Review 17: Tenshi no Tamagoryouri

Art: 8
Plot: 7
Characters: 7
Sex: 8

Tenshi no Tamagoryouri ("Scramble Angel Egg" ... what?) is another yaoi with three main characters. Eiji is a chef at a culinary school who longs to meet another person who can create 'delicacies' but is too withdrawn because his lover left him years ago. His problem student, Taki, is a cute child-like guy who is constantly wreaking havoc in the classroom. OH. It appears that Taki is actually as young as he looks... fifteen. Scratch child-like, then. He IS a child (is this legal?). Luckily, they aren't the relationship in this yaoi (phew), as we find out when Taki reveals that the reason he's trying so hard to learn to cook is because his father has been widowed and they keep hiring new cooks. Taki doesn't feel comfortable with 'strange women' in the house, so he wants to learn to cook for his father to preserve some traces of family life.
Of course, since the father needs someone to cook for him, and the teacher is single and longs to be appreciated (in a culinary way), Eiji ends up cooking for Taki and his father. But there's a catch - Taki's father is the man who left Eiji all those years ago, and this just got real complicated.
And I just have to mention this quote because it made my laugh when I read it, especially out of context. "Women are not just tools for preparing meals." Good one, Taki.

The art is standard, nothing much to say.

The plot, as explained earlier, is decent but much too soap-opera-y for my liking. There isn't much depth to it, and the many coincidences aren't that believable.

The characters are all right, but it feels like Eiji changes between chapters. At first he's cold and aloof, and then suddenly he turns around and offers to cook for Taki and his father. It can't be from an ulterior motive because he doesn't even know Taki's father's identity at that point. Weird...

The sex is meh. It's okay, but it's only just on par with any other yaoi you could pick off the shelves (sites?).

All in all, 30/40. It's decent but not enthralling.

Recommendation: A good rainy day read!