Kanzaki is a business man returning back to his home branch after four years in a transfer. As he’s settling in on his first day back, he comes face to face with the man he spent the entire four years thinking about. The man in question, Futagami, has spent those same four years trying to forget all about Kanzaki…
About You’re All Mine Tonight
You’re All Mine Tonight is a boys’ love manga by Takiba and is published in English by Kodansha. Takiba is also the creator behind Light of My Life, which I reviewed a few weeks ago. In You’re All Mine Tonight, we meet Kanzaki. A business man who is returning to his job’s main office after working at a different branch for a few years. On the first day he’s back, he’s immediately confronted with a ghost from his past.
Nagi was a sex worker Kanzaki fell in love with 4 years ago, before his transfer. When he sees Nagi at his job, he’s instantly taken back to that place. However, Nagi, who now goes by his real name Futagami, is trying to leave the past behind. Now, the two must work together while trying to move on from what they shared four years ago.
My Thoughts
Bring back the yearners! My god, what a beautiful yearner Kanzaki is. Almost the entire manga is spent with Kanzaki not being able to get Futagami out of his head. As the two struggle to navigate how they move in the now, both of them haven’t entirely processed what happened in the past. Kanzaki has spent the last four years yearning for Futagami, while for Futagami these past for years have been spent trying to find a new “normal.”
One thing I enjoy about You’re All Mine Tonight is how Futagami’s past is handled. How he got into sex work is a part of a painful story, but there is no shame with him being a sex worker. Kanzaki knew that about him and loved him all the more. Futagami understandably has complicated feelings tying his worth to how his body and his “value” as a sex worker. Kanzaki’s return forces Futagami to revisit the past and start working through the pain.
You’re All Mine Tonight reminds my why I love times skip stories as much as I do. Kanzaki and Futagami are a beautiful reminder that somethings don’t work out in the past so that they can work in the future. They did have something special in the past but the truth was that both of them were not in a place to show up in the relationship fully. Meeting after some time had passed forced them to truly examine what went wrong before and work through to get it right this time.
Where to Buy You’re All Mine Tonight
You’re All Mine Tonight
Mangaka: Takiba
Translator: Adrienne Beck
Letterer: Dietrich Premier
Editor: Cayley Last
Publisher: Kodansha
You’re All Mine Tonight is available now.
Thank you to Kodansha and NetGalley for the ARC!
