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Sweet Revolution (Yaoi) |
Author: Yukine Honami
Published: 2006-03-29 |
List price: $12.95
Our price: $11.01
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 Depends on what you're looking for . . .
Sweet Revolution is only categorized as yaoi due to one BREIF sex scene at the beginning of the work. Otherwise this work is best left categorized as shouen-ai. So if you're looking for some hard-core yaoi - Stop. Click that little back button at the top of your screen and search elsewhere. I would suggest Yellow or Brother (if you can find it).
If you're looking for a sweet, fantasy story that provides cute boy on boy scenes - by all means continue. Because this is what this work is. The story follows two boys who have escaped from their world to ours because their relationship is banned. The seme character is heir to the kingdom they have left behind and his father wishes him to marry (a girl people!). On whole this story is sugary sweet and a fun read. Most of the scenes involve the two characters just being near each other and physical contact in this work is at a bare minimum. This is what makes this work different since it seems to indicate that the two boys are already comfortable with each other. We have passed over the initial let's go at it like bunnies stage that most yaoi focuses on.
Also the art is very pretty. If you liked the style of Desire, Sweet is drawn by the same artist.
 Tis Oki'
My comments about this book. First of all I bought this book because I love the arts on Desire and as to be expected the drawings are awesome, but when it comes to the story. I don't know maybe its just me or the story its kinda weird or maybe i didn't actually get it. At first i thought it will be like love triangle between those 3 characters but its not anyways Its just weird ~.~ maybe its just me I don't know. It was worth buying to add for your Yaoi Collections.
 Sweet Story
Although the story starts in one direction and ends in another, this story is great (plus an interesting little oneshot). The art work is pretty good and the story is cute (in an odd way). This story involves house spirits, a dragon lord, an heir, and a confused student. I do recommend this story.
 ZERO STARS
I got this because of the five star reviews, but I cannot see a single merit in it. This review will have some SPOILERS for both stories in the book.
The story involves two seeming teenagers -- actually spirits from another realm -- who are attending a human school. One boy, a prince, mistreats and sexually abuses his servant. At first, one gets the impression that we are supposed to be rooting for the kind schoolboy Misaki who wants to help free the servant-boy from this abusive relationship. Unfortunately this is not the case.
The editorial review makes it sound as though Misaki is mistaken about the abuse, but this is incorrect. What we observe is clearly rape and other deliberate cruelty. As a slave the victim does not protest, nor feel that he has the right to protest, though his distress is clear. "What else am I good for" he explains to Misaki. He rejects comparison with a child abuse victim. But that is exactly what he is. Victims of child molestation often are just as protective of their abusers as the slave boy is of his master, and for the exact same reasons. None of this matters to the authors. Once the prince reveals that he really "loves" his servant (whatever that means), then that is supposed to make it all okay.
This sickening premise now established, we move on to the second part of the story, where the boys go to Another Realm, basically so the prince can be yelled at by his dad. Nothing happens except speeches about purifying Chi, and quite a lot of brooding. There is no action. The entire "plot" is related to us through expository conversation, and to recount it would be so boring as to cause me physical pain. I'll move on.
A bonus story at the end involves an older man and the adopted younger "brother" he thinks has stolen his inheritance. At one point the man - apparently meant to be a sympathetic character - loses his temper at the younger boy and takes two or three panels to briefly rape him. Then the story just goes on as if the attack had not happened, and the rapist gets a happy ending. Mind you, none of this is explicit, so it is not as if the authors are trying to shoehorn sex into their story. It is almost as though they find promoting cruelty and defeatism to be a goal in itself.
In short, SWEET REVOLUTION was the most pointless thing I have ever read, with the added demerit of repeatedly portraying rape as an acceptable and forgivable way for the strong to treat the weak. The art has a nice delicacy to it, but fails to inject any drama or passion into the insipid story or emotionally stunted characters. The flat-eyed coldness and wan resignation you see in the two boys on the cover pretty much captures their personalities, though, so I wouldn't mind seeing what the artist could do with better material. But whoever came up with the storylines ought to be locked up.
Thankfully, my copy is defective. But if I cannot get a refund for it, I will honestly just throw the thing out. I couldn't sell it to anybody with a clear conscience.
A good buy
I really liked this one but my understanding of it is a bit strange so I'm not going to bother explaining it cause I know I'll do a bad job. I'm probably going to buy this one since it's in english. One of my friends owned it and she translated it to me and she didn't get the translations to well cause I thought they were literally cousins and it freaked me out but now I see she was wrong but this one is really interesting and good artwork as well. BUY IT!
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