Honto Yajuu
Like the Beast

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Honto Yajuu is a silly Yaoi smut series about a hot-headed uke that's part of the Yakuza and his super adorkable seme that's a cop. The story is super simple and it mostly focuses on the relationship between the cop and the yakuza member. The couple is super cute and silly. And the smut is really good from what I read. The main couple's sex scenes are funny and consensual. I recommend this if you want some cute and funny yaoi smut.

You'd probably over look Honto Yajuu as just another yaoi manga. We all know the ones that have "one-sided" love (when they both love each other) and the cutesy scenes between the two for like 20 chapters before one of them confesses. Then a few chapters later it's like the end. This can't be defined as Honto Yajuu.

Story line/Plot (9) - Honto Yajuu, or Like the Beast, is a yaoi manga published by Yamamoto Kotetsuko. It's about the love story between a policeman, Udea Tomoharu, and the yakuza (basically a mafia member in Japan), Gotouda Aki. Aki meets Udea during a weird event, and the ... next morning confesses his love straight away. The two begin a very different relationship, but wait, shouldn't a cop and a yakuza be enemies? Yes, and they don't care though. Which makes it all the more interesting. It's also very different like I stated in the first paragraph which draws the readers in more. It isn't that fall in love sort of story, which Kotetsuko is great at. The story is about being in love and all the weird quirks that follow their courtship. Aren't convinced yet? Really, well keep reading and I promise you'll be hooked.

Art (7) - Like any good TV show, or movie series, it takes time to begin to really understand, and do justice to the characters the creators have made. For the first few chapters of Honto Yajuu, Kotetsuko is getting in the hang of drawing our lovers. So the art isn't as good as it will become in later chapters. Speaking of later chapters, Kotetsuko is really getting them right, but like any good artist they're are faults. There are little awkward scenes here and there while some as just absolutely gorgeous. She also portrays Udea and Aki well for what the other thinks of them. Aki as an adorable and beautiful yakuza while Udea is the sexy and handsome cop. The sex scenes are good and pretty accurate (if you've read enough fanfiction and manga/anime to know). They aren't too explicit, but they are pretty revealing. So if you get offend by that please don't make it stop you from reading the manga. Another thing is don't skip over it since there are important bits in the sex scenes. Overall the art is well done, and the pages nicely put together.

Character (7) - Let's start off with Aki, our yakuza, and surprising the adorable little uke we all are in love with (you'll understand once you read it). Aki is a fierce, and bold guy since he off-the-bat confessed his love. Yet he can be the lovable and sweet uke. Though he's oblivious to this himself which makes him all the more when he yells at Udea for calling him cute. Our handsome cop, Udea is caring and just plain out friendly. with. everyone. Since he finds everyone interesting, he became a cop. This is one of the reasons he can deal with Aki and one of the things that can drive Aki crazy. Other than Aki in Udea's life, he's pretty normal. Yay! We get to talk about Senpai now! Senpai, going by the honorifics, is obviously older than Aki and Udea, yet he still lives in the police dorms without a girlfriend. He's one the few straight men in the series. Senpai gets along with Aki and Udea, but makes fun of both of them and thinks they look like a couple (he doesn't know they are though). He can be considered the comic relief character after things they a little heavy because of his teasing. The relationship between Aki and Udea is well played out and cutesy. Though the both of them can get jealous (Udea always has the better reasons though). That adds drama and a little bit of humor on the yakuza's part since he never has any good reasons for being jealous. Still reading this? Well, it's almost over, so you better finish this review up and go read Honto Yajuu!

Overall (8) - Overall, your review, would have to say the manga is just simply amazing. From the storyline to the characters, you'll really love it and it's something different! The art goes well with the characters and personifies them fairly while the story makes you just want to squeal and die and be a crazy fangirl. Aki, Udea, Senpai and the others are lovable from head to toe (also they'll all pretty nice on the eyes). The enjoyment you'll get from this manga is purely wonderful, you can't ask for much better. :)

I hope you read through all of this and make the wise decision of reading Honto Yajuu! Also please tell me if this was helpful or not (if it was my cocky attitude I'm sorry, it gives me confidence).

This might just be your reviewer, but they remind me of Steve (Udea) and Tony (Aki) from Marvel's Avengers. owo" I DON'T OWN ANYTHING I WAS DISCUSSING IN THIS REVIEW. ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTFUL OWNERS.

I’m honestly not even surprised that one of the highest rated Boys Love manga on MAL is just completely average.

As usual with BL, we don't get much introduction to the characters. Not even a real elaboration on to why the even fell in love. In fact, the first chapters sends us straight to a love confession. Oh, sure, we do get a supposed reason - "You've saved me". The saving being "you've caught a thief I was chasing and I’ve run away after". I've read the supposed "saving"" scene multiple time and sorry, I just can't see any saving or anything that would warrant falling ... in love. Well, I guess the manga just need to get the pairing going as quickly as possible, no reason to worry over such miniscule details as development. "I suggested we get to know each other first" – says the one who got confessed to. And few pages later dudes just start making out. Yup, totally natural development.

The story is mostly just daily life of them dating and having sex, the sex scenes being more explicit with newer chapters. There’s occasional run in with criminals thrown in to spicy things up, though it never has any actual relevance to the plot. Though to be fair, there's never really any plot to begin with. Expect the usual soap opera level of storyline.

That said, if you like BL manga, you will very likely enjoy this one. I’m sure that for those interested in gay pairings, this one is quite adorable, the roles between a yakuza and cop lover, and the contrast between a character being a member of yakuza but acting all flustered and such as a “maiden” in love. In general the manga’s what could be called wholesome, with none of the common cringy rapey stuff.

That said, if you’re not into BL, there’s nothing of interest in Honto Yajuu for you. All of the content is dependent on whether you’re interested in a gay couple being gay or not. If you don’t, it’s just plainly boring. Certainly don’t expect any grandly written story or unexpectedly great art. The high rating is there because almost nobody who doesn’t fall under the intended audience actually reads these.