Hah, thanks Kase, your my hero^^.

No thanks needed. Anything for a fellow shonen-ai fan. ^^v And besides, I like roping others into an anime I'm obsessing over. X3 That way I can obsess with others. Doesn't make me feel so alone.

Hah, Alone is a feeling that NO shonen-ai fan should ever feel.

hi there
i like to read shounen-ai and yoai mangas
i just started to collect the gravitaton mangas
i love it so far.
one other manga i read is called Bokura No Oukoku
a.k.a Our Kingdom.

Hello Nizuko^^. I belive I've already commented on your Avatar and sig in another forums. But in case you didn't see it, Nice Avatar and Sig. Gravatation is really good. One of the better Mangas out there. Ive never heard of Bokura No Oukoku, whats it like?

Another fan, welcome to the club! So, you're also a Gravitation fan. Have you seen the thread about this anime in the General Anime forum yet? You might want to check that one out too.

i will totally check it out
i know a few sites where i read
yoai and shounen-ai mangas
there are alot of great mangas out there
sniff i wish some of them would come
across seas

Im sure there are some good ones....er...where do you live?

I know exactly what you mean. And that's why I encourage scanlation/fansub groups so much. ^^;; It's so hard to get your hands on decent anime & manga these days. Especially for us foreigners.

i live in the USA
if there are other yoai or shounen-ai
mangas out there in stores right now
i so want to get them
i know about 7 or 8 sites or groups that
has yoai or shounen-ai mangas
and i love all of the sites

Ok, the list of Yaoi/Shonen-ai I bought at the book store lately....

Gravitation
Fake
Eerie Queerie
Petshop of horrors<---not REALLY a shonen-ai, but it has shonen-ai IN it.
Earthian

....I think thats it.

Lucky~ I only have FAKE and Peshop of Horrors, the rest are scanlations from all kinds of scanlation groups out on the Net. -.-

um let me think
*has a hard time tell people about things*
the art is very nice

here is what aku-tenshi said about the manga

"Akira has just lost his grandmother and is now living alone. He suddenly becomes adopted by his newly discovered family, the Takatou family, who is one of the major business tycoon in Japan. It seems that he is one of the 2 candidates for taking over his new family. The other candidate? His hot, prince-like cousin, Rei! But with the forceful wooing approaches made by Rei, are Akira's body and soul are being knocked around...!?"

i this helps

It sounds good. How far have you read in to it?

i am on volume three right now
it seems the story get more and more exciting
i dont know how many volumes there are total

I accidently purchased Pet shop of horrors volume 8 when I was supposed to buy Gravitation 1. It opened my eyes to a new manga series, but it's not what I had in mind when paying for the book. (I realized it 40 minutes later)

Ahh, the twists of life!

Jaganshi: Well.. for some reason I don't manage to get through to the site...so you won't be seeing me very often
Yeah, shonen-ai in Digimon is completely fine... I don't really mind the ayoi anymore though...
You''ve got Earthian? Wow! I've never seen it anywhere! Who's licensed it?
I have Gravitation(up to vol 9)
Yami no Matsuei(yes, I want to count that ) vol 1 &2
Fruits Basket(oh, well, it has hints ) 1-6
I manged to get FAKE and Eerie Queerie from my friend (although I'm thinking of buying EQ vol 2 myself, since it has that poster....)
I was looking at Petshop of Horrors at the shop...There are sooo many volumes of it already... my poor money (still thinking abou it)
Nizuko: Yay! welcome! That new series sounds great!;) (okay don't know if it's new, but well...) um... so where do you find it????
Kase: Is it Wu Fei of Wu Bear? I'm soo wonderin now...
Lord Odenetheus: So you didn't buy Garvi 1 then? or you bought that too?

Bah, I already posted a (mini-monster) reply in here, but I forgot what it was about. ^^;;

It got deleted! Noo.....
Try and remember it... mini-monster.... Oh, how horrible for that to get deleted...
hmm.. and to add to be previous list..I forgot the potential shonen-ainess of D.N.Angel.. so that goes too. vol 1-7
And now I have Gravitation vol 10
and God Child 1-3(not sure if it's shonen-ai...I haven't had the chance to read it yet)

T___T I know, it's horrible! And you didn't even get the chance to read it~

Oh well, I will make it up to you eventually! For now, I'm more interested in those manga volumes you've purchased! X3 You're soooo~ lucky!

Finally got obsessed with Love Mode. obsessed! Does anyone have the drama cds? ...I'm not sure if they're worth getting, and WHERE did you get them from.

What is this "Love Mode"?

its...you should read it. http://www.sakura-crisis.net/translations/scanlations.html. Second from top, on left.

Hmm, I think I will read it. Nothing else to do at my parents' place. "Count Cain" looks interesting, too.

From all those manga on that website, would you recommend ones that are not really shounen-ai? Boyxboy scenes freaks me out.

Just scanned through the first chapter of "Love Mode". Hilarious! Other than that inappropriate scene. Ugh.

heh. I haven't read all of them, just Love mode and Midare, which i do not recommend, unless you're into stupid plots and hardcore boyxboy action.

Love mode is funny, but if you're not that kinda action quis, just...watch out. Still, its funny.

Yea, maybe I'd appreciate Love Mode more if one of them were a girl.

Ditto.

I will watch out. It's a good thing I'm quick with the mouse.

Love Mode? A shonen-ai manga? Oh I have to check it out! Thanks for the link!
Ah I can read Count Cain before reading the sequel... that's great
Hmm...I saw the starting page(I'll get into the manga soon..) Pink backgrounds, blue backgrounds.. That should give a hint.. but white backgrounds? I feel confused. Oh well

Kase: No worries. Take your time.
Eh, you're interested in what I just bought? Yay! I'll have to read them first though... ooh apparently Count Cain/God Child isn't shonen-ai. Oh well, I'll probably enjoy the story anyway. It seems interesting

You've made my year complete. All I know is that the webmistress of a site called Fleeting Fancies (maybe you've heard of that site or the webmistress herself) thought the voices of the drama cd were... weird. At least the main character was. Takayima doesn't have a deep voice like she had expected. The cast for Reiji and Naoya was perfect. ;;

CD 2: was worth every penny spent.

Toshihiko Seki (Duo Maxwell - Gundam Wing, Sanzo "Bonzo" - Saiyuki, Riki - Ai no Kusabi) played Kiichi by the way. Then again, he loves those uke parts.

This doesn't really help at all. I don't really know where you can buy the drama cds. >.> JP Queen, maybe?


@Kihaku: You take your time too then. And the sequel of Count Cain isn't? Hmmm...


@Gashole: The ones with the PINK background have hetero or no relationships.

Do you own them omakase?

Unfortunately, no. ;; Wish I did though. My sister has read the scanlations and is as obsessed with it as you, I think. "Yes, yes, Reiji~ and just Reiji~" (<-- my sister)

Oh, she also says-- wait, she wants to know why you got obsessed with this particular manga. Apparently it's too shonen-ai for someone not really into shonen-ai. (If you really don't care about whether it's shonen-ai or not, she recommends a manga called Desire)

Well... Count Cain was in pink on the site... so I assume it's not shonen-ai
But what is that white? *is bursting*
Love Mode istoo shonen-ai? Now how can that....(oh, if you're not a shonen-ai fan..okay...)
Hmm.. but you do own the Drama CD, Kase? That's how I understood it...
Or wait are we talking about the manga or the CD? *is very confused again*

Oh, the pink~ Yes, that means shoujo, unless it's pink with a white background. Then it's in-between shoujo and shonen-ai, like Yami no Matsuei. At least, that's how I understood it. The same goes for the "white" background. That's actually light-blue.

Um, no I don't own the drama cds, only the scanlations. ^^;; But you can always try and check JP Queen if you want those drama cds.

Oh and I also meant it's got a blue background. ;; So it's just shonen-ai. Totally shonen-ai. Not yaoi, though, just shonen-ai, but shonen-ai nonetheless!

As far as I'm concerned, Sakura-Crisis is a god-send. Their mangas are all http download and they scanlate the MOST ineteresting mangas. If anyone wants Yami no Matsuei, you'd better hurry download it 'coz they're going to discontinue it soon. It was already licensed but they decided to finish up the current volume first.

Count Cain is not Shonen-Ai though I'm supporting the Cain/Riff pairing. It is a treasure though. A bit of dark humour that may disturb the squeamish plus mentions of incest, murder etc... Think of it as Sherlock Holmes with a darker flavour.

PS: Shi-Ran is one of my favourite scanlations ites too. Too bad their http download is currently down at the moment.

Desire she says? Well i'll appreciate it if you could pm me the link. I'm pretty new into this. I saw this thread months ago, but i didn't really get into the s-ai/yaoi scene untill...3 days ago? I started off with pretty carppy stuff and finally met Love Mode. Thank god, or else i wouldev'e given up and branded you guys wierdos.

Oh. ;; Sorry, I forgot to mention Desire has already been licensed. Scanlators never got the chance to work their magic on this one. But it's still recommended, together with Gravitation, FAKE, etc etc. All those shonen-ai manga all recent fans of shonen-ai must have read by way of introduction.

Oh, I can give you a link to a scanlation group which scanlates a shonen-ai manga called Thief and Detective. It's sweet and pretty short. But since I don't really know your preferences concerning manga... Well, I think you'll like it regardless. I mean... Thief and Detective, Raito and L.

Anyway, here's your link: Aku Tenshi

Weirdos, huh? I'm glad you eventually "saw he Light" then.

has any one ever read Zeus (i think that is how it is spelled)
it is a nice shounen-ai manga
very good manga

No, but the title sounds really familiar. I think I've seen the cover of it somewhere before..... Oh wait! Isn't that one about aliens and slaves though?

Eh? Zeus? What is it about? Sounds like something about Gods though...

JP Queen? Link? I tried googling it.

Forgot to mention it doesn't have any space between JP and Queen. ;;

Here you go: www.jpqueen.com/

Kase: Thanks! Pink with white... Go it hah, so Yami no Matsuei is at least hinted. yay!
I don't mind the Yami no Matsuei license.. since I'm buying the volumes anyway.. and it will do good for the publishing of those remaining ones.. I just hope I'm not too tempted to read all the scanlations first
I prefer reading it as a book...

Zeus, Zeus.. by You Higuri.. (I think..) It's licensed in Germany at least.. *gets happy*
Hah.. I have a good idea what to get next... (stupid money.. why are you running out?)
Thief and Detective... must check out. ther are so many things to check out.
I read Boys Next Door yesterday... no I mean today (not the scanlation, but the manga I just purchased along with a few others). I loved it, even though it made me cry.. I love/hate stories like that.. So depressing, but beautiful... *sighs*
I recommend it to shonen-ai and dark themes fans !:D
Argh, Count Cain isn't shonen-ai... Doesn't matter though

You forgot to mention a lot of things, omakase.

It was late~ And the firworks were distracting~

@Kihaku: ^^v

Uum, uum, I wanted to say something, but I forgot... @.@ Oh, right! Seikimatsu Darling~ Another recommended manga and OAV if you're interested enough. It's about two guys who've obviously fallen in love with each other, but can't come to an agreement about who should play the parts of uke and seme (they're exactly the same height ). So they think up ways to see which one of them is better suited for the uke part, even though neither of them particularly cares for being the uke. It's actually more like a parody-ish spoof, fluffy and cute. ^.^

A group of scanlators has taken up the project, but haven't published anything yet. They're perfectionists at heart. The OAV is available on BT, but it's an old VHS version, rm. file. ^^;;

here is a summary from zeus

Kira Yuuki is a 15 year old boy whose only wish is to be a normal teenager. Despite what he wants, he isn't really human at all -- he's a Lemora Saramanda. There's a strange symbol on his palm, testimony to what his is. Inaba and Yukia are two of the Kira's closest friends. However, because he is a special type of his species, Kira is wanted by others for the power he can bring. The mysterious Rosen Kroitz Secret Society seems to know a great deal about the Saramanda, keeping them as pets and breeding them. One day, Kira is captured by his pursuers, and Inaba and Yukia chase after the car he's trapped in. The accident that follows changes everything for the friends, as does the appearance of Kira's older brother...

i got this summary from storminheaven

Sounds interesting. Is it scanlated?

Thieves, I'm up to Book 6 in Love Mode now. It's so interesting. I love the Aoe brothers, Reiji, especially.

And yes, I'm still skipping all the "action."

Also, in Book 6, page 28 . . . the text seems to be in traditional Chinese, and if so, it also seems to be translated inaccurately. The first bubble apparently says, "No, I can." and the second states "I will follow your words (orders)." Is there a sort of significance behind this translation difference or am I looking too much into it? And the robbers speak in simplified Chinese. I find that funny.