Boku no Koi no Hanashi Himegoto Featured Hot

A very cute, heart-warming story. The plot is one that I'm sure veteran shounen-ai readers are well used to by now, two young students dancing around each other in rather maddening and adorable ways culminating to, well ^^. The execution of the well-worn theme in this particular manga is rather well done. Nothing too ground-breakingly impressive, but the author manages to push the right buttons at the right times, making you sigh right on cue with empathic happiness or roll your sympathetic eyes in frustration as the characters blunder about in their adolescent love story.

The characters receive 3 stars not so much because of particular defects, but because they are in a rather large sense, fairly stereotypical. Umehara, the -newly-discovering-himself-to-have-gay(uke)-tendencies protagonist, does tear up quite a few times, although it is handled in way that the reader is likely to find endearing rather than infuriating. The interaction of this emerging uke and his counterpart, the emerging (probably perverted and horny, but we only get a glimpse n__n) seme Mizue is the right mix of adorable, exaggerated, teen-angst and fluff that suits the two young persons doing the courting. I'm not sure I would (at least not right off the bat) believe declarations of undying love from these two, but their story is the right shade of rose pink that any satisfyingly simple happy ending to a cute shounen-ai story about young love should be.

The art is also rather nice, with simple but very attractive character designs (the few well placed profile panels were a pleasure to look at).

Well worth a look if you want to give yourself an uncomplicated smile (and those are rather helpful sometimes.) So, take a break from serious angst with its tears of blood and glimpses of happiness too soon torn away (which I am also, incidentally, rather partial to) and go for some fluff-that-is-not-so-fluffy-you-want-to-smother-yourself-with-fluff-and-die-on-the-spot-for-reading. Happy browsing ^___^