CAMERA CAMERA CAMERA 2
JUNE MANGA/DMP BOOKS
CARTOONIST: Kazura Matsumoto
TRANSLATION: Sachiko Sato
LETTERS: Samantha Yamanaka
ISBN: 978-1-56970-758-6; paperback w/dust jacket (February 26, 2008)
208pp, B&W, $12.95 U.S.
Drama/Romance; Rated “YA” for “Young Adults 16+”
Camera Camera Camera is a boys' love/yaoi manga series from mangaka, Kazura Matsumoto. It was originally serialized from February 2002 to February 2003 in Dear+, the boys' love manga magazine published by Shinsokan, the Japanese publishing company. Boys' love (or BL) manga is a manga genre that depicts amorous situations between male romantic leads and is typically created for a female audience. Yaoi manga is a BL subset that features explicit depictions of sex between male characters. The Camera Camera Camera series is specifically yaoi manga.
Camera Camera Camera focuses on Akira Togawa. He may be an average high school student, but he is in love with his older stepbrother, Satoru. Make that was. A scruffy photographer named Kaoru Nakahara came into Akira’s life when he began work on a campus photography project. Kaoru fell head over heels in love with Akira, and he wouldn’t take even Akira’s loudest “No!” for an answer, but Akira eventually fell in love with Kaoru, too.
As Camera Camera Camera, Vol. 2 opens, Akira gets a shocking phone call about Satoru, but that’s not his only problem. Akira also finds himself fighting a diminutive, 16-year-old, male model named Daisuke Kotoko for Kaoru’s attention. Meanwhile, a mystery woman comes back into Kaoru’s life, and Akira may finally learn why Kaoru doesn’t like to take photographs of people.
THE LOWDOWN: The drama continues as the Boys’ Love (BL) drama, Camera Camera Camera, moves steadily, but with much commotion, towards its conclusion. Creator Kazura Matsumoto presents such well-developed characters, and while she doesn’t offer much psychological insight into them, she does connect them through love and obligation. All that passion, concern, duty and commitment make for tasty conflict, jealousy, and rivalries, but it’s all smooth and entertaining rather than being dark and tiresome. Matsumoto is an all around good artist, but her stylish facial drawings immediately capture attention. It is funny; however, that her drawing style made Akira’s face look like the mug Michael Jackson is currently sporting.
Camera Camera Camera quality BL manga. It is also a Young Adult drama that may appeal to teen BL fans as much, if not more, than older readers.
I READS YOU REVIEW: Fans of Camera Camera Camera 1 will want to read Camera Camera Camera 2.
B+
★★★½ out of 4 stars
Reviewed by Leroy Douresseaux a.k.a. "I Reads You"
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