| The Tyrant Falls in Love | |
Juné's cover for Vol 1 of the US license |
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| 恋する暴君 (Koisuru Boukun) |
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| Genre | Yaoi, Comedy |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Hinako Takanaga |
| Published by | Kaiousha |
| English publisher | Juné |
| Demographic | Josei |
| Magazine | Gush |
| Original run | February 2004 – 2011 |
| Volumes | 8 |
| Original video animation | |
| Studio | primetime |
| Released | June 25, 2010 – November 26, 2010 |
| Runtime | 30 minutes |
| Episodes | 2 |
| Audio drama | |
| Studio | Inter communications, Movic |
| Original run | August 20, 2005 – ongoing |
| Episodes | 4 |
The Tyrant Falls in Love (恋する暴君 Koi suru Bo-kun) is an ongoing Japanese yaoi manga series written and illustrated by Hinako Takanaga. The Tyrant Falls in Love is a sequel to Takanaga's series Challengers.[1] The series has appeared on manga best-seller lists both in Japan and in Germany,[2] and the long-delayed US release has been labeled "one of the most highly-anticipated yaoi releases ever".[3] The series is currently licensed in English by Juné. It is also licensed in German by Tokyopop Germany under the title Verliebter Tyrann[4] and in French by Taifu Comics under the title The Tyrant Who Fall in Love.[5]
In 2010, a two-part OVA was released.[6] The production company, PrimeTime, only works on two-part yaoi OVAs.
In May 2011, Takanaga announced that she was finishing the series, but would draw at least one more volume of extra stories based on the manga and a sequel series featuring Morinaga's brother Kunihiro.[7]
Contents |
The story picks up on Morinaga and Souichi's story where Challengers left off. Tetsuhiro Morinaga is a university student with a long-standing crush on Souichi Tatsumi, a senpai he assists with his research projects. In Challengers, Morinaga confessed his love to Souichi, who was shocked and repulsed. Morinaga thought about transferring schools, but Souichi, who is otherwise-friendless and emotionally dependent on Morinaga, insists that Morinaga stay and that they continue as friends without mentioning the incident again, leaving Morinaga convinced that his feelings will never be reciprocated.
At the start of The Tyrant Falls in Love, in 2004, Tomoe and Kurokawa had just moved to California for Tomoe's new job and Souichi hears that California has just legalized gay marriage. Souichi furiously calls Tomoe to tell him he shouldn't get any ideas about getting married but Tomoe hadn't heard about it at all since he had been busy working so Souichi's call did the exact opposite of what he wanted it to do and Kurokawa and Tomoe run off to get married. Souichi runs around yelling that he's going to go to America and kill Kurokawa and get a green card so he can become the Governor of California to re-ban gay marriage. Morinaga convinces him to calm down and drink with him instead and so he goes Morinaga's apartment to drown his sorrows, during which he accidentally finds and unwittingly drinks an aphrodisiac Morinaga has been given by his friend and hidden; not-entirely-consensual sex ensues. This results in a dysfunctional, mutually-abusive relationship which develops slowly into a romance over the course of the series.
The Tyrant Falls in Love was initially licensed in the US by DramaQueen, but had an extremely rocky road to English-language distribution. The license was initially announced at Otakon 2006;[8] due to financial difficulties,[9] the book was never released. In early 2008, DramaQueen announced that it was reorganizing and would bring The Tyrant Falls in Love into print imminently;[10] however, after repeated delays and at least two official solicitation dates, the series remained unpublished. The series was available in scanlation, but DramaQueen issued cease and desist orders.[11]
At the 2009 Yaoi-Con, Juné announced they had acquired the license and would be releasing volume 1 in Summer of 2010.[12]
| No. | Original | English | ||
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| Release date | ISBN | Release date | ISBN | |
| 1 | February 10, 2005 | ISBN 978-4877243982 | August 18, 2010[13] | ISBN 978-1-56970-172-0 |
| 2 | November 10, 2005 | ISBN 978-4877244309 | December 1, 2010[14] | ISBN 978-1-56970-173-7 |
| 3 | December 9, 2006 | ISBN 978-4877244835 | April 20, 2011[15] | ISBN 978-1-56970-174-4 |
| 4 | April 10, 2008 | ISBN 978-4877248444 | August 15, 2011[16] | ISBN 978-1-56970-175-1 |
| 5 | June 10, 2009 | ISBN 978-4877241292 | December 21, 2011[17] | ISBN 978-1-56970-176-8 |
| 6 | July 20, 2010 | ISBN 978-4877241971 | April 20, 2012[18] | ISBN 978-1-56970-238-3 |
| 7 | November 11, 2010 | ISBN 978-4796402453 | ||
| 1 | "Koisuru Boukun Volume 1" "Koisuru Boukun 1" (恋する暴君 １) |
June 25, 2010 | ANDS-13005 |
| 2 | "Koisuru Boukun Volume 2" "Koisuru Boukun 2" (恋する暴君 ２) |
November 26, 2010 | ANDS-13006 |