Admittedly, the plot gets a tad confusing (like many Yoneda Kou works, this one requires more than one read, to fully understand). But the characters are the most important part, and they're multi-dimensional and engaging. Much of this story shifts between a quiet sorrowful feeling and a romantic tension - it's wonderfully written, with witty dialogue banter and a steamy scene that's hot, but never overdone or ridiculous like in most other yaoi stories.

Yoneda Kou has a real talent at writing mature, developed and intriguing characters. In my view, this makes her work stand out profoundly. And her art only continues to get better - this story is downright gorgeous to look at.

... Last updated on October 11th, 2009, 3:45am

Though it was developed enough, I can't stop myself from wishing it had been more, because I want to look more in the relationship of those two, I really really like the characters. Well, leaving the end as it is may be a good choice as well, sometimes more development means destroying the original feeling.

As everyone else has already mentioned how great the title story is, I feel that I should stress how much I love one of the other oneshots in this (as it doesn't have it's own page here on MU), Kanjou Spectrum.

Of course the art is totally delicious, the characters are all good looking, manly men that have impeccable fashion sense in my opinion. (I just love men with pierced ears, and all 3 of the main characters do!)

Plus the plot is nice and cute. It is very predictable right from the start, (honestly if you don't automatically know what the supposed "twist" is going to be, then I seriously wonder about you), but I like that. I knew right from the first page that there was going to be a happy and satisfying ending, and of course I wasn't disappointed in the least.

To be honest I think what I liked the most about this, is that despite only having 40-something pages, the romance was perfectly paced. Instead of any of the characters randomly falling in love after being confessed to or even raped (we all know how often that trope is used in the BL realm!),

I often find oneshots to be very hit-or-miss as there are so few pages to flesh out characters and create enough of an impression on the reader that they'd feel satisfied after reading. Yet I have to say that I think Yoneda-sensei did a remarkable job with this particular oneshot. There were no bitter feelings in this at all, no silly misunderstandings (admittedly Kugou did misunderstand one pretty big thing the whole way through, but that was mostly because Usui had "confirmed" his suspicions), and no love-triangles (hurray!). Though after seeing the very short, but very funny, extra from Nakaya's POV, I feel kinda sorry for the lonely boy XD I'd love to see a continuation based on him finding his own seme! (No matter how I look at him, he just screams "uke" in my opinion ^^)

So while both NightS and Reply are brilliant, I personally prefer Kanjou Spectrum, and I just thought it deserved it's own mention ^__^

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... Last updated on March 18th, 2010, 11:22pm

What I most like about Yoneda-sensei stories is the complexity of the plots and the characters depth. This is a 54 pages one shot with a very complex story that involves secrets and the crime world with a very hot encounter between the two main characters. The readers won´t feel disappointed.

... Last updated on September 14th, 2009, 7:42am

Nice art, interesting characters. Both main characters have fascinating, slippery personalities and it's fun to watch them bounce off of each other. The author reveals and obfuscates various character traits deftly. She doesn't just slap the "bad boy" label on some stock pretty boys, these are skillfuly rendered shady characters.

However, this manga's more confusing than its complex plot could justify. Sometimes it's hard to tell who is talking. It does end rather abruptly, which is justified by the plot but still left me wanting another page or two. There's some fun banter during the sex scene, but I didn't find the sex all that hot.

I do quite like Yoneda Kou; NightS just isn't her best work. Still, I gave it an 8 for a mystery plotline that kept me guessing until the end.

I seem to be the only one here to find "Reply" to be the best story! It's touching and very realistic. Yoneda Kou made the setting an integral part of the story, and I like that there isn't that BL trope of how "everyone is gay and no one remarks on how it isn't really the norm". Her characters are imperfect and struggle with their feelings. From what I've read of her works so far, she also doesn't do the "rape is love" trope which is the biggest peeve I have with BL.

The only problem is, as someone else pointed out, that it's difficult to figure out who is saying what. You have to guess from the context, which means you have to flip back to re-read many pages.

I just love all of her works, this is the next masterpiece, she shows gently all complicated human feelings, moods and relationships with her unique, pretty realistic drawing style, good (bad? dirty? lustful?;p) taste and lots of humour. Love scenes are also kind of eye candy. When I read her works it fels like I'm watching real human beeings. First story is my fav from this book.
yeah baby! 10 points

Please... Someone just license & compile all Yoneda Kou's Yakuza yaoi stories into a book already! She is so good. I love her sophisticated sense of humor - you can see that in the conversations these characters have. Her work is simply elegant & smolderingly hot!

I always LOVE Yoneda's art. Love it. More than any other art I've ever seen for a graphic novel. It's so beautiful and strong and the balance of light and dark and the positive and negative spaces are awesome!

The first story (NightS) is amazing. I adore it so much. I would read a whole book about them in a second. Their personality are great and different from the other one, and I like the twist at the end.

The second story with the high schoolers is pretty dang cute. It's something of a classic trope, but Yoneda does it so wonderfully that it feels fresh and fun. Even her side characters are interesting and fleshed out. I loved the door slam scene at the very end! Haha! That poor friend.

The one with the mechanic and the salesman was bittersweet. It left off on kind of an ambiguous ending. It was good, though (of course it was). It was probably my least favorite, though (which kinda sucks because it had the most chapters by far).