Twittering Birds Never Fly
囀る鳥は羽ばたかない (Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai)
Kou Yoneda
A masochistic yakuza boss takes on a silent new bodyguard and breaks his own rule about getting involved with his men.
- Format
- manga
- Volumes
- about 7
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Track record More than 1.5 million copies in print in Japan as of February 2020. An anime film series began the same month. Source: Wikipedia
Our take
A masochistic yakuza boss and his silent bodyguard. Dark, violent and psychologically sharp, and often named among the best-written BL manga. For mature readers.
Synopsis
Yashiro runs his group with a sharp mind and a reputation for sleeping with anyone, except subordinates. Doumeki, a former police officer just out of prison, becomes his bodyguard and attendant. Loyalty and desire tangle as a gang war builds. For adult readers; it deals with childhood abuse. The English edition is several volumes behind the Japanese one.
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- Also adapted: Anime film.
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English publisher: Digital Manga (Juné).
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