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I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone (Yaoi) (Shameless) | 
| Author: Shiuko Kano
Publisher: 801 Media, Inc.
List Price: $15.95
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Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 138849
Media: Paperback
Pages: 210
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 1934129127
Dewey Decimal Number: 741
EAN: 9781934129128
ASIN: 1934129127
Publication Date: December 5, 2007
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Product Description
Sakai Kazuya is a 23-year-old man in love. Unfortunately, the object of his affection is a lovely woman only interested in well educated men. Sakai never finished high school and has been living off of his brawn, not his brains. So he enlists the help of her younger brother, Ezumi Masashi, to help him pass the high school entrance exam, his first step toward to becoming a well-educated man. Ezumi is happy to help, but his services come with a very steep fee. And, Ezumi isn't interested in money, he has his sights on some of Sakai's other assets...
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
Love the Art <3 July 29, 2008
Lord RenZie-Red Von TumAngGyerah (USA)
First of all the graphic art was so in detail and of course Shiuko uses the same characters from her other Graphic Novel manga. as for the story, i don't know i didn't like the story that much it was a worth buying to add on ur Yaoi Collections.
 oh Boy July 17, 2008
animelover (SM)
Well this is my third title from Shiuko Kano and this one is definitely on the hard core .Everytime this two meet, it is a f*** fest, maybe the mangaka was pressured to have more s** in this title.
Character development wise and story not that strong compared to other titles ie Kiss all the boys and Yakuza in Love.
I like the illustration style but The cover is the weakness.
Step Right On Up June 4, 2008
Jami (Thistown)
Maybe I'm Your Steppin' Stone (Yaoi)
The younger seme (Ezumi Masashi) and older uke (Sakai Kazuya) is a concept I've recently gotten behind....that is thanks to this manga. Reading the reviews, you are well aware of the plotline, but the chemistry between the characters is most important to note. And let me tell you, there is CHEMISTRY!
The artwork is great, especially the details given to the eyes and lips. During those most intimate moments, it is most intense. I think everyone will let out a squeal during the tryst between Masashi and Kazuya when Masashi drives Kazuya so wild that he's literally biting the sheets. *WHEW!* Yes, moments like these make me love this manga ever so much.
But, smut alone doesn't make this manga top notch. The storyline is great and it grabs your interest. You really care about the characters and root for them to have a happy ending. I'm looking forward to the spin-off manga, unfortunately not about these characters, "Maybe I'm Your Steppin Stone".
My only problem is that the link to digicomic.net is no longer operational, that is a let down once you read the Club Dandy section.
Very Hard Yaoi April 23, 2008
Jem (MD, USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Kazuya wants to impress a girl by taking the high school entrance exam. So he turns to her younger brother Masashi to help tutor him. But Mashashi wants Kazuya for himself and demands sex as payment for the lessons!
When 801 Media announced they would publish hard yaoi, I was skeptical. I only consider it hard yaoi if the sex is graphically rendered (and cones of light had best not be anywhere in the book!). 801 has delivered exactly what they said they would. This manga is Hard yaoi with a capital H! There is hot sex right from the very beginning. I loved Ayano Yamane's Finder series, which was very graphic, but this takes explicit yaoi to a new level. The mangaka goes beyond simple intercourse and depicts sexual acts that I have only read in gay romance. These two even get it on in the bathroom at a movie theatre! Fortunately, the art is very well done. The people are proportioned correctly, there is shading and detail throughout and the men look like men. Everything a hard yaoi fan could want. So, why only 4 stars? The translation.
I had a difficult time in a lot of panels figuring out which man was saying what. There is a LOT of angst in the story, from both boys, and this lack of clear dialog was frustrating at times. The first "chapter" of the story, the boys have sex and it appears just casual on Kazuya's part. But, in the second chapter he is suddenly the reluctant uke, refusing intercourse. I wasn't sure at first if the second chapter was supposed to be a flashback. His resistance continues for another chapter or so before it becomes clear both boys are in love with one another. The story is a very good romance. Masashi is a seme who knows what he wants, but this is still his first relationship and "first time." This is Kazuya's first time with a man, and he already has self-confidence issues because of his lack of education. This naturally leads to tension and more hot sex. When Kazuya's motivations for taking the test are revealed, readers get a great conclusion to a sweet romance.
Overall, I highly recommend this yaoi. The translation by 801 leaves a little to be desired, but it didn't ruin my enjoyment of the book. I will certainly look for more by the mangaka.
I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone by Shiuko Kano March 18, 2008
Elisa Rolle (Italy)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Sakai has a passion for well endowed women, really if you look at them they border on the fat type, but everyone has his taste... And when he falls in love for Izumi's sister, it's with his great regret that he is informed that the girl only dated well cultured men, and Sakai is a drop out from school who works as construction worker. But Izumi makes a bargaign with him: he will help Sakai to pass the test for college's admittance and Sakai in exchange will have sex with Izumi.
Even if Izumi has never had before a gay relationship, he is very willing to go on with the bargain: it's only sex, isn't it? But when he realizes that maybe he is more involved of what he thought, he chickens out and tries to break with Izumi. But Izumi is not willing to let go.
In comparison to other Shiuko Kano's manga I have read, this one is very explicit: it's like, since the relationship started as a pure sex thing, that the drawning needs to be more explicit and less romantic. And also the style is a pretty more "comic" and less "realistic". I like a lot Izumi's looks, and a little less Sakai's. Most of the time Sakai is too extreme, but sometime I can see an almost naivee's looks in him.
A manga very explicit which manages to be also funny and lighthearted.
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