Gravitation.
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I bought this on a whim becuase a freind reccommended it, and i have to say, it's not what i expected. firstly the art skips about between excellent to cutsy SD form, which is (i find) annoying, especially when the scene is supposed to be getting serious and emotional and then one character's face starts getting stretched out of all proportion. Secondly the translation is a little poor. Fair enough, the main character is a teenager who uses slang, but when Yuki, a supposedly suave and stoic type starts using words like "chill out pops" then its off putting. Lastly, shuishi's over reactions make the plot a bit far fetched and hard to follow. However, as the story progresses, a plot does begin to appear, and it isn't a bad read by any means. I suggest checking out a scanlation online however, before commiting to handing over money.
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Cewl
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I orginally bough the book Gravitation because it contained shonen-ai (and I just so happen to be a shonen-ai freak). When I purchased the book, I discovered something greater. I find the plot, character development, art style, and of course, the shonen-ai bits amazing! Every time I read the books it's like I am reading it for the first time. I have heard of the anime numerous times. But I still havent seen it, the custey style they put on Shuichi (the main character in Gravitation) disturbs me slightly.
The book Gravitation is about how a young rockstar named Shuichi Shindou (I think) falls in love with a famous romance novelist Eiri Yuki, dispite the fact that Yuki treats Shindou like garbage, Shindou still falls deeper in love with him. This of course, is just a root summary of the book. The plot is way to complex for me to explain.What I didn't really like about the book was at the very beggining of the series where Shindou's appearance seems to change all at once. His hair grows long enough for him to put it into a ponytail, and his eyes also grow. Something else that confuses me is what the true color of Shindou's hair is. Besides that, there really isn't much I can complain about. It has a very good translation with no errors I have seen so far and I am VERY excited for when the 5th book comes out. It sparked my attention with shonen ai, but now its, so very much more than that.
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Hmmm
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I really loved the Gravitation anime, and hoped I'd feel the same about the manga...However I am slightly dissapointed in this book. Its not the story thats the problem, or the art (which i admit is a lil scratchy, but it does get better in later volumes), but the translation. As another reviewer already pointed out, phrases such as "Take a chil pill" and "I want to see there chops live" have no place in a decent manga translatin. Okay, I admit that teenagers wounld use slang, but the would never talk in such a messed up, out dated way. Most of the time the slang was unnessesery. I either made what the characters said sound deeply embarrasing or unitentially hillarius, which is sad.
Gravitation is a good story, but I wish Tokyopop had taken a little more care with the scripting.
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At Last!
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/Finally/ Gravitation is available in translation! Chronicling Shuuichi's bid for pop success, and his burgeoning relationship with the laconic romance novelist Yuki Eiri, the manga is interspersed with song lyrics (that perhaps make more sense in the original Japanese? ^^) and the art is consistently beautiful. Although this is the first book, the later ones go into more detail about the other characters and I personally prefer them. It is, however, beyond wonderful to /finally/ get a shounen-ai manga officially translated for English-language readers, especially one of such quality.
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