Maybe I'm Your Steppin' Stone (Yaoi) | 
| Author: Shiuko Kano
Publisher: 801 Media, Inc.
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
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Pages: 200
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Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.2 x 0.4
ISBN: 1934129135
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5952
EAN: 9781934129135
ASIN: 1934129135
Publication Date: February 26, 2008
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The gentle and delicate convenience store clerk Kenji has fallen in love. Not with someone who would match his personality - but for rude construction worker, Kousei, who is in it more for his body than for his feelings.
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 Looking for sex and lots of it? Look no further... November 20, 2008
The Yaoi Review
In Maybe I'm Your Steppin' Stone we get to see more of Kousei Mogi, a minor character from I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone, which this manga is loosely tied to (although the timelines of the two novels don't actually jive and is acknowledged by the author). Kousei is a 27-year-old scaffold constructor and the owner of his own company. In this manga, he is divorced and has a child (Subaru) with his former wife. Subaru is in the same nursery as Yukko, the niece of a local convenience store clerk named Kenji Hirosue. Kenji is 20-years-old and is madly in love with Kousei, who he runs into regularly either through the convenience store or through his niece's nursery school. This of course leads to a lovely sex filled romance that takes up a little more than a third of the book.
The other main couple is Shunji Nakano, age 25, and Yasushi Mejiro, age 22, both of whom work for Kousei at his construction company. This is one of my favorite couples and happily book number three focuses on them (it's not released yet). Their story is full of angst due to Shunji's troubled sexual past but not the "I'm a 16-year-old high school uke" kind of angst we tend to get so much of. Both characters in this couple are manly men and incredibly sexy. They too have loads of sex, which is why this series is one of my all time favorites. Did I mention there are at least TWELVE sex scenes in this manga not counting other sexual encounters I didn't consider to be full sex scenes? It is a nice follow up to the juicy, romp filled I'm Not Your Steppin' Stone I fell in lust with although it does have some of the same issues as the first, like trouble following just who is speaking. I'd give it 5 stars for sex but 4 stars overall.
The last story in the book is a side story that is completely unrelated to the rest of the manga. It is about two high school students, Hotta and Kosaka. Hotta is hot for Kosaka, who just so happens to be sleeping with the teacher. The question in this story is just who is manipulating who... the teacher or the student... and what will Hotta do to rectify the situation?
What Can I say, Please wright More May 30, 2008
Stephanie Sloan (CA USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Wow totally hot, I want more of this series this is the second book in a series and dose not follow the story line of the first book and dose split off onto different side stories but all of the stories are connected with the people you meet in the first book kind of like how Love Mode series is. So I really like it and I would say If you like stories that get to the point and have a really good story line then go get it you wont regret buying this one I really enjoyed this one. FYI its mostly about constriction works. If you like the forceful types this has a lot of that, that I Love.
Maybe I'm Your Steppin' Stone by Shiuko Kano May 22, 2008
Elisa Rolle (Italy)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sequel to "I'm not your steppin stone", it is setting in the same world of construction workers (I wonder if that particular trousers they wear it's the standard "uniform" for construction workers...).
Three story, the first two deeply linked and instead the third is a story of its own.
First: Kousei is a 27 yd old divorced father. He only has the chance to meet his son early on the morning, when he brings him at school, and late in the afternoon, when he takes the boy from school to home to his mother. On the way he always stops to a deli where he buys a single pre-cooked meal and Kenji, the store clerk, fancies this single dad and his cute son. More when Kenji discovers that his nephew goes to the same school of Kousei's son. And when Kenji has a light accident and Kousei brings him home, Kenji takes advantage of the chance to be alone with Kousei. It starts a funny relationship where the stocky and muscular Kousei treats Kenji almost like a girlfriend.
Second: Kousei asks Nakano to work with him to his new found construction firm. With Nakano and Kousei works Yasu, a reclusive and brooding guy, whispers say ex con and gay: Yasu is a childhood friend of Kousei and so Kousei is a bit protective of the guy and also seems to comprehend his problems. When Nakano finds that Yasu harbors romantic feelings for Kousei, and both of them think that Kousei will not be interested in a gay relationship, Nakano blackmails Yasu in a strange relationship, ones where, if they aren't having sex, they continuously argue and fight.
Yasu's character is my favourite in all the novel, even if I have some perplexity on what it was his past and his reasons. I think to have understood, but it's not clearly explained. In spite of this, for me it's the story worthy to buy the graphic novel.
Third: A high school boy is sexual harassed by a female teacher, and when one of his schoolmate sees them, he doesn't understand that the boy is forced to do it. So also him blackmails the boy, but when he understands that the boy is more innocent of what expected, he takes his defense in front of the teacher.
Interesting story but really too short to fully comprehend and enjoy all the plot.
Hot and sexy boys! April 30, 2008
R.Parklane (Tokyo, Japan)
This sequel to "I'm not your steppin stone" is just as hot and of course hard core Yaoi. 3 couples here. The first story on Kenji and Kousei is sweet. Kenji is the timid store clerk, in love with Kousei (the hunky constructor worker from the first vol). But Kousei is in apprearance totally straight with ex-wife and son. How is Kenji ever going to reveal his love ? But he did as for one crazy moment, Kenji "lost it" and acted upon it. Thereon it is a sweet romance, with amusing moments. But I would have preferred the care-free Kousei to be more expressive in his love for the insecured Kenji.
The second couple in the titled story "Passion Honey" is more passionate, their sex more rough and really steaming hot. Their story is more angsy and romantic and I like both the younger and insecured seme and the brooding, tough but vulnerable uke here. Of course the uke has a disturbing past (loosely linked with Kousei) which spiced up their love story. Some reader may find their first coupling a trifle disturbing but hey this is true Yaoi!
The 3rd one on 2 fellow students would be better if it is longer. The sexual harrassment in school makes it darker in tone. And it is kinky, with the improvised sex toys. I have to say my eyes widen when I came to the panels!
Love this mangaka's artwork with her beautiful, tall and muscularly slim boys. And of course the sex is just marvelously drawn and scorching hot. Looking forward to more from Shiuko Kano.
The Continuing Stone is Good March 7, 2008
Scarlett Rose (Cali Caliente)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I found this book to be rather cute. It has it's good points as well as some lame ones. As a sequel, but not including the original characters of the first book, it did rather well. Showcasing the new charcters and their story as well as some steamy yaoi scenes. The second story "Passion Honey" is rather good. With one of the main characters coming out a little psycho but cute (in a way). The last story, however, was rather disappointing. I found the characters lacked background info as well as charm. I did love the part, you'll understand when you read the book, when Hotta tells the teacher she's the worst kind of human. Other than the sex scenes, this story, sad to say, was very lame. Overall the book was well written and drawn. Can't wait for the next sequel, which will be subtitled "Adultness". Till' then see ya.
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