![]() ![]() Now for those of you wondering (and for clarification), this is a NOVEL with a few page size images of the characters in alignment with action to the story NOT a graphic novel with all drawn panels and some dialogue as if it was copied from stills of the movie or vice versa. After a few rereads (yes, I had to read them again because they're that good), there are fewer typos than I thought throughout the four books and it was a welcome surprise. Now, I was wrong about the price to quantity ratio after having read most of the series. Our writer has tinkered with the book slightly so although we have MUCH more insight into the characters and these changes have definitely made it different from the anime movie of old, the basics remain the same. UPDATE: I've received up to book four now and I'm greatly anticipating book five. ![]() And like old stories that stand the test of time (the anime still stands as a decent piece of work 15 years later), this story will be one that you will return to time and again in the future. This is an old story that was liked well enough that it was made into a well drawn, quality produced anime for it's fan base. Unlike many BL and yaoi stories, this isn't just a bunch of sex scenes or a heterosexual story made into a homosexual story. ![]() Still, I have a feeling that someone thinks this is a "cash cow" and I'm not saying that it's only the publisher holding out their hand for the funds. So until yaoi and BL become mainstream areas of publishing, I'm willing to give a tiny bit of slack. Sure there are the occasional errors, but if you buy yaoi and BL books on a regular basis that just seems the norm right now. And then to find out that it had finally been released in book form with all the back story-I had to have it! I'm really not disappointed in anything except the price to quantity ratio. ![]() And since most animes are originally mangas or serialized in mangazines in Japan, I did a little digging and found out I was correct by hitting up Wikipedia for a more thorough understanding of what I'd watched. I caught the Ai no Kusabi anime on just a few weeks ago and thought it must have been a really old movie since it was obviously a Japanese anime originally on VHS that someone had put onto their computer and subtitled in English. ![]()
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