{"id":2368,"date":"2024-03-03T00:20:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T08:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2024-03-03T00:20:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T08:20:09","slug":"books-manga-demon-love-spell-by-mayu-shinjo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/03\/03\/books-manga-demon-love-spell-by-mayu-shinjo\/","title":{"rendered":"Books (Manga): Demon Love Spell by Mayu Shinjo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DLS-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2369\" style=\"width:509px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DLS-cover.jpg 333w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/DLS-cover-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Demon Love Spell <\/strong><br>by Mayu Shinjo<br>published in English by Viz \/ Shojo Beat (complete &#8211; 6 volumes)<br>2012-2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Miko is a shrine maiden who is terrible at detecting spirits, but she is game to cure a guy who appears to be possessed as he cheats on every girl at school.  Her prayer works &#8211; but she winds up with a handsome man-demon the size of a doll.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kagura, the incubus demon whose power comes from women&#8217;s desire, is vulnerable to attacks by other demons in this state.  Those rival demons swarm him &#8211; and are tempted by Miko&#8217;s beautiful spiritual energy to attack her as well.  Miko can&#8217;t even see them, unless she is touching Kagura &#8211; and oh, how he wants her touch and affection, so he can have the power to fight them off!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This comedy involves over-protective, spiritually powerful parents; a sexy, sexy demon; dreams of steamy passion; scary and\/or sexy demons; lots of posing; and frustration for both characters as their conflicting needs (Miko needs to remain a &#8216;maiden&#8217; and Kagura needs her not to) lead to silly situations as they fend off danger together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Kagura_8020-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Kagura_8020-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Kagura_8020-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Kagura_8020-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Kagura_8020.jpg 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>I laughed out loud.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Demon Love Spell<\/em> is light-hearted and slapstick, and completely unlike worrying about my job.  Part of its charm is that it is complete (no waiting!) and concludes tidily at the end of volume 6 &#8211; &#8216;will they or won&#8217;t they&#8217; suspense is best kept brief!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was entertained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Demon Love Spell by Mayu Shinjopublished in English by Viz \/ Shojo Beat (complete &#8211; 6 volumes)2012-2014 Miko is a shrine maiden who is terrible at detecting spirits, but she is game to cure a guy who appears to be possessed as he cheats on every girl at school. Her prayer works &#8211; but she &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/03\/03\/books-manga-demon-love-spell-by-mayu-shinjo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Books (Manga): Demon Love Spell by Mayu Shinjo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[248,128],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-comedy","tag-manga"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/2372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}