Book Review: Body Language

BODY LANGUAGE front cover

English Title: Body Language
Original Title: Karada de Wakaru Koigokoro
Author: Aki Morimoto
Artist: Tsubaki Enomoto
Publisher: DMP (Digital Manga Publishing) – Juné Manga Line
Age Rating: 18+
Price: $8.95
Summary: Kanae Hayakawa attends a college in Tokyo and had somehow gotten the nickname of “Cool Beauty”. Rumor has it that he’s huge playboy and is willing to sleep with anyone, be it a man or a woman. Thing is…Kanae is still a virgin. On the other side of things, there’s Yuichi Nagao. He’s known for his womanizing ways, having a few girlfriends on the side, and his rather rude (i.e. straightforward) personality. The two of them become friends after the “Cool Beauty” overshadowed the womanizer’s fame and Yuichi stood up for Kanae. Now, a growing close friendship later and Yuichi’s constant complaining of the lack of a girlfriend for two months, Kanae half-jokingly offers himself to Yuichi…only to have the usual womanizer accept his offering! Kanae tries his hardest to suppress his feelings for Yuichi and only think of the new edition to their relationship as just sex.

WARNING: Following review possibly contains mature content!

NOTE: I, personally, use the term “yaoi” as a generic term for the Boys’ Love/Shonen-ai/Yaoi genre. I am not up for arguing/debating about the usage of the terms. I do ask please avoid using the term “shonen-ai” in any comments on this review, as the use of that term is a huge pet peeve of mine. =] Thank you!

Super Eurobeat 193 Review

SUPER EUROBEAT 193 Review
Opening – Super Eurobeat 193 ~Revival Hits~ is the most recent release in the Super Eurobeat series. It was released on January 7th, 2009 and is the first Super Eurobeat release of 2009. For those who are unfamiliar with the Super Eurobeat series, it’s simply a compliation series much like the NOW! That’s What I Call Music series, that showcases selected Eurobeat songs from various different labels. Since hitting the 190s, every album (except for 190 itself) has had some sort of theme to it. SEB (Super Eurobeat) 191 was ~ENJOY YOUR DRIVE~, while SEB 192 was ~LET’S PARTY~. Many Eurobeat fans were disappointed on how little the song choices on the CDs followed the themes.

There was a lot of anticipation for this album for a few different reasons. One reason was because the tracklisting seemed to be released much later than usually. When a tracklisting was released and seemed to be official, it was canceled out by another tracklisting. I believe that there were three or four rumoured tracklistings before the official one appeared. There was also the label switch up of Gogo’s Music and SCP, where Go2 of SCP covered the Go Go Girls’s hit song of “HOT VAMPIRE” and the Go Go Girls’s covered Go2’s forgettable “LOOKA BOMBA”. Another factor into the anticipation for this album was the fact that there are so many remakes of classic Eurobeat songs – people wanted to see how well they were pulled off or how badly they were butchered. This CD contains a total of 14 tracks. Tracks 2 through 4 are covers of some mainstream songs and tracks 6 through 14 are remakes (except to tracks 10 & 11, as that’s the label switch up).