Banana Fish Review, online reading and download links

Summary from another site

Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of "Papa" Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands--and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance...

The first time I read this manga, I had little appreciation for it. Comparing the graphics to the ones I am accustomed to, this particular manga was lacking, probably because of it's age.

BUT, yes, here's the BUT, when I had ran out of manga to read, I gave this one a chance. After the first few volumes, I mentally kicked myself for not reading this sooner.

There is a reason why this is a CLASSIC, after all.

A lot of drama going on, and character growth. I got used to the art pretty quickly, just that there are moments I don't recognize who's who, particularly the Asians. The art has little improvements throughout the whole series, but seriously, this manga probably doesn't need that anymore. You'll get hooked with the story, provided that you like reading and not just looking at the pretty pictures, because SERIOUSLY, they have long conversations and explanations.

Yaoi moments? Not much in here. I'd be so bold to say I'd let my Dad read this, if he liked manga.

This manga put me through an emotional roller coaster, especially by the last few chapters of the story. I knew it was labeled "tragedy", but I was kind of hoping the tragic part wouldn't be like that. Damn that author.

Anyway, if you haven't checked this one out yet, please do. I guarantee it's worth it.

Downloads links, if you haven't found any online, are available by request. No, I will not make money out of this. Credit goes to the scanlating team, the author, and everyone else who spent time on this wonderful piece of work.

New Code Geass Manga Shikkoku no Renya

New Code Geass manga, Shikkoku no Renya
I really don't know how to react to this.
I so ADORE Lelouch, so Code Geass without him as the main character sort of... well, makes me want him back.
For the record,  I've only seen Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion, manga and anime, so it might probably be that I just don't have experience reading CG without him.
But, seeing Renya ( the main character of CG SNR) reminds me of both Suzaku and Lelouch  ( with the hair, the scowl and all that ).
 I also can't seem to understand the timeline well. Based on the clothes, it seems like it'll look like  a prequel to R1 and R2, but the story features someone who looks incredibly like Lelouch....
meh.... but since the first setting is in an isolated village, it could be that it's just the clothes... but then again, the villains are not using automatic guns and stuff...
so yeah it confuses me

Anyone who wants the download can get it here http://cxcblog.wordpress.com/
It's actually available for reading on mangafox so you can just read it online if you don't wanna DL (Personally though, I download it so that I still have a copy even when it disappears online).

Egoism

Egoism
Is officially bookmarked.
Nothing spectacular about the story, or the characters for that matter. Though I will say that Natsu is such a cutie. But my first thought on the first page where he showed up was

whoa, cold bastard aren't ya?

Well, same old same old with the family problems thingy. Those who aren't comfortable with the idea of incest be a little careful, though there really is nothing more than touching between the two brothers (much to ice-kun's disappointment).

Half-baked Scans

This is called half-baked simply because there is no official translator and their translations came from dictionaries and stuff like that.

But they do good work on their manga, plus they have Yami no Matsuei Doujinshis

Half-Baked Scans

The First Post

This blog is dedicated to all the yaoi lovin' people out there.

Don't know yaoi? Then don't bother reading. Seriously, the people who like it know what it's called.

Basically, this blog is for posting all the yaoi material I find hot, worth reading and worth watching.
It may include my feelings for the material, as well as download links.
Please do say thank you to the scantalating teams and visit their sites and offer help if you know how to translate or use any photo editing software. We need people to spread all the lovin'.

Thanks for reading and enjoy the later posts.