Ruff Love
{{Short description|Japanese manga}}
{{Infobox animanga/Header
| name =
| image = Ruff Love NB.jpg
| caption = Cover of the Japanese release
| ja_kanji = シバといっしょ。
| ja_romaji = Shibato Issho.
| genre = Yaoi
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Print
| type = manga
| author = Tamaki Kirishima
| publisher = Nihonbungeisha
| publisher_en = {{English anime licensee | NA=Aurora Publishing}}
| demographic = Josei
| magazine = Nichibun Comics
| published = December 28, 2006
| first =
| last =
| volumes = 1
| volume_list =
}}
{{Infobox animanga/Footer}}
{{nihongo|Ruff Love|シバといっしょ。|Shibato Issho.|lead=yes}} is a one-shot Japanese manga written and illustrated by Tamaki Kirishima. The manga was serialized in Nihonbungeisha's manga magazine, Nichibun Comics. Nihonbungeisha released the manga's tankōbon volume on December 28, 2006.{{cite book|script-title=ja:シバといっしょ。 (ニチブンコミックス)|language=Japanese|id={{ASIN|4537105690|country=jp}}}} It is licensed in North America by Aurora Publishing,{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2008-04-26/aurora-publishing-adds-hitohira-three-boys-love-manga|title=Aurora Publishing Adds Hitohira, Three Boys-Love Manga|date=2008-04-26|publisher=Anime News Network|accessdate=2009-07-24}} which released the manga through its yaoi imprint, Deux Press, on August 8, 2008.{{cite web|url=http://www.deux-press.com/manga_volume.aspx?mvid=26|title=Ruff Love: One-Shot|publisher=Aurora Publishing|accessdate=2009-07-24}} The manga is licensed in Taiwan by Ever Glory Publishing, which released the manga on October 5, 2007.{{cite web|url=http://www.egmanga.com.tw/Manga2005/03_gbooks/eggbooks27.jsp?no=5075|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071022153358/http://egmanga.com.tw/Manga2005/03_gbooks/eggbooks27.jsp?no=5075|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 22, 2007|script-title=zh:柴犬的報恩．霧島珠樹|publisher=Ever Glory Publishing|language=Chinese|accessdate=2009-07-24}}
Reception
Comics Village's Lissa Pattillo comments on the manga's art, saying, she "liked the sketchy look it had and I liked the anatomy during some sex scenes where it’s shown that the characters actually have a little bit of realistic flesh on their frames. Shiba was pretty adorable, wide-eyed and scruffy. I don’t have as much positive to say about Taketora, who not only suffered from some uneven anatomy but from a facial design that I just didn’t find very visually appealing (big lips are too big)."{{cite web|url=http://www.comicsvillage.com/review.aspx?reviewID=439|title=Guest Review: Ruff Love|last=Pattillo |first=Lissa|publisher=Comics Village|accessdate=2009-07-24}} Pop Culture Shock's Michelle Smith comments on the "few genuinely funny panels, like those in which Akatsuki (another dog-person who moves in with Taketora and Shiba) entertains himself by playing with a frog."{{cite web|url=http://www.popcultureshock.com/manga/index.php/reviews/manga-reviews/the-truth-about-cats-and-dogs/|title=The Truth About Cats and Dogs|last=Smith|first=Michelle|date=November 12, 2008|publisher=Pop Culture Shock|accessdate=2009-07-24|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090912081352/http://www.popcultureshock.com/manga/index.php/reviews/manga-reviews/the-truth-about-cats-and-dogs/|url-status=usurped|archivedate=2009-09-12}} Anime News Network's Casey Brienza criticises the book, saying, "nothing about this book manifests creative conviction—not the plot, not the characters, not even the furry fetish."{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/review/ruff-love/gn|title=Ruff Love GN|last=Brienza|first=Casey|date=December 12, 2008|publisher=Anime News Network|accessdate=2009-07-24}} Dru Pagliassotti, comparing romance novels with Boys Love manga, mentions Ruff Love as an example of a kemonomimi "society", or setting.{{Cite book |author=Pagliassotti, Dru |author-link=Dru Pagliassotti |chapter=Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction |pages=63–64 | editor-last=Pagliassotti|editor-first=Dru |editor2-last=Levi|editor2-first=Antonia| editor3-last=McHarry|editor3-first=Mark
| title=Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre|date=30 April 2010 | publisher=McFarland & Company
| publication-date=2010|isbn=978-0-7864-4195-2}}