Caste Heaven, Vol. 1 (Yaoi Manga)

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Sherman, Jennifer (March 10, 2020). "North American Anime, Manga Releases, March 8–14". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on April 11, 2020 . Retrieved April 10, 2020. School is hard enough as it is, but when students are forced to play a cutthroat game to determine their social ranks—and subsequent treatment—all bets are off. After that, it’s Azusa’s turn. The teacher asks him why he failed the test (as he didn’t score any points) and at this rate he’s in danger of flunking out. Azusa nonchalantly replies that he’s not interested in graduating from college. The teacher: “Society is not a piece of cake as you think” and Azusa: “I’d rather die than become an empty person who depends on a title. I won’t rely on anyone. I’ll live only on my own.“ Azusa has no longer hope of relying on anyone, not even on something like a degree because he has completely withdrawn, he doesn’t want anyone’s help to move forward. The teacher tells him to choose at least one of the supplementary classes, for the sake of his parents.

Libre (in Japanese). April 10, 2020. Archived from the original on April 11, 2020 . Retrieved April 10, 2020– via PR Times. It has some good plot twists and a pretty solid environment that the mangaka create so that she could develop even more plot twists in the future. Which as a reader we appreciate. Deep as always, Ogawa’s story she wrote for these two cuts deep and somewhat personal. These two may not have known each other well, but they were still just what the other needed, at least a part of each other was. Even after breaking up, their love continues to burn fiercely for each other. I know that Tatsumi welcomes Senzaki’s violence and anger, because as he’d stated before, he knows everything Senzaki gives is an act of his love. Everything. And Tatsumi wants nothing more than for someone to love him at his worst, his best, his medium. I had waited a whole freaking year for this new volume of Caste Heaven damn it and it's just as chilling, scandalous and freaking crazy as the first two volumes! Azusa goes from being King to the Joker and all hell breaks loose. Then we see behind the facade, that his life is actually not the special, amazing thing everyone assumes. His mother is a hooker, and when Karino threatens him into being his victim/lover/bitch, it breaks a part of Azusa that swore he would never become his mother.

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so... I don't even know where to start with this atrocity. it takes place in a really messed up high school that allows rape and bulling. the students are all brain washed into thinking this is ok as well. Ressler, Karen (June 14, 2017). "Japanese Comic Ranking, June 5–11". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on August 13, 2020 . Retrieved April 10, 2020.

Mateo, Alex (August 1, 2019). "SuBLime Licenses Given, Secret XXX, Therapy Game, Liquor & Cigarettes Boys-Love Manga". Anime News Network. Archived from the original on April 16, 2020 . Retrieved April 10, 2020. To preface my situation: I randomly started reading this because the synopsis sounds SUPER rad and interesting, but little did I know that this is a yaoi. I don't really enjoy reading or watching that kind of stuff. I enjoyed the Sunstone Vol. 1 series a lot (which is lesbian BDSM), but something about yaoi and yuri has just never really jived with my tastes. This wasn't an exception. However, the yaoi was NOT the main problem of the book. Again we are in this highschool which has a strange secret hierarchy game going on among students, but this time the story focus on a side pairing instead of the protagonists (who are in a master/plaything relationship in this hierarchy game). In conlusion, give it a chance, is good, it is funny, it is interesting and worth binge reading. But please, don't take it so seriously, it is just a drawing of two man banging each other.Caste Heaven is written and illustrated by Chise Ogawa, the yaoi pseudonym of Shigeyoshi Takagi. [6] It was serialized in monthly manga magazine Magazine Be × Boy from March 2014 to late 2021. [1] The chapters were later released in 8 bound volumes by Libre under the BBC DX imprint. there are two main characters in this manga the first on is the previous king (I forgot his name so imma call him 1) and the previous target (forgot his name as well so has 2) Insbesondere werden hier im ersten Ansatz die Konstellationen Azusa und Karino sowie Kuze und Kusakabe beäugt. Der Rest der Klasse/n wird erst einmal nur am Rande dargestellt. Allerdings spielen diese eine tragende Randrolle, weil sie der Spielball des jeweiligen Kings sind. Because the story is so dark and twisted and no one says otherwise inside of it, it forces you to be that much emotionally involved. in the top 10. I couldn't find a reason. Yes, towards the end, there is humor and the characters fit each other in their own weird way...But still, that's no excuse to ignore RAPE!

This is by far the worst manga I've ever read and I cannot understand how this manga has such a high rating! Yaoi is not typically my thing but I do read a few. Caste Heaven I say is unique from Yaoi's I've read before and it is definitely not for the faint heart. It's no sunshine and rainbows but instead twisted, yet it's rather interesting. Before reading the manga, better be sure your mind is ready and open. Caste Heaven is appallingly cruel and tasteless. It could have been an interesting read about social hierarchy at school and bullying, but any hint of a good story this might have possessed was drowned out in the way it is delivered. This takes place in a high school where all students participate in a caste game: everyone is assigned a card that marks their social status and the lower you are the more you get bullied. Bullying, though, is an understatement - there are multiple rape scenes per chapter within the first volume alone.In all honestly, the concept for this manga is actually pretty interesting. A caste system based upon popularity could actually be done very well. The first chapter was really good, like, REALLY GOOD. Karino grabs him by the hair and asks “Are you ignoring me or what? Don’t you understand unless I tell you?”. Azusa: “If you wanna do it so badly then go ask Eno!! After all, you’re well-matched.”. Karino surprised “Hah? What’s that dude got to do with it?”. Azusa replies “If you get hit by maggots, you’re gonna rot, you know. I’m saying that maggots always end up mating together……like at the cultural festival”. Karino doesn’t understand and says “Are you still thinking about that cultural festival stuff? Something worthless”. Azusa lowers his head. “I knew it. It’s just a way to kill time for you. I shouldn’t have believed in you from the start.”

The characters are outstanding and completely enveloping the story as they are what brings it to a 10.

I read two of Ms. Ogawa's other yaoi manga and enjoyed both of them, so this time in Caste Heaven, Ms. Ogawa goes full-on with the domination & submission theme, love hate relationship, humiliation and power game, what more can I ask for? This was a really uncomfortable read for me, and it's meant to be. Our story follows class 2-1 as they play the Caste Game. In this game the whole class has to find cards that have been scattered around the school. Whoever gets the "King" gets to do whatever they want to the person who is "The Target". Our main character Azusa was "King" in the previous round, but now the tables have turned and he gets the role of "The Target".