The Tyrant Falls in Love

SarinPoison Mar 20, 2016

10

I LOVE Koisuru Boukun, or The Tyrant Falls in Love, and it is my second favorite manga.  Originally Souichi's homophobia turned me off, but then after I returned to it and kept reading I learned it's more of a learned behavior and confusion than anything.  Morinaga is very masochistic but because he sees the good in Souichi, enough to look past the bad. Yeah, it begins with a rape scene, but unlike the anime which ends too early, the manga treats it with real weight and makes it obvious that drugging and/or blackmailing someone into sleeping with you is NOT GOOD.  Compare this to other popular manga like Crimson Spell where Havi has sex with Demon Vald which starts as rape and then becomes consentual, which is brushed aside since it's a demon.  Or Junjou Romantica where Usagi repeatedly molests Misaki and because Misaki eventually consents and develops feelings for Usagi, it's brushed aside. Souichi is an amazing and realistic tsundere and I can relate to him a lot.  Morinaga I see as less relatable only because he's so perfect it's just... odd.  He deserves his nickname of "Angel-kun".  The art is much better than other work I've read by the same mangaka, and the plot is written in volume-long arcs without any overall plot other than them growing closer.  I thought they all deserved the highest marks. I totally love this manga and recommend it to anyone who can accept the rape scene for what it is and move past it.

whattonamemyself Aug 24, 2022

4

CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS - what really turned me off on this manga is the rope thing..... i wont forget the chapter when morinaga fricked souichi all night till the dawn..... like what the frick was that...... the reason why i decided to read further is, when souichi doesnt really hate it at all.. he said it himself.. and plus im hoping for character development and it didnt let me down coz morinaga actually changed for good gradually, when he finally asks for souichi's consent, however i wont still tolerate the rope thing that happened.

AbbyG Jan 6, 2020

9

I think I fell in love with the tyrannical sempai myself in the process of reading "The Tyrant Falls in love". Though I hated him through the volumes.. When he doesn't show his feelings, it just leaves a hollow feeling through your chest when morinaga is making so heartfelt attempts to win his love. I knew he cared for morinaga deep down but sometimes we need to see it. I loved how the sempai blushed and stuttered at little flirting. And lastly, I loved their love making. When I started reading this, I thought that the sempai will be the top. Who would have thought it's the other way around. Don't know why I have this mindset of thinking whoever is heighted will be the top. Hehe. It's still an ongoing series. Lets see how it progresses. It's a slow burn for me as of yet. I would have liked it a bit fast pace.