Honey Darling Paperback – June 12, 2012

This is a sweet story, with slow but rewarding romance development. The animals, especially the cats, are adorable. Plus, this manga includes a couple entertaining side characters.I would have normally given this a 4-star rating, b/c of the (literally) whited-out more explicit scenes. However, this was offset by the awesome e-book readability from SuBLime publishing. I like the convenience of reading manga on a kindle. And this was the first publisher who produced something that (a) ensures that the lettering is bold enough to be easy to read, (b) uses up the full page of the kindle which is what I would normally see after I used the kindle zoom feature on other kindle-enabled manga and (c ) enables you to zoom in to one quarter of the page which makes it easy to read the side comments next to the dialogue boxes.I would definitely look for more offerings from this publisher.

First of all, this is about a cat. A poor, abandoned kitten who is one day picked up by an apathetic young man. Subsequently, the cat finds a new home for them both with a bear of a vet, and then all that's left is for her two "parents" to realize they're in love.The artwork is very good, with masculine features for both main characters, and the cat is cute as can be. All that I would mention is that there is not nearly enough of the furry troublemaker! Aside from that, it has a funny storyline about a vet who adopts both the cute little kitten and her owner, a rather big kitty himself.

What this author does really well is create vivid characters whose lives you care about and whose love you really root for. This manga is adorable, but focuses primarily on pets and the veterinarian profession. I prefer more serious manga and a focus on relationships, but this manga goes at a slow pace in that department. It isn't until 3/4 of the way through the book that the uke even realizes he's developed a crush on his cat's vet, and when he finally makes his confession the seme's reciprocation seems to come out of nowhere because you don't see many things from his point of view. If it had ended there I would have been disappointed, but the author's beautiful, lengthy love scenes (which finally come at the end of the manga) are worth the wait! I love her art and she puts a lot of energy into developing storylines you care about. I prefer her "Beast & Feast" by a mile, but I still loved this book.

This is a very cute manga and I'm so pleased to be able to purchase it in english. SuBLime's edition is nice, it's great to have the original color page and little asides from the author translated. A couple of quibbles: I'm not crazy about the font used; it's intrusively stylistic, especially the question marks, and -- an issue that no American manga publisher seems to take seriously -- honorifics are dropped or replaced by inadequate english "equivalents." Why can't publishers grasp that with Japan's strong international cultural influence, pretty much the entire universe knows what "sensei," "-chan," "-san," etc. means? If there are two people left who don't, let them google it.The best part of this manga is AKIRA Norikazu's artwork. Even her animals are a delightful blend of style and anatomy, but her men are absolutely gorgeous. IMO she ranks up there with NITTA Youka and YAMANE Ayano at drawing beautiful, yet unmistakably masculine faces and bodies. That's why it's such a shame that in this manga's single, climactic love scene, the characters are literally emasculated by censoring. Everything is whited out. (Although there is an extra where a little something sneaks in, key word: little). I find this level of mutilation of artwork anywhere deeply distressing, but it just really makes me sad to see it happen to these sweet characters.While I understand that this is not the American publisher's doing, but the result of idiotic new censorship laws in Japan, it seems some method should exist to restore the creator's original, uncensored content to to the American edition of the work, since it is sold with the "explicit content" warning label. I'm glad that sensei's other work available in english, Beast & Feast, came out before the new censorship went into effect. I don't at all regret buying Honey Darling, but I like my beautiful men to be beautifully complete

The manga was perfect. It didn't rush into the relationship of the main characters. You can see the development of the relationship. I recognize this to anyone looking for a cute love story.

This romance between a vet and his male housekeeper is very well done. There is a gradual built-up to their feelings. I love both characters too. The soft hearted Chihiro is such a sweet character and his love for his little cat is endearing. The seeemingly stoic Kumazawa with a heart of gold is equally likable and he is such a hunk (all those muscles!). I like this mangaka's artwork and like a previous reviewer mentioned it is such a pity the anatomy during the sex scenes is marred by the Japanese censorship law. But it did not deter me from enjoying the story as there is a heartwarming and sweet romance here. This one is in my Yaoi re-read pile. Well done SuBLIme.

I like the fact the there was a build up leading to love. It has more of a love story feel rather than the usual smut and sex from yaoi. I don't mind the latter one bit though, but occasionally, it's heartwarming to read such a story with beautiful artwork. Dense characters are fun to watch develop. Hope you enjoy it too.

Such a cute story, made me say awww a few times. Wish there was more so I can see how things are progressing.