Review 123: L'Étoile Solitaire

Art: 8
Plot: 6
Characters: 6
Sex: 6

So there's this cold-hearted president of a large hotel-buying company that's trying to expand into Japan, and he tries to buy a small chain of traditional Japanese hotels from its young and inexperienced president. So of course he falls in love with him, decides not to buy the hotels, but his nasty/evil advisor guy interferes and tells the young uke he's only making trouble for the older president... seen it all before. Oh, and possibly THE WORST cliche ever, the 'blonde and spoiled female fiancee' cliche is utilized to its full extent. Very, very predictable and dissatisfying throughout.

Art is decent. Only decent part of this manga, actually.

The plot is horrifically bad, as said before. No need to elaborate further, I trust.

The characters aren't necessarily unlikable... they're just very obvious types. The seme is the good-hearted but misunderstood wealthy young CEO, while the uke is the shy, naive kid who's still in school (at least they say it's college in this one). Then there's the aforementioned bitch-fiancee, and I'm sure that says it all. And evil advisor-guy, who tries to get in the way of the two lovebirds because he's jealous and clearly has an old crush on the president.

The sex is so boring it's barely noticeable. I flipped the page and was like, 'wow. That's it?' Pretty uninspiring.

All in all, 26/40.

Recommendation: Read this only if you're intending to use it to outline the many overused plot devices in yaoi manga.