Manga Monday: Black Knight
Black Knight (Volume 1) Kai Tsurugi Black Knight is a yaoi manga published by Blu Manga a few years ago. I flipped through it at a used bookstore and couldn't resist purchasing it. Yaoi manga are a sort of guilty pleasure for me. This particular work follows Chris, a young prince who's a real pretty boy, and who has been sent to a training academy by his father, where he learns to fight alongside commoners. One of the trainers, Zeke, looks out for him and eventually the two begin a romantic relationship, despite the difficulties it presents. Zeke is the black knight that the title is named for, and is destined to become Chris' guardsman with the high honor of Black Knight. For a title pretty heavy on action, the action scenes aren't executed very well. It's sort of hard to tell what's going on and where people are in relation to each other. What Tsurugi does well is flush out the relationship between Chris and Zeke. A few support...