10 dance bl manga

Running in Young Magazine the 3rd in Japan, 10 Dance is Satoh Inoue’s debut manga series and her first to be translated into English.

I hesitated for a long time before getting this manga because I worried that it would read like a dance instruction manual, but I was wrong. It simmers with sensuality. Every page is bubbling with sexual tension between the two leads as they learn to dance each other’s styles for a competition they both want to (separately) take part in.

Secondly, I flipped through this manga in a bookstore and thought it didn’t really look like yaoi. I was wrong again. So far volume 1 is filled with primarily innuendos, but the two characters are definitely moving in that direction. One man has been a long-time admirer of the other, though keeps that secret to himself; the other is developing an apparent attraction that even he is unaware of at this point. When they are separated due to another dance competition, they clearly pine for one another. And this manga is at least six volumes long, so there’s plenty of time for their relationship to grow.

I ran across this manga in the Libby app while looking for something else and was immediately intrigued – the idea of a fancy ballroom dance competition with TWO kings – and all the preceding drama of two prima donnas duking it out while trying (and likely failing) to avoid falling in love seemed like a fun read. I absolutely have two left feet, so I’ve always appreciated the art that goes into professional dance, and the dance imagery – combined with the deft skills of the illustrator – was beautiful to behold. Both our MMCs are complete divas in their own ways, and the tension is guitar-string-tight even in the first novel, so I look forward to seeing what kinds of compromising positions our reluctant lovebirds will be getting into in the next novel!

This manga was interesting. We are introduce to the emperor of ballroom dance and the king of Latin dance.