintendo man Reggie once said, “If it’s not fun, why bother.”
February 16, 2024
I still hate Ayaka. Take a hint girl!
Also, Taki Aizawa was introduced and I remembered what he does to Shuichi and um . . . I recall not liking how it was handled. Honestly, this is a comedy manga, it shouldn't be trying to cover any of the series topics it does, but I'll talk more about them when they come up.
Also, Taki Aizawa was introduced and I remembered what he does to Shuichi and um . . . I recall not liking how it was handled. Honestly, this is a comedy manga, it shouldn't be trying to cover any of the series topics it does, but I'll talk more about them when they come up.
June 11, 2017
Much preferred to the last volume and funnier to boot! Proper review to come when I cba
September 12, 2018
3.5 stars. Getting a bit invested now. 😁
April 8, 2023
La parte del concurso sí estuvo buena.
May 30, 2023
For a review please see volume 1 were I review the whole series.
April 5, 2024
Muita emoçãooo
Aiai sorrio feito boba, sério esse mangá tem muitas cenas que me fazem feliz. O clima divertido de Gravitation é o elemento essencial e diferencial da obra!
Aiai sorrio feito boba, sério esse mangá tem muitas cenas que me fazem feliz. O clima divertido de Gravitation é o elemento essencial e diferencial da obra!
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April 17, 202480s
October 11, 2009
i got the entire series for 27 bucks at half price books last month, and finally got around to finishing it up. my advice for anyone new at this series is to not read the author comments. she comes off as hating this series, and being a mangka. hates to draw?! really?! boy did you pick the wrong profession. i could understand that the joy of something goes away when you're stuck doing it for money, but at least pretend to enjoy it. by the end, no one looks like they did at the beginning, and not in a good way. the artwork gets really shoddy by the end. with 40+ assistants, you would think that this would not happen. then if you keep reading her comments, you find out that she dislikes reading manga and anime, um what field do you think you entered here? the circus? but what really took the cake was every other blurb was talking about how she couldn't believe it was lasting this long. it made it feel like this was absolute torture. quite frankly, it ruined the mood for me, and even after i started skipping her depressing comments, it felt like the story suffered. i still enjoyed the series, but it really could have been better. it was ridiculous and dark, but i wish that it had gone one way or the other.
July 31, 2014
Wasn't so keen on this 3rd volume. Yuki is cold, complicated and unlikeable and Shuichi is more idiotic than usual.
Shuichi moves in with Yuki but the two are still hiding their relationship. Bad Luck get on a quiz show and offer to forfeit the money in order to play live on air. Shuichi shows us just how brainless he is. We've got Yuki's fiancée jealous of Shuichi and of course all the rock star rivalries in the back ground.
A highly overrated series for which you have to suspend your disbelief far more than I'm happy with. Artwork isn't bad, but all the characters look very similar and it becomes quite confusing.
There's an appalling bonus story in this one called Pretty Dynamite in which an 18 year old tutor falls for his mature 11 year old student. Unfunny and actually somewhat offensive.
Shuichi moves in with Yuki but the two are still hiding their relationship. Bad Luck get on a quiz show and offer to forfeit the money in order to play live on air. Shuichi shows us just how brainless he is. We've got Yuki's fiancée jealous of Shuichi and of course all the rock star rivalries in the back ground.
A highly overrated series for which you have to suspend your disbelief far more than I'm happy with. Artwork isn't bad, but all the characters look very similar and it becomes quite confusing.
There's an appalling bonus story in this one called Pretty Dynamite in which an 18 year old tutor falls for his mature 11 year old student. Unfunny and actually somewhat offensive.
November 21, 2013
With the new rival for Eiri's love in Shuichi's life, he is momentarily depressed. Claiming Eiri as his own while in the middle of a concert, Ayaka later declares that Shuichi is fit to fight over Eiri's love and the war is on!
Later, Bad Luck is set to cast on a live Game Show and Shuichi proposes that if Bad Luck wins, instead of the 1,000,000 yen as a prize they are allowed to show off their band to the viewers, and the Director accepts! But to grasp the golden opportunity Hiro and Shuichi are going to have to use their heads... has Bad Luck used up all their good luck?
Later, Bad Luck is set to cast on a live Game Show and Shuichi proposes that if Bad Luck wins, instead of the 1,000,000 yen as a prize they are allowed to show off their band to the viewers, and the Director accepts! But to grasp the golden opportunity Hiro and Shuichi are going to have to use their heads... has Bad Luck used up all their good luck?
November 16, 2024
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April 15,2024
For whatever reason the writer decided to add more unnecessary drama instead of developing her main characters and story.
The fact that traumatic events aren't a big deal in this story and is forced into the story out of nowhere are EVERYTHING wrong with this current rivalry between ASK and Bad Luck.
I have a feeling this manga would have been written better if it wasn't a BL romance.
April 15,2024
For whatever reason the writer decided to add more unnecessary drama instead of developing her main characters and story.
The fact that traumatic events aren't a big deal in this story and is forced into the story out of nowhere are EVERYTHING wrong with this current rivalry between ASK and Bad Luck.
I have a feeling this manga would have been written better if it wasn't a BL romance.
August 30, 2007
Yaoi or boy-on-boy love manga. It was the first and only series of that genre that I have read, and was utterly hilarious. It had great funny, sentimental, and sad moments. A lot of fun to read, and quite unpredictable. The art was a little lacking, the only reason for 3 stars instead of 5.
January 10, 2010
Too old for it. Considering it as one of the worst yaoi ever read. Yes too old for it. Comedy style is not for me. Still continuing to read it, because it is in Czech.
April 3, 2011
best m-m gay animae
July 28, 2011
Again, the constant insistence that the two guys who are in love and having sex are not gay is a glaring, distracting, and offensive diversion from what is otherwise a cute and kitchy love story
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August 5, 2011Started out cute and funny enough, but somewhere in the middle of this series it gets waaaay to wacky and convoluted in the bad way.
August 18, 2014
Looks like the usual with this one. With hilarious moments and more. This okay but interesting.
February 8, 2016
Crazy yaoi manga set in the Japanese music industry.
December 12, 2016
Divertido. Intentaré pillarme los otros tomos, a ver qué tal :d
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