春を抱いていた 13

春を抱いていた / Haru wo daiteita #13

by Youka Nitta

Haru wo Daiteita

Genres: Manga, Yaoi, Romance, Boys Love, LGBT, Fiction, M M Romance

Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Youka Nitta (新田祐克 correct pronunciation: Yuuka Nitta) is a Japanese manga artist.

Her illustration debut was in 1994, in 小説Charade.
She is one of the few Boys' Love manga-ka whose works are enjoyed by both straight women (the main target audience) and gay men.
Her manga debut was Be-Boy's 1995 release of "Groupie."
Recently she temporarily quit writing manga after a scandal involving her plagiarism of many magazine photographs.
According to The Yaoi Review (2009-12-31), she is back with a continuation of an ongoing manga to be released in English in February.
Her moe point is older ukes.

Reviews

[Daesy · Rating 5 out of 5]

See review volume 1

[Ester · Rating 5 out of 5]

No puedo creerme que en la secuela esta que la sensei hizo, y que no nombro porque no existe, hiciera la basura que hizo. Me da rabia porque no pega con el tono de la obra original y porque no se lo merecen. Kato e Iwaki son amor, son inmortales y están juntos para siempre siendo viejos y de ahí no me bajo.

[Kynthos-the-Archer (Kyn) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Especially adore the first chapters on the re-telling of how Katou and Iwaki first met before they saw each other again during the audition for Haru Wo Daiteita.

Yousuke kun (Katou's nephew) is a super cute little boy. This is how Katou must have looked like when he was young. It's really endearing to see Yousuke so attached with Iwaki san and how Iwaki was acting all motherly too. Lol

Iwaki has decided to go independent and not to renew his contract with his current management. He wish to build his own production company.

[Moon19 · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really don't know why the artstyle is so wacky in the first few chapters but if you just get through the first 5-6 then it really changes for the better! Embracing love, especially if we take into consideration that it was written and illustrated back in 1999-2009, is a very well-written story, not perfect but very enjoyable! The main characters (Iwaki and Katou) really draw you in with their personalities and you just can't put the story down. Of course, you'll have to keep in mind that this is a yaoi so many explicit scenes are included.

[L. J. · Rating 1 out of 5]

Repeated review.

Okay, back in the day, I loved this series. Why? Because gay. That’s literally the only reason I loved it, alongside a lot of other yaoi manga. But then, I got older, smarter, and learned some fucked up shit about life, and then, I returned to most of the yaoi manga I once read. And absolutely hated a lot of them.

All of them, that I ended up hating later in life, involved incest, toxic relationships, rape, borderline rape, slavery, underage, and cringe. You decide which of those fits best with this series.

[Heba · Rating 4 out of 5]

YOUSUKE IS SO CUUUUUUTE. .I luved how much he was attached to Iwaki-san♥♥♥♥♥