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S Volume 1 (Yaoi Novel) | 
| Authors: Saki Aida, Chiharu Nara
Publisher: Digital Manga Publishing
List Price: $8.95
Buy New: $4.75
You Save: $4.20 (47%)
Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 319755
Media: Paperback
Pages: 250
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4 x 0.6
ISBN: 1569707065
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781569707067
ASIN: 1569707065
Publication Date: June 10, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: New and unread
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Product Description
Shiba is a detective in the fifth anti-organized crime division of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police, a.k.a. "Anti-Gang 5" specializing in handgun seizures. Shiba's secret weapon is "S" ("spy"), an informant who plays a key role in Shiba's information gathering. Shiba is training an informant who has been officially accepted into Shinjuku's Matsukura Group within the Budoha crime syndicate. One day, Shiba awakens to an anonymous phone call - "Watch out for your S!"
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| Customer Reviews:
I'll buy vol. 2 July 28, 2008
Ashley! O.o (Pennsylvania, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
At first, this story was a little hard to get into. In the beginning there is much discussion about how the police system works that Shiiba Masaki is involved with. It goes on for quite awhile and I put the book down 2-3 times until I got into the story. I am guessing that this is because this is the first volume of the series. At the end I was wishing I had a hold of the second volume. This book had the best translation that I read so far. So far the plot is good and I like both of the main characters.
A solid DMP yaoi novel release June 24, 2008
forest fairy
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
The story centers around a young police detective Shiiba and his undercover work in the Kabuki-cho district of Shinjuku, Tokyo, one of the largest red-light districts in Asia and a hub of criminal activity for Chinese and Japanese mafia.
Aida does a good job of giving the reader an overview of life in Kabuki-cho as well as an inkling of difficult relations between the Japanese police, organized crime, political tension between Japan and China and how it all affects the lives of ordinary people.
The pairing of Shiiba and Munechika is perhaps not as well done as it might have been, but since this is just the first third of the story, their relationship might later on become more believable. For those looking for hot bedroom scenes, there are plenty.
Chiharu Nara's illustrations are also nicely done.
The most surprising thing about this edition of S, at least for me, is the paper quality and the very good translation. DMP even included the first color page, making it look more like a standard Japanese yaoi novel release (I'm comparing it to my edition of Aida's Deadlock). The way a book looks might seem like a very insignificant thing to talk about, in comparison with its contents, but American readers are constantly short-changed when it comes to the printing quality of manga and Japanese light novel releases. For once, it's nice to see something done properly.
I hope that the subsequent two books will be done with the same level of care and I can't wait to see them on bookstore shelves.
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