Innocence, 2nd ed.

By Kamogawa Tanuki
Released in the US by Icarus Publishing


Slugline: The standard assortment of porn fetishes, only now with women drawn as prepubescent girls.

Porn has a different goal in mind that most manga, which is why I rated this as high as I did despite disliking most of the fetishes than are on display here. Humiliation, servitude, the diminution of the female self in the pursuit of sex, perceived infantilization of the characters, especially the women, all do very little for me.

Of course, for some readers, these are positives. Does Innocence execute these fetishes in an interesting way? Reasonably well, and the art is well done. For the 2nd edition, there is a new short bonus section with more detailed art. The only story that captured my attention was My Girlfriend's Feelings, My Sister's Feelings, because it actually tried to be funny, as the girlfriend has to listen her boyfriend's sister disparage him despite knowing (through flashbacks) that he is anything but how she describes. Not brilliant, but a welcome different kind of story.

Innocence, 2nd ed. is available from Right Stuf, Intl., an online retailer specializing in anime and manga.

-Ferdinand

Please Miss Yuri

By Syowmaru
Released in the US by Icarus Comics


Slugline: What is it about nurse's offices?

Once again the school nurse's office is a den of iniquity. What is it about them that invites depravity? Probably because there are the only places in a school that has a bed and privacy, but really, can't people meet at their homes? I mean, it seems that everyone's parents are working a continent away, I think it would be more convenient to take care of these urges at home.

It's porn. It's teacher-student porn, with the punishment kink (oh, I am such a bad teacher, punish me) sort of stuff, but at least everyone seems to know that people are faking it in order to feed their kinks. The art is relatively nice and straightforward, without triple joints or violations of the laws of fluid dynamics. There are a couple backup pieces that spin off it in the back, but honestly, I was sort of blah about the whole thing. It's porn, it's competent but there wasn't anything there that really grabbed my attention.

-Ferdinand