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Boys of Summer, Volume 1 Manga - Teen Romance Sports Comic Book for Summer Reading & Beach Vacation Entertainment
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Boys of Summer, Volume 1 Manga - Teen Romance Sports Comic Book for Summer Reading & Beach Vacation Entertainment
Boys of Summer, Volume 1 Manga - Teen Romance Sports Comic Book for Summer Reading & Beach Vacation Entertainment
Boys of Summer, Volume 1 Manga - Teen Romance Sports Comic Book for Summer Reading & Beach Vacation Entertainment
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Boys of Summer volume 1 features story by Chuck Austen and art by Hiroki Otsuka. Bud Waterston is a decent looking guy in full hormonal bloom. He's heading for college, and imagines the sexual liberation he will face living in a dormitory full of other post-teens just like him. But like all best laid plans (no pun intended), nothing goes as Bud hopes or expects. His roommate turns out to be a closeted homosexual and all the good-looking girls in the dorm are interested in somebody else. When the girl of his dreams, who wanting nothing to do with him, joins the school baseball team, it inspires Bud to join, too, in an effort to prove to her she's all wrong about him.
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-IMPORTANT FIRST NOTE ABOUT THIS TITLE:...The final 2 volumes of this (3-volume only) series were finished by the author but HAVE NEVER and WILL NEVER be released in any format of ANY KIND, online or otherwise. At least that is the best way to look at the situation. As of 2013, it's been 7 years since first release and EVEN recently the creators themselves have said FOR LIKE THE TENTH TIME that everyone should just give up hope. The last 2 books are legally tied up in hell to a company who has shown time and again they don't care. All that has been released about the final 2 books is their cover art and some basic info but no real pages at all.If you find a listing for a digital version of volume 2 or 3 at an online library or something, it is not real - it is a mistake most likely meant to reference vol 1 only. There was talk over the years about release of a "complete season" 3-volume edition or for a digital/online release of volumes 2 and 3 - but these were promises the publisher made that NEVER HAPPENED. Now, years later it is time to forget about it, most likely 2 and 3 are like deleted scenes for a movie studio for which they intend no one to ever see.-PROS:-It's nice to see a true American manga that reads from left to right and in sort of the same genre as titles like Love Hina and Ranma. Seeing the horny young love stuff play out in manga form but from the US college dorm style rather than what we usually see from Japan is interesting.-Some solid fan-service if that's what your looking for including about 3-pages that feature nudity (this title is uncensored).-Reads fast and the writing has it moments much like a lot of direct-to-video sex comedies do.CONS:-As mentioned, the writing is more on par with something generic and low budget like a quick-release movie sex comedy. It sort of works but at the same time you don't really care because it feels like a disposable sitcom episode that is barely able to draw you in.-The plot itself moves real slow. Basically all that happens here, without spoilers, is this: a kid arrives at college, meets a girl who you learn very little about, and the kid tries to decide whether to play on her baseball team. ~That's it. In between, there are some brief scenes with minor characters who you also know little else about but yeah...^^^Also, there is a description for the never-released volume 2 that doesn't sound much better. Basically, it says that in vol 2. the boy begins practicing with the team only to annoy them by demanding his friend play also while at the same time he begins to realize he likes the girl he's met. Big whoop. It's obvious that this series was meant to be renewed many times after the first 3 volumes in order for one to see the entire story play out.So to wrap up - what we have here is the very beginning of a project probably meant to span at least 10 volumes, yet that never really got beyond the "pilot" stage. If the 10 volumes had been made, maybe - just maybe then you could justify owning this and all the rest (if you were a fan of sort of the simple Archie-comic/generic US sitcom style of writing). But even then, I would venture to guess that it would merely be a decent "one-time only" read versus something you would really feel like owning.-

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