Hanky Panky
Story and Art: Koreaki Kamuro
Published by the Deux Press Imprint of Aurora Publishing, Inc.
ISBN-10: 1934496251
ISBN-13: 978-1934496251
Review by Linda Yau
Hanky Panky is a collection of one-shots, where each of the stories features characters that develop a crush or act on a pre-existing crush. The cover is pretty attractive, and I heartily recommend picking up this steamy book. In the title story of Hanky Panky, Manaka has a double life by daytime he is a geeky college student, but at night he is Itsuki the sexy hot host club owner. Now what is he to do after his classmate Doi seeks a job at his club, and shows sexual interest in him as Itsuki, but not as Manaka?
The Truth is… is the second story where Miki as a high schooler has a serious secret crush on his friend’s older host club owner brother Kensho. Now what would be Kensho’s response after Miki gave an reckless answer for his plans after high school?
In Lovers, Only Tonight, Suzuki spends one night drunk at a strangers apartment. The next morning he is confronted by a man calling him coach. Suzuki does not recognize him, and quickly leaves the place. Years before, Suzuki was a coach, and left after his confidence was shattered by Makio, so is this the boy?
A Kiss and Beyond has Ehara and Saki as childhood friends. Now Ehara always makes his girlfriends angry at him by cheating with others. This is noted by Saki, but what would happen if Saki was Ehara’s significant other?
The last story is One Sweet Position with coworkers Kei and Tatsuya. Kei is attracted Tatsuya, but how is he to react to Tatsuya’s apparent wife and child? Have another relationship or leave?
A Lovely Punch brings us back to the couple from Hanky Panky in a public/compromising situation, so now what is Manaka/Itsuki suppose to do?
Only criticism I found with this book, is always something I found with the one-shots, they are too darn short, that characters and plot might not be develop, so if there was a sequel for any of these stories, it would be nice.
Kris wrote an earlier review for this book as well.