FAKE Volumes 1-7 by Sanami Matoh

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Ryo and Dee, two of New York City's finest, are called in to investigate the activities of some two-bit street punk. The operation goes south rather quickly when Dee is kidnapped and Ryo must put all of his skill and training to the test to get his partner back in one piece. Their partnership is on the line as electrified emotions raise feelings between the two guys that are hard to ignore.

It’s so strange to come back to FAKE as an adult, because I read it when I was... Maybe fourteen? So I can trace at least some of my reading interests (and probably most of my tolerance for sexual harassment in manga) back to this one weird retro m/m police procedural manga from the nineties. The manga follows two New York detectives as they fight crime, raise a kid, and deal with their GALLOPING PERSONAL ISSUES.

You can read my original review at ladybusiness.

[Caution warning: racist and ablist insults/slurs, murder, off-screen torture and rape, sexual harrassment, microaggressions]