Rin! Volume 1 (Yaoi)

by Satoru Kannagi and Eden O'Neill

Katsura, a second year in his high school's archery club, has a hard timecontrolling his nerves. His "secret weapon" is his brother's best friend andchildhood buddy, Sou One hug from Sou, and Katsura's nerves are soothed to apeaceful calm. But he can't keep Sou around him forever. As he wonders how he'llsurvive without Sou's hugs, his friend Kouichi suddenly asks if he can be theone to save him, and kisses him

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569709203
• ISBN13: 9781569709207
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Digital Manga Publishing
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher

Customer Reviews

Rin Vol 1

Excellent book one that you won't put down a read over and over agoin book. about a boys life and what he has to do to find his happieness in the world today. also if you like archery you will like this book.

One of my favorites

Beautiful manga in story and artwork. The art is very light and the storyline is very engaging. It has a lot of misunderstandings and heart. Both characters have their quirks, but are pretty likable overall. I think anyone who enjoys a good story would enjoy this, even people who might not be too found on the genre. There is only one small non graphic sex scenes and a few other scenes, so this would be good for a younger person. Everyone give it a chance, because it only gets better over the three volumes. I really could not recommend this enough!

Enjoyable shonen-ai

Written by Satoru Kannagi, the author of Only the Ring Finger Knows, and drawn by Yukine Hoonami, of Desire, this is a better than average shonen-ai story. It is a welcome addition to the lovely shonen-ai collection published by DMP June. Katsura a teenage boy finds that he has extreme panic attacks when he is in stressful situations, like exams, plays, and competitions. The only person who can calm him down with a hug is his older brother's friend. Since the three were childhood friends, Katsura has been approaching Sou for a hugs in a purely platonic way. However as the three grow older the requests for hugs puts a strain on the friendship between Katsura and Sou as they worry about how others perceive their relationship. This strain gets worse when Katsura is approached by a friend of his in class who has feelings for him and wishes to take Sou's place as the "hug" bearer. While coping with these relationships Katsura also has to cope with being in an archery contest. The story, while not as good as Only the Ring Finger Knows, is still a very good read. Just like OTRFK, the characters deal with confused feelings and misunderstandings which are also based upon an event that happened in the past. Yukine's drawings are really sweet and she captures the grace of archery ( & attractiveness of the archers!) to a great extent. For those who enjoyed OTRFK, Little Butterfly, and Time Lag, this is an ejoyable treat. I will definitely be buying volume 2.

Rin! 1

This is a cute story where Katsura is the nieve junior to Sou's brusk senior. Katsura is blissfully unaware almost to the point where you just want to smack him for seeming so incredibly clueless, and Sou is so ...manly stubborn (collected, smoking, and refusing to get wounds treated and taking out his annoyance over the futility of his non-relationship with Katsura on underclassmen in archery) that you just want to lock them into a room until they figure things out. Yamato (Katsura's older brother), while originally seeming rather jealous and over the top in his ambition to be the primary support person for Katsura, eventually settles down into one of the most influential people in the book. The artwork of Yukine Honami is very airy, and delightfully composed. It works well for this gentler story of Satoru Kannagi. As of now, it doesn't have the emotionally volitile nature of the "Only the Ring Finger Knows", but I'm sure Kannagi-san has more ups and downs planned for Sou and Katsura.