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Kaoru wird wegen seines mädchenhaften Aussehens häufig aufgezogen. Als ihn Boxer Junya darauf anspricht, rast er deshalb auch sofort vor Wut und schlägt diesen k.o.! Allerdings beeindruckt Kaorus Punch Junya so sehr, dass er daraufhin alles daran setzt, Kaoru in den Boxklub zu holen. Kaoru weigert sich standhaft, doch Junya knockt ihn mit seinem unbeholfenen Charme schließlich doch aus!
180 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
About the author
Hinako Takanaga
76 books327 followersTakanaga Hinako (高永ひなこ) is a Japanese author of Boys' Love manga.
She has also provided illustrations for several BL light novels by other authors, including The Guilty by Katsura Izumi. Her first manga story, 合格祈願 (Goukaku kigan, Prayers for a passing grade?), was published by Hanamaru Comics in 1997; it was later reworked as the first chapter of Challengers. Most of her works have been translated into foreign languages. She was a guest at YaoiCon 2007, invited by Juné, the US publishers of her popular series Little Butterfly.
When not making Boys' Love manga, she spends her time collecting Wallace & Gromit merchandise and playing Final Fantasy. Takanaga doesn’t like beer and people who are ignorant.
She comments that her biggest influence on her art and writing-style was KOUGA Yun, a famous shoujo manga artist whose works she read as a teenager.
She has also provided illustrations for several BL light novels by other authors, including The Guilty by Katsura Izumi. Her first manga story, 合格祈願 (Goukaku kigan, Prayers for a passing grade?), was published by Hanamaru Comics in 1997; it was later reworked as the first chapter of Challengers. Most of her works have been translated into foreign languages. She was a guest at YaoiCon 2007, invited by Juné, the US publishers of her popular series Little Butterfly.
When not making Boys' Love manga, she spends her time collecting Wallace & Gromit merchandise and playing Final Fantasy. Takanaga doesn’t like beer and people who are ignorant.
She comments that her biggest influence on her art and writing-style was KOUGA Yun, a famous shoujo manga artist whose works she read as a teenager.
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August 6, 2019
This was a really cute story. What I liked about it most was it really got into the issue of how body types and their stereotypes can really effect someone's life. This guy, Komatsuna, all he wants is to be seen as a guy, but one way or another he keeps getting compared to females because of how effeminate-looking his face and body are. I think the story is cheesy and funny, but I love the characters. We all need a Kubo in our lives to help us accept and love ourselves. <3
June 2, 2024
A super short and sweet boys love manga. It followers Kaoru Komatsuna who’s self conscious about not being able to gain weight or muscles and his more “effeminate” and pretty features that make him feel less masculine and more feminine. He gets very upset and has a quick temper when people make fun of him for being “girly”
The story behind when he meets the schools handsome, tall, and muscular boxing champion, Kubo, who finds Kaoru’s school notebook and simply says, hmm, strange name, I wonder who it belongs too and then BOOM POW Kaoru knocks out the boxing champion because how dare he make fun of him. 😠
After being knocked out, Kubo makes it his goal to get Kaoru to join the schools boxing team. Since Kaoru wants to gain more muscle anyways and have an “ideal masculine” body type like Kubo he agrees. As they both spend more time with each other, the two boys find they might like each other as more than just friends. 👨❤️💋👨
While slightly dated compared to lgbtq graphic novels now, I do enjoy how this story shows issues on how men can suffer from body image issues, how stereotypes about looking or being too “feminine” can hurt people, and how sometimes queer love we might do more body comparison then we really should and we need to appreciate our own bodies.
The story behind when he meets the schools handsome, tall, and muscular boxing champion, Kubo, who finds Kaoru’s school notebook and simply says, hmm, strange name, I wonder who it belongs too and then BOOM POW Kaoru knocks out the boxing champion because how dare he make fun of him. 😠
After being knocked out, Kubo makes it his goal to get Kaoru to join the schools boxing team. Since Kaoru wants to gain more muscle anyways and have an “ideal masculine” body type like Kubo he agrees. As they both spend more time with each other, the two boys find they might like each other as more than just friends. 👨❤️💋👨
While slightly dated compared to lgbtq graphic novels now, I do enjoy how this story shows issues on how men can suffer from body image issues, how stereotypes about looking or being too “feminine” can hurt people, and how sometimes queer love we might do more body comparison then we really should and we need to appreciate our own bodies.
July 14, 2018
Short but cute! There’s a running gag that the delicate-looking protagonist keeps punching out people when he’s angry (especially his love interest, who’s a boxer), and i can see how that could shade into joking about intimate partner violence, but for the most part it stayed in an okay place, I think. I was actually pleasantly surprised that there was a conversation on-screen where the love interest tells off the protagonist for fighting someone without boxing training, because it’s an abuse of his abilities.
March 24, 2020
Loved this book, so adorable. And finally some boxing in a manga😍
June 29, 2021
No tengo demasiado que decir, está lindo y me dio risa. XD
October 2, 2012
It's yaoi, so you know you are going to be faced with some stereotypes here. I was just so pleased that I found a yaoi manga in our library at all that I think I was a bit over-excited and rated it higher than I would have done if I'd bought it. It's not the sort of story you could read over and over again, but it was some light fluff for an afternoon. The uke character, Kaoru Komatsuna is very feminine looking with a girly name that he detests and always gets in a strop over it. One day, the school boxing champion, Kubo, picks up his fallen notebook and makes a comment about his name. Komatsuna is not impressed and decks him. Now Kubo wants Komatsuna to try out for the boxing club, as he things Komatsuna has the making of a champion. Komatsuna just thinks he's teasing him again, and there are plenty of times when Komatsuna hits Kubo again with lots of misunderstandings. I don't think this is meant to be taken seriously, I know you shouldn't hit your partner, misunderstandings or no.
The fights are played for comic effect, like cartoons, it's not meant to be realistic, so I can overlook that. Komatsuna and Kubo are sweet boys who don't quite know how to let the other one know that they like each other, especially in such a macho environment as a boxing gym. The artwork is good and the dialogue/speech bubbles were clear to read. What I liked most about this yaoi, was that we didn't have the 'rape as love' trope. When they do finally get together and have a love scene, it's because they both want to.
The fights are played for comic effect, like cartoons, it's not meant to be realistic, so I can overlook that. Komatsuna and Kubo are sweet boys who don't quite know how to let the other one know that they like each other, especially in such a macho environment as a boxing gym. The artwork is good and the dialogue/speech bubbles were clear to read. What I liked most about this yaoi, was that we didn't have the 'rape as love' trope. When they do finally get together and have a love scene, it's because they both want to.
February 26, 2016
~3/5
I picked this up solely because of Awkward Silence. And even though this wasn’t that great, I will get more, because I love her.
This is about two boxers who fall in love, only one of them gets embarrassed easily and then gets violent. Still, the other one continues trying and is devoted.
It was a cute enough story, and some of it was quite funny. The characters were okay. The artwork is definitely her earlier work, and not nearly as nice, but more average. It just didn’t stand out to me, mostly. It was just okay.
[Read more at my blog, Geeky Reading!]
I picked this up solely because of Awkward Silence. And even though this wasn’t that great, I will get more, because I love her.
This is about two boxers who fall in love, only one of them gets embarrassed easily and then gets violent. Still, the other one continues trying and is devoted.
It was a cute enough story, and some of it was quite funny. The characters were okay. The artwork is definitely her earlier work, and not nearly as nice, but more average. It just didn’t stand out to me, mostly. It was just okay.
[Read more at my blog, Geeky Reading!]
July 8, 2009
daftness abounds. all good fun.
February 22, 2013
OMG! So funny!
February 5, 2015
I absolutely loved this manga! So funny!
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