Mosquito Sting!

Title: MO' SOME STING

By: Yamashita Tomoko (ヤマシタ トモコ)

Release: One Volume (five chapters) in 2009.

Summary:
A masochistic lawyer, two gay yakuzas, a young girl running for her life and an insurance agent who wants nothing to do with the mess. Five people, five separate circumstances and a situation that ties them all together. Somehow, none of them just can't seem to escape one another no matter how hard they try.

Commentary:
Sensei always had a godly ability to draw amazingly awkward men in equally awkward situation. But this book steps away from all that and focuses on action (no, not the let's roll around in the bed sheets type but more like action-adventure type!) And I find it really refreshing~

To me the story was quite fast-paced but it wasn't in a rush at all. A lot of punches were thrown but no one dies even though most of them do get hurt quite badly... DD:

The characters were adorable. Like the too many gay yakuzas (I mean where do you find these men??) and the cute but totally masochistic lawyer, everyone just has a fun and all around personality, you honestly can't hate any of them. No, not even the bad guy because you will come to like him at the end, no doubt!

And just like all the other female characters sensei has in her BL works, they are great, not a bitch, not an annoying bumbling mess of tears, rather they are strong independent girls who can actually survive in the real world unlike all these strange gay men XD

A must read of Tamashita Tomoko sensei's works because it totally convinced me that love might actually make the world turn on its axis.