STORY: 4 Meet Eita and Kaoki a couple in their first relationship at 19 years old. Eita the boyfriend is your average bland university student. Kaoki his girlfriend has a frail body and she has to live in an hospital potentially most of her life. She is sadly stuck in a room while people her age enjoy the peak of youth. Now guess who is the story going to focus on and empathize with? .. Right Eita And guess what is the main problem in that story? .. The right of Eitas weewee to access a vagina Oh my god you must be clairvoyant ART: 4 The only thing noticeable here is that breasts are a bit more realistic than usual. Oh the author is a woman that might help. Besides panels are quite generic and empty. POLITICAL POTENTIAL: 3 Just the same protagonist as in so many masculinist manga: feeling sorry about himself without empathy and far from being able to do anything collective. FEMINISM: 3 Here we go: our male hero is a pathological liar sleeps around and is a selfish coward. He treats Kaoki and others terribly and the scenario is totally ok with that. Have you noticed how many manga have that kind of characters as main protagonist? As the story progresses the author even uses some convoluted events to make us more understanding of Eitas actions while showing the two main female characters as more and more manipulative. Masculinist manga often use that kind of development where the male hero starts off as a huge jerk but then women characters act progressively even worse so that in the end the readers sympathy goes to the male hero. I wonder how many manga are centered on and siding with a girl who sleeps around while her boyfriend is having a hard time at the hospital? Eita has a lot of sex and if you are expecting a bit of subversion because the author is female you will be disappointed. For example one scene has Eita come in the mouth of his coworker and she teases him Im going to kiss you before I wash my mouth which makes him look disgusted and saying Im not into that stuff. We are supposed here to adhere to the virilist view that women tasting sperm is totally ok even natural whereas real men should not be subjected to that otherwise that would be gay. This asymmetry comforts sex as something to dominate women rather than sharing with acts that are implicitly degrading being penetrated tasting sperm.. since men dont want to be subjected to those. The gold for unfair narration comes when Eita gets beat up by the boyfriend of the kind coworker he was banging for four days. When that happens the girl already has bruises all over her body and face which points to a very serious situation. But Eita does not care at all: his only reaction is that he is feeling disappointed that she is looking away when he gets attacked. Did Eita call the police after the attack if not for himself to protect the girl from further abuse? No. Did he contact her after she sent him a text to apologize and said that she quit her job to not embarrass him? No our hero simply erases her number and in less than two days after the assault has sex with another girl he had bonded with by pretending he was a virgin like her. CONCLUSION: 3 Even if you can ignore the masculinism spoiling this average story just skip it. Theres much better titles out there and if you are ok with that kind of story just go read Boys on the Run by Kengo Hanazawa.
30 /100
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