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Yakuza Perfume (Blue Moon) | 
 enlarge | Author: Akahige Namban
Publisher: Running Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1481117
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 208
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.6
ISBN: 1562012274
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781562012274
ASIN: 1562012274
Publication Date: March 30, 2001
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While still recovering from their ordeal in the Kiso Mountains of Central Japan, Japanese American brothers Jim and Andy are surprised by a female agent of the Clouds and Rain Company, seeking refuge with them. After she leaves they are accused of having stolen the secret of the sexually intoxicating pheromone perfume that is the basis of the company's power. They set out to find the real thieves and prove their innocence, while embarking on lustful adventures along the way.
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 Lovers Not Fighters November 16, 2008
fredtownward (Palatine, Illinois United States)
Pushing the climax of the previous book into this one in order to make room for more sex scenes might have been forgivable; pushing it between the books in order to make room for more sex scenes in this book really is not. At the end of Tokyo Story separated-at-birth brothers Jim Suzuki and Andy Middler have learned precious little beyond a few intriguing clues about their parentage, but by the beginning of this book they have returned home to Tokyo after having successfully tracked down their fathers. The details of this meeting and any explanations offered by their fathers for their mysterious past behavior are never revealed! Instead the first seven chapters consist entirely of women they met during their journey of discovery showing up in Tokyo for another go at the brothers. The resulting absence of character development and repetitive nature of the episodes actually manages to make the sex scenes boring!
At this point I was almost ready to quit reading in disgust and write a scathing review, but in chapter eight Namban FINALLY gets around to launching the plot. For reasons never made entirely clear the boys' fathers have sent a sample of their new aphrodisiac perfume and a computer disk containing the formula for it to the boys, and after the usual orgy with the female courier, Japanese gangsters show up demanding the items, and then the courier vanishes along with the items.
Naturally (!) the boys' fathers accuse their sons of being in on the plot so it is up to Jim and Andy to split up and find the missing courier, recover the missing items, and thus clear their names. Unfortunately Jim and Andy are not exactly cut out to be heroes; in fact they are really a couple of cowards. Fortunately here is where Mr. Namban finally gets clever as our boys decide to go with their strengths and f*ck their way around the world playing detective, and it turns out that the penis is also mightier than the sword!
Despite the poor beginning Namban arguably manages to pull out a satisfying ending (in more ways than one), but this series is clearly inferior to his other series set in Tokugawa Japan: Chrysanthemum, Rose, and the Samurai, Shogun's Agents, Women of the Mountain, Warriors of the Town, and The New Concubine. One final criticism is that Namban makes the mistake of trying to write a devout Christian character, and the result is just embarrassing. Namban's novels work because he knows Japanese people very well, the same cannot be said about his knowledge of Christians.
 Not a repeat performance that's for sure June 12, 2001
Rudolf Spoerer (Weston, FL United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I read 'Crysthantenum Rose and the Samurai' by the same author and I think that maybe someone told him to skip the plot in his next book and get right to the sex .... Well he's certainly accomplished that in this book ...The book is the story of identical twin Japanes American brother (different fathers but thats another story I guess) who are trying to protect the secret perfume recipie .. like coronel Sanders ..... Ok so in chapter 1 the two brothers do Michiko and Hana .. In chapter 2 its Millicent .. In chapter 3 its Kauro and Millicent again ... In chapter 4 its Matsuko Baba .. In chapter 5 in comes Natsumi ... In chapter 6 hello Chieko and Mineko In chapter 7 Matsuko comes back but chapter 8 we find Mayumi .. OKOK so you get the picture ... There were occasions when I said I'd never finish this book but believe it or not I did finish it .... So if you don't want to be bothered with plot, scene description, character development or those kinds of things but like the physical part of erotic books then this book is for you .....
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