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SensouJoshi

  • Canada
  • Joined Jan 17, 2019
  • 26 / F

Ai Daro

May 15, 2020

There are three stories: a pair of friends-with-benefits salarymen; a sempai and his kouhai; and a young man with a hero complex who rescues  the masochistic lover of a young gang leader. 

The stories are all kind of meh and open-ended leaving you dissatisfied but not enough to really care what happened to these characters in the future. I will say though that it's nice the mangaka made an attempt to create a few side-characters in each story, but, alas, none of them was particularly interesting or memorable. 

The art-style is sketchy and looks old-fashioned. You know, gangly young men with girly faces and disproportionally-small heads on gigantic bodies, whose first appearances in the manga are announced by flowers. 

I also found it hard to figure out some of the characters' motives for their actions. The exchange between the M and his lover in the final story panel is a perfect example if you manage to make it to the end. It's almost as if the mangaka ran out of time/pages. 

Overall, a dull read. 

5.5/10 story
6/10 art
5.5/10 characters
5.5/10 overall
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