Product Description: Straight and macho Taki partners with feminine and gay Goh to form an expert team of bandits hired by the police to steal from the mafia. Lately, Goh has been more interested in acquiring Taki's feelings than the usual caches of arms and drugs. Will Taki and Goh form a new kind of partnership? Volume one of Yellow begins with a brewing personal interest between Taki and Goh, though Taki is still unwilling to answer to Goh's desires. A gangster's jealousy leads to Taki's kidnapping, and it's up to Goh's cunning and charms to save him. Working solo, it's also up to Goh to find the drugs he was hired to steal while sidestepping a police conspiracy powder keg.
One of my favorite yaoi series Goh and Taki are some kind of 'good thieves'. They steal mostly drugs from the bad people. They don't know much about their employers, but there are hints that they are hired by the police. As such the story is quite action packed and Goh and Taki have to avoid some pretty dangerous situations. But as a team they can rely on one another.
On the personal level it's a little bit more complicated as Goh is gay and Taki straight. But that doesn't keep Goh from trying his luck with Taki, but at least in volume 1 of the Yellow series with little success.
Yellow has an excellent story and the drawings are gorgeous. There's also a lot of humor in this series. Overall an excellent yaoi.
Sweet and Sad Story This was a particularly sweet story. It caught me by surprise through a great deal of it. Yes, it is like a faster moving FAKE but I enjoyed this series just as much, if not a little more. Taki and Goh were perfect together and the ending was just absolutely perfect. I came into this series very skeptical, believing nothing could top FAKE when it came to jack of all trades stories. Give this one a chance. I promise you won't be disappointed.
Not worth the cost of 4 volumes I have no idea what people like about this book. There must be something about seeing Dee and Ryo in bishie form that grabs your interest for the first book but once you look past that and at the actual art you'll notice this book aint all its cracked up to be.
[...] The first two books have your generic get backers/ legal drug/ jack of all trades half made up storyline.
The third book picks up when they start going into the characters pasts and get left with that ever so enticing cliff hanger. It makes you believe the finale will be a well thought out and well illustrated book. Unfortunately it comes across like something that was improvised frame by frame. The way it was executed was nonsensical and the art was as poor as all three books put together. It's not hard to compare this series to Sanami Matoh's `Fake' as the endings are almost identical. It doesn't even hold a candle, let alone a matchstick to Fake.
As usual I was fooled by the pretty cover art and overly embellished DMP synopsis/blurb. If you haven't read Fake I suggest you purchase that instead of this and if you have read Fake there are better things to spend your money on than Yellow.
A decent beginning I've been unimpressed with Digital Manga's yaoi releases on the whole, but this one has promise. Volume 1 is a good beginning, setting up the sexual tension that will apparently run rampant in the rest of the series. Goh and Taki have the sort of working relationship you'd see in a buddy-cop movie, which is a lot of fun to read, and Goh's constant advances inject both romance and humor into the plot (even though they're usually followed by a death threat from Taki).
This book's weakness is that it doesn't know whether it wants to be a serious story or not. The majority of it plays out like a drama, but then Taki's responses to Goh seem to be trying for slapstick, which just feels awkward--I'm used to threats of violence as a humor device in manga, but when most of the story is drama, Taki's threats feel more sinister than they were probably intended to be.
But despite its weaknesses, the book's an enjoyable start to this series. I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the volumes.
Perfect Beautiful art AND a good storyline, YAY! I can't wait to buy the rest of the series ^-^
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