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40 pages, black and white with full color cover.
R- to X-rated. Boysex; explicit detail in 1 of 2 stories.
==Thanks to aruarian_dancer for translation.
Clarification from aruarian_dancer: "This doujinshi is by two artists from two different circles.
First story is by Tokisawa Ichiichi of "Cathexis" circle, while the second one is by Akiba of "Akatsuki" circle.
Front cover art by Akiba and back cover art by Tokisawa."
Info:
==Most profound thanks to aruarian_dancer for translation.
By NUMBERS (creators of the non-yaoi "Honno", see review on All Ages Doujinshi page), 2005-05-29. A must-have.
My honest apologies to anyone who was as misled by my ignorance as I was.
Web site: Jet Monster.
22 pages, black and white with B/W cardstock cover.
==Many thanks to ryu_kk009 for translation.
The art
is simple, angular linework that gets the job done without fuss. It's sometimes working so hard to be discreet that it's
not quite clear whose hands are where (and some poses are drawn a bit awkwardly) but one can get the idea. There's lots of
kissing too, if that's something you like to look at. =)
An interesting little doujin for those who like some psychodrama with their yaoi. Two stars.
ryu_kk009 extrapolates: "Umm...well, when Jin's trying to recall how it happened that he's under Mugen at the moment,
he has these tiny flashbacks, most particularly on 4th, 11th, and 12th pages. It's implied that Jin's Master trained him
to pleasure him, and to enjoy while at it. So when it starts to feel good with Mugen, Jin sort of freezes for a moment.
But then again, it's Mugen; it's totally different, so the moment smoothes out. Jin, however, is not ready to admit it
just yet. To keep his self-image (which I suspect he had to rebuild after being broken, although killing the Master
himself obviously [should/would] have helped, according to Moriko-san) intact, Jin pretends to have no memory
of the night before."]
Contact info: AQUARIUM
==I thank aruarian_dancer for the translation.
Not as tense as their first one above, artwork just as fine-line and spare, overall effective.
Contact info: AQUARIUM
==Many, many thanks to champloo4u and aruarian_dancer for translations.
By Marita Yuzo/AM7:30 (Jet Jesso), who also did the non-yaoi "Beyond My Grasp"; see review on All Ages Doujinshi page.
56 pages, black and white with gloss full-color cover.
==Many, many thanks to ryu_kk099 for the translations.
Mugen confesses his longing to heal Jin and even his love for him in a remarkable inner monologue:
. . and there's
an extended J/M sex vignette, with simple, stylized art and an odd, quiet intensity: Jin in turn considers
how they became lovers, how it's become possible for him to accept Mugen inside him even though his body
"was not made to take him in", and how Mugen's physical roughness and emotional tenderness (he heard that little
"love you" at the end of M's monologue) combine to give him pleasure even though he feels as if his body and
heart are breaking into pieces.
In the final sequence (this is a long one, yes), ryu_kk099 comments,
"Basically, this story is the typical dojinshi
melodrama where one character (here it's Jin, but I've seen it with Rukawa, Wakashimazu, Riki,
etc.--I guess original BL
stories often do this, too) who's quite accommodating with the physical aspect of (non)relationship,
can't quite accept the
emotional attachment that gradually grows between [him and] his partner. So here, Jin is okay with sleeping with Mugen, but when
Mugen expresses his deeper feelings for Jin (the 'love you' part that's been repeatedly mentioned), Jin can't,
won't listen to him. Not to mention, J cannot admit that he himself might return some of that feeling.
(The writer's interpretation of J is that he never knew love, never has been loved, and thus, cannot grasp what love
is even when it bites him in the behind--which is quite likely to be literal with M, I assume.)"]
Website: [S]es [Yenki Biral/Enki Bilal/Biraru]
16 pages, black and white with two-color cardstock cover.
Translation by "game over or continue" scanlation group, info from mayaserana.
The plot is straightforward. Jin and Fuu are eating in a restaurant; through the door they see Mugen race by, without his sword, gripping
a fish in his teeth, and pursued by a gang of yelling, armed men (they're yelling that he cut-and-ran without paying for his meal).
Fuu sends Jin off in search of him.
We see Mugen captured, surrounded, sitting on the floor with tied hands (he thinks angrily that he was only caught because hunger has made him too weak to fight).
One of the thugs draws a knife and cuts open Mugen's shirt ("Our guest's stomach is empty, let's fill him up"), and for the next four pages he's subjected to the most
horrifyingly detailed and graphic gang rape/sexual assault I've ever seen in fan art. (I don't shock all that easily, but this did it.) --
Jin arrives, piles up thug corpses in two fast bloody panels, gives stunned and battered Mugen back his jacket and kisses him. Mugen is furious, apparently asking if he hopes to buy Mugen's favors
this way, but all Jin does is appropriate the jar of erection stimulant one of the thugs was using--causing Mugen to take a poke at the real reasons for his seeming indifference to women. They agree to forget the whole thing,
and Jin
carries him back to the restaurant--where Fuu and Momo have passed the time eating and both are comically bloated to Marshmallow Man size.
To be fair, I must say the art is very handsome, good character renderings (even Momo-san!), finely shaded, detailed and
expressive. (There's more very fine art on the website, though no more SC stuff that I could find.)
One star, for the high-quality artwork.
Contact info: Omega 2-D
36 pages, black and white with full-color cardstock cover.
More J&M lemon & lime here. (--for those of you new to the fan terminology, "lemon" is explicit sex with all the details shown, and "lime" is sex strongly implied but no details.)
I'm very fond of this one, even though the art is a little overly stylized: heads and hands are often in odd proportions to the rest of the figures, and the guys both look
too old and too sophisticated and jaded--this is Jin & Mugen if they'd gone off and lived together in Ura-Edo for five years. But it's top-notch lemon all the same, a full-length
sexual adventure with a playful vibe even thugh it's a stubborn contest between them. Nonviolent, overall mischievous and positive in tone,
which is way too rare in these things. ==(Comment: The more doujinshi I see, the sadder I find it that doujin-ka hardly ever have Mugen and Jin sleep together out of love, or even
honest and mutual desire. Sokotsumono, along with Canary and Gongojoudo, is a lovely rarity in this world of force and trauma, and I appreciate it more all the time.)==
--Note for those who are interested: this is one of the few in which Mugen gets to play uke to Jin's seme.
Yeah...there's a reason why just about every auction listing for this one features that panel of Mugen's tattooed ankles locked around Jin's back...so if you like that image, well, you know what to look for. =)
By Duo Brand (Akatsuki Haruka + Watanabe Nobuyoshi) & Senkentoshi, who I believe have more Champloo doujinshi available as well.
There's some nice Champloo art at their web page.
24 pages, black and white with full-color cover.
Another M&J yaoi, but this one has an odd subtle vibe which is hard to share in words. A moonlit night;
Mugen enters the barn where Jin is sleeping;
makes a suggestion ("just wondering if you'd want to have sex") which he refuses at sword-edge. They talk,
come to some sort of conclusion, and proceed...and Mugen falls asleep on him afterward =)
The art is extremely fine-line and delicate, and the overall effect is oddly haunting. Worth finding.
Credited to Dennounitronix and Ayaco Imai.
Website: Akiba "Akatsuki".
"Koushaku"
More Akiba circle; more strange, tense cat-and-mouse between Jin and Mugen that ends with Mugen between Jin's knees.
(...even though Jin is a year older and an inch taller than Mugen, so far it seems no one will let him be the seme except Saimin and Duo Brand. One wonders...)
"Yumeutsutsu" ("reflecting dream"?)
More Akiba circle; and, yes, more still, stark, tense sex and silence between Jin and Mugen. Something went on between them that Jin won't talk about, but he's thinking about it..
Summary by kakure-yaoi: "One morning, when Mugen woke up, he was holding Jin in his arms. They were so drunk the night before and Mugen dimly remembers they did IT,
but Jin says Mugen was just dreaming...."
OK, there's no explicit visual detail in this one, but the main story contains some of the hottest moments on this page. Goes to show you what an artist can do with subtlety, good direction, and high-quality
storytelling skills. Potch does more with Mugen just untying Jin's hair than most of the others I've reviewed can accomplish with full-frontal exposure. Rough, passionate, high-intensity
J&M lemon that you will keep going back to. Also in this one: a funny, short tale in which Fuu and Mugen realize they've both been daydreaming about Jin, and argue about it; a one-page "pin-up" of Jin, Mugen,
and Mugen's sumo beetle =), and a sweet one-page vignette of Mugen dozing off against Jin's back while Jin is polishing his sword, and Jin not minding very much. A wide range of material in this one
simple-looking little doujin. Well worth looking for.
(Wish I knew what its real title is; its credits are "presented by Potch at Show Saikawa, 2004.9". and inside "2004.9.26".)
12 pages, black and white with B/W on buff cover. Odd, funny little number with two stories: one a J/M sexual vignette with Jin playing seme to Mugen's uke (hooray! another one!),
and using the hilt of Mugen's sword in, um, ahem, the manner for which its shape would suggest it's best suited (and that sounds a lot nastier and cruder than it is; it's very funny).
In the other, J&M are both kitsune who find something unusual in the woods... There's also a one-page Mugen vignette which marks the only appearance, as far as I know, of the cast & crew of One Piece--
Sanji, Zoro and Luffy-- in any Champloo doujinshi; but relax, they aren't doing anything smutty (I suspect it's a pirate joke =).
By Toughgrip.
More from our friend Anoyoroshi (Rei Itidou), who also brought us the charming Jyuu. This one is a little heavier and darker, but still has Mugen in hot pursuit of Jin. There's some oral sex,
some kissing, and a subtly hot sequence brought on by Jin and Mugen eating dumplings off the same skewer (little does Jin realize Mugen has poisoned three of them...). (Also a Jin/Yuki vignette; I'm glad to see this pairing starting
to catch on with doujinshi artists.)
78 pages, black and white with gloss full-color covers.
By Anoyoroshi (Rei Itidou), 2005-03-21.
24 pages, black and white with one-color cover.
By Murakumo; see also "B*Blue" below.
This one's unusual for being set in the present and in modern dress. J&M are apparently roommates but not lovers, and Mugen
would like to change that, despite getting a very solid rebuff (a hardcover book to the head!). Mugen lets Jin catch him jacking off, Jin tries to leave, Mugen grabs his arm, and things go as they usually go in these things.
Nothing exceptional here, but the art is quite nice, and the modern setting gets it points for originality.
Done by Murakumo for Super Comic City 14, 2005-05-03.
The second story is a little odder and more intense; it's one long J/M sex scene, triggered when Mugen licks blood from
Jin's cut finger. There are also several very
explicit panels, which doesn't occur in the first story, but it's still way above the tone
of much yaoi.
--As I said, I'm very fond of this one, and hope the creative team/s will do more Champloo stories.
Website: Cathexis.
Website: Akatsuki/Akatoki.
('Seeking Rebirth in the Pure Land'/'Hoping to Reach Heaven')
[Footnote from keelieinblack: "For those of you wondering about that triangle-thing on Yukimaru's forehead,
the white kimono and triangular headband are the traditional attire of a yurei, a type of Japanese ghost--
specifically, the 'unfinished business' type."]
X-rated (oral sex, noncon)
Moving this listing here from the "All Ages" section as it's been made clear to me that my review there is based on a severely edited advance copy. The version I have is only 12 pages long and is "all ages" safe,
but the complete version contains explicit material (nudity, oral sex, use of force).
PG-13 to R-rated, I'd say: yaoi sex but no explicit details.
PG-13 to R-rated, I'd say: yaoi sex but no explicit details.
More emotionally-conflicted, sexual rough-and-tumble from Aquarium. They've had a battle with some rough-looking guys,
and now Mugen can't sleep, and goes to sit outside;
Jin follows him. Jin says that when he leaves at night, he can smell a woman's scent on him when he returns; Mugen asks
with a grin if he's jealous, and says he'd stay here if Jin would do it with him. [Priceless exchange:
J: "Th...This kind of thing is done only after people get to know each other better."
M: "Are you from a two-dimensional universe or something? You get to know me better right away if we do it." =)]
There's a kiss, a scuffle, quick sex, confused feelings all around, (Mugen makes the keen observation that "His eyes right now are the same as when he kills.") ,
and some concerned gentleness in the ending that finishes it off on a quiet note.
[Full title: Sono Hosoude de Tsukamu wa Yakeru Senkou ("What your slender arm grabs are the flashes of red heat")]
R to X rated.
Brief summary by c4u:"I guess my biggest gripe has been the very dark psychological aspect of the story itself. (Poor Mugen was *very* traumatized by his awful past...)
In a nutshell, if he's fighting (or f*cking) his blood is boiling...but if he is touched affectionately, he starts freezing. This, in turn, rather confounds and confuses Jin- who doesn't quite know what to make of it all.
Jin's quite fond of him, [but] whenever he attempts to be anything other than rough and dominating...well...
the fecal matter hits the rotational cooling device. And of course, Fuu is completely clueless about everything..."]
Begins with Mugen recollecting his past--the island, Kohza, his meeting with Fuu and Jin; then the
trio are walking, there's a quarrel, Fuu breaks the two up as usual;
and then there's an extended sequence of Jin/Mugen sex, in which Jin uses physical restraint in an attempt to break down that tactile/carnal barrier. Mugen is uncomfortable at first
("It just creeps the hell out of me when he touches me afterwards. It cools off my blood to be touched like that."), but as they travel on the next day, finds that even Jin's briefly taking his hand raises his temperature...
and Jin is thinking that it would be a waste to kill him just yet.--Lovely character dynamics, with Jin affectionate and tolerant of Mugen's mood swings and childish temper, and Fuu laughing that they both act like kids.
R to X rated.
Continuation of [S]es' previous SC work. I can't say much for the art, but there's
something about it that'll stay with you--it has some very tender moments, and a haunting quality of stillness and silence.
As the trio travels, Jin suddenly collapses; Mugen produces some hidden cash, they get an inn room, and
it's discovered that a recent wound has become infected, leaving Jin feverish and ill.
Mugen, saying it's his fault (he gave Jin the wound, perhaps?) takes it on himself to perform the most primal kind
of medicine, sucking old blood and pus from the wound and cleaning it with sake'.
Won't heal
Can't say
Want to embrace to touch to kiss
If only I could die (on top of you) as we lie with each other
[the word used is "fukujoshi", an antiquated expression about a man dying on top of a woman during sex]
What more to ask for
If only I could die with you in my embrace
[M instantly rejects such an uncharacteristic daydream of his]: No way! (Who am I kiddin'?)
[M's resistance and acceptance/resignation condensed in the last sequence]:
I'm. . . I'm afraid.
love you."
Dated 2005-08-12. ==Remarkable; about five times as good as I thought it was.
[NOTE: Much of Biral-san's Champloo work has been in volumes shared with Tsubaci-sou; look in Tsubaci section for more.]
XX-rated hardcore: not for anyone under 18 or anyone at all who's disturbed by sexual violence.
I would love to see this artist draw something I could bear to look at.
(A Detailed Record of a Careless Person: Mugen and Jin's Casual Time)
Hard R to X rated, some explicit detail; several flavors of yaoi sex.
PG-13 to R-rated; yaoi sex but much more implied than shown (like, 2 panels of sexual detail).
Web site: http://www.tiara.cc/dnnx/d
X-rated.
PG to R-rated, I guess; only one explicit panel.
PG-rated, actually.
...I'm not sure why I keep buying these. Must be the covers.
PG to R-rated lime.
PG-rated.
[title approximate via BabelFish]
PG to R-rated lime.
I love Anoyoroshi's big-eyed manga-art style and very glamorous version of Jin. =)
hard R to X-rated (several very explicit panels)
PG-rated.
Quiet, dark little vignette. Jin has been roughly used by a cluster of faceless samurai (literally drawn with only shadows for faces, though their hairstyles show a wide age range),
he's seen on the floor with a gag in his mouth, being handled by a number at once, and taken from behind. Now he seems quiet and withdrawn; Mugen approaches him familiarly, kisses him, looks surprised by
his distance, then is openly startled at the sight of his bruises. Jin has an "it's nothing" look; Mugen grabs him, apparently demanding an answer; Jin brushes off his hand, seems to be in none-of-your-business
mode. But Mugen takes his shoulders and leans his head on Jin's chest, seeming more distressed and baffled than anything else.--what makes this one different is Jin's icy self-possession and dismissal of Mugen's
rather touching concern, a departure from so many of these in which Jin is an anguished but passive object of abuse;
his attitude here unnervingly suggests intentional masochism instead.
Clean, simple art underlines the starkness of the storyline; an interesting piece.
X-rated, with several explicit panels.
X-rated, with several explicit panels.
This huge doujin (it even beats Saimin's anthology "S-Log/Remix" for size) is the work of a collective dubbed "Team Sakuragicho Blues" for the occasion, including Marimari, Murakumo, Garasuya Honpo and "Shibayama Champloos"; we already have a good deal of their individual work on these two pages. . There are (I think) nine stories and a number of very nice one-page pinups, including Yatsuha (yum!) and one of M&J dressed up in full Lolita regalia that you just have to see to believe (no points for guessing which of them carries that look off best!). The stories range from completely innocent (Jin carries Fuu across a river on his back while she quietly blisses out =) to low-key hurt-comfort, to a wide range of intimate combinations, including Mugen and Shouryuu (who forces Mugen to kiss him at knifepoint) and Moronobu paying Mugen and Jin to pose for some hot ukiyo-e smut (Mugen delightedly shows Fuu the handful of gold ryu they were paid, while Jin looks as if he'd like to hide under a rock for the next week).
The wildest thing here, though, has Jin back working at the kabayaki (eel) stand, with Mugen as his only customer. The carving knife is missing, so he does what Shino told him not to do, and slices an eel with his sword. Mugen points out, as Shino did, that that's bad luck; a vindictive eel (with an annoyed cartoon face) spits water at Jin, and suddenly we're in a totally bizarre erotic nightmare involving Jin, a writhing nest of eels ripping off his clothes, and not only the weirdest sexual assault but the first example of tentacle-rape porn in Champloo doujinshi to my knowledge (not counting Tsukiru's website). It really is a nightmare, in fact, from which he wakes in an aghast (well, mostly...) sweat, and you can't blame him.--Hands down, the damnedest thing in the stack to date.
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