Man's Best Friend
- Name
- Man's Best Friend
- Creator
- Kazusa Takashima
- Genre
- yaoi
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• Name — Man's Best Friend • Ja Kanji — 犬も歩けばフォーリンラブ • Ja Romaji — Inu Mo Arukeba Fallin' Love • Genre — Yaoi • Creator — Kazusa Takashima
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• Type — manga • Author — Kazusa Takashima • Publisher — Biblos, Libre Publishing • Magazine — Magazine Be × Boy • Published — March 10, 2004 Man's Best Friend (known as If Dogs Can also Walk I'm Fallin' Love aka the Inu mo Arukeba series) is an explicit yaoi manga by Kazusa Takashima, and is published in English by Blu Manga, a now-defunct boys' love publishing division of Tokyopop.
Plot
Plot
The manga is split into three stories: • The first three chapters are about Ukyo, who rescues a dog that he names Kuro. Kuro can talk and magically transform into a muscular human, and Kuro takes a romantic interest in Ukyo. • The next two chapters (Mata, Natsu ga Kita and Pinpoint Lovers) are about Kentaro and Kasumi, who reunite after a decade apart. Long ago, Kentaro had made a promise to wait ten years for Kasumi, but at the time he had thought that Kasumi was a girl. • The last chapter (Kingyo Hime) is about a man, Keisuke, who rescues a magical goldfish from a group of children. Said goldfish then transforms into a man, thanking Keisuke.
Publication
Publication
For the English release of Man's Best Friend, Blu Manga decided to replace the original cover art, which depicted Kuro reclining shirtless in a with a gun holster covering his crotch, with new cover art depicting Kuro tearing off Ukyo's shirt with his teeth. The new cover art was created from existing art within the volume.
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Reception
The manga has been described as "reminiscent of Guru Guru Pon-chan." Kuro's dog-like characterization was praised by Sequential Tart. Library Journal described the stories as contrived and said that the characters "exist to have sex." Christopher Butcher regarded Man's Best Friend as being the "most unique" of Blu's releases, and as a "very creative" fetish. Dru Pagliassotti, comparing romance novels with Boys Love manga, mentions Man's Best Friend as an example of a kemonomimi "society", or setting.
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- 1.Pagliassotti, Dru. GloBLisation and Hybridisation: Publishers' Strategies for Bringing Boys' Love to the United States. Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific. 20. April 2009.
- 2.Avila, Kat. Sequential Tart: A Comics Industry Web Zine - The Report Card. www.sequentialtart.com. July 1, 2006.
- 3.Shimonishi, June. Xpress Reviews—First Look at New Books - December 1, 2006. Library Journal. 2006-11-28.
- 4.Butcher, Christopher (11 December 2007). "Queer love manga style" . Xtra!.
- 5.Pagliassotti, Dru. Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre. McFarland & Company. 63–64. 30 April 2010. 978-0-7864-4195-2.
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