kilrazan

This one is in an odd place, because it seems extremely targeted at a niche audience. It fits all the bills for looking to aim at Futanari fans, and yet somehow it fails to deliver any naughty scenes. It's like someone wanted to make a slice-of-life story for Futa fans that were bored of reading porn but still wanted to read a story about them.

The story is pretty middling - slightly above average. Nothing in particular to complain about, but it's by no means spectacular. I do enjoy that there's a real plot and story development compared to similar Manga (whose only purpose is for the author to deliver smut in various settings), but the story is one of the more generic romance that I've seen. Girl fawns after boy, but has self doubt because she doesn't even know his name and has self-image issues. Circumstances outside her control force her to meet him properly, and after a few chapters of will-they-wont-they, they get together. The ending is sweet, and I'll give it praise for that.

The art can be a bit hard to follow some times. It felt like there was a lot of unused space in many panels, and that the side characters were a bit too similar to differentiate. Overall it's not bad art at all, and there were a few panels that I thought looked quite pretty, it's just that it's bland most of the time.

The characters are the standout for me here. The protagonist feels believeable, the romance interest is interesting and has his own flaws that make him more than just a piece of meat to lust after, and the support characters have some backstory and character traits that make them interesting and welcome additions to the story.

Overall, I'd say that it wasn't bad, but I would have preferred it if the author had chosen to either actually develop the H aspect of the story, or downplay it, instead of trying to appeal to the Venn Diagram of "Wants to read about Dickgirls" and "Wants to read a mushy girl-meets-boy romance" at the same time.