Mhh. There's certainly enough there in French, and I'd assumed from what scanlations readers had said that it was there in English as well. The obsession Akira has with Hikaru which becomes stronger from volume to volume, as well as Hikaru's growing mastery of the game, gives the series a nice sense of continuity, emotional action and forward flow. I'm sure it will eventually hit the SJ doldrums because that's what SJ does with its mangaka, but so far no complaints.
Except that I'd need to see the yaoi djs with my own eye to believe yaoi can be done with it. As ever, the gap between the canon shounen series and the fans' erotic imaginings about it seems unbridgeable. (Except I could see it happening no problem with Death Note, but that's a much darker series with protagonists who are much older emotionally.) But in general, I'd expect HnG yaoi to be the kind of parallel universe AU that YYH yaoi was. Looks like the characters, doesn't act like them at all.
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Mhh. There's certainly enough there in French, and I'd assumed from what scanlations readers had said that it was there in English as well. The obsession Akira has with Hikaru which becomes stronger from volume to volume, as well as Hikaru's growing mastery of the game, gives the series a nice sense of continuity, emotional action and forward flow. I'm sure it will eventually hit the SJ doldrums because that's what SJ does with its mangaka, but so far no complaints.
Except that I'd need to see the yaoi djs with my own eye to believe yaoi can be done with it. As ever, the gap between the canon shounen series and the fans' erotic imaginings about it seems unbridgeable. (Except I could see it happening no problem with Death Note, but that's a much darker series with protagonists who are much older emotionally.) But in general, I'd expect HnG yaoi to be the kind of parallel universe AU that YYH yaoi was. Looks like the characters, doesn't act like them at all.