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3.7 (1)

Written by kriptonima April 20, 2007 11093 3Add

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Other Titles

ブレス

Mangaka

Chifumi Ochi

Year Released

2003

Release Complete?

Yes

# of volumes

5

Genre

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Year Licensed

2008

Licensed by

YAOI GENERATION

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ISBN

JPN:
Vol 1: ISBN4-87724-269-4
Vol 2: ISBN4-87724-343-7
Vol 3: ISBN4-87724-370-4
Vol 4: ISBN4-87724-406-9
Vol 5: ISBN4-87724-426-3

ENG:
Vol 1: ISBN 978-0-9821880-0-2

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Koushi Yanagi is a gay student. He finds a very sexy office worker at a gay club, who gets drunk and accepts his advances. But when the office worker suddenly becomes sober, he loses his nerve, starts acting violently and runs away. Koushi has been so disgusted, he goes to Takashi Kirishima, aka Ten, his friend with benefit. At Ten's house, Koushi meets the office worker again. He is Ten's twin brother, Arata Kirishima, a researcher in a laboratory. Koushi visits Arata's room when Arata is alone. Arata tries to hand money to Koushi but Koushi finds it insulting, goes wild and rapes Arata. Arata asks Koushi to keep silent from Ten but it makes Koushi angry all the more. He makes of Arata his sexual slave, but gradually they are attracted to each other.

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Vol. 1:

Stopping by his favorite bar in Tokyo's gay district, Yanagi picks up an attractive man, and the two spend a passionate night together. The next morning, however, the stranger proclaims that what they did makes him sick and then bolts from the room. With the weight of confusion and frustration crushing him, Yanagi thinks he'll never see the man again... until he finds out it's his good friend's twin brother, Arata. Even when confronted, Arata refuses to accept what happened that drunken night, so an angry Yanagi comes up with a plan to make Arata his sex slave as punishment...

And so begins the first of five volumes filled with drama, angst, suspense, passion, sex, and love.

Will Yanagi and Arata clear their misconceptions?
Will Yanagi be able to fight the demons of his past?
Will one possessive twin get in the way?

Follow these two lovers in their struggle against all obstacles to find love and happiness together.

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Overall rating		3.7
Art		4.0 (1)
Characters		3.0 (1)
Plot		4.0 (1)

Overall rating		3.7
Art		4.0
Characters		3.0
Plot		4.0

Reviewed by celticnymph January 22, 2009
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A juicy little series with the yaoi recipe just right. There's pretty guys, lots of sex, a sex slave, well-paced story, and not too much fluff. Unfortunately there's only been one volume (and two chapters from volume two) scanlated at present so my review will be focusing solely on those seven chapters.

The art in Breath is clean and somewhat... satisfying. Both the uke (Arata) and the seme (Koushi) look rather feminine and they're drawn beautifully. Particularly all their facial expressions! I didn't find any character (or action, for that matter) to be awkwardly drawn or messy (the bad messy).

Koushi and Arata's personalities are nothing special but I was still feeling for them by the end of the first volume. There's the awkward and shy Arata who asserts the age old uke claim "But I'm a guy!?" and then there's the forceful and temperamental Koushi - it is their destiny, after all.

The plot is fairly standard but the pacing is good - I didn't find myself getting bored quickly or even lose track of what was happening. If you're not a huge fan of relationships that develop from rape/slavery then you might want to approach this one cautiously - but still give it a shot!

Breath is quite good and worth the look. I'd recommend it to ANY yaoi fan because it's fun and easy to read. I hope the scanlations are still in the works because I found myself getting really into it by the seventh chapter - hopelessly addictive.

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