Genre Yaoi Published by Tokyomangasha Demographic Josei | Written by Tomoko Yamashita English publisher Netcomics Published March 15, 2007 | |
Dining Bar Akira (Japanese: くいもの処明楽, Hepburn: Kuimonodokoro Akira) is a manga written and illustrated by Tomoko Yamashita. The manga was published in Japan by Tokyomangasha and in North America by Netcomics. A drama CD was released in Japan by Momogre on September 26, 2007.
Reception
Michelle Smith of Pop Culture Shock appreciates the need to earn trust in the relationship and the depiction of the men as being mature but hurt in the past, and felt vaguely dissatisfied by the open ending. Smith compares Yamashita's art to est em's. Kinukitty, writing for The Comics Journal-hosted blog Hooded Utilitarian, praised the artwork, and said of the story that " if you like your yaoi touchy, ill-tempered, and cross, with a twist of twisty, I think you’ll be into it". Dining Bar Akira made About.com writer Deb Aoki's reader's choice of yaoi manga list. Johanna Draper Carlson from Manga Worth Reading liked that it was about "a guy coming to terms with his feelings" and the acknowledgement that "relationships don't exist in a vacuum".