愛は金なりⅡ

愛は金なり // Ai wa Kane Nari #2

by Panda (熊猫)

世間知らずの悪魔・ソラと意地悪な天使・エリル。
出自も見た目も性格もなにもかも違うふたりは人間界で偶然出会い、
紆余曲折を経て”パライソ”で仲良く暮らしている。
ところがある日、目覚めるとソラが＂こども＂になっていた！　
悪魔特有の生理現象だとデューラはいう。
ちいさなソラに振り回されつつも、共に暮らすエリルだったが…
「こどもの相手なんてまともにしたことねーのにどうしろと!?」
果たして、本来のソラがふたたびエリルの前に現れる日は来るのか…！？

大人気シリーズ待望の続編登場！

Genres: Boys Love, Manga

206 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 10, 2020

About the author

Panda is a Japanese mangaka.
Please also see 熊猫.


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Reviews

[D · Rating 4 out of 5]

I haven't been keeping up with Panda's serialised stuff, so I didn't even know a sequel was happening until I saw the tankobon. Seriously, how many different serialisations is Panda doing at a time??

Anyway, I didn't expect this and I had 0 expectations going in.

Love is Money II picks up where the first volume left off: Sora is back in the human world with Eril and tasked to clean up the storageroom. He finds a film camera while looking through a box of Eril's belongings and asks if Eril has any photos from when he was younger. Sora himself has a lot from when he's a child, so to him, taking photos is a natural way of preserving memories.

Eril has nothing from his past, so Sora suggests going on a trip and taking lots of photos. But then there's a snag in their plans: apparently, demons do this thing where (since they live for very long) they go through the cycle of their physical lives again? That's right, folks. This manga is a wholeass de-aged cuteness festival.

But while I was being lulled into forgetting everything but Sora's cuteness and little outfits, Panda silently comes in for the kill as she ties the themes of this manga together:

• The way Eril treated the different-aged Soras differently. Teenaged Sora knows this and keeps asking if Eril is lonely because the previous (adult) Sora is 'gone'. But Eril recognises Sora's loneliness later on, because the photographer he used to live with also treated Eril like he was the previous Eril's son.
• Yeah, that photographer is coming back in little ways. Obviously the film camera is his and Eril is just ... sort of reluctant to look back at that part of his past.
• There's a lot about memories: making memories, immortalising moments here. Sora becoming a child again and Dyura taking all the photos like the doting retainer he is also makes it look like Eril has always been a part of Sora's life. Aww!
• Guys the ideas are so cute, why is Panda so good at this. Why did I ever doubt her.
• The ending is just *chef's kiss*

I think one of the things I like about Eril and Sora is like... well obviously Eril is in charge here. He owns Paraiso. He's the guy with cash. He knows his way around the human world and he also tops in bed. But there's just this vulnerability about him because of his loneliness, and we can see that and we sympathise with Sora when he feels like he must protect Eril and stay with him and make him happy. Ugh they're just so cute.

All my reviews of Panda's previous work was written in a private blog that I have since deleted, but I want everyone to know that I went through the whole 'the art is cute but the story really isn't substantial' to 'the story is still lacking but somehow I have everything she has ever made' to 'actually I was a fool and got distracted by the frenetic energy and the overly fashionable + stylised art: the story is actually really heartwarming if you stop and absorb it' journey about Panda. I even braved a mail order battle to get a signed copy of her newest book. Now that's growth.

[Meow Meow · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the rare case that the sequel of a one-shot BL manga is better than the original. I wish that the author would one day write about Dula and Amo.