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Our Kingdom, Volume 1 | 
| Author: Naduki Koujima
Publisher: Digital Manga Publishing
List Price: $12.95
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 138447
Media: Comic
Pages: 184
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 156970936X
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5952
EAN: 9781569709368
ASIN: 156970936X
Publication Date: December 28, 2005
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Product Description
Upon the death of his grandmother, country boy Akira Nonaka is taken in by the immensely wealthy and powerful Takatou family. To this simple boy's surprise, he is told of his candidacy to become heir of the Takatou name. However, the princely and handsome Rei, is also a likely contender. Far from being competitive, Rei shows no interest in the prospect of inheritance, and instead takes an immediate liking to Akira. Rei's aggressive showings of affection bewilder the naive country boy, until Akira begins to discover a budding attraction towards Rei within himself.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
 their kingdom February 6, 2008
Tara R. Schueller (minnesota)
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! ^^
Review Our Kingdom January 10, 2007
A. Nelson
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Our Kingdom Volume 1 is a fantastic book and the beginning of a great 4 part series. I own all 4 volumes and I not only adored them the first time I read them, but more importantly enjoyed reading them again later. The art is exciting with great details and interesting setting, which include a Japanese palace on the top of a skyscraper. The main characters are cute and endearing, as are the support characters. The plot is interesting, angsty, and has multiple hot situations. While there is nothing really graphic displayed, the artist makes great use of character expression and shadowing to convey what action is occurring. The great comic backdrop that characterizes both manga and anime is quite prevalent and adds a wonderful spice to the series. There is such life and activity in the work that you can almost see it playing out on a TV screen as an anime. If your into a sweet and charming Yaoi title this series is for you.
 Cool Grandma, Creepy "Romance" October 28, 2006
Karnation (Queens, NY USA)
6 out of 12 found this review helpful
The matriarch of a filthy rich Old Family takes in her orphaned grandson Akira, and tells him that he and his unworthy cousin must compete to be the heirs of the family business. When our plucky hero tells Snooty-sama what she can do with her fortune, this wins him the admiration of his cousin, who becomes more interested in being friends than in the fortune. So far, so good!
Here is where the hugely promising story suddenly goes splat. For the cousin loses no time in revealing himself to be a obsessive and dangerous borderline-psychopath, whose idea of "love" amounts to domination and possessiveness enforced by abuse! Akira's self-respect and self-assertion suddenly go up in smoke, and we have to simply watch and endure as this once-promising kid happily submits to his new role as uke-in-training. Ugh!
OUR KINGDOM would make the beginnings of a decent Gothic Horror of the "Innocent Ingenue Trapped In Dark House With Creepy Family" genre if the author would only let the hero stand up for himself, but this does not look likely.
As it is: Depressing, a horribly dangerous influence on any young kids or dumb adults who might read it, and a sad waste of a very good idea and a very bad grandmother.
SLIGHTLY SPOILERY PS REGARDING CONTENT: Descriptions by other reviewers of the sexual content may be misleading. True, there is no sexual intercourse or nudity or even extended smooching in this volume, but what limited sexual contact does occur takes the form of 1) an attempted rape which is regarded with the same degree of moral seriousness as a mean prank, and 2) some creepy acts of sexual domination on the part of Akira's "loving" cousin towards Akira. This is not the innocent coming-of-age romance it is sometimes made out to be.
This is really cool July 19, 2006
L. M. almendarez (tx)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
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.
Love it April 6, 2006
K. Senh (USA)
2 out of 7 found this review helpful
Naduki Koujima does it again with a great series. It never quite reaches hardcore yaoi, but that sho-ai-ness and the storyline is a great attention-getter. A great buy.
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