Love Is Like a Hurricane | |
恋はいつも嵐のように (Koi wa Itsumo Arashi no You ni) | |
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Genre | Yaoi |
Manga | |
Written by | Tokiya Shimazaki |
Published by | Kousai Shobou |
English publisher | |
Original run | 2001 – 2005 |
Volumes | 5 |
Love is Like a Hurricane (恋はいつも嵐のように, Koi wa Itsumo Arashi no You ni) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Tokiya Shimazaki. It is licensed in North America by 801 Media, which released the five volumes between June 2007 and June 2008. [1]
Jason Thompson compared Love is Like a Hurricane to World's End for the appendix to Manga: The Complete Guide, calling the former a "frivolous “ LOL rape” yaoi story". [2] Hannah Santiago later said of the manga that it had "plenty of sex, if you don’t need plot or emotion to add context to the scenes". [3] Danielle Van Gorder, writing for Mania Entertainment, describes the first volume as "BL fluff", despite the non-consensual sex set-up, [4] and appreciated the greater depth of characterisation in the second volume. [5] Van Gorder felt that the third volume was "an attempt to play up to one fetish after another", [6] and that the series as a whole felt like a "parody of the BL genre". [7] Leroy Douresseaux felt that the many sex scenes of Love is Like a Hurricane was "something worth celebrating", although that as a high school story, the manga was "silly and inconsequential". [8] Van Gorder felt that by the fifth and final volume, the formula of the series "was starting to run out of steam". [9] Leroy Douresseaux felt that the fifth volume "telegraphed its ending" and was not as lively as the fourth volume. [10]
Love Is Like a Hurricane | |
恋はいつも嵐のように (Koi wa Itsumo Arashi no You ni) | |
---|---|
Genre | Yaoi |
Manga | |
Written by | Tokiya Shimazaki |
Published by | Kousai Shobou |
English publisher | |
Original run | 2001 – 2005 |
Volumes | 5 |
Love is Like a Hurricane (恋はいつも嵐のように, Koi wa Itsumo Arashi no You ni) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Tokiya Shimazaki. It is licensed in North America by 801 Media, which released the five volumes between June 2007 and June 2008. [1]
Jason Thompson compared Love is Like a Hurricane to World's End for the appendix to Manga: The Complete Guide, calling the former a "frivolous “ LOL rape” yaoi story". [2] Hannah Santiago later said of the manga that it had "plenty of sex, if you don’t need plot or emotion to add context to the scenes". [3] Danielle Van Gorder, writing for Mania Entertainment, describes the first volume as "BL fluff", despite the non-consensual sex set-up, [4] and appreciated the greater depth of characterisation in the second volume. [5] Van Gorder felt that the third volume was "an attempt to play up to one fetish after another", [6] and that the series as a whole felt like a "parody of the BL genre". [7] Leroy Douresseaux felt that the many sex scenes of Love is Like a Hurricane was "something worth celebrating", although that as a high school story, the manga was "silly and inconsequential". [8] Van Gorder felt that by the fifth and final volume, the formula of the series "was starting to run out of steam". [9] Leroy Douresseaux felt that the fifth volume "telegraphed its ending" and was not as lively as the fourth volume. [10]