Fallen Moon: Daten No Tsuki

by Toui Hasumi

FroAn angel loses his place in Eden only to find a mysterious and dangerous new patron...A poor painter finishes a woman's portrait without his subject...A pair of bounty hunters face demons in the night...This unearthly collection of boys' love stories will delight fans of beautiful angels and demon boys everywhere!m BLU comes an unearthly collection of stories illuminating the complex lives of immortal beings. An angel, who loses his place in Eden, finds a mysterious and dangerous new patron. A poor painter finishes a woman's portrait without a subject and reveals his forgotten past. These stories and more will delight fans of beautiful angels and demon boys!

Genres: Manga, Yaoi, Romance, Fantasy, Comics Manga, LGBT, Angels

204 pages, Paperback

First published June 10, 2008

Reviews

[Kati · Rating 2 out of 5]

Mediocre to average at best. And the synopsis is also misleading, at least two stories in this manga are definitely het - not that I minded terribly but the synopsis suggested something else. The drawings aren't bad per se, but they vary in quality from good to amateurish. The stories had so much potential but they lacked the emotional punch, I guess. I would say that the first story was the best, the one about Lucifer seducing the son of his long lost love. The rest disappointed me. Quickly finished, quickly forgotten.

[TT · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read it, don't remember it. Pretty cover tho!

[Mati · Rating 1 out of 5]

I bought this manga for several reasons. One of it was that I found it in the bookstore and it was translated to Czech and the other was that I am hooked on BL manga. It was lame reason and I got what I do not like in relatively mediocre drawing. The manga is consisting with various oneshots, which were connected with theme of daemons and various angels. There is no sexual scene, just lot of hearbreaking talks, which are stiff like corpse and cliché is spunking on the reader in every page. Gonzo of pointless talks about love, hate and whatever the emo stuff you get in your mind is there. My money were blown, but still it was patriotic to buy it.

[Vai · Rating 5 out of 5]

Povedená série příběhů a padlých andělech, démonech a prokletém čaroději. Sedm povídek na téma lásky mezi muži s může zdát jako úchylárna největšího kalibru, ale opak je pravdou. Sice sem tam dojde na polibek mezi postavamy, ale to je tak všechno. Příběhy jsou dobře psané a poutavé. Osobně knížky o padlých andělech čtu ráda, ale mangu na tohle téma jsem zatim nečetla.
Ale teda jediné co musím vytknout je, že se strašně těžko poznává kdo je kdo. Na konci je sice seznam jmen, ale vyznat se v něm je nadlidský výkon.
Celkově bych tuto sbírku příběhů ohodnotila jako velice povedenou a také musim ocenit, jak krásní všichni muži této knížky jsou :D

[Eliot · Rating 2 out of 5]

Barely comprehensible, and very much fake deep. This seems like a collection of snippets that sometimes do, and sometimes do not have anything in common. Everything is underdevelopped, and hardly anything makes sense. It is at least sometimes funny, but not very often. I guess the point was to collect drabbles with a biblical aesthetic, but none of them had enough content to become a separate story or a world that could integrate the rest. The art is alright, nothing flashy, there are some quite amazing anatomical deformities in the bad way.
Spare your time, read some crappy supernatural ya romance instead.

[Myffanwy Geronazzo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Okay okay, hear me out.

-religious trauma
-for the time, good art
-artist who had a deep understanding of history and culture
-no non-con

Tbh It was really relieving to see this kind of stuff in older work, especially the angels and demons stuff, like, Hasumi very obviously had a lot of knowledge on the subjects.

[karin kim · Rating 3 out of 5]

Příběhy byly hezké, i když mě sem tam něco nudilo, a rozhodně jsem četla lepší BL mangy, ale některé byly zase ohromně sladké ;3 PS: Byl pro mě ohromný zážitek držet v ruce mangu s BL tématikou ;3 *w*

[Ljuba Grigorova · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jsem děsná :D U jednoho z příběhů jsem se i rozbrečela :D
Ale některé pro mě zůstaly nepochopeny :(

[Saimi Korhonen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fallen Moon is a collection of biblical/mystical tales featuring (mostly) m/m short stories. The stories feature tales of warlocks, fallen angels, demons, shapeshifters and even Lucifer himself.

The book is marketed as a boys love collection, but there were, weirdly, a few het relationships in the book. That bummed me out a little bit, cause I was expecting a queer collection, but, perhaps, this was a case of bad marketing and a misleading blurb.

The stories were, overall, enjoyable. My favorite story was the very first one, titled Fallen Moon, featuring a tormented man who stumbles upon a grand mansion with a mysterious master. I really liked the way the story interpreted Lucifer and how the relationship between the lead character and Lucifer evolved. I did not expect him to be Lucifer's former lover's son - identical to his mother - and I loved how creepy all of that was. I think that story will end up being the only memorable one, as it was the only one that truly made me go "Oh, nice" with its reveal.

The collection had a cool vibe with its biblical undertones, fantastical characters and mystical, largerly unexplained events, settings and magic.

This was not quite as cool as I hoped it would be, but I had a good time. The art was pleasant and the stories were delightfully weird.

[Dylan · Rating 2 out of 5]

This took me so long to read. It's a collection of short stories that my friend sent to me, and I'm very happy she did!
However, these stories were very underdeveloped. A couple of them would have been great if they were given more chapters. I really liked the last two stories about the cat boy, and the one about the boy with one eye that hunted demons. The latter had a very Trigun feel, which I enjoyed. I just wanted more out of this collection. The art was stunning though, and I'll keep it for sentimental reasons and also as references for my own art.

[Tessie Dragon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tuto mangu mi půjčila kamarádka a byla skvělá! Sice ne úplně nejlepší, ale rozhodně to byl nadprůměr. Byla kouzelná, ale někdy se nedala jen tak pochopit, byl to takový emotivní složitý příběh i když měla 7 částí. Ale po 2. přečtení už začnete chápat podstatu i postavy.

[Uuttu · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ihan ok, mutta ei mitenkään mieleenpainuva. Piirrokset ovat kauniita, mutta lyhyet novellit jäävät vähän meh-tasoisiksi.

Käännös oli harmillisesti myös heikko ja todennäköisesti vaikeutti lukukokemusta. Kun kuvataan enkelin lentämistä "läpy läpy" ei ole se ihan tunteikkain ilmaisu.

[Julio Gabriel · Rating 2 out of 5]

história sem pé nem cabeça. os contos começam e terminam em lugares incertos e parece uma grande desculpa para desenhar anjos e demônios gays. mas as artes são lindas, é isto.

[Anna · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book could have been good. Story had so much potential. In general the art was good.
Overall, I felt that stories were unfinished and if they had much more space this would be masterpiece.

[Mosley · Rating 2 out of 5]

The art is the deepest part of this manga. It's what drawls you in but the stories are lacking and jumbled so it comes across as poor, when it could of had potential.

[Krissey P · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was cute! Love me some sexy angels and demons 😈

[amomentsilence · Rating 3 out of 5]

Definetely a mixed bag.

[Priscilla Pereira · Rating 2 out of 5]

Esse mangá é uma coletânea de histórias, em sua maioria, bem curtas. Curtas demais. O desenvolvimento é quase inexistente, os contos não se conectam em nada exceto um ou outro personagem, os personagens são mais rasos do que um pires e, ainda por cima, tudo é muito confuso.
A classificação indicativa +18 está lá, única e exclusivamente, por conta de dois ou três quadros e por conta da natureza non-con/dub-con das histórias.
A capa até chama um pouco a atenção, mas a arte não tem nada demais também. Num todo, bem qualquer coisa.

[Tina Olah · Rating 2 out of 5]

This manga had nice art, but it felt like it was written by a bot.

[Daniellesof2014 · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was a series of stories that about romance, demons, and fallen angels. Each person ahs there own past, one that they would never want to return to again.

this book remained me of Edward Cullen him not always agreeing with himself or having things he can't have an the past he was never proud of, well he remind me of this book because each person in the book has there own past just like Edwards except a little differently like for example they have magic and demons.

I give this book 5 stars because I thought that it was great. It had some strange moments but this book was really good. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes romance books.

[Erin Elizabeth · Rating 2 out of 5]

A collection of stories of angels and demons. Good art with interesting set ups that if fully developed would have made nice full length manga, but they are not, and either from poor translation, poor word bubble placement, or overall vagueness it is often very difficult to figure out what is going on in each story. I found the stories intriguing enough to try to find some full-length works by this creator. Someone has written a very good story by story review of this book on amazon.

Note to boy's love fans: despite being on the "Blu" label not a whole lot of loving going on in this volume.

[dragon · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wish the stories could have been stand alones , they were pretty interesting but fell short of complete. With more room for development they'd be pretty neat.

Some were hard to understand too, like the last one about the holy eye (how did you not notice you couldn't see? why'd your friend do it? whose eye did you get implanted? can you re-implant your old eye? if not what's the point of giving it back? and that guys not JUST a blacksmith, right? who is he? etc)

[Selena Pigoni · Rating 2 out of 5]

Some of the stories were better than others. I really enjoyed "The Magic Cat of Hell's Hill" and "Garden of Thorns," but most of the others...

There didn't seem to be a lot of thought put into some. They were confusing, the characters weren't particularly interesting, the concept itself was "meh"...

I can't say I was disappointed, since I just randomly grabbed it off a library bookshelf, but...

[Mariah · Rating 2 out of 5]

While the art was amazingly beautiful I was expecting something else completely when I looked at the cover and read the back of the book. It was a series of stories that felt incomplete and unfinished.

[Veronika KaoruSaionji · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mystery romantic short tales (with angels, demons and so on), some with m/m, some with m/f plot, shojo manga in Czech translation.
Not very my cup of tea, but as shojo manga still O.K. :o)

[SaturNalia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Various stories about fallen angels, set in the past. I liked the look of the characters but nothing else. The stories were too short for anything to happen or characters to develop. Forgettable.

[Christine · Rating 3 out of 5]

As with anything containing several short stories, some were good, some were okay and some were just not my thing.

[Denisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another rating: 9/10