Higenamuchi is, far and away, my favorite mangaka (only Hameo and Kiyoshiro Inoue come close, being 2nd and third), but I think this is the least enjoyable thing he's done. It's not bad, it's just not hitting the right buttons as his normal work. It didn't feel like she was ~just so into it~ (like in Naughty Tales), nor did it feel like... ok, bit of a creepy comparison, but like a rabbit cornered by a fox (like in... well, a lot of stuff, like Mixed Bath Side Story♨ï¸).
Again, not bad, but not great. Didn't let me indulge in my fetish for stealing other guy's girls, or the one about snapping up shy awkward girls. Didn't even hit the one for a girl who's honestly enjoying herself, there was just too much internal conflict for that. If the last page had her accepting her inner sluttiness then it might have been different, but instead it had her longing for a normal life, and that kinda ruined it for me.
I believe in her and the POWER of SEQUELS that she will find the man she is looking for! Like that man of a man Hirama in the last couple of pages. Â YOU CAN DO IT!!!
...Well, I suppose being a slut is also one form of happiness.
That, or she could try pursuing a normal happiness with Hirama, who is apparently a really nice guy? Thing is, I'm not sure a relationship like that would hold. I'd like to think it would but I doubt her 'friends' would let her go so easily.
That being said, quite the interesting ending. Heh, so even the principal and others are thinking of marrying her...In a way, 'normal' happiness may not be so out of reach after all. Of course, with the interpretation of 'normal' being subjective.
Again, not bad, but not great. Didn't let me indulge in my fetish for stealing other guy's girls, or the one about snapping up shy awkward girls. Didn't even hit the one for a girl who's honestly enjoying herself, there was just too much internal conflict for that. If the last page had her accepting her inner sluttiness then it might have been different, but instead it had her longing for a normal life, and that kinda ruined it for me.
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