Chocolate Surprise by Lily Hoshino

Chocolate Surprise Reviews

• 
  Kris

  The Tasting:
  
  Why I bought it:
  
  The blurb appealed. *mmmm, chocolate*
  
  Dislike/like (ending on a high note):
  
  Dislike~ There’s lots of tears at times. This angst is pretty normal for ‘uke’ characters. Still, it can be a little wearying. What I did like was the way the author/artist also revealed the feelings of the ‘seme’. It helped provide a balance to the relationship and the story.
  
  Like~ Chocolate Surprise contains nine short stories with the first two stories focusing on the same characters. It could be the toy poodle flu, but I really enjoyed the fact there were so many stories in the one volume as well as their diversity. A number of themes were dealt with in this book including first love, rejection, loneliness, infidelity (I know, I know), friendship, fantasy, etc, etc.
  
  Dislike~ Not really a dislike, but a comment. The way some of those boys carried on at school... well, you can’t tell me they wouldn’t have been caught. Just saying.
  
  Like~ There is something about Lily Hoshino’s work that really resonates with me and I think a lot of it has to do with her artwork. No two ways about it – I adore it. Besides the fact that her boys are seriously gorgeous – hey, Ms Superficial here ;) - , the work itself is simple, but very evocative. It runs the gamut from something like a pair of eyes widening or a close up of two lips meeting to a detailed sex scene, yet each frame and strip perfectly reflects the narrative and the emotions of the character/s. I love it.
  
  So, what I think:
  
  This is the first book I read by this author/artist and I enjoyed it so much that I promptly purchased all of her other yaoi work. I think she is awesome.
  
  ===============================================
  
  ‘Tasting’ is my version of a mini-review where I talk a (very) little about what I liked and disliked about a book as well as who I think the story will appeal to. Oh, and I’ve added a bit about why I picked up the book in the first place – sometimes this can be interesting to know.
• 
  Fairymysz

  Ez a kötet is több történetből állt és sajnos azt kell mondanom, még annyira se jött be, mint az Aishichattano. Az első páros rögtön egy visszatérő volt és megint a csokoládé volt a középpontban - no meg egy kis csalafintaság.
  A rajzolás itt is szépnek mondható és ebben a részben még inkább kijött a shota vonal.
• 
  Kathleen

  Deux Press books tend to be more hardcore than more mainstream publishers, and this one is no exception. The focus is on the sex, not the romance.
• 
  Tam

  This is a series of little shorts, predominantly about high school students but also with one story about a single father who is recently divorced and having a relationship with his daughter's tutor. The title story is about a popular boy who offers the girls a chocolate. Some of the have guarana which supposedly makes you hot. A young guy is talked into joining and if he gets it he can sleep with one of the girls. Well, he gets the chocolate but doesn't want one of the girls and the other boy offers to "help him out" with his problem. The others were similar friends to lovers, or popular boy and nerd, type stories. One drawing made the uke look REALLY young, in fact it kind of squicked me out although supposedly they are the same age, but .... I don't really care for the books that are a series of shorts, I prefer one longer story. It was okay though and is pretty typical artwork.
• 
  小さな N (.❛ ᴗ ❛.)⊃ [_|_] ♡

  I think Lily Hoshino should definitely focus on her fantasy stories, because those are cute and with them she is able to pull me in even with only a few pages (most times, anyway). Unfortunately we only get one fantasy related story in this collection of short stories...
• 
  Nisha

  Cute, pretty art, but the stories are lacking in content. Plus the uke is overly feminized, so it no longer feels like yaoi.
• 
  Nicole

  Super smoking hot and no pesky censoring! I loved every story in this manga- wish there was a volume two!
• 
  maha

  20160411