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Othello
After Atsushi dies in a horrible accident, his twin brother Ayumu decides to steal his identity and returns to school in his place. He attempts to hide his reckless behavior and assumes the persona of his honor-roll student brother. However, for some reason, Ayumu is unable to hide his true colors and composure around his classmate Kirishima.
192 pages, Paperback
First published June 27, 2007
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March 9, 2025
Another level of bad…. What the hell man.
A collection of empty short stories. There’s nothing more to add. Some were worse than others, dealing with some strange topics ngl.
January 26, 2023
I really enjoyed this manga it was a set of short stories all very different from the next. My favorites were the first two and the last, though I wish the last had be as long as the others.
October 15, 2022
(TW: rape)
22 August 2016: 🌟🌟🌟🌟
This collection of short stories may not be very memorable, but every time I read it I'm surprised by how much I enjoy it.
There are too many yaoi tropes in this book: the fair-haired, feisty uke and the dark, mysterious seme make their way into multiple stories, as well as the flirty homosexual who was molested as a child ((because only a childhood trauma can lead to homosexuality, amirite?)).
The caricaturial nature of these homosexual characters can be annoying - though to me it's not much different to how straight couples in shoujo manga behave.
On the plus side, the art style is great, the paneling is superb and the sex scenes don't show any nudity, but are spicy enough to get the imagination flowing. I'm also a big fan of feisty, flirty, fair-haired boys, so there's that.
My favourite story in this collection is the titular "Othello", probably because it is longer and, thus, more fleshed out, so we get to know the characters really well.
The second story "Snow White in Summer" is fun in a lighthearted sort of way, but stops a little too soon, right before a possible make-out session that I really wanted to see.
The third story "The Scent of Midnight" is nice and melancholy, a welcome change after the previous lighter story, and I really liked the ending.
The last story "The Abyss Pool" was just way too short to get into the story and the characters.
I wouldn't mind reading more from this author.
15 October 2022: 🌟🌟
This book has good spice. Star for sexy scenes, and decent storytelling. I liked most of the characters and was engaged in their stories.
But Big Yikes at the rape backstories of two 16-year-old promiscuous homosexual main characters, in two different stories. Man I don't want to see rape in my sexy stories. Especially not child rape.
This was a book I have read and re-read as a young adult, but at 31, I can't. I cannot. I just can't read sexy anime LGBT rape stories anymore. Rape doesn't get me horny - it gets me angry at the industry, for every young person who reads stuff like this because this is what gets translated and published.
I'mma yeet this book out of my library. Byeee 👋
22 August 2016: 🌟🌟🌟🌟
This collection of short stories may not be very memorable, but every time I read it I'm surprised by how much I enjoy it.
There are too many yaoi tropes in this book: the fair-haired, feisty uke and the dark, mysterious seme make their way into multiple stories, as well as the flirty homosexual who was molested as a child ((because only a childhood trauma can lead to homosexuality, amirite?)).
The caricaturial nature of these homosexual characters can be annoying - though to me it's not much different to how straight couples in shoujo manga behave.
On the plus side, the art style is great, the paneling is superb and the sex scenes don't show any nudity, but are spicy enough to get the imagination flowing. I'm also a big fan of feisty, flirty, fair-haired boys, so there's that.
My favourite story in this collection is the titular "Othello", probably because it is longer and, thus, more fleshed out, so we get to know the characters really well.
The second story "Snow White in Summer" is fun in a lighthearted sort of way, but stops a little too soon, right before a possible make-out session that I really wanted to see.
The third story "The Scent of Midnight" is nice and melancholy, a welcome change after the previous lighter story, and I really liked the ending.
The last story "The Abyss Pool" was just way too short to get into the story and the characters.
I wouldn't mind reading more from this author.
15 October 2022: 🌟🌟
This book has good spice. Star for sexy scenes, and decent storytelling. I liked most of the characters and was engaged in their stories.
But Big Yikes at the rape backstories of two 16-year-old promiscuous homosexual main characters, in two different stories. Man I don't want to see rape in my sexy stories. Especially not child rape.
This was a book I have read and re-read as a young adult, but at 31, I can't. I cannot. I just can't read sexy anime LGBT rape stories anymore. Rape doesn't get me horny - it gets me angry at the industry, for every young person who reads stuff like this because this is what gets translated and published.
I'mma yeet this book out of my library. Byeee 👋
June 16, 2021
*More of a 2.5*
This was a strange collection of stories. I don’t really feel one way or the other about them. I wouldn’t say I liked them exactly, but I also didn’t dislike them. They all felt just a little incomplete. The last two stories were my favorite of the collection. The artist one was interesting, but I can’t help wanting a little more from it. The very last story about the swamp, was super short and I think the length suited what it was meant to accomplish. Although, I would love to read a longer story about a dragon god devouring the souls of men. Eh. Kind of disappointed with this after having it on my tbr for so long, but it was fine.
This was a strange collection of stories. I don’t really feel one way or the other about them. I wouldn’t say I liked them exactly, but I also didn’t dislike them. They all felt just a little incomplete. The last two stories were my favorite of the collection. The artist one was interesting, but I can’t help wanting a little more from it. The very last story about the swamp, was super short and I think the length suited what it was meant to accomplish. Although, I would love to read a longer story about a dragon god devouring the souls of men. Eh. Kind of disappointed with this after having it on my tbr for so long, but it was fine.
October 13, 2013
Ayumu is trying to deal with losing his identical twin brother. His brother was the special one, the most loved, the smartest, friendly, etc. Ayumu was the moody, dark twin but now he's alive and his "good" twin isn't. Now, Ayumu's mother has him move into the house where his twin and she lives and go to the school his brother went to. Ayumu takes this chance to try and become his brother, to leave behind his own personality and feelings since he believes his brother was the better one.
His plan backfires when he meets Kirishima, a student at the high school who doesn't believe his act for a second and catches Ayumu being himself outside school. This growing relationship between the "real" Ayumu and Kirishima causes Ayumu's act to become his brother to start to crack and feelings that he didn't want to look too closely at start to come to the front.
The question in the end is, will Ayumu be able to accept his brother's death and that he's just as valuable a person or will he refuse to move forward with his own relationship as himself to hold on to a ghost?
His plan backfires when he meets Kirishima, a student at the high school who doesn't believe his act for a second and catches Ayumu being himself outside school. This growing relationship between the "real" Ayumu and Kirishima causes Ayumu's act to become his brother to start to crack and feelings that he didn't want to look too closely at start to come to the front.
The question in the end is, will Ayumu be able to accept his brother's death and that he's just as valuable a person or will he refuse to move forward with his own relationship as himself to hold on to a ghost?
December 8, 2012
I liked the basic storyline but disliked how certain aspects and themes fell by the wayside. I enjoyed her cosplaying side even more than her split personality, as it was her own attempt to live with herself. Kept expecting the cosplayers who appeared in each episode to be given more detail and maybe meet her in her "mundane" life.
April 13, 2010
In general I don't like short stories, and I apparently don't like manga short stories, either. I enjoyed the art, but the stories were just not long enough (or complex enough) to create situations that really held my interest.
March 27, 2016
Som zmätená, ale bolo to zlaté :D
April 24, 2012
found the plot complicated and the art repetitive
November 7, 2012
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