Slightly Biased Manga

Oh Boys Be.  This is another volume I really didn’t enjoy.  Most of the stories still involve lots of embarrassed hand-holding, and the situations in this set of stories just weren’t funny enough to justify the lack of action.  Not that I was expecting a roll in the hay or anything, but I’m just sick of random couples accidentally touching hands together and then blushing and turning away from each other.

There are some attempts at raunch thrown in.  I mean, the first story focuses on a filthy picture the boy’s friends slip into a CD case that the boy then gives back to his girlfriend.  Said picture is apparently so filthy (it is supposedly of a girl’s neither region) that the girlfriend then shows it around to all her friends.  I mean, that’s sort of funny, but there needs to be more than that to the story, and the rest of it just doesn’t hold up to that fairly entertaining idea.  Another one is about the athletic exercise “squatting,” where there is a misunderstanding when a boy is forced by his classmates to yell a girl’s name while doing it.  I mean, it’s sort of raunchy, but not really, and it’s mostly just about the boy and girl being embarrassed.  I suppose I should just stop reading, but I feel like if I’ve read this far into the series, I can survive to the end.

An example of a raunchy story that does manage to be entertaining and doesn’t have a lot of embarrassed hand-holding comes later.  There is a boy who just wants to masturbate while watching free porn on a class trip, and when he finds the perfect opportunity to be by himself, he keeps getting interrupted by a well-meaning female classmate who thinks he’s sick and wants to care for him.  Instead of just having the girl over and chatting her up, he keeps sending her away so he can masturbate.  Eventually she catches him.  There’s a nice moral in that one, and it was probably the best story in the volume.  Another one that’s kind of funny is about a boy who thinks his girlfriend’s cousin is some sort of bondage queen, and his girlfriend and her cousin get together at night for some games.  I kind of laughed at this one, the buildup’s great, but the ending’s a little disappointing.

Another one I kind of liked was one where a boy who hates kogals is trying to keep an underclassman who he liked in junior high away from the kogals at his high school.  He spends the whole chapter discouraging her from little actions that could blow up into kogal proportions, but in the end she falls to temptation anyway.  This one was too much like the “our favorite turn-ons” series from the earlier volumes for me to praise it fully, but it was pretty cute.

Yeah.  I’m not really expecting much from the coming volumes, and it’s really not my thing anymore, but I’ll keep reading anyway.