Our Kingdom Volume 1 (Yaoi)

Sweet and fun are the first words that come to mind when thinking of the 1st volume of Our Kingdom-at this point I've read all 5 volumes and wait anxiously for the 6th volume due out in early 09. The first volume introduces you to the characters and the short lived unrequited love between Akira and Rei. I love the fact that it's the sexy hunk(Rei)who's the aggressor and the nerd-now to be fair Akira is cute too, but Rei is GORGEOUS while Akira is cute. The feel of the whole script is different, in the beginning it's sort of incorrect to call it yaoi but the latter volumes more than make up for the start. I loved the quick pace of the book, all the space seems to be well used-it doesn't lag anywhere-it's truly a page turner. I'm very hard to please when it comes to a good read, but this book fits the bill, it's the right mixture of beautiful drawings, intersting prose and heart stopping intensity-it's like ice cream, when you're done the experience was both sweet and fun and very hard to describe.

WOW! SUPER GREAT! sooo funny and original! Akira and Rei forever! love triangles, angst, rich heirs to majior companies, farmboys, and a house to get lost in??!!! ten thumbs up! you'll laugh so hard when you read it! ^^

this is where akira and rei first meet and how rei already like akira just when he first meet him.they get really close more and more but there are people who don't want them to stay together.so if you want a yaoi with conflict and love then this is the book for you.

Besides Only the Ring Finger Knows, in my opinion (atm) this is one of the other best Manga DMP have released. It is beautifully written, the art is gorgeous and the translation is tops. It's defiantly one of the best Manga I have read, and DMP isn't going for well-known titles and seems to more about "Quantity over Quality" so just beware of that and some of their titles, quiet like Alone in My King's Harem. All the boys in that Manga look like 8-year-old girls. Our Kingdom stars Akira and Rei and their budding relationship, it is a comedy romance that will make any Yaoi Fan swoon. It's almost like Fake in a way but a lot cuter. In this volume the only `moves' we see are a grope and a kiss between the boys which is cute because their only fifteen and just exploring their curiosity during puberty. Rei and Akira are two boys who are competing to become the heirs to the head of the family and neither boy wants to inherit it and so they become close. Rei and Akira are cousins, not brothers either. Any Yaoi Fan should pick this title up because it's so beautiful to read.

This is my first review ever (so bare with me), but this is the first book that ever compelled me to write one. I'm a big Yaoi fan and I usually like the harder yaoi stuff. But, this story and the characters are so great I never cared if it got dirty or not. It's basically a rich boy poor boy story (sorta like selfish love but better) with a interesting jelousy twist. It might seem pretty basic for yaoi but I still found it very interesting. I can't wait for volume 2.