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Don't Be Cruel: Akira Takanashi's Story

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Don't Be Cruel: Akira Takanashi's Story explores the complex romance of Maya's cousin Akira, a polite and proper college student. Haunted by a painful heartbreak from high school, Akira seeks purely physical comfort with Shimagawa, a charismatic med student and notorious playboy. As Akira tries to keep their relationship casual, Shimagawa longs for more, and complications arise when Akira's obsessive younger brother Jutta enters the scene, challenging their delicate balance.
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A Don’t Be Cruel spin-off story featuring Maya’s cousin Akira and his love affair with playboy med student Shimagawa!

In this Don’t Be Cruel spin-off story, Maya’s cousin Akira Takanashi is burned by love. To cope, he requires that his adult comfort come with no strings attached. But his lover, med student and notorious playboy Shimagawa, has other ideas.

Polite and proper college student Akira Takanashi has a secret. Back in high school, he fell deeply in love with his teacher but was spurned. Now, whenever the pain of his heartbreak gets to be too much, he finds comfort in the arms of med student and notorious playboy Shimagawa—very adult comfort. Shimagawa would gladly go out with him, but Akira’s past heartbreak means he insists on keeping things strictly physical—well, until his obsessed younger brother Jutta arrives to disrupt this comfortable routine!

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781421586991

Publisher: Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 April 2017

Country: United States

Imprint: SuBLime

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 181.0mm

Weight: 177g

Pages: 200

About the Author

This may be Yonezou Nekota’s first English-language manga, but she is already well-known for the Japanese release of her title Mousou Elektel (Elektel Delusion). A prolific doujinshi (independent comics) creator, she was born in Tokyo in August and is a Leo with an A blood type. You can find out more about Yonezou Nekota at her website, kmy.blog.jp, or her Twitter page, @yonekozoh.

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