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Akio Yamane's bloodline is cursed! Will his hot guardian deity break the curse...or merely his heart in the process? Akio Yamane falls terminally ill, presumably from his family's curse. Remembering his grandfather's final words about their family protector, he follows the old man's instructions out of desperation and accidentally summons a god who promises to cure him--albeit in a rather odd and intimate manner! Akio Yamane's bloodline is cursed! Or at least that's what his relatives would have people think. Now feverish and delusional from a terminal illness, Akio accidentally summons his family's guardian deity. Little did he know this sinfully hot god would appear naked, sporting ears and a tail. Wait until Akio finds out the unconventional and rather intimate manner his protector plans on using to cure him! The highly anticipated release from prolific author Tsuta Suzuki of her fantasy BL series featuring a Japanese god. * Releases 4 times a year for 7 volumes. Series ends at 7. * "The fantasy infused title story would challenge Danielle Steel on the prose fiction bestseller list." --Leroy Douresseaux, Comic Book Bin (http://www.comicbookbin.com/astrangeandmysteriousstory001.html) * Fans have repeatedly requested that this series be released. * Series is popular enough to also have a French edition. * Author's Your Story I've Known also published in English.… (more)
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Rather than most of my other yaoi that were given to me, I actually picked this one out myself because of the clean, attractive art that looked a little different than the usual varieties of yaoi art (it reminds me of art I've seen in various series in ZERO SUM), and because it had a bit of a fantasy-ish plot and looked fairly upbeat.
Now that I've read the manga, I can't say I was wrong on any of those points, but I didn't actually enjoy this much. The fantasy elements aren't really any deeper than what you see in the plot description. It doesn't haven any hugely creepy rape scenes or what-the-hell-do-they-see-in-each-other pairings, but it is the sort of yaoi that doesn't seem to think it's characters need any more reason to fall in love with one another than spending a little time together. There are plenty of yaoi fans that don't mind that, so for them it's probably a fun romantic comedy, but such relationships to me are so unconvincing I can't manage to find it very fun or sexy.
What's a little strange is that while the actual plot and dialog go through the usual silly romantic comedy lecherous-seme/uke-that-likes-it-but-insists-he-doesn't motions, the inner monologues of the main character oftentimes treads into heavier waters, with the character sometimes mulling over his family's deaths, his desire to be self-sufficient, or his struggle with the fact he wants cured but dislikes the means by which it must be done. When I first heard these musings I was interested, as they seemed they could make a decent inner struggle alongside the romance, but after a while I began to notice that these musings were just that. Random musings, once in a while popping up, probably to make the story seem deeper than it really is, just before we move onto the next curse-removal-sex scene. After a while it became downright irritating that it continued to insist on bringing such things up.
If you're happy with the usual romantic comedies about laid back dirty-minded semes and ukes that constantly insist they don't like what they clearly do, I guess this is a solid offering, and it's got some art and fantasy elements to give it a little bit of distinction. But if you need actual romantic development rather than something where romance is just automatically assumed, I'd skip this one.
It's interesting, I'm eager to see where it goes and learn more about the main characters.