 | | ▪ | RELEASED BY: | | YAOI PRESS | | | ▪ | AUTHOR / ART: | | YAMILA ABRAHAM / LE PERUGGINE | | | ▪ | FORMAT: | | ENGLISH / B&W | | | ▪ | PAGES: | | 144 | | | ▪ | RATING: | | MA | | | ▪ | RELEASE DATE: | | 06/20/2007 | | | ▪ | REVIEW DATE: | | 09/29/2008 | | | ▪ | REVIEWED BY: | | SANDRA SCHOLES |
While Hakuin is still thinking of marrying Kyoko the shrine maiden after saying to Fuyu she was the one that took care of them when bleak times came to the land. She looked after everyone and worked hard for the monastery to which she was assigned to, and harder times are ahead for everyone now, and Fuyu starts to think he may be losing Hakuin to this woman though he is starting to have great feelings for the monk, even after what happened before. Once he mentions they are a couple of lovers, and Hakuin denies it, he wonders if they will ever be as close as he wants him to as Hakuin does not yet realise the effect his presence is having on him when he is around. They have to find the healer in order to help Kyoko come back to her normal self after her ordeal before where she lost the sight in her eye, but finding one such person around can be hard in such perilous times. Fuyu does his best to call on one in his usual tactless way, but finds out more than he planned as the healer Zengosaku who lives not far away from where they have come to, only deals with the nobility, rather than monks and demons as they had hoped. Fuyu and Hakuin reach the castle over the way and find the nobles there, and Zengosaku refusing to heal them as he has to concentrate all his efforts on prince Noboro's body if he is to survive to see another day. It is only when the healer sees Fuyu and finds he is a demon that he decides he wants the young prince to see what he can do assuming he is a magic user - and in return he will heal the woman, and let them stay a while and rest in the meantime. Fuyu is insulted that he thinks he is to act no more than a mere entertainer who is supposed to excite the prince as well as amuse him, but this is the bartering he will have to come to terms with if Hakuin is to get his way, and have his future wife healed. But as Fuyu has been slowly healed of his lascivious nature, Hakuin develops an erotic nature of his own. Artistically speaking, Winter Demon has changed considerably from the first helping readers got with the previous volume, and now the daring duo Hakuin and Fuyu have taken a route they both might regret in time. The sensuality is still as great as ever, Fuyu having the air of beauty, while Hakuin becomes a sexual siren of a male in more ways than one to make the winter demon notice him more. In the first volume Fuyu seemed to be a completely different demon, dangerous, lustful and cruel, but as time has gone on his attitude has completely changed for the better, and now it remains to be seen whether or not Hakuin will accept him as his lover after all that has happened.
IN SUMMARY:
Winter Demon could only be described as sensual, gripping and tense in this second volume. |
