Honey Senior, Darling Junior Vol: 1
Chifumi Ochi
Publisher: Net Comics
ISBN: 10:1600091385
Release Date: Out now!
Reviewed By: Sandra Scholes
Tsuyoshi asks his friend out to go on a trip away from school and tennis for the weekend and take in the sights and sounds of a remote place where they can enjoy themselves away from all the problems they have had. They would be celebrating their success in the graduation tournaments, and though they have little in the way of money, they both have enough to be able to check into a hotel.
The problem is, when they finally get there, they discover several hotels, Swan, Diamond and Love Hunter, but all of them require the two of them to be lovers when they book a room.
Hikaru,though thinks it is an excellent idea that they pretend to be a gay couple just to get a room - his point he uses to convince him is that they would be better off here than sleeping on the street. Tsuyoshi, though daunted decides to check in with him, but cannot believe himself for checking into a love hotel with another male. While they wonder around the new place, coming to their room, they find how great a place it is - everything wonderfully furnished, and Tsuyoshi first notices, there are mirrors all over the room so they can watch what they are doing. Hikaru gets used to his surroundings along with Tsuyoshi, yet his friend cannot understand why he wants to hug and stroke him all the time, though there is something deep and hidden within him he wants to set free, and this could be the perfect time for him to tell Tsuyoshi how he really feels.
This story is the first one of four in this volume and they all tell a tale of first love and how it all happens for the young couples mentioned. Chikato and Yo-o are runners, but when Chikato gets a leg injury and cannot run any more, Yo-o looks after him through all the emotional trauma and tears as well as the love they inevitably feel later on. Sako is the school outcast, considered weird by the class he is in and the rest of the school, he unusually is befriended by Niwa a fellow student who is the only one who tries to understand why he is the male he is. And lastly, Kei returns home to visit Ushio where he is welcomed with opened arms as Ushio has been spending his lonely life waiting for his cousin to see him.
Chifumi Ochi has given plenty of love treatment to these separate stories of love and the first blossoming of this while they are young. Though it will be noticed that love is not the trigger of the stories themselves, as there is a more innocent friendship that is first forged in or out of a school situation between the two characters in any given story.
Verdict: Bewitching, sultry and beguiling - Chifumi's artwork is truly great in every way.
Originally published by Active Anime.
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