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If you read my previous ‘Yaoi Menace’ review (on the manga Freefall Romance), you are already familiar with the Three Basic Yaoi Plots. If you haven’t read it, go do so now. I can wait. OK, all finished? Then you’ll know what I mean when I say the first volume of Love Recipe by Kirico Higashizato follows Plot # 3.

Tomonari Ozawa is and has just landed his first job in the big city at a publishing company. He’s ecstatic until he reaches the department he has been assigned: Rose Boy, the firm’s very successful boy’s love magazine. He’s utterly horrified at the prospect, but, in true Japanese style, is still determined to do his best. Thus he begins his career making coffee, answering phones, and replying to fan mail, all under the watchful eyes of his co-workers, every one of whom is a BL fangirl. They’re all enchanted by his adorable looks and sweet personality, and before long Ozawa is being sent to retrieve manuscripts from writers who are pushing the magazine’s deadline. The writers (who are nearly all female) are equally charmed by Ozawa, and he quickly becomes the magazine’s most popular employee.

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