Twittering Birds Never Fly, Vol.1 by Kou Yoneda

He has a sexual fetish for scars and scabs. A doctor, he runs his clinic as a legitimate business during the day but tends to Yashiro's wounded underlings at night.

Kanji Kageyama ( 影山莞爾, Kageyama Kanji ) Voiced by: Hiroki Yasumoto (audio drama, film) Yashiro's friend since high school. He is handsome and stoic, but suffers from sexual impotence. He became Yashiro’s bodyguard to earn more money. Formerly a police officer, he was forced to leave after going to prison. Chikara Doumeki ( 百目鬼力, Dōmeki Chikara) Voiced by: Wataru Hatano (audio drama, film) Yashiro's personal bodyguard. He has difficulty in maintaining close personal relationships with others. While outwardly demanding but cheerful, he is secretly a sadomasochist who was sexually abused as a child by his step-father. Yashiro later discovers that Doumeki is impotent and pursues a sadomasochistic relationship with him.Ĭharacters Yashiro ( 矢代) Voiced by: Tarusuke Shingaki (audio drama, film) A high-ranking yakuza boss. Yashiro develops an attraction to Doumeki, who rejects his advances. He is assigned a new bodyguard, Chikara Doumeki, who discovers that his employer is a hypersexual masochist.

The series follows Yashiro, a young, high-ranking yakuza boss and president of a front corporation. It also inspired an original animation DVD (OAD) adaptation of Don't Stay Gold and an ongoing audio drama produced by Frontier Works. The manga was adapted into an anime film trilogy produced by Blue Lynx and animated by Grizzly beginning in 2020. A sequel to Yoneda's previous one-shot stories Don't Stay Gold (2008) and Though They Drift, They Do Not Sink, But Nor Do They Sing (2009), it has been serialized in the boys' love (BL) manga magazine ihr HertZ, formerly known as HertZ, since August 2011.

Twittering Birds Never Fly ( Japanese: 囀る鳥は羽ばたかない, Hepburn: Saezuru Tori wa Habatakanai ) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kou Yoneda.

Twittering Birds Never Fly, Vol.1 by Kou Yoneda