Therapy Game

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(Before you start reading, I recommend reading Secret XXX, as this is the story of Shouhei's older brother and Mito's younger brother).

Therapy Game is quite unique. I'm not just saying this out of bias, but because in my experience reading BL, it is one of the best stories I've read so far of this genre. I've read fantastic stories and other extremely toxic ones, and I must say in my personal opinion that Minato and Shizuma's story is unique. Even though Secret XXX has given us more panels of Minato than Shizuma, when I started reading Therapy Game, I found the characters unrecognizable; and even ... though I found Itsuki and Shouhei's couple adorable, Therapy Game knew how to express what I didn't feel in Secret XXX.

Each story has its strong point, but Therapy Game has everything that can leave your heart more than pleased: usually this kind of stories doesn't have a lot of backstory to tell, but even though it's classified as "yaoi" and there are a lot of such scenes, the general story involving our main characters is somewhat complex and entertaining. It is worth mentioning that it has quite a lot of character development, so I warn you that you will be able to get attached to more than one of them; not to mention the wonderful art it has.

Shizuma, a talented soon-to-be veterinarian, struggling with forgetting the person he thought was the love of his life; and Minato, a "carefree" man with a tragic past, whose only goal in this story is to seduce Shizuma, the man with a big heart who would turn his world upside down.

Therapy Game may seem a bit cliché at first, but it's totally worth it. And in addition to the fantastic story that Therapy Game and Therapy Game +Play More tell, you should definitely continue with Therapy Game: Restart.

It's a really interesting story (mostly because of the characters, not really of the storyline) even though it's quite unpopular. We have two fairly different characters. Shizuma had been living a peaceful life with his really likeable girlfriend, until they had broken up. On one morning some days later, Shizuna woke up next to a stranger, Minato, and it seemed they had... let's say "an interesting night together" in case children are reading this, but Shizuna didn't remember anything.
Shizuna is calm, intelligent and he lives for his work, so Minato, a person with loose morals wasn't very sympathetic to him. Minato knows this, however, ... he tries to seduce Shizuna because of a bet, and this is where the problems start.

Story: 9
Exciting, but not too complicated. It doesn't have many hot scenes (there were two during 5 chapters) (and they are just "hot scenes", nothing more), but at least it has some.

Characters: 10
I have never seen any yaoi with this much character development (or any, for that matter), so it was a pleasant surprise.

Art: 8
There are some colored pages, so we can imagine the characters better.

Enjoyment: 9
At the beginning, it's a liiiitle bit boring. But it becomes more and more entertaining.

Overall: 9

I've started this manga after i've seen a picture with those two on facebook and i really liked the art, especially Shizuma with that red hair he looks so good. I noticed its related with the parent story "Secret XXX" so i read that one first (i recommend you guys to do the same).

Story: I liked how it actually had so much story in it and it connected with the previous manga in such a nice way (also it was pretty funny). It contains "hot" scenes (not so many as in other manga tho) and each one of them is really well made.

Art: the ... art is amazing and its the main purpose you should read this one. First of all, the sex scenes are not censored, everything is well detailed and the guys look amazing in each scene. It also has few pages colored ~

Character: This manga has a lot of character development, you can sympathize easily with the guys.

Overall: I liked this manga because its well made, with a sad background story for one of the guys which explains his behavior which was pretty annoying in the parent story. The art is amazing and everything is so well detailed and the seme guy has such a big heart, he is a cutie (not like in other yaoi manga) and really cares for his lover.