Dousei Yankee Akamatsu Seven (Bad Boys, Happy Home)

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Japanese: 同棲ヤンキー赤松セブン

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 3

Chapters: 17

Status: Finished

Published: Apr 1, 2018 to Dec 1, 2020

Genres: Boys Love, Slice of Life

Serialization: Kachicomi

Authors: SHOOWA (Story), Okujima, Hiromasa (Art)

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Ranked: #2219²

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MangaKachicomiSHOOWA (Story), Okujima, Hiromasa (Art)

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High school yankee Akamatsu regularly picks fights with Seven, a strong homeless man who lives in the local park. Fighting Seven is the biggest thrill in Akamatsu's life, so when it seems like Seven may have to leave the park, Akamatsu suddenly invites him to share his house!?

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Dousei Yankee Akamatsu Seven was published in English as Bad Boys, Happy Home by SuBLime from July 13, 2021, to January 11, 2022. It was also released in Spanish by Ediciones Tomodomo from April 19, 2021, to October 25, 2021.

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Akamatsu, Aisuke

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Kanzaki, Seven

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Sachiko

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Kanzaki, Eight

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Jun 22, 2022

Miem

Recommended

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I don't usually review anything. As far as I know this is my first review. I don't care if anyone will read this, I just have sooooo much to say about this manga.

Short review: this is the best BL work I have ever stumbled across. It's mature, the romance is great and doesn't feel forced, the characters are free from most annoying tropes, the art is really different from other BL, and it deals with topics such a homophobia and stuff like abuse in much better ways than probably any anime I've ever seen. It's definitely worth a read.

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Jan 7, 2022

faeryghost

Recommended

Boys’ Love is a fantasy. Most people should be aware of that by now. Works in the BL genre tend to present sanitized, flowery versions of gay relationships. These stories can be entertaining and dramatic, fluffy or tragic, but rarely do the characters feel truly representative of queer men. Oftentimes, that isn’t really the point. Many authors just want their work to be an accessible, simple escape from reality. Knowing this, I don’t approach BL manga with the expectation that my experiences will be accurately reflected by the narratives or characters.

That’s why I was surprised and delighted by “Bad Boys, Happy Home.” Akamatsu and Seven ... feel like real people to me. Unlike other BL couples, their romance isn’t conventionally soft, cute, or beautiful. The two of them are rugged, obnoxious, gross, and hilariously moronic. They don’t solve their problems with melodramatic declarations of love, but with ungraceful attempts at communication. Their deepest emotions aren’t conveyed through expository inner monologues, but through quiet scenes of pensive solitude. And when they share intimate moments together, their maneuvers are clumsy and uncertain.

This is not to say that Akamatsu and Seven are superior to other BL characters because they’re more traditionally masculine! Rather, their unique flaws and understated approaches to conflict resolution humanize them in a way that is rarely seen in stories like this. The same thing could be achieved with more feminine characters too, but most manga portray gender in a binary, idealized fashion that leaves little room for the nuance required to make a character feel “real.”

“Bad Boys, Happy Home” doesn’t completely transcend the bounds of the genre, though. Familiar tropes and archetypes are still sprinkled throughout the narrative here and there. In particular, the subplots involving Seven’s criminal past aren’t as interesting as they could have been, in my opinion. There are a few too many side-characters in these instances, making it all a bit hard to follow. Also, though the art is generally very well done, there are times when facial proportions can look unintentionally awkward. It’s infrequent, but it was enough to break my immersion at a few different points.

Despite those few complaints, I really enjoyed this manga and it’s definitely one of the best works of BL that I’ve ever read. This is the first time that I’ve seen myself, my relationships, so accurately represented in the pages of a story like this. It’s astonishing that it isn’t more popular given its quality and the novelty of its main characters. As it stands, “Bad Boys, Happy Home” is a hidden gem and I feel extremely lucky to have experienced it. Hopefully even more people will discover this manga as time goes on!

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May 5, 2026

Lightning_art7

Not Recommended

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This story is basically a slice-of-life story. And it would be better if it's only 1 or 2 volumes than 3 volumes, so it would be more like friendship than dating. And the "child pornography" subplot is just unnecessary. Which is weird. If Aisuke is a teenager and Seven is an adult in his twenties, why are they showering together or even Seven touching Aisuke's groin area during showers without consent? The first volume and the second volume's first half are just chill slice of life stories about two friends living in an apartment with the "duke it out" game, but the latter half of ...

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