reaction: dog style - motoni modoru (manga, BL)

[piranha]

i don't really have words right now but i wanted to write this down before i go to sleep.

i am a wreck. i thought my heart was gonna break. what a fantastic roller-coaster. it's complex, honest, tough, stubborn, witty, boyish, aggressive, silly, unpredictable, erotic, deeply emotional, and completely original. i don't cry easily, but i'm sitting here with tears streaming down my face, and i can't stop. was this really just 3 volumes? these people became my friends. i sat in that abandoned building with them, and i bled with them. i don't want to leave. i might just read it again right away. or go to sleep in the hopes i'll dream about it.

on a scale of 1 to 10 this is an 11. this is a story that is everything i read BL for and find so very rarely. i will buy several copies and give them to my friends, even the ones who don't usually read BL. and i'll write my first ever fan letter to a mangaka.

Comments

[maize]

Is this available in English?

[piranha]

it was licensed by kitty media, but unfortunately this was a biblos title, and when biblos was bought out by libre after going bankrupt, they expired all the licenses. kitty media no longer has it listed, which means they didn't renew the license, and that means it's out of print now. i think it was seriously underrated, and honestly, based on the summary alone i wouldn't have bothered either. i just like the author.

you might be able to find it used -- amazon has links to sellers, but only for v3. abebooks has all 3, but v2 is apparently rare and is more expensive now than it was new.

you can get it from me if you want.

[torachan]

I like her art style (and her name makes me giggle every time I see it; I'm a sucker for a clever pseudonym), but the stuff of hers I read back in the day didn't really make much of an impression on me. I think I read Koi ga Bokura wo Yurusu Hani and Shiiku-gakari Rika.

[piranha]

this is light years beyond those two IMO.

shiiku gakari rika is so dark that i didn't manage to read all that has been published (it's unfinished), though what i did read was impressive in a terribly twisted way. koi ga bokura wo yurusu hani wasn't bad either, at least in concept, but it didn't suck me in.

motoni really likes twisted.

how is the pseudo clever, if you don't me asking?

[torachan]

本仁戻 = 元に戻る. It's not a hilarious pun or anything, but I like how it sounds like it could be a name because it has the right sounds (many family names start with moto and many end with ni, and there are many given names that are verbs), but it's so clearly not a name anyone would ever have.

Another pseud I like (which is totally lost in the English writing of it) is Est Em, which is supposed to be えすとえむ = S&M. But I don't think anyone reading her in translation is going to get that from Est Em.

[piranha]

oh cool. it sounded a bit unusual, but i don't know enough about names yet to tell whether it really was.

i did catch the est em one! but i do always look at the names in japanese, and there it's real obvious, *snrk*. BL has expanded my vocabulary in unusual directions.