more of the same
I was highly amused to find out that Storm in Heaven is translating the BL novel Shinpu wa yoru no hanayome by Asuma Risai and illustrated by by Asato Eiri. The summary from SiH's website: "The innocent and beautiful priest Sera secretly loves his good friend, who will be married soon, even though he devoted himself to God. One stormy night Jin, a vampire in black, makes his appearance, as if he feels drawn towards this impure and polluted blood... With sweet words he seduces Sera into sin, but what is he really driving at?"
Yes, it is as cliched as you can get. Vampire + priest = angst and rejection and lots of "I want to say no and I am saying no but it just feels so good" sex. The art's very pretty.
Talking about cliched storylines, I just read Youma-sama ni daimeiwaku by Wakatsui Kyoko and illustrated by Umezawa Hana. This one's about a young boy who finds out that he is destined to be the key that keeps the door between the demon and human worlds locked. His duty? To touch the door every three days. Yes, that's it. But to the cowardly uke this is torture beyond words, because he has to see the hordes of scary demons on the other side of the door each time. So...he decides to run away like his father did. He's quickly found and brought back, but because he didn't lock the door that one night some demons escape. One of the demon kings comes over to find and either destroy or send back the demons. He pairs up with uke and, well, the usual happens. It's a completely silly story, mainly because there's almost no danger. The male members of the uke's family are the ones that can become keys, and they seem to always be cowardly and pathetic. But demons just find them adorable. Like, really adorable. The female members of uke's family are sharp and in control, and are the only ones that can really destroy demons. In any case, the uke is of course devoured by demon king despite his objections. He is sort of used as bait for the escaped demons because they'd be attracted to him like moths to a flame, and two of the three are sent back when they approach uke. The third one? They find him when they find uke's father. Demon king had known that that particular demon had always been pretty hot for uke's dad so he figured demon would go look for runaway dad. The authorities (who are helping the family out because not having the world overrun by demons is totally something they are for) find the dad by tracing his ATM withdrawals (the dad had never worked a day in his life and had no employable skills whatsoever). And when they go to him they do find him with the demon. The demon turns out to be nearly as powerful as the demon king, and he says he'll go back without a fight if he can have uke's dad. Uke's dad is taken to the demon world with the demon (the demon king assures uke that his dad will be well cared for, because the demon would indulge and treasure him dearly and never let anyone touch him), while demon king remains to quell the demons that had been sleeping in the human world but that had been awakened when the door between the worlds had opened...
Totally cliched, yes, but still kind of fun. I love how the demons on the other side of the door had gathered because they were celebrating how adorable they found the uke, the new key. ^^;
Yes, it is as cliched as you can get. Vampire + priest = angst and rejection and lots of "I want to say no and I am saying no but it just feels so good" sex. The art's very pretty.
Talking about cliched storylines, I just read Youma-sama ni daimeiwaku by Wakatsui Kyoko and illustrated by Umezawa Hana. This one's about a young boy who finds out that he is destined to be the key that keeps the door between the demon and human worlds locked. His duty? To touch the door every three days. Yes, that's it. But to the cowardly uke this is torture beyond words, because he has to see the hordes of scary demons on the other side of the door each time. So...he decides to run away like his father did. He's quickly found and brought back, but because he didn't lock the door that one night some demons escape. One of the demon kings comes over to find and either destroy or send back the demons. He pairs up with uke and, well, the usual happens. It's a completely silly story, mainly because there's almost no danger. The male members of the uke's family are the ones that can become keys, and they seem to always be cowardly and pathetic. But demons just find them adorable. Like, really adorable. The female members of uke's family are sharp and in control, and are the only ones that can really destroy demons. In any case, the uke is of course devoured by demon king despite his objections. He is sort of used as bait for the escaped demons because they'd be attracted to him like moths to a flame, and two of the three are sent back when they approach uke. The third one? They find him when they find uke's father. Demon king had known that that particular demon had always been pretty hot for uke's dad so he figured demon would go look for runaway dad. The authorities (who are helping the family out because not having the world overrun by demons is totally something they are for) find the dad by tracing his ATM withdrawals (the dad had never worked a day in his life and had no employable skills whatsoever). And when they go to him they do find him with the demon. The demon turns out to be nearly as powerful as the demon king, and he says he'll go back without a fight if he can have uke's dad. Uke's dad is taken to the demon world with the demon (the demon king assures uke that his dad will be well cared for, because the demon would indulge and treasure him dearly and never let anyone touch him), while demon king remains to quell the demons that had been sleeping in the human world but that had been awakened when the door between the worlds had opened...
Totally cliched, yes, but still kind of fun. I love how the demons on the other side of the door had gathered because they were celebrating how adorable they found the uke, the new key. ^^;