Title: Gravitation Ex volume 1
Author: Maki Murakami
Age Rating: T+ ( or OT by TokoPop standards)
Publisher: TokyoPop
Genre: Romance (Shonen Ai) and Comedy
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Hello, all (and by that all five of you!)
Author: Maki Murakami
Age Rating: T+ ( or OT by TokoPop standards)
Publisher: TokyoPop
Genre: Romance (Shonen Ai) and Comedy
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Hello, all (and by that all five of you!)
Today I'm going to be doing a review on the sequel to one of my top ten shonen ai series. Gravitation. Moar specifically, Gravitation Ex vol 1 (Because apparently TokyoPop decided to fail me and shut down, now I'll never know what happens in volume 2!!! yes. I'm too lazy for scanlations).
So this basically takes place right where the last volume of the original Gravitation manga left off. Now, I love Gravitation with a passion (I watched the whole anime twice, but only got to volume six of the manga) but this book was kind of a disappointment. The only thing that kept me reading it was the fact that I loved the original and kept hoping that it'd get better!
Let's start at the beginning.
The cover art features a very feminine looking Shuichi with purple-ish hair looking like he's tightrope walking towards the front of the page. Next to him stands Yuki, who's actually smiling a little bit while looking at Shuichi's ass (or something). Most importantly, THIS YUKI DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THE YUKI I'M USED TO!
The art has changed drastically since reading the original. Granted, the art in that changed over time and I only got to volume 6. So I could be wrong.
And now for the plot. Stop reading if you don't want [SPOILERS]
1. Shuichi and Yuki go to New York to visit the grave of guy who apparently tried to rape Yuki because Yuki loves him and killed him but wasn't arrested for it (lolwut?)
2. Shuichi acts stupid.
3. Yuki and Shuichi find this baby.
4. Shuichi acts stupid.
5. The baby turns out to be the guy who Yuki killed's son (because that makes perfect sense...)!!!
6. they take said baby to Japan for some stupid reason.
7. Yuki and Shuichi have sex.
8. the above statement is a joke.
9. Yuki kicks the baby (wow...I'm not even joking this time) on the plane back to Japan
10. Stupid stuff happens
11. Ryuichi appears. In a bunny suit. Of course.
12. SHUICHI AND RYUICHI KISS! I like to pretend that that part didn't happen.
13. Yuki saves the baby from getting hit by a truck
14. Yuki gets temporary blindness.
15. More stupid stuff happens.
16. end of volume.
Okay, so maybe I'm being to hard on it. It's just that the whole Shuichi/Ryuichi thing never really worked out in my head. Perhaps it adds to the drama, but I won't know that till I read volume 2. Which is never coming out in the US. Stupid TokyoPop. The art was really good. I'd gotten used to the old style of drawing when I read the original, but this was a really nice change. Some of the panels were a bit busy and difficult to follow, but the basic layout of the manga was fine. I also have to remember that this is only volume 1. If there were more, I'd buy it up quick.
So, random plot aside, it was a very decent manga. I'd give it three out of five stars.
