Product Description

As the son of a prominent and wealthy family, Yutaka wears the mask of a genteel elite student. Frustrated by this facade he must put up with and stifled by a future already laid out for him, the only way Yutaka can deal with the boredom and unhappiness of his empty life is through sexual release. Then one day, Tohno - a delinquent-looking student with blonde-dyed hair - suddenly transfers into Yutaka's class. As he finds himself more and more obsessed with a deep abiding lust for this young man, his daily descents into sexual fantasy begin to interfere with his life, until a ferocious impulse to possess Tohno for his own leads him to a diabolical scheme.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #501405 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 184 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781569709085
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Exceptional!
This is not your typical "happy feel" Yaoi. The story is about obsession and it is dark, poignant and a trifle disturbing. As the story progresses, one has the impression the 2 protagonists are spiraling towards an abyss from which they may not recover. It is suppose to be a 2 volumes story but after surfing Junemanga.com (DMP new Yaoi website) we may not see the 2nd volume this year. Frustrating as Volume 1 does end with a cliff hanger. The story starts really well, introducing us to the intriguing relationship between Yutaka and Tohno. From there we have flashbacks as to how it all started from the time both are just school mates. The plot is fast paced and keeps me turning the pages until the cliff hanger at the end. Both boys are appealing characters but not everyone may like Yutaka, the darker character. Eiki Eiki is one talented mangaka and I appreciate her non adherence to the usual stereotype Yaoi.

A yummy title!
"The Art of Loving" is by the famous author Eiki Eiki and has only 2 volumes.
The main characters in this manga are Yutaka and Tohno. And it is set in the future (when they are around 25) in the beginning but switches back to the past when they were in High School (around 17-18).
In the beginning we are introduced to Tohno who is picking up women at a bar, on his way home he meets Yutaka and dumps the woman to spend the night with the `only person he'll love' as he sees everyone else he's with as physical relationship not emotional.
Afterwards, Yutaka relives his past when he first met the man of his desire.
As a young man, Yutaka relied on a certain `release' to keep him in order, he was in the top 3 of his year and an elite student but he hid behind this and his heritage to the Fujiwara name. Underneath he smokes and doesn't care much for anything but won't let anyone know. One day, a new student, Tohno, arrives and changes his life. Yutaka begins to realize he has no feelings for women and begins to `release' himself to the thought of his newfound friend. As Tohno begins to get accepted at school, he seems to `leave' Yutaka, which he cannot take and begins to fail at his exams and drops to the 60s. Tohno wants to help but Yutaka wants him nowhere near him.
After an accident, this however changes when Yutaka gets the chance to have the object of his desire living near him, which he takes and confesses that he wants him.
End of Manga.
Overall this Manga was a nice change from some of DMP's choices. The art is lovely and the curly hair of Tohno is a quiet appealing change - most characters in Manga have straight or spiky hair.
I recommend this to Yaoi Fans, though there aren't many romp scenes, there are a lot of masturbation ones featuring Yutaka figuring out whom he is.

we all know what the author is taking about...
The story is very realistic and some of us can clearly relate to the main character Yutaka. The story is straight forward, easy to understand but makes the manga an extremely pleasurable read! *nods enthusiastically* The title is nice too and does, in a way, reflect the story.

The artwork is stunning, as always. Eiki Eiki draws beautiful faces and has a good balance of detail. The characters have unique features (like Tohno's blonde curly hair and Yutaka's scary stare) The sex scene(s?) are not too explicit, which isn't a minus in this case ;-)

The character development is good. For the first volume, the characters have a good depth (cant wait for Vol. 2!!! *bounce bounce)