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[darkelf105]

I just received my copy of Innocent Bird volume two.

I would like to report that there is absolutely no sex in my manga clearly marked yaoi with an explicit content warning AND it came wrapped in packag.  I repeat, there is no smexin of smexy, smexy men in my yaoi.

POR QUE???????????????????????

That is all.

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[greenapple2004.livejournal.com]

'Cause bookstores like it when you rate an entire series consistently (so that they can carry all volumes, and not have to drop it halfway through or whatever), so the liiiiitle bit of smexing in vol. 3 kicked up the rating for all three books. Argh!

But uh... pretty wings! Angelic level-up! That's got to count for something, right? Right? *sniff*

[darkelf105.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, it does! Definitely makes up for lack of sex. After the initial no sex (more surprise really than disappointment) I read the volume and justified why I keep buying it. I really do care about the characters and the wings are so pretty, pretty. I am actually quite fond of this series so far. Plus I kinda like the Miltonian Paradise Lost themes what with God and fallibility and stuff. So, yeah there was lotsa squeeing.

[greenapple2004.livejournal.com]

I think you'll get a kick out of volume 3, then. :-) I certainly did! It totally ups the ante on the thematic level, and the art and relationships continue to be great.

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Are you liking it aside from the lack of sex in the first two volumes? I was kinda interested in this one too, so let me know.

[darkelf105.livejournal.com]

I adore this series. It's all about boys and their love and pretty, pretty angels and demons. It has almost ALL of my turn ons plus some deeper layers like themes about God from Paradise Lost and deep questions about God and what is right and wrong and things like that (okay, it's a yaoi so my sexed up fevered brain is probably just making it DEEPER than it really is). It's almost like a serious Dogma, minus the female characters and the female God. I, erm, dunno if it's up your alley. Unlike Gorgeous Carat which had a least one female main character, there are none and I'm reading for the budding romantic relationship between the demon and the angel and I don't know that that's the kind of relationship building you go for.....the angel does a lot pretty dude in distress.

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Hmmms. Well if it happens to be unburied sometime let me know, because this was a series I was curious about. And since it is only three volumes it shouldn't take a very long time to read at all.