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Dog Tag
Corporal Nathan goes missing yet again on a field exercise. His beloved Captain comes to retrieve him， and their treck back begins!! With Nathan wallowing in despair at his hopelessness， what’s a Captain to do...?
28 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 18, 2018
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May 13, 2021
Nate is too much like a useless puppy to be a very good soldier. He joined up primarily because he thought Leon, the Captain, looked cool and he wanted to be like him. Unfortunately, he has such a horrible sense of direction that he tends to get lost during field exercises if the other soldiers don't keep an eye on him. He's now doing his 14th field exercise this year, and he just got lost for the 18th time. Fortunately for him, Leon doesn't mind having to go look for him.
Everything from the title to the cover art had me worried about this one, and one soldier's comment that Leon frequently took Nate on field exercises because "the captain likes walking his dog" had me bracing for awfulness. However, this was surprisingly not rapey. I mean, yes, Nate was pretty stupid. He and Leon were in the middle of having sex when he started wondering what was going on and why. Still, he was fully on board with the whole thing, and this was an alternate universe where the other soldiers either didn't care what Nate and the Captain did when they were alone or just found it amusing.
Overall, this was much better than I was expecting. No real story - the entire setup was designed to get Nate and Leon alone so they could have sex and then Nate could happily follow Leon back - but the artwork was nice, and it was reasonably sweet and not rapey. Yay for that. Just be aware that it's extremely short.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)
Everything from the title to the cover art had me worried about this one, and one soldier's comment that Leon frequently took Nate on field exercises because "the captain likes walking his dog" had me bracing for awfulness. However, this was surprisingly not rapey. I mean, yes, Nate was pretty stupid. He and Leon were in the middle of having sex when he started wondering what was going on and why. Still, he was fully on board with the whole thing, and this was an alternate universe where the other soldiers either didn't care what Nate and the Captain did when they were alone or just found it amusing.
Overall, this was much better than I was expecting. No real story - the entire setup was designed to get Nate and Leon alone so they could have sex and then Nate could happily follow Leon back - but the artwork was nice, and it was reasonably sweet and not rapey. Yay for that. Just be aware that it's extremely short.
(Original review posted on A Library Girl's Familiar Diversions.)
May 17, 2022
A fun and sexy one-shot about a captain and his "dog". I definitely could see the attraction between both. Again, consent! Sexy times! Fun sexy times that were really spicy! Loved how everyone in the group knew about the captain and his "dog" and that they were even happy that he finally went for it instead of them constantly hovering and the captain just searching for his lost puppy. XD I really enjoyed the art!
Another win for the Yaoi Humble Bundle!
Another win for the Yaoi Humble Bundle!
January 24, 2019
Really cute! I love the reactions of the Captain's second-in-command...
November 29, 2019
Yummy!
3.5 stars
Nicely cute and smexy. But way too short! If I hadn't gotten this for free, I'd have been really ticked off at being so short-changed.
3.5 stars
Nicely cute and smexy. But way too short! If I hadn't gotten this for free, I'd have been really ticked off at being so short-changed.
May 12, 2024
Bought as a part of the Humble Bundle Manga: Return of the Yaoi bundle.
Dog Tag by Kaiji Idobata is about a corporal and his captain and the relationship between them. I only gave this two stars because the artwork was good and the story was coherent, but the rest was just really bad. I'm not a fan of power dynamics, especially military ones because they are absolutely soldiers in real life who are manipulated by their superiors. I couldn't divorce my feelings about that from this story.
Nathan is a fairly incompetent corporal who gets lost all of the time because he can't read a map. His captain, Leon, goes to find him as he always does. Somehow Nathan falls into a river and has to be saved by Leon. While Nathan is unconscious, Leon starts a fire and dries Nathan off so he doesn't get sick. Nathan apologizes for having to be found and saved yet again and says he should just quit because he isn't a good soldier, but Leon reminds Nathan that he is great at negotiations and field work and that he knows he can get better at everything.
The story really had me up until this point. Then Leon asks Nathan why he joined and Nathan tells him he thinks Leon is super cool. This is where the story goes off the rails for me. Leon tells Nathan he's noticed him watching him since he enlisted, so Leon decides he's going to have sex with Nathan because he is certain Nathan's respect for Leon is actually love and attraction. The facial expressions for Leon get really creepy here, too, which makes me feel like the mangaka sort of knew how this story would be perceived and wanted it to be seen that way.
After they have sex and return to camp, everybody knows that Leon has claimed Nathan as his because Nathan has a visible hickey. Everybody is really gross about how they talk about Nathan being Leon's lapdog or whatever. It's meant to be seen as accepting but I really didn't like it at all. Also everybody finds out Leon has been tracking Nathan this whole time with his dog tags which has a GPS tracker he put on it.
Dog Tag by Kaiji Idobata is about a corporal and his captain and the relationship between them. I only gave this two stars because the artwork was good and the story was coherent, but the rest was just really bad. I'm not a fan of power dynamics, especially military ones because they are absolutely soldiers in real life who are manipulated by their superiors. I couldn't divorce my feelings about that from this story.
Nathan is a fairly incompetent corporal who gets lost all of the time because he can't read a map. His captain, Leon, goes to find him as he always does. Somehow Nathan falls into a river and has to be saved by Leon. While Nathan is unconscious, Leon starts a fire and dries Nathan off so he doesn't get sick. Nathan apologizes for having to be found and saved yet again and says he should just quit because he isn't a good soldier, but Leon reminds Nathan that he is great at negotiations and field work and that he knows he can get better at everything.
The story really had me up until this point. Then Leon asks Nathan why he joined and Nathan tells him he thinks Leon is super cool. This is where the story goes off the rails for me. Leon tells Nathan he's noticed him watching him since he enlisted, so Leon decides he's going to have sex with Nathan because he is certain Nathan's respect for Leon is actually love and attraction. The facial expressions for Leon get really creepy here, too, which makes me feel like the mangaka sort of knew how this story would be perceived and wanted it to be seen that way.
After they have sex and return to camp, everybody knows that Leon has claimed Nathan as his because Nathan has a visible hickey. Everybody is really gross about how they talk about Nathan being Leon's lapdog or whatever. It's meant to be seen as accepting but I really didn't like it at all. Also everybody finds out Leon has been tracking Nathan this whole time with his dog tags which has a GPS tracker he put on it.
October 25, 2021
3.5/5
This was a 30 page short story but it was adorable. Nathan is a soldier with no sense of direction who is also totally clueless about why he's so drawn to his captain. During a training exercise when Nathan (yet again) gets lost, his captain (yet again) comes to rescue him and we learn that Nathan's devotion is not so one-sided. There's a decent amount of humor, as the story doesn't take itself too seriously, but it's still very cute. I really wish this was a full length manga.
This was a 30 page short story but it was adorable. Nathan is a soldier with no sense of direction who is also totally clueless about why he's so drawn to his captain. During a training exercise when Nathan (yet again) gets lost, his captain (yet again) comes to rescue him and we learn that Nathan's devotion is not so one-sided. There's a decent amount of humor, as the story doesn't take itself too seriously, but it's still very cute. I really wish this was a full length manga.
December 3, 2019
Art is good but the story isn’t much
I’d of hated to pay for this so I’m glad I read it on unlimited. I rate yaoi manga more generously then other fiction bc you just have to have different standards. Not every manga can be a Ike Reibun or Ogeretsu Tanaka. So while the story is a two I’ll rounded up for the art. Just fluff, pretty soft yaoi.
I’d of hated to pay for this so I’m glad I read it on unlimited. I rate yaoi manga more generously then other fiction bc you just have to have different standards. Not every manga can be a Ike Reibun or Ogeretsu Tanaka. So while the story is a two I’ll rounded up for the art. Just fluff, pretty soft yaoi.
March 3, 2020
I think this is a cute 'first time' story although I do wish it was longer with more of an after story between them. The Captain's cool and collected and the Corporal's just helplessly innocent. Really adorable!
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