These SuBlime deluxe editions are by far the best. I’ve owned both the Be Beautiful editions and the June editions of Finder. Readers should be warned there is rape in the story, as befitting a story about Yakuza, Triad, drug dealers and smuggling. The main characters are all adults, the story is gritty and sometimes brutal. What hooked me on Finder was how different it was from so much high school yaoi. And Asami and Fei Long both just happen to come stay and take advantage of the new staff member. It’s a non-continuity story of Akihito working at a spa, to pay for his stay after his wallet was stolen. The first is a quick interlude when Asami shows up at Akihito’s place to “get out of the rain” and seduce him, of course! The second is a bonus for this deluxe edition. This new deluxe edition closes with two more Finder tales. I had forgotten that the first volume only has about one third devoted to Finder, the rest is composed of three short tales: 1) Love Lesson, a brief story of a high school student involved with his class president, 2) Plants in Love, another brief about two students who discover their single fathers are romantically involved and they find themselves attracted to each other also and 3) Risky Society, a longer story about secret agents on a mission who end up in bed together after one is injured on a mission.

Akihito ends up in danger again after trusting the wrong cop and is shocked when Asami saves him. Asami kidnaps him and “teaches him a lesson” on investigating the wrong people. Akihito is a news photographer who comes into the cross hairs of Asami, a powerful Yakuza boss, while perusing a story. I hadn’t yet read the latest 3 volumes, so I decided to re-read from the beginning.

I started Finder many years ago when it first was issued.

Finder, Vol. 1 by Ayano Yamane