Il tiranno innamorato 11

恋する暴君 / Koi suru Bōkun #11

by Hinako Takanaga

Zakochany Tyran #11

Genres: Manga, Yaoi

180 pages, Paperback

About the author

Takanaga Hinako (高永ひなこ) is a Japanese author of Boys' Love manga.
She has also provided illustrations for several BL light novels by other authors, including The Guilty by Katsura Izumi. Her first manga story, 合格祈願 (Goukaku kigan, Prayers for a passing grade?), was published by Hanamaru Comics in 1997; it was later reworked as the first chapter of Challengers. Most of her works have been translated into foreign languages. She was a guest at YaoiCon 2007, invited by Juné, the US publishers of her popular series Little Butterfly.
When not making Boys' Love manga, she spends her time collecting Wallace & Gromit merchandise and playing Final Fantasy. Takanaga doesn’t like beer and people who are ignorant.

She comments that her biggest influence on her art and writing-style was KOUGA Yun, a famous shoujo manga artist whose works she read as a teenager.

Reviews

[Pimplop · Rating 3 out of 5]

2021: Morinaga dijo: Yeah we are gay keep scrolling

[Bibliothecat · Rating 2 out of 5]

Review for volumes 1-12


Takanaga Hinako has always been a hit or miss author for me; she's got a few really nice works but others are either too heavy on the comedy or graphic side. The Tyrant Falls in Love lands somewhere in between which makes it a really difficult one for me to rate. I love the characters, it's got just the right amount of humour and a nice enough story. But at the same time, there are a lot of problematic themes and a lot of the story is just contrived and dragged for the sake of adding more sexual scenes.

It's been a long time since I last read it and I remember struggling with it back then already. No matter how you twist and turn it, the story starts off with one of the main characters raping the other. Never mind that he says sorry and the other eventually accepts the apology, I just found it difficult to go along with the story knowing how it started. That being said, I do actually really like the characters, not just the main ones but also all the side cast - my favourite is probably Isogai, the seemingly only straight male character in the whole series who's just hilarious.

The story in itself is also not bad, it does raise some interesting subjects. The main issue, apart from the fact that it starts off with rape, is that I feel the story should have been wrapped up several volumes ago already. There have been several points in the story of character development where one could have drawn the line, but not only are new chapters released at a very slow pace, it mostly just feels like it is drawn out for the sake of drawing more smut. The character development keeps spiralling backwards just for the main characters to be confronted with the exact same issues. It's great that they always talk things out, but they always find themselves back at the same problem.

I really like Takanaga's art, though, but that too isn't enough to keep me reading. For a series of which I had conflicted feelings from the start, I just don't see myself waiting around for yet another volume and hoping it's the last. I've read up to 12 volumes and feel that it is time to drop this one.

[Julie · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5* Closure on living plan fears for Morinaga and Soichi starting to chill to an almost-normal person level is all well and good, but is there really anything (realistic) left to do with these two now? Felt like this volume was reaching a bit for conflict that really isn't there anymore, and it’s time for us (and them) to get whatever a happy ending looks like for these two. I’d rather Takanaga give us snippets of their daily lives/post-happy ending future at this point than come up with ways to make Morinaga seem childish (or worse, flat out distrustful) in his weakness of faith in their relationship.

[Usagi Tsukino · Rating 3 out of 5]

This review is for the Italian edition.

[Adam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Отличная глава! Все бы были такие милые🥰

[Oliwia coconut · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jak zawsze

[ⓘⓣⓐ · Rating 4 out of 5]

2024 goal 45/150

[Amy Cooper · Rating 5 out of 5]

Takanaga could recycle the same plot over and over again and I'd never be through with these boys. I can't believe I only recently realized that more books after #8 were coming out. I LOVE THEM.

[Paola · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5 stars

Waaaaa domestic bliss all over the place! Morinaga is such a catch and looks so handsome in a suit! Geez my heart is soaring with this, specially with the panels where we see their eyes glancing at each other, so precious.