is a Japanese
manga
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written and illustrated by
Tokiya Shimazaki. It is licensed in North America by
801 Media
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, which released the five volumes between June 2007 and June 2008.
Reception
Jason Thompson compared ''Love is Like a Hurricane'' to ''
World's End'' for the appendix to ''
Manga: The Complete Guide'', calling the former a "frivolous “
LOL
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rape” yaoi story". Hannah Santiago later said of the manga that it had "plenty of sex, if you don’t need plot or emotion to add context to the scenes". Danielle Van Gorder, writing for Mania Entertainment, describes the first volume as "BL fluff", despite the non-consensual sex set-up, and appreciated the greater depth of characterisation in the second volume. Van Gorder felt that the third volume was "an attempt to play up to one fetish after another", and that the series as a whole felt like a "parody of the BL genre". Leroy Douresseaux felt that the many sex scenes of ''Love is Like a Hurricane'' was "something worth celebrating", although that as a high school story, the manga was "silly and inconsequential". Van Gorder felt that by the fifth and final volume, the formula of the series "was starting to run out of steam". Leroy Douresseaux felt that the fifth volume "telegraphed its ending" and was not as lively as the fourth volume.
Love is Like a Hurricane 5
Comicbookbin.com. Retrieved on 2011-10-20.
References
External links
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2001 manga
Yaoi anime and manga
Digital Manga Publishing titles