Love Control, Vol 1
Author: Ai Hasukawa
Publisher: Digital Manga Publishing
American
release date: May 6, 2008
Format/Genre/Length: Paperback/Manga/Yaoi/200 pages
Overall
Personal Rating: ★★★
Love Control
Kei Yamashiro and his company have been hired to remodel the Italian restaurant Jiri by its owner Takashi Okumura. When Okumura arrives to the meeting, he immediately begins to hit on Yamashiro. This man apparently doesn’t take no for an answer when he calls Yamashiro for a dinner meeting, tells him where and when they’lll meet, and then hangs up! Turns out the place is a secret bar, very private, members only. The reason for the meeting is that the owner of Jiri wants to hire Yamashiro to decorate his apartment. Yamashiro agrees but comes up with a plan of his own to get Okumura back for his flirtatious attitude. He vows to make the man fall in love with him and then he’ll break his heart.
But at some point, the game becomes real, and Kei isn’t sure whether to believe Takashi’s sweet words or not. Has he actually fallen for the man, and can anything good come from that? Or has he become a victim of his own game?
Near the Rainbow and You
Seno is in charge of the planning division of his company. He is very driven, a hard worker. One day he receives an unexpected email asking him to come find them at the end of the rainbow. What does that even mean? When he passes by a rather beautiful fountain, he spots what appears to be a high school kid. Could this be the prankster? He approaches the kid and discovers he sent the same email to a number of addresses, just for fun. Seno asks the kid if he’s searching for a sugar daddy, and the kid tells him to take him somewhere private. Against his better judgment, Seno takes him to his apartment. There he takes the kid’s wallet and discovers his name is Yuu. Seno forces his attentions on an unwilling Yuu, who then leaves, but the next day he shows up at Seno’s work, claiming to be a relative. Yuu tells Seno that he won’t stop pestering him until he admits he fell for Yuu first, so Seno retaliates by taking him to an amusement park.
I really liked the first story, watching Kei and Takashi get caught up in their own games until what they had pretended became real. I enjoyed watching them fall in love, and hope they’ll be back in the next volume. However, then we have the second story, and there’s the problem. I don’t know how old Yuu really is, but he looks like a kid, which gave off all sort of bad vibes. But then the dubious consent. Very cringe. I am not fond of certain types of yaoi where one protagonist resembles a child, and often a very feminine on at that. I wish they hadn’t included that second story in this volume, but they did. So I am giving the first story 4 Stars and the second story 2 Stars, for an average of 3 stars. I would suggest skipping the second story, the first is good.
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