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Yaoi Hentai, Volume 1
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Product Description
This is yaoi at its most extreme: graphic scenes of loving between a college professor and his student, a bar-hopper & some thugs who kidnap him, members of a corrupt soccer team and a tentacle monster who's hot for a pair of twin bishounen. Nothing is left to the imagination! Mature and explicit content.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #557388 in Books
- Published on: 2006-10-25
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 152 pages
Customer Reviews
Could be Erotic IF the art was fixed?
This is the first Graphic Novel (GN) in a series Yaoi Press plans to release (at least one or two Graphic Novels a year).
Yaoi Press is a self-erected American Graphic Novel company that employs people from all over the world to draw and write GN for the English speaking audience. The idea is wonderful, sharing Yaoi with all.
But this is where they fall short. As most fans of Manga (Japanese Comics) are used to the Japanese Art Style, expecting a clear shot of a huge fan base for Western 'styled' art is a little too much. As most of the Artists (except Studio Kosen, who doesn't draw for any Yaoi Hentai GN I've seen so far) seem to be untalented and seem to need drawing lessons of their own. I agree with the statement their artists draw like they are making a coloring book with the huge thick lines. You'll see better art in a Superman comic.
The proportions of the men and boys depicted in these GN's makes one wonder is the artists have ever seen a naked man before. Another is the fact, we come back to the feminine uke, where there are no muscles or anything revealing that they are truly men to begin with.
The stories are truly smut which is the only positive. But some of points of the stories still isn't revealed. No real plot just meet-and-screw. If the art wasn't so terrible, it would so much better!
Maybe when Yaoi Press hires some good artists they'll sell more books. The writers are fine, just that horrible art they need to fix. Maybe get Studio Kosen (Stallion, Satoishi the Guardian) to do a lot more of their titles?
Don't bother
The art was so bad in this book, I couldn't get past it. And only one story was remotely interesting enough to make an effort worthwhile. The best way I can describe the art in this is a children's coloring book. Most figures have very thick lines depicting them, and the body proportions are never quite right.
Yes, it's explicit. But when genitalia is drawn like a cartoon, it's not erotic--just silly. This is a westernized manga, reading left-to-right. That doesn't bother me when the manga is good (like Desire of the Gods (Yaoi)), but here it's just one more thing not to like.
I won't be taking a chance on Volumes 2 and 3, and I'll be returning this one to Amazon. I'd rather take a loss on the return shipping cost than keep it. Yup, that bad.
Update: I have read a couple other mangas from Yaoi Press that were worthwhile and enjoyable. Saihoshi The Guardian Omnibus (Yaoi) and Winter Demon Volume 1 (Yaoi) are two of their best.
Terrible! Stay away from this!
My title says it all. If only there is minus rating.
This western Yaoi is total garbage and the art is simply awful.
Yes you see it all but there is nothing erotic or sexual about the graphics.
Just plain crude and the story line sucks!
