It's been a while, and I decided to check the link again for that mediafire file, and it doesn't seem to be working right. Luckily, there is another source of Taming Riki on the Freedom of Speech fanfiction archive, possibly at the time uploaded by Kira Takenouchi herself. So if the link is not working anymore, with a quick easy search from Google or redirected from here, here's the link to the site:

http://fos-ff.net/viewstory.php?sid=4051&warning=5 [It could be that the website was taken down?? Anyways, but I think the link is broken now...]

Also, to those of you who don't know about Aarinfantasy, they are a free English subbing website for Japanese yaoi anime. I was really excited and pleased with the revamp of Ai no Kusabi series, so if any of you are having trouble finding a relatively good streaming source, I'll provide the links here. All it takes to access it is to sign up, which is free and easy.

[new] Ai no Kusabi Episode 1: http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/videos/390/%5Baarinfantasy%5D-ai-no-kusabi.html

[new] Ai no Kusabi Episode 2: http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/videos/395/%5Baarinfantasy%5D-ai-no-kusabi.html

[new] Ai no Kusabi Episode 3: http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/videos/399/%5Baarinfantasy%5D-ai-no-kusabi.html

[new] Ai no Kusabi Episode 4: http://aarinfantasy.com/forum/videos/401/%5Baarinfantasy%5D-ai-no-kusabi.html

Also, if anyone has a downloadable file of Taming Riki Volume 2 or know a website to view it, it would be greatly appreciated if you could comment and let me and everyone interested know!

Welcome to Taming Riki! =^^=

Now, if you're a fan of Ai no Kusabi, you'll have eventually at some point run into Kira Takenouchi's Taming Riki series, right? Her website had a restricted section for her fanfiction Taming Riki among her other original works. If you've ever read fanfiction before, you'll notice that most authors will put disclaimers saying that they don't own the work, and therefore, don't profit from it, though it's generally a given. While Kira Takenouchi would give credit of the story to the original writer Rieko Yoshihara, it was still a work of fanfiction, and it's my personal belief that she is illegally charging for something that most would post up for free.

Kira is notorious to the people who keep up with her works for her dramatic personal issues that interfere with her postings, famously appearing and disappearing from the internet, which she has again done. So, until she reappears at some point, I will happily share the awesomeness that is Taming Riki Volume 1.

Here's an Adobe format for this story downloaded from the original site a few years ago. (it has 16MB), [NO LONGER WORKING!! BROKEN LINK!! READ NEW POST!!]

The format has a few pictures to go with it from the original 2 OVA series of Ai no Kusabi and the original Japanese radio drama Dark Erogenous.

Enjoy!!!

[Disclaimer and Warning: The Taming Riki series was written by Kira Takenouchi, who based this series off of Ai no Kusabi written by Rieko Yoshihara. This is yaoi, meaning male/male relationships, and contains explicit sexual content and BDSM elements.]