Junjo Romantica: Volume 1

by Shungiku Nakamura

Misaki is struggling to pass his college entrance exams and has taken up a tutor - the cool and sexy Akihiko Usami, who is a famous boys' love novelist. At first Misaki is disgusted by Akihiko, but... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598167197
• ISBN13: 9781598167191
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Blu
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 7.6"

Customer Reviews

Good book hopefully price us wrong.

I love the manga but that price is a lot its 2much maybe its a mistake.

Junjo Romantica

I absolutely adore this series. I recently came across this work and I read the scans first and now own the series. The stories are heartwarming and filled with love and romance. It is the best romance read I have enjoyed in a long time!

Way better than I expected

This was featured in one of my other mangas by the Blu publishing company at the back with the advertisements. It had a cute premise so I decided to buy it. I highly recommend it! It was cute, funny, racy and very sexy. Most boy love stories are cute but mostly tame. This is pretty explicit and was very delightful for that fact. I think you'll enjoy it. ^_^

Hilarious and Adorable!

I downloaded the scantilations of this and the subsequent volumes years ago, but I am ecstatic to see this here in an official (and probably better translated) form! Nakamura-sensei has a wonderful sense of humor and the comedy in this is enjoyable without making the story too slapstick. While the romance between Misaki and Usagi-chan-sensei is slow-going, both are well-defined characters and their relationship is established in this volume. You can't help but feel for them both as they struggle to impress Misaki's older brother: Usagi with his unending friendship to the man who unknowingly broke his heart; Misaki doing his best to reach the dream that his brother sacrificed for his sake. The sexual tension is light, but that doesn't stop the sex scenes from being erotic. The second story is actually connected to the first through a character, but you won't discover that until later volumes. Right off the bat, Nowaki's sincerity and straight-forwardness captured my heart. Hiroki shares a lot of personality traits with Misaki in his short temper and perseverence, but he's just helpless to his partner's charms. One of the nice things about this story as opposed to Misaki/Usagi's is that the roles are less stereotypical. Nowaki (the seme, despite being the younger of the two) is the definite persuer, but he's emotionally open and genuine, where Hiroki is more aggressive and emotionally unsure. Both stories are light-hearted and the erotica lovely. Don't be turned off by the angular style (Nakamura-sensei draws her boys thin and their hands large), the story is well worth any oddity there. The characters are unique, expressive and a lot of fun. Definately a great addition to any collection.

Love It!!

There are two stories within one manga: one is about Misaki Takahashi & Akihiko Usami, the other is about Hiroki Kamijo & Nowaki. The begining of these two stories are connected by heartbreaks and finding new love in unexpected places. Both Misaki & Hiroki are extremely shy about their feelings so it's a cute story about the difficulties of a relationship.

guilty as charged

fantastic in a plot what plot sort of way... not that there isn't a plot, it's just that the first thing you notice is the... extreme lack of plot. this volume focuses on two couples getting together. first misaki and usagi, who have the longest story in this volume. usagi is an cliche spolied rich boy (jokes are made) who writes award winning novels. oh... and yaoi comics. with sex. and the protaganists are named after usagi-san and misaki's older brother? wha? misaki freaks out, and usagi confesses he's always loved misaki's brother, even though he'll have to suffer in silence because big brother is clueless (and straight) big brother introduces his friend to the woman he's going to marry, and misaki cries for usagi. "you wept for my broken heart." i won't tell you anything else, but the plot is nice, the explicit content is worth the looks you'll get from people who see you buying it, and the sense of real people in an imperfect world is really good to see in a manga.