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The Tyrant Falls in Love
Juné's cover for Vol 1 of the US license
恋する暴君
(Koisuru Boukun)
GenreYaoi, Comedy
Manga
Written byHinako Takanaga
Published byKaiousha
English publisherUnited States Juné
MagazineGush
DemographicJosei
Original runFebruary 2004 – 2011
Volumes8
Original video animation
Studioprimetime
Released June 25, 2010 – November 26, 2010
Runtime30 minutes
Episodes2
Audio drama
StudioInter communications, Movic
Original runAugust 20, 2005 – present
Episodes5

The Tyrant Falls in Love (恋する暴君, Koi suru Bo-kun) is an ongoing Japanese yaoi manga series written and illustrated by Hinako Takanaga. The Tyrant Falls in Love is a sequel to Takanaga's series Challengers.[1] The series has appeared on manga best-seller lists both in Japan and in Germany,[2] and the long-delayed US release has been labeled "one of the most highly-anticipated yaoi releases ever".[3] The series is currently licensed in English by Juné. It is also licensed in German by Tokyopop Germany under the title Verliebter Tyrann[4] and in French by Taifu Comics under the title The Tyrant Who Fall in Love.[5]

In 2010, a two-part OVA was released.[6] The production company, PrimeTime, only works on two-part yaoi OVAs.

In May 2011, Takanaga announced that she was finishing the series, but would draw at least one more volume of extra stories based on the manga and a sequel series featuring Morinaga's brother Kunihiro.[7]

Plot

The story picks up on Morinaga and Souichi's story where Challengers left off. Tetsuhiro Morinaga is a university student with a long-standing crush on Souichi Tatsumi, a senpai he assists with his research projects. In Challengers, Morinaga confessed his love to Souichi, who was shocked and repulsed. Morinaga thought about transferring schools, but Souichi, who is otherwise-friendless and emotionally dependent on Morinaga, insists that Morinaga stay and that they continue as friends without mentioning the incident again, leaving Morinaga convinced that his feelings will never be reciprocated.

At the start of The Tyrant Falls in Love, in 2004, Tomoe and Kurokawa had just moved to California for Tomoe's new job and Souichi hears that California has just legalized gay marriage. Souichi furiously calls Tomoe to tell him he shouldn't get any ideas about getting married but Tomoe hadn't heard about it at all since he had been busy working so Souichi's call did the exact opposite of what he wanted it to do and Kurokawa and Tomoe run off to get married. Souichi runs around yelling that he's going to go to America and kill Kurokawa and get a green card so he can become the Governor of California to re-ban gay marriage. Morinaga convinces him to calm down and drink with him instead and so he goes Morinaga's apartment to drown his sorrows, during which he accidentally finds and unwittingly drinks an aphrodisiac Morinaga has been given by his friend and hidden; Morinaga ends up raping Souichi despite his constant pleas for him to stop. This results in a dysfunctional, mutually-abusive relationship which develops slowly into a romance over the course of the series.

Characters

  • Souichi Tatsumi
Voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa
  • Tetsuhiro Morinaga
Voiced by: Kousuke Toriumi
  • Hiroto
Voiced by: Daisuke Hirakawa
  • Kanako Tatsumi
Voiced by: Ayaka Kyo
  • Taichirou Isogai
Voiced by: Toshihiko Seki
  • Tomoe Tatsumi
Voiced by: Kouki Miyata
  • Mitsugu Kurokawa
Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita
  • Yamaguchi
  • Kunihiro Morinaga
  • Junya Masaki

Production

The Tyrant Falls in Love was initially licensed in the US by DramaQueen, but had an extremely rocky road to English-language distribution. The license was initially announced at Otakon 2006;[8] due to financial difficulties,[9] the book was never released. In early 2008, DramaQueen announced that it was reorganizing and would bring The Tyrant Falls in Love into print imminently;[10] however, after repeated delays and at least two official solicitation dates, the series remained unpublished. The series was available in scanlation, but DramaQueen issued cease and desist orders.[11]

At the 2009 Yaoi-Con, Juné announced they had acquired the license and would be releasing volume 1 in Summer of 2010.[12]

Media

Manga

No. Original release date Original ISBN English release date English ISBN
1 February 10, 2005 [13]978-4877243982August 18, 2010[14]978-1-56970-172-0
2 November 10, 2005 [15]978-4877244309December 1, 2010[16]978-1-56970-173-7
3 December 9, 2006 [17]978-4877244835April 20, 2011[18]978-1-56970-174-4
4 April 10, 2008 [19]978-4877248444August 15, 2011[20]978-1-56970-175-1
5 June 10, 2009 [21]978-4877241292December 21, 2011[22]978-1-56970-176-8
6 July 20, 2010 [23]978-4877241971April 25, 2012[24]978-1-56970-238-3
7 November 10, 2011 [25]978-4796402453Aug 29, 2012 [26]978-1-56970-265-9
8 February 10, 2012 [27]978-4796402767Dec 26, 2012 [28]978-1-56970-281-9

OVA

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Drama CDs

Reception

References

  1. ^ "DQ BL Portal - The Tyrant Falls in Love". DramaQueen. Retrieved 2009-03-29. [dead link]
  2. ^ "Manga Fight - Charts Time". TZG2.0. July 13, 2007. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
  3. ^ Manry, Gia (December 19, 2008). "The Daily Shin Buun 12/19/08". AnimeVice News. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
  4. ^ "Verliebter Tyrann". Tokyopop.de. Retrieved 2 September 2011.
  5. ^ "Taifu Comics - Serie - The Tyrant Who Fall in Love". Taifu Comics. Retrieved 2 September 2011.
  6. ^ "The Tyrant Falls In Love/Koi suru Bo-kun OVA Listed". Anime News Network. 11 April 2010. Retrieved 12 April 2010.
  7. ^ Hinako Takanaga to End The Tyrant Falls in Love Manga - News - Anime News Network
  8. ^ "New DramaQueen Licenses". Comi Press. August 7, 2006. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
  9. ^ Gia Manry (June 2, 2008). "Drama Queen's Latest Drama". a geek by any other name. Retrieved 2009-04-01. [dead link]
  10. ^ Alverson, Brigid (March 31, 2008). "DramaQueen Relaunches". Publishers' Weekly. Retrieved 2009-06-05.
  11. ^ Gia Manry (May 25, 2008). "Quickie: More Trials and Tribulations of Drama Queen". a geek by any other name. Retrieved 2009-04-01. [dead link]
  12. ^ DMP (Oct 31, 2009). "Our big license: Tyrant Falls In Love by Hinako Takanaga-mid 2010". DMP (via Twitter). Retrieved 2009-10-31.
  13. ^ http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4877243984
  14. ^ http://www.junemanga.com/books/670/
  15. ^ http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4877244301
  16. ^ http://www.junemanga.com/books/675/
  17. ^ http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4877244832
  18. ^ http://www.junemanga.com/books/676/
  19. ^ http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4877248447
  20. ^ http://www.junemanga.com/books/677/
  21. ^ http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4877241299
  22. ^ http://www.junemanga.com/books/678/
  23. ^ http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4877241973
  24. ^ http://www.junemanga.com/books/762/
  25. ^ http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4796402454
  26. ^ http://www.junemanga.com/books/907/
  27. ^ http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4796402764
  28. ^ http://www.junemanga.com/books/1013/
  29. ^ http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B000AU1PEK
  30. ^ http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B000M342F4
  31. ^ http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B004V5G4QO
  32. ^ http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B005EO8B58
  33. ^ http://www.amazon.co.jp/Dramatic-CD-Collection-恋する暴君5-（アニメCD）/dp/B006U74Y68/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1328371357&sr=1-2
  34. ^ http://www.movic.co.jp/book/cgi-bin/search/listgen_c.cgi?MODE=0&DEF=cdsearch-normal&FILE=momoya&CLASS=blcd&SEARCH=%97%F6%82%B7%82%E9%96%5C%8CN

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