Yaoi Volume 1 Anthology of Boys Love Author:Misa Izanaki, Sean Michael Wilson, D.V.L. Spencer, Yishan Studio, Amelia Woo, Studio Kosaru A brand new anthology series of guys in love with guys. First, prisoners of a medieval circus unite against their wicked ringmaster. Then a tale of forbidden love between members of two rival gangs in modern Tokyo. The final tale is of a boy who escapes two sadistic hillbilly captors and recovers from their torture with the help of a romanticall... more »y vulnerable cop. Our top talent comes together for this brand new yaoi anthology!« less
Amy C. (RyomaRox) reviewed Yaoi Volume 1: Anthology of Boys Love on
Helpful Score: 1
Well, it's not the best yaoi book in the world. The graphics are kind of bad and the story lines run fast and choppy, but it's funny to read and good for a laugh:)
Three stories. The stories themselves are ok (one a fantasy of a half-demon youth taken prisoner in a circus, one a gang member being reunited with his reform school love, and the last a dark tale of an abused slave rescued by a cop in the backwoods of Idaho.)
The art is... cartoony and immature in the first 2 stories, pretty good in the last.
While very MA - (the last story disturbingly so with it's real world setting) - it's that type of yaoi that shows "everything but" - whiting out the naughty bits. (If this was genuine Japanese work, I could understand that cultural bias, but this is an online American publication. So it's just annoyingly parroted.)
Needless to say, the second anthology didn't look any better and I'm passing on it. Half the joy of this genre is the art, so this was disappointingly amateur.