Published in the U.S. by Icarus Publishing
Slugline: For boys and girls who like to boss each other around
Like everything else Icarus releases, this is porn. Not romance, not fluffy hearts and flowers and shamrocks, but porn. So don’t come back complaining to me if after reading this you realize that the characters' emotional arcs don’t ring true.
This is a collection of non-connected shorts that range the gamut from incest to student/teacher relationships, and even a few about school couples who are in their relationships willingly. There is an aspect in the stories of pushing the other into the sex act, but cases of blackmail and true unwillingness are thankfully few in this volume. (That is one of my pet peeves about erotic/porn manga: very little of it seems to fall into the consensual realm, and while this is just fiction, I ask for at least a vague semblance of reality.) "Flower Girl", "Awkward Feelings" and "Six Years" were the best stories in it, especially in the first two which had some attempt at characters, women who went after what they wanted, and a sense of humor about the situation.
The art is exaggerated in all the standard ways that one will find in this sort of manga: all the women are contortionists and double jointed, apparently, but the art is competent and there is a nice touch that the men’s faces are detailed and shown, rather than in shadow or made ambiguous, so it actually feels like a story rather than leaving the guys blank slates for the readers to project themselves into.
Any Way I Want It is available from Right Stuf, Intl., an online retailer specializing in anime and manga.
-Ferdinand
