Souryu surprised me with Friends with Benefits - Part 1, I really liked Part 2, and Part 3 is no exception! The story is just as playful as the artwork, just a very wholesome story. This is a series I can come back to time and time again and will still enjoy just as much as the first time!
At first, Souryu didn't stand out to me. But the more I read his work, the more I can appreciate his sense of environment and space.
In a lot of hentai, the background is just there to fill space while the girl is the focus. But I've noticed in all of Souryus works, the girls look like they actually live in the space around them, and they feel more realistic for it. Excellent work.
I really enjoyed the first two of the series as well, but I felt like the scenes in this one had more detail. Absolutely loved the story and I will be waiting anxiously for the next one!
This series continues to be an absolute delight. The casual, blasé attitude the characters in Souryu's recent releases have towards sex might make the moments of sex difficult to get excited over, but that in and of itself is the charm. This series is not meant to titillate or arouse, more so than it is to just be what sex is to the characters involved; just a thing that they do for pleasure's sake and nothing else.
This series is primarily reading, as each panel is packed to the brim with about half a page's worth of dialogue, but the dialogue itself is fun, goofy, doesn't take itself too seriously, and just overall really does remind you of the irreverent ways in which close friends would actually speak to each other. Yet, pleasantly enough, the characters also never deride or put down one another. You really get a sense that they're comfortable around each other, but they also respect each other as well. It's difficult to strike a believable balance like that, and I think Souryu does a really commendable job at it.
Really looking forward to what new shenanigans these characters can get up to with, seemingly, another new character about to be thrown in the mix.