Don't Be Cruel: 2-in-1 Edition, Vol. 1: 2-in-1 Edition

by Yonezou Nekota

Overview

When a playboy falls for a nerd, chemistry results in an explosive reaction!

Playboy Maya catches studious Nemugasa cheating on a test, and to ensure his silence, Maya blackmails Nemugasa into doing whatever he wants! But is this merely just a ruse so Maya can spend more alone time with him?

Playboy Maya catches studious Nemugasa cheating on a test and, to ensure his silence, blackmails him into doing whatever Maya wants. Twice a week, Nemugasa must go to Maya’s room for some steamy action, but as dense and oblivious as Nemugasa is, he fails to notice Maya’s true feelings for him. With college entrance exams around the corner, Nemugasa must focus on his studies, but Maya won’t stop distracting him, causing him to finally snap! Can a relationship built on blackmail ever become something more?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781421586977
Publisher:	SuBLime
Publication date:	06/14/2016
Series:	Don't Be Cruel Series , #1
Edition description:	Combined
Pages:	308
Sales rank:	52,000
Product dimensions:	4.90(w) x 7.50(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

This may be Yonezou Nekota’s first English-language manga, but she is already well-known for the Japanese release of her title Mousou Elektel (Elektel Delusion). A prolific doujinshi (independent comics) creator, she was born in Tokyo in August and is a Leo with an A blood type. You can find out more about Yonezou Nekota on her Twitter at @yonekozoh.

Editorial Reviews

12/05/2016
Caught cheating on a test, bookish Nemugasa is blackmailed by playboy Maya into twice-weekly sexual encounters. What at first seems to be the lowest form of bullying is soon revealed to be a complex web of the blackmailer being unable to express his true feelings for his victim. Nekota’s veritable catalog of yaoi tropes is a twisted character study of two unlikable protagonists whose “romance” fails to engage the reader because the characters are so repellent. The would-be provocative narrative is further undone by artwork that’s by the numbers aside from the admittedly creative ways in which the sexually explicit content is presented. The finished product is an unsatisfying work whose sole reward for the reader is that it eventually comes to an end. (June)

Publishers Weekly