Review 98: Kimi ga Koi ni Oboreru

Art: 8
Plot: 7
Characters: 8.5
Sex: 6

Art's decent. The uke and seme both look satisfactory, though the side characters aren't even drawn with as much detail.

The plot's actually kinda interesting, but only due to the characters. The seme has been working at a large store for quite some time, but when his boss retires, the head of company's son is placed as manager. Since he has no experience, this is nepotism, and the hardworking seme immediately dislikes the uke. But as the seme helps the uke learn how to be tactful with customers, he realizes that the uke always bluntly says what he shouldn't, and he suddenly wants to help him... but there's complications, of course.

I really liked how the uke was portrayed realistically as a guy who was never taught how to filter his thoughts into words. He says whatever he's thinking, and he has no idea that most of it isn't tactful or subtle at all, something that - in Japanese culture especially - can make for bad situations. Not only that, he seems to not pick up on social cues, either. The seme is a more regular guy, so he ends up helping the uke... but still, it's fascinating to see this kind of person in a yaoi.

This one makes full use of the 'I like you... SEX TIME!' cliche. Gah. I would have been so much happier if there had been, I dunno, SOME delay between those scenes. If the seme could have given the poor uke at least a warning, maybe things would have been less awkward afterwards. Sigh.

29.5/40.

Recommendation: If you like socially-inept ukes.