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Gorgeous Carat Vol 1
May. 22nd, 2009 11:23 pmOr rather, about 60 pages of it.
Ok, so, you know how I don't read much shounen-ai/yaoi? Certainly not enough to be familiar with all the tropes. Anyway, I checked this out because it's Higuri You and I only have a few volumes of Seimaden left to read and who knows when any more of my beloved Cantarella will come out.
It's set in turn-of-the-century Paris and is about Florian, ayoung nobleman whose family is recently destitute, and Ray, a rich jewel thief. Ray falls in love with Florian's amethyst eyes and buys him from his mother (to be fair, she objected to this and Florian volunteered so that she wouldn't have a heart attack choosing between him and a family jewel) and then they start acting out an Old School romance novel with much posturing and expressions of outrage and denial from Florian and much alpha posing from Ray. And mostly, I was deeply amused by the Old School Romance Novel As Manga-ness of it.
Then I got about 50 pages in.
( Spoilers could turn genre disinterest into fear. )
Ok, so, you know how I don't read much shounen-ai/yaoi? Certainly not enough to be familiar with all the tropes. Anyway, I checked this out because it's Higuri You and I only have a few volumes of Seimaden left to read and who knows when any more of my beloved Cantarella will come out.
It's set in turn-of-the-century Paris and is about Florian, ayoung nobleman whose family is recently destitute, and Ray, a rich jewel thief. Ray falls in love with Florian's amethyst eyes and buys him from his mother (to be fair, she objected to this and Florian volunteered so that she wouldn't have a heart attack choosing between him and a family jewel) and then they start acting out an Old School romance novel with much posturing and expressions of outrage and denial from Florian and much alpha posing from Ray. And mostly, I was deeply amused by the Old School Romance Novel As Manga-ness of it.
Then I got about 50 pages in.
( Spoilers could turn genre disinterest into fear. )
