Shino is a young voice actor who occasionally pays the bills by performing in yaoi. Nakaya is the teenager Shino accidentally fathered when he was rather young who just recently met-- and moved in --with him. Shino is an easily-embarassed Really Nice Guy with a super-uke aura; Nakaya is...well, he's a teenager. What's to say?

So, the two of them together in an apartment-- sounds more like a sitcom set-up than a yaoi. (No, father and son do NOT get it on...it's not that kind of manga.) Instead, two of Shino's (male) co-workers start vying outrageously for his affection, while Nakaya starts feeling an odd attraction to his hockey coach.

There IS plenty of silly in here too; Nakaya starts getting into a new (non-yaoi) anime that Shino acts in. A budding otaku, that kid. And Shino's dealings with duelling ukes Mizusawa and Tenryu are mostly pretty humorous, especially in volume 2.



I wasn't especially excited by this title the first time I read it through. It was enjoyable, but the very light (I can't think of a better word for it right now) art took me a bit to get used to-- it feels kind of old-school. Plus, no smut!

But by the time I got through volume 2 I was a convert. Takaguchi-sensei's story can be a bit silly, but her characters ring true-- not entirely unlike those of another manga I reviewed recently. I seem to be big on character lately!

If characters and relatively realistic plots are more your game than mansmut, you should definitely give Shout Out Loud! a shot.

Mangaka: Takaguchi Satosumi
Censorship: N/A
Warnings: Implied het in volume 1, humiliation of a father in front of his son multiple times in each volume...that's about it.
Disclosure: This was a free review copy, courtesy of Blu.