Yakuza in Love

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Yakuza In Love
Cover of Yakuza In Love vol. 3
花組任侠伝 (Hanagumi Ninkyōden)
Genre	Yaoi
Manga
Author	Shiuko Kano
Publisher	N/A Aurora Publishing
Original run	2006
Volumes	3 ^[1]

Yakuza in Love (花組任侠伝, Hanagumi Ninkyōden^?) is a yaoi comedy manga by Shiuko Kano. The English translated version was released by Aurora Publishing in 2008.

[edit] Plot

Aoi Ichimura is a member of the Yakuza family known as the Hanagumi ("Flower-Gang") and has a reputation for being one of the tough up and coming Yakuza's, mostly due to the huge intimidating scar on the left side of his face (which he received in a car crash that killed his parents).

In contrast to his looks, however, he is in fact cowardly and weak, but apparently equipped with an obscene amount of luck. Things change when he gets assigned to be the apprentice of a Yakuza underboss (who just got out of jail), Yuji Sakiya. What results is a lot of violence, machismo, and of course, explicit homo-erotic situations between very muscular men that is characteristic of Shiuko Kano's works.