His Arrogance

by Takashi Kanzaki

Ryo is helping out at his father's modeling agency. But, his classmate and rising rookie model at the agency, Ito, is openly antagonistic to Ryo's older brother, a very charismatic model. Ito finally corners Ryo and demands that he looks at him only! After a passionate kiss, he promises that crossing him will incur punishment! Ito may be an arrogant boy who does nothing but give orders, but Ryo is undone by his forceful and dominating approach!

Genres: Manga, Yaoi, Romance, Shounen Ai

200 pages, Paperback

First published December 16, 2008

About the author

Associated Names : KANZAKI Takahashi

Name (in native language) : 神崎貴至

Once commented that "That's right! I just love to see two boys sticking together! This is all that I've got!" "If you are wrong then continue to be wrong. Lethal trick!" "So in the future I will draw more boys sticking together." "If you are interested, please continue to support me. People who are not interested, please also support me, too!"

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 2 out of 5]

The hard part with this story was the Ryou never really wanted to be with Kazuto. Arggonet model was the whole time persuading. Persuading to only worship him, to follow him, etc. And yeah, not a go for me. Although the art was in a different style than I have seen in a bit so there was that difference.

[Aimee · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved everything about the story

[Mosley · Rating 1 out of 5]

Right out the gate I found this one hard to get into, unfortunately that never did change.

[Makayla Reagan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book. Good storyline and a happy ending which I love! I don’t have any complaints other than it was to short. Def deserved 4 stars

[Dione Basseri · Rating 2 out of 5]

I could see this as being a draw for someone who likes the "Skip Beat!" manga. Ryo works for the advertising agency his elder brother headlines. Kazuto is a rising star, who has his eyes set on the young man and the top spot in the company. Winning Ryo over isn't all that hard, but getting the respect of his brother, Tomohito, might be difficult. Especially when you throw a bit of an incest plot in.

It's an overall okay manga. The artwork is pretty consistent, with only one instance of "yaoi feet" that I noticed. Kanzaki seems to have an passable grasp of anatomy, which is somewhat rare in the adult manga industry. In the Japanese style, very little of the erogenous zones are featured, so it's something of a fill-in-the-blank experience. Given the $16 price tag, I'd have expected a bit more on that end. If you can find it used, I'd say go ahead (I managed to get it in a library bag sale, so I'm fine). But if you just want 18+ manga, you can easily find better, more explicit stuff online for free.

[Jennifer Lavoie · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked the art in this one for the most part, and the story was decent. I thought Kazuto was incredibly arrogant, like the title suggested, and he made me angry half the time. But once Tomohito came back I thought it was funny how he reacted.

This volume focuses on Ryou and Kazuto's relationship, as well as how his brother complex interferes with their relationship. It was nice to get a full story without random chapters thrown in like in some manga. Kanzaki did a good job with telling the story all the way through and including a little bonus, which was enjoyable.

I need to get my hands on the other volume - a separate story - which focuses on Tomohito and Hisashi when they're younger. I wonder how Tomohito and Ryou's relationship will translate in that book.

[Daesy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Young model and high-shooler Ito, falls in love with his classmate Ryo, and tries to compete with his bother, a top model, and their brother complex, to win Ryo over. Cute story, but nothing special. In the end the 2 teenagers become a couple, but i think the manga missed something, i think we needed more chapters explaining how their story is evolving and to let us see how they will be years from now.

I wanted to read also about Ryo's brother and that other model...so curious :p

[Lb · Rating 1 out of 5]

So I didn't like the story at all. The seme pretty much forced and then brainwashed the uke in accepting his feelings. He just kept pushing and pushing. Then the uke was so boring and didn't have any personality at all.

No go for the art style either.

[Julia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Model yaoi!