Usagi to Taka no Su - Vol. 1 Ch. 1 - Discount Udon at Dawn
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I don't know if I'll work on more of this series. The Kansai-ben is one thing; the irritating number of SFX (my least favourite thing to deal with) is another.
It's a weird little manga, though. It's a cooking manga where the cooking is "what can I put in the microwave or get on discount". It's a family drama where the family is a father and son but the art is distractingly gay-coded when the dialogue is not. What is it? Later chapters are either slice of life or going into the story behind this unconventional family unit, but it still seems like an odd thing to be running in a shounen manga magazine.
Really nice art, though.
It's a weird little manga, though. It's a cooking manga where the cooking is "what can I put in the microwave or get on discount". It's a family drama where the family is a father and son but the art is distractingly gay-coded when the dialogue is not. What is it? Later chapters are either slice of life or going into the story behind this unconventional family unit, but it still seems like an odd thing to be running in a shounen manga magazine.
Really nice art, though.
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I definitely felt the BL coding in there. It creates a really strange tone. I kept expecting more sexual tension to crop up.
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The modern day dweeb trying to not Gayfy every normal relationship: Impossible.
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what is this, 2010?
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Are you sure this is Shounen? or some gay shounen offshoot?
Totally shounen. Runs in Gessan (Monthly Shounen Sunday).
Gay content is obviously something that should be able to run successfully in shounen/seinen magazines, since they're primarily targeted at male audiences - indeed, another series I'm working on at the moment, the excellent Katasumi no Kioku, is running in Morning Two, and that's a genuinely gay story. What makes this series odd for me isn't the gay coding of its artwork on its own - lots of manga pander in this way for a number of different audiences - but the fact that it chooses to do so in a story about a father and son.
I'm not really spoiling things much by saying they're not actually father and son, it'll turn out in a few chapters' time, but still.
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Just cause the art resembles a lot of BL art, doesn't mean it will end up like that. For example, this series has art that would have you scream hentai, or at the very least ecchi, especially with it's current vol 3 cover art. So far? not one panty shot. Was so fcking happy.
This? Just a kid happy to see his dad so far. Ignore the art and don't let a potential usagi drop your mood into assumptions, especially with the group leader's earlier message confirming it's slice of life in a shonen manga. Feels like Yugami-kun ni wa Tomodachi ga Inai and I'm all for it
This? Just a kid happy to see his dad so far. Ignore the art and don't let a potential usagi drop your mood into assumptions, especially with the group leader's earlier message confirming it's slice of life in a shonen manga. Feels like Yugami-kun ni wa Tomodachi ga Inai and I'm all for it
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lotta yuri series are like this… not romantic or sexual but they have a “special relationship” with fan service thrown in
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Towa is Takaaki's nephew. Towa's mother , a famous actress, had a relationship with Takaaki's brother and then abandoned the child to Takaaki to raise. However, Towa doesn't know this, so much of the ongoing plot is about Takaaki's dilemma over revealing this to him and Sayuri's (the mother's) involvement in their lives.
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It's not just the art that piques me (though I accept that this is probably not going to turn into gay porn). It's also the little story bits like Towa refusing to associate with girls multiple times, specifically winning a crange game prize for his dad, being very excited to see him, and walking in on him shirtless. I know this isn't BL, but I'm willing to bet the Mangaka has created their fair share of it in the past.
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