Manga Review: Comic AG - Super Erotic Manga Anthology

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Manga: Comic AG - Super Erotic Manga Anthology
Issue: No. 19 Aug 1, 2005
Genre: Hentai

So, after 20 minutes of just staring at the cover art, I decided it was about time I started looking through the contents. I flipped to the table of contents at the back and was surprised to see that the fourth comic, "Sexy Losers," was not by somebody with a Japanese-sounding name, but by someone named Clay B. I flipped to it and read the two 4-panel comics laid out in Japanese style from top to bottom and had a giggle or two -- then I sat there wondering if there was supposed to be some deep reason for its otherwise meaningless placement at the end of the anthology. Fortunately, my deep thoughts were interrupted by the sounds of my dog puking in the corner of my room, and ten minutes later, after I cleaned up the mess, I was able to get back on track to the porn.

The first chapter in this issue was actually chapter 12 of an apparently long-running series, Blue Eyes, by Tohru Nishimaki. The chapter was titled "Love Boat" -- rather appropriate since the chapter takes place at the beach. I'll get right to the point: I wasn't very turned on by the artwork. The girl's breasts are huge and round. When the guy offers to rub suntan oil on her, and when it eventually turns into foreplay, all I could really see was him playing with two inflated balloons. I am sorry to say that I had a hard time getting off on that. The bubbles were filled with the normal jabber of "your nipples are getting so hard" and whatnot, and had they accompanied a cuter girl with smaller breasts, I probably wouldn't have found it worth mentioning. My favorite line would have to be, "Getting a blowjob under the sun feels totally different." The chapter ends with the beginning of a not-very-interesting lesbian pair-up, and I was relieved to see that it ended there.

Four pages of ads later I finally reached the next chapter, "Off" by Marshmellow Jyuubaori. I was a bit thrown off at first because the mangaka's name is inconsistently credited as "Mashumaro" on the cover page, but since it's not a real cause for concern I guess it is a bit picky of me to point it out. The first page was pretty cute, but the fourth page made me lose my lunch, and the remnant of my erection (from the unsuccessful first story) shriveled down to the nubbin it had been before. I won't ruin what happens, but I didn't expect her to mean that when she said she had to "use the bathroom." Add a hermaphrodite into the mix and you've got a story set for disaster. Perhaps I've said too much. The art is actually pretty cute and I'm sure the situations presented would suit the taste of some other garage-dwelling geek, but not me. Thanks to that one scene, my disgust, an aspect of my sensibilities I once thought dead, was resuscitated and my general conscience found this story crude and implausible. However, I acknowledge that this story was not made for me, and it is very likely that there is a demographic for this sort of smut. I'll leave it up to the reader to determine if this is an exemplary work of art -- though I'm confident enough in my taste to say it isn't.

Anzu: The Shards of Memory chapter 2 by Kirikaze was number three in the lineup. The only mistakes I could remember were a few untranslated chicken scratches, a glaring misspelling of "principal" on the third page, and a mention of a "glass of juice" when what's next to the sedated secretary is clearly a juice container. But I'm not one to fixate on trivial mistakes, as you can see. One feature of Kirikaze's art is that a lot of his characters seem to share the same face, so it's hard for me to distinguish who is who. I'm assuming from the hints that the girl being raped in the first chapter was the class president who jumps off the roof in this one. Fortunately for me, the boys find a new target -- and a virgin at that -- so I was happily pleased with how this chapter turned out.

I don't consider this issue to be all that good since the first chapter took up way too many pages for a series I don't really care for. Unfair as it is, my subjective scrutiny cheats this issue of my usual praise. So I leave it to you, the reader.

Reviewer: Huhwhat
Proofer: anitra
Editor: Jiji