By Kai Tsurugi (BLU)
ISBN: 1-59816-522-4
This is a lyrical but sexually explicit fantasy of the popular Yaoi (beautiful boys in love) sub-genre of manga featuring wayward hero Zeke O’Brien, a trainee mercenary of lower class origins who rises to the rank of Black Knight by saving the life of a lovely young Prince marked for assassination by the hidden enemies of the King of Aran.
Thwarting every attempt to murder the elfin Prince Chris, Zeke falls hopelessly in love with his charge and is delighted to discover that the feeling is mutual and furtively, passionately reciprocated. But the enemies of the King are many and the trials for the young lovers are only just beginning in this Ruritanian Romance of intrigue and melodrama.
Lavish, ostentatious, beautifully illustrated and inoffensively charming, this volume has an additional, modern tale of boy-on-boy romance that might upset some readers. ‘Deadly Sin’ tells of the intimate (and graphically explicit) affair between a young priest (the son of IRA terrorists who has since murdered the SAS killers of his parents) and a strapping athlete/poet he meets on holiday. Despite being well written and drawn, this type of material is bound to offend devoutly Christian or conservative sorts (please note the small ‘C’) so if that’s you please save us all some grief and don’t read it.
This book is printed in the ‘read-from-back-to-front’ manga format.
© 2003 Kai Tsurugi. English text © 2006 BLU Inc. All Rights Reserved.