23rd May 2008
Shout Out Loud! 1
Rating: ♦♦♦♦
Poor Nakaya. He just lost his mother, his grandparents don’t really care about him and he’s living with his long-lost father. Everything he’s ever known has been taken away from him. All he has left is ice hockey and the hope that maybe his father won’t be too bad to live with.
Did I mention that the father is a seiyuu (voice actor)? The father’s, Shino, voice acting work on a popular anime has dried up and he needs to find work fast. What’s a desperate voice actor to do? Why go and work on BL radio dramas, of course. It’s good money and it’s really not that demeaning. But how is he ever going to explain this to his son? And what is he going to do when he starts getting hit on by male co-workers?
I was iffy on this story at first, but after the entrance of the BL mangaka and her assistant squeeing over who was better suited to be seme and uke in the BL drama I was won over. This is a series that isn’t afraid to poke fun at itself and at its genre.
The art is slightly rough, but as in Love Mode, the story more than makes up for it. It’s cute and the developing relationship between father and son (not like that!) is more than enough to keep my attention.
Much love for BLU keeping the original title on the cover and for keeping in the honorifics. I wish some of the other companies out there would take their cue from BLU and leave things like that in and stop trying to americanize the manga.
Rating: ♦♦♦♦
Poor Nakaya. He just lost his mother, his grandparents don’t really care about him and he’s living with his long-lost father. Everything he’s ever known has been taken away from him. All he has left is ice hockey and the hope that maybe his father won’t be too bad to live with.
Did I mention that the father is a seiyuu (voice actor)? The father’s, Shino, voice acting work on a popular anime has dried up and he needs to find work fast. What’s a desperate voice actor to do? Why go and work on BL radio dramas, of course. It’s good money and it’s really not that demeaning. But how is he ever going to explain this to his son? And what is he going to do when he starts getting hit on by male co-workers?
I was iffy on this story at first, but after the entrance of the BL mangaka and her assistant squeeing over who was better suited to be seme and uke in the BL drama I was won over. This is a series that isn’t afraid to poke fun at itself and at its genre.
The art is slightly rough, but as in Love Mode, the story more than makes up for it. It’s cute and the developing relationship between father and son (not like that!) is more than enough to keep my attention.
Much love for BLU keeping the original title on the cover and for keeping in the honorifics. I wish some of the other companies out there would take their cue from BLU and leave things like that in and stop trying to americanize the manga.
Posted by Cynthia | Posted in ♦♦♦♦, Shout Out Loud!, Takaguchi, Satosumi | Comments Off on Shout Out Loud! 1