Blue Eyes, vol. 3

By Tohru Nishimaki
Published in the US by Icarus Publishing


Slugline: An actual boyfriend! Admittedly a cheating, manipulative one, but still!

Tatsuya has seduced both his girlfriend Maria and her best friend Lisa to be his lovers, but he does not want to sneak between them as he has to with his liaisons with Maria's mother. So her sets up Maria and Lisa to accept sharing him openly in a menage atrois. Tatsuya then discovers that there are other women in Maria's family he has yet to seduce when visiting England and begins taking steps to correct this terrible oversight.

Tatsuya comes close to being a paragon of virtue for porn manga, for he is merely manipulative and arrogant when the standard is cruel, distant and abusive. Sure, he has to seduce every large breasted woman that wanders by, especially if they are related to his girlfriend, but the ogling and horndog behaviors are almost typical for teen boys. The art is rigid and the dialogue is stilted, but few porn titles had any worthwhile dialogue to begin with and women who merely violate the laws of biology/physics in breast size seem refreshingly normal. If this review seems overly forgiving perhaps it is because the last few adult titles that were in the review queue for Prospero's Manga were not finished once started because they were creepy and/or disturbing. This is a tolerable porn manga in which the characters' kinks and fetishes are not the stuff of crime dramas.

Blue Eyes, vol. 1 has been previously reviewed on Prospero's Manga - Mature.



Blue Eyes, vol. 3 is also available from Right Stuf, Intl., an online retailer specializing in manga and anime.

-Ferdinand

Extract

Presented by Kazu Shimao
Published in the US by Icarus Publishiing


Slugline: Meh. Can porn be boring?

An anthology of unrelated stories that span the many genres of the manga pornography, with the only major exception being there is no hermaphrodites lurking about. None of the stories are too offensive but neither are they particularly memorable. I suspect that in this case the shortness of the stores worked against the creator, for in most stories the characters are fixed in the mind with very little space given to create them. If there had been more pages devoted to some of the stories the characters could have emerged as more than just placeholders. The art was okay, a little busy, but no one appeared to be triple-jointed or had geysers of gallons of bodily fluids. It is a very workmanlike volume, not so bad I got offended for the characters but neither anything to look for or forward to.



Extract is available from Right Stuf, Intl., an online retailer specializing in anime and manga.

-Ferdinand