Deux’s Sizzling Yaoi Lineup Announced For The First Half of 2008!
Date: 12-Dec-2007
Torrance, California (December 12, 2007) – Contributing to an impending explosion of raging hormones and forbidden delights, Deux announces the first nine releases from its ambitious yaoi manga lineup for 2008.
Why is everyone so obsessed with yaoi? Well, what girl wouldn’t be? You have hot, sexy guys persuing other hot, sexy guys. Throw in some steamy sex, some angst or comedy and some interesting storylines and you’ve got a ticking time bomb just waiting to explode!
JANUARY RELEASES:
Title: Yakuza in Love • Volume 1
Author: Shiuko Kano
Description: Shiuko Kano’s sexy gangster comedy series featuring the “Flower Gang” begins! Yakuza in Love contains Kano-sensei’s trademark quirky humor and hot sex scenes. The series revolves around wannabe gangster Ichimura who lives life on the edge as the tough-as-nails promising young star of the yakuza world...or not. Living according to his grandfather’s words of wisdom that “Men are made of lies,” Ichimura survives each day in the gangster world by the skin of his teeth with nothing but an intimidating scar, mediocre acting skills and just pure dumb luck. That is…until he discovers what it truly means to be a man in the form of the charismatic gangster Sakiya. Will Ichimura finally be able to shed his manly charade and become a “real man”?!
FEBRUARY RELEASES:
Title: Tough Love Baby
Author: Shiuko Kano
Description: Another hot, passionate, yet comedic work by Kano-sensei—Tough Love Baby, which, as the title suggestively implies, is based on the concept that “Tough Guys Need Love Too.” Numerous slapstick comedic situations and antics erupt between three guys who are obsessed with their own machismo, but who are also trying to get into each other’s pants!
Title: I Shall Never Return • Volume 2
Author: Kazuna Uchida
Description: Kazuna Uchida’s early yaoi masterpiece continues. In volume two, we see further developments in the complicated, obsessive relationship between Ritsuro and Ken.
MARCH RELEASE:
Title: Kiss all the Boys • Volume 1
Author: Shiuko Kano
Description: Tetsuo Atarashi – Age 32. Occupation: porn comic writer. Marital Status: single, but he has a kid due to the folly of youth. Sexual Potency: currently…none. Given such circumstances, it seems only natural that all he wants is a kiss with enough “potency” to get him back to his “A-Game.” Unfortunately, life deals a strange hand when his estranged and “gay” son Haruka shows up! Then again, maybe someone is trying to tell him that if a kiss from the “opposite” sex can’t cure him of his impotency, perhaps a kiss pumped with raging testosterone can take him down?! Kiss All the Boys is a three-volume series that takes slapstick comedy and raging hormones to the “opposite” extreme.
APRIL RELEASES:
Title: Seduce Me After the Show
Author: Est Em
Description: Seduce Me After the Show contains five short stories which take place in the artistic worlds of dance, painting and music, the overall theme being a dichotomy of hope and despair as well as passion and anguish. In the title story, devastated by the death of his world famous dancer mother, Theo Galland abandons his own dancing career to become a Hollywood actor and meets the famous Hollywood actor Daren Ferguson. What should have been a joking kiss shared between them takes a sudden turn, however, when Daren asks “So what comes next?” Theo answers “That depends on the scenario.” As lustful passions boil over, will Theo be able to regain the fire that he once possessed and return to the dancing world?
Title: Say Please
Author: Miyamoto Kano
Description: Sakura first meets Ryouichi at a male brothel and buys him for the night. As their intended one night stand ends up becoming a somewhat stable monetary based relationship, feelings start to change. Can these two awkward people garner the courage to admit that their true feelings run deeper than merely sex and money? Also included is a bonus story about a tough, but troubled, boy named Ryuu and an American that takes an interest in him.
MAY RELEASE:
Title: Yakuza in Love • Volume 2
Author: Shiuko Kano
Description: Further exploits of the “Gangsters of Love!”
JUNE RELEASES:
Title: I Shall Never Return • Volume 3
Author: Kazuna Uchida
Description: In volume three, we see more passionate developments in the complicated, obsessive relationship between Ritsuro and Ken.
Title: Tomcats
Author: Mashiro Minamino
Description: A very sweet and cute comedy series, also known as Tenshi no Jikan. Pint-sized human cats, shady “men in black,” cat gods and more! Mao is just your typical disillusioned young man who works as a waiter in a pizza joint. But all of that changes when shady “men in black” suddenly start showing up at his workplace and when he runs into an old friend named Sora…who also happens to be a pint-sized cat in human form. From there, Mao eventually finds himself escaping to the countryside with a party consisting of a human named Tora who doesn’t talk, but can be understood by others perfectly for some strange reason and pint-sized cat people, one of them being a small and cute cat-boy named Koyuki who, with a few pats on the ground, can make all sorts of things pop out like Mary Poppins with her magic bag! The wacky world of Tomcats, makes a refreshing read with its uniqueness and comedic delights!
About Deux
Deux Press (established in 2007) is the yaoi manga imprint of Aurora Publishing, Inc. With a focus on releasing exemplary yaoi titles from classics to contemporary, Deux shows manga fans what makes yaoi the popular phenomenon that it is today and leads them to a realm “Where Fantasy Becomes Obsession.”