- Paperback: 200 pages
- Publisher: Tokyopop (15 Dec 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1591823331
- ISBN-13: 978-1591823339
- Product Dimensions: 18.9 x 16.2 x 1.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 151,188 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Shuichi Shindou is determined to be a rock star, and he's not about to let the fact that he's a high school student with no experience and no band stop him. He's found his charismatic guitarist, he's got them a gig - and now he's ready to show the world what a genius he is with his powerful lyrics. When novelist Eiri Yuki overhears his amateurish verse and puts the young musician in his place, Shuichi is crushed. He just can't get the mysterious writer's criticism out of his mind. As Shuichi inserts himself into Yuki's life, desperate to prove his potential, the two find their futures inexorably intertwined, as if by fate. But Yuki doesn't believe in fate. The force that brings them together is much more primal - it's gravity. And nothing they do can stop it.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I orginally bough the book Gravitation because it contained shonen-ai (and I just so happen to be a shonen-ai freak). When I purchased the book, I discovered something greater. I find the plot, character development, art style, and of course, the shonen-ai bits amazing! Every time I read the books it's like I am reading it for the first time. I have heard of the anime numerous times. But I still havent seen it, the custey style they put on Shuichi (the main character in Gravitation) disturbs me slightly.
The book Gravitation is about how a young rockstar named Shuichi Shindou (I think) falls in love with a famous romance novelist Eiri Yuki, dispite the fact that Yuki treats Shindou like garbage, Shindou still falls deeper in love with him. This of course, is just a root summary of the book. The plot is way to complex for me to explain.
The book Gravitation is about how a young rockstar named Shuichi Shindou (I think) falls in love with a famous romance novelist Eiri Yuki, dispite the fact that Yuki treats Shindou like garbage, Shindou still falls deeper in love with him. This of course, is just a root summary of the book. The plot is way to complex for me to explain.
What I didn't really like about the book was at the very beggining of the series where Shindou's appearance seems to change all at once. His hair grows long enough for him to put it into a ponytail, and his eyes also grow. Something else that confuses me is what the true color of Shindou's hair is. Besides that, there really isn't much I can complain about. It has a very good translation with no errors I have seen so far and I am VERY excited for when the 5th book comes out. It sparked my attention with shonen ai, but now its, so very much more than that.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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I really loved the Gravitation anime, and hoped I'd feel the same about the manga...However I am slightly dissapointed in this book. Its not the story thats the problem, or the art (which i admit is a lil scratchy, but it does get better in later volumes), but the translation. As another reviewer already pointed out, phrases such as "Take a chil pill" and "I want to see there chops live" have no place in a decent manga translatin. Okay, I admit that teenagers wounld use slang, but the would never talk in such a messed up, out dated way. Most of the time the slang was unnessesery. I either made what the characters said sound deeply embarrasing or unitentially hillarius, which is sad.
Gravitation is a good story, but I wish Tokyopop had taken a little more care with the scripting.
Gravitation is a good story, but I wish Tokyopop had taken a little more care with the scripting.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
/Finally/ Gravitation is available in translation! Chronicling Shuuichi's bid for pop success, and his burgeoning relationship with the laconic romance novelist Yuki Eiri, the manga is interspersed with song lyrics (that perhaps make more sense in the original Japanese? ^^) and the art is consistently beautiful. Although this is the first book, the later ones go into more detail about the other characters and I personally prefer them. It is, however, beyond wonderful to /finally/ get a shounen-ai manga officially translated for English-language readers, especially one of such quality.
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