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“Cop Ueda's quiet life upended when yakuza Aki confesses love, leading to dangerous romance.”
Like the Beast
ほんと野獣
8.46
21,737 readers · 1,055 favorites
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Synopsis
Cop Ueda's quiet life upended when yakuza Aki confesses love, leading to dangerous romance.
Ueda Tomoharu is a cop manning a local koban station, and he's quite happy with his job and relatively quiet life until he happens to run into yakuza member Gotouda Aki while chasing down an underwear thief... and is suddenly confessed to! Aki doesn't seem bothered in the least about their "star-crossed lovers" status and eagerly dives into a super lovey-dovey relationship with his policeman, but Ueda's about to find out just how dangerous it can be dating a mobster... in more ways than one. (Source: MU)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 9 sampled reviews
8.1
/10
What 9 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 8
σ 1.59
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.59 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 0.11
Running avg · Feb 2013 → May 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “Honto Yajuu is a silly Yaoi smut series about a hot-headed uke that's part of the Yakuza and his super adorkable seme that's a cop. The story is super simple and it mostly focuses on the...”
- 10 “Just a really enjoying series overall - the characters are so incredibly like-able and refreshing, the story is simple but well paced and FUNNY. You actually get to see a couple interact as a...”
- 10 “This is personally one of my favourite manga. Despite the concept that could have so easily sunken the work due to stereotypical themes, it is written extremely well. The art is very aesthetically...”
Verbosity
Short · 33%
Medium · 44%
Long · 22%
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A Manga Publication
- Published Jul 2008 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M9640 catalog