[Locked] [Manga] Shoujo Material

Raze · 2008-07-20T16:50:39+00:00

The first whole-tankoubon project our team will undertake, Shoujo Material by Naruko Hanaharu! Shoujo Material is a bestselling eromanga tankoubon by renowned ero-artist Naruko Hanaharu. It is a collection of several unrelated stories, and is perhaps unique in the sense that the focus of the stories included in the tanko is not only sex, but usually also involves a twist or plot. Translator: Raze, Kylaran Editor: Nikon, Conak, Conan, Mike Chapter 1: Two-Quarters A nice and short full-color chapter, involving two contrasting girls and guys in a swimsuit orgy. Doesn't make too much sense I suppose until you get to the end, but even then the twist is still rather subtle. Nikon and I released this under the pseudonym group name "Suteki", and I think only one person realized it was by us. Oh well. Chapter 2: Two-Quarters Continued Expands and concludes the previous chapter, involving the same characters. Chiaki's sexual orientation is made clear during this chapter. Takashi introduces Eri and Kazuhiko as being in a è…�ã‚Œç¸�, which is basically a relationship that has burnt itself out but is unbreakable due to necessity. Due to the limited space, I translated it as “inseparable”. Chapter 3: Forehead This is Naruko-sensei's debut ero-manga chapter. I interpreted Fujiki's obsession with foreheads and his desire to mark them with a scalpel as a metaphoric comparison to a girl's virginity. His comparison of the unmarked forehead to an undisturbed snowfield and the pleasure of leaving his mark is a twisted projection of forever leaving a mark in a girl by taking her virginity (which he did to Naoko before attempting to scar the girl’s forehead). As for the ending, I'll leave it open to interpretation. Chapter 4: Red Water The pervading theme of this chapter is that through dialysis, the blood that flows in Aya's and Kuno's bodies are one and the same, and that this blood connection allows the two to share their feelings and emotions. So Kuno, who’s unable to give Aya pleasure because he’s impotent, basically hands Aya’s first experience on a dish to the Doc (who, apparently, also happens to be in love with Aya) so that he could experience Aya's feelings of sexual pleasure through blood for the last time. Doesn’t quite click for me, but there you go. Neither do I know whether there is any real biological grounds for the conveyance of emotions through blood dialysis. Chapter 5: The Leaping Ferris Wheel The "leaping" part of the name refers to how the boyfriend can reach various gondolas instantly through that special door. è¸Šã‚‹ normally means "to dance", but under this context it assumes the meaning of èº�ã‚‹ (to leap). According to Naruko-sensei, the impetus for this chapter was the lyrics of a song by the Japanese band "the pillows". It's about a ferris wheel rumored to always cause couples who ride it to break up. Note that right after the boyfriend gets the correct gondola, he instantly forgot everything that had happened. Not quite sure about the significance of that glove at the end though; if all of this was just an illusion, what is that glove doing there in the girlfriend's gondola? Chapter 6: Scrambled Egg This one starts off weird, but is really quite touching. This chapter plays on a traditional Japanese folk tale, é¶´ã�®æ�©è¿”ã�— (Tsuru no Ongaeshi). I've briefly summarized the tale in the following spoiler box: Spoiler:One day, a poor old man finds a crane injured by an arrow on his doorstep. He takes it in and nurses it back to health, and upon recovery, the crane flies away. Soon afterwards, a beautiful young woman shows up and asks the man if she could stay for a while. After discussing it with his wife, the man agrees to let her stay. The beautiful woman took it upon herself to look after the couple in every way, doing all the housework, such as cooking, cleaning, laundry etc. The elderly couple grew to love the young woman like their daughter. Seeing how poor the elderly couple were, the young woman offers to weave for them wonderful fabric called "The Crane's Weaving" that the man can sell at the market for lots of money, on the condition that they are not to watch her weave it. The couple agree, and the woman secludes herself in a room for several days weaving the fabric, even during the night. Soon, the woman emerges with the completed fabric. The old man takes the fabric to sell at the market the next day, and gets a ton of money for it. He tells his wife about it, and the wife becomes interested in finding out why the fabric is so desirable and suggests that the husband take a peek to see how the woman weaves. The husband agrees. He peeks into where the woman should be, and instead finds a crane plucking its feathers from its body and using it to weave the fabric. Because he broke the promise, that night, the crane leaves the house and flies away, never to return. The next day, the elderly couple wake to find a letter in the woman's room saying that she was the crane the old man had saved on his doorstep, and that she could no longer stay with them anymore now that they know her true form. Kou keeps talking about how Noriko seems to constantly try to repay him for a previous debt (which is what ongaeshi means), mentioning it to her once (the fact he goes on to suggest that Noriko probably starts weaving fabric in the middle of the night is a dead giveaway). Regardless, an interesting role reversal occurs, and the chapter ends on a very emotional note. "“Kou", the guy’s name, is a pun on a Japanese word commonly used by small children meaning “rooster” (ã‚³ãƒƒã‚³). Chapter 7: U.F.O. The Japanese Crested Ibis (or "Toki") is a severely endangered species, currently subject to extensive breeding projects by China and Japan in an effort to prevent their extinction. Naruko-sensei demonstrates rather ingeniously in this chapter what it must be like for those poor ibises in the breeding programs, who are basically forced, behaviourally and biologically, to breed over and over again. Apparently, some news about Japanese Ibises came up while Naruko-sensei was drawing this chapter, and it made a deep impression on him. He also says that he chose to use the "Honneamise" language for the alien dialogue, and thus is decipherable... or should be. Chapter 8: Say Hello to Me Tomorrow This chapter is something Naruko-sensei always wanted to draw after watching “Memento” (which is a great film I highly recommend to everyone). Like the protagonist in “Memento”, Natsuko here suffers from anterograde amnesia, where all memories after a traumatic event are lost. The very nature of anterograde amnesia lends itself to some awesome plots (and really has been used quite a few times, even in anime; Kimi ga Nozomu Eien and e.f. come to mind), and this one is no exception. Chapter 9: Kura Part 1 Kura here meaning “warehouse”. I’m of the opinion that Kayoko orchestrated the bus driving off the cliff, thus extending Kousuke’s stay. Chapter 10: Kura Part 2 And so it is revealed that we have an incestuous family where the men have enormous libidos, and all the women (and lolis) in the household have been violated by the horny old geezer. Mike and I both agreed that Kayoko was pretty darn hot. To quote what I wrote in the original credits page: “Kayoko is hot. Kyouko is a loli. Harue is a slut. And Eisuke is a fag.” A pretty apt summary in my opinion. Kayoko refers to Eisuke as “Ojii-san” which is typically understood to refer to old men (as in grandfather-type old), though it can also mean uncle (older brother of one’s father). The confusing thing is, Kousuke reveals towards the end that Kayoko and Kyouko are his younger half-sisters born from a different mother (è…¹é�•ã�„ã�®å¦¹), but Kayoko and Kyouko have a niece/uncle relationship with Eisuke, AND their mother is Eisuke’s sister… you get my point. This is why incest is bad. Chapter 11: To The Coast So all you need to do to get laid with a cute big-breasted virgin girl in Japan is pretend to travel the whole of Japan by bike, get your bike broken in front of her house, comment that it looks like she’s stroking a guy’s dick when she’s milking her cows, and then offer her your dick to stroke. That, and the fact that the guy basically comes inside her one frame after he puts it in. I understand that you’re short of pages Naruko-sensei, but… less udders and more sex plox? Oh well, it was still a pretty nice chapter. Short Full Color Omake Nikon and I decided that we’d fix the Engrish on the bottom. Basically we sort of worked backwards and figured out the Japanese line the Engrish was derived from, and then translated it into English. In other words, Engrish to Japanese to English. Neither of us had any idea what “It’s cover’s” meant, so we dropped it.

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Matatabi

15 years ago

*tears of happiness* Finally done...

Awwyeah!!!

wilsonxmct

15 years ago

DAM HOLY MAMA!!! If i was surrounded by those gilr especially underage with not too fkat and not too big of the boobs I will be Like in hte heaven!! with this i can man........ I wish I can be surounded by them(I'm Specchless) and By the way why the FAKKU.net was like offline for some few days I was like deperess and i was worry about the web was went down. Luclky my insiting tell me that they will return and there I got it LOL!!

VGuy

15 years ago

As always, I thank you Fakku! team for providing us with such great fapping material. Kudos on all your hard work, and I can only hope you keep it up.

Thanks a bunch!

P.S. I thought Shoujo Material was so frikkin' awesome that I got a portrait style screenshot posted on the wall in my room. True awesomeness.

geo_cross

15 years ago

thank you FAKKU, this is an amazing effort, as always. congratulations for the great job!.

deathwaltz

15 years ago

Good job there...
Fakku is the best!
Thanks!

yoshi_a

15 years ago

Nice job. And guess thanks are in order. :D
Job well done

Best of luck with future work.

konstatera

15 years ago

thanks a lot

KPT

15 years ago

Damn, do i love Naruko Hanaharu's artwork. I'm feeling a sudden urge to pick up and dust off my tablet...

pluki7

15 years ago

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Yes!!!

Khac

15 years ago

Thanks for the release guys.

Jacob

15 years ago

KPT wrote...

Damn, do i love Naruko Hanaharu's artwork. I'm feeling a sudden urge to pick up and dust off my tablet...

I like where this is going.

Onoken

15 years ago

Nice one. Many thanks to Fakku for this release. The stories are quite good and since I look for good plots (yeah quite weird) when reading a doujinshi this one really caught my attention.

bungun

15 years ago

amazingggggg.......

panleeme

15 years ago

So good~

beastboy

12 years ago

The girl with the school uniform and pink ribbons, which chapter is she on?

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