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When I first saw the cover of US edition I though I made a mistake with its Encyclopedia entry (which has a very different title picture), but after comparing English and Japanese plot summaries I was sure they were the same. I wonder how Shiba got a wolf-like tail?

(Shibainu have short, curly tails, often yellow-brownish)

OMG, Casey finally panned a BL GN!

Okay, unfair, I'm sure she's done that before, but I still feel she tends to give cliched series a free pass if they just happen to have a male romance. Please feel free to deluge me with articles proving me wrong, it would actually make me feel better.

Not that I'm surprised about a bad review here: this sounds utterly awful.

Aw, that's a shame. After reading President's Time and finding it utterly hilarious, I was kind of tempted to check this out despite my dislike of furries and having virtually no interest in the title otherwise.

Although, to be fair, the reason I enjoyed President's Time so much was solely because of the non romantic or man loving aspects, as the off beat characters and amusing shenanigans paired with it's awesomely absurd storyline made for a fun read. If you took out all the ridiculousness and just had the romance though, it probably would have really sucked, and that's what it sounds like Ruff Love essentially is. So generic BL cliches and people screwing their dogs- that's a pass for me.

Clearly you people have not spent enough time on the internet.

Animal ears/tail =/= furry. Furry refers to a bipedal talking animal that still has its fur/claws/snout/etc. If it's human with animal ears/tail then it's just a kemonomimi.

I haven't actually read this (nor do I plan to), but from what I've seen this series contains more of the latter than the former. learn2fetish terminology.

I liked The President's Time, but the artwork was kind of messy and not really drawing me in. I've avoided Ruff Love, not for that reason, but because the whole anthropomorphic thing has never interested me. I read Man's Best Friend, which was sort of cute, but I was still not that into it. Takashima's style is a little too bland for my palatte (Wild Rock was also cute, but boring).

I wish ANN reviewed BL more often, and earlier. We get title reviews for anime up to weeks before their actual street date, but Ruff Love has been out for over a month now. As a BL fan, I keep up with releases as they come out, so I am often the first person I know who decided to take a chance on a title and by the time I see reviews of it online, I have already bought and read it myself. Of course, in this case I already decided this title wasn't my thing and this particular review simply reinforced my lack of desire to try it.

As for Deux picking bad titles for their licenses, it happens all the time (and not always because the English publisher chose poorly). They have equally good/more accurate title translations as well. Miyamoto's Lovers and Souls was a direct translation and while some prefer the "closer," Road of No Return, I Shall Never Return wasn't a "bad" choice. They're a newer publisher and they simply don't have that impressively sized of a catalogue yet to judge their overall ability to choose good title translations.

i think it sounds fun =3 any idea where i can read the manga or even maybe watch an anime of it?

but i do agree that for such an interesting manga the name is kinda... strange but at the same time dogs go "ruff" right? this dog wants to show his owner kindess for being there to the end =)

Jeeze.
Would Casey PLEASE, PLEASE review one of Miyamoto Kano's excellent BL instead of the mediocre-to-wierd stuff that's been reviewed on ANN lately?

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