Review 166: Dolce

Haha. Cropped out the guy with the beard.

Art: 8
Plot: 8
Characters: 8
Sex: 7.5

Hmm... this is a hard one to judge. On one hand, there's a fun cafe-with-cute-guys theme like in many yaoi, and the characters really are very good. The art is excellent (though I detest beards, even small ones), and the plot is pretty good, too. But there is one faux-rape scene... surprisingly, however, it is dealt with in a much more realistic way, in which the uke actually fights back and slings some punches afterward, and he doesn't simply forgive the seme for it. I appreciate this portrayal much more than any of the others I've seen so far.

Basically, the waiter guy on the far left of the picture is the son of the cafe's owner. He's a slacker and flirt at first, but the guy in the middle (head chef) reforms him with the added incentive of how much the heir likes him. The guy on the right is the naive but funny guy who's training to be a chef, and the bearded guy to the right who got cut off is a chef who joins them later, who also loves teasing everyone with pranks or by misguiding words.

It's cute and amusing for the most part, and when there are serious moments, they're handled well. Impressive yaoi that still delivers sexual tension.

31.5/40.

Recommendation: If you like things like Antique Bakery and Coffee Prince.