Pastel 11
Posted: February 19, 2009 Filed under: Pastel 1 Comment »You know, I put off reading this series because I know it sucks, and I know I don’t want to read it, but my obsessive-compulsive nature makes me continue to buy it, and I feel guilty if I buy something and don’t read it.
I thought to myself “Maybe I’m just being too hard on this series. Maybe it’s not as bad as I think it is.”
Then I remembered Mako. Mugi’s new mom.
The volume starts out with Yuu and Mako weighing their breasts on a scale. Literally, this is on the first page of the volume.
Then my mind turned to mush as I read through the next two stories. I counted. There are 93 pages in the first two stories. On these 93 pages, there are 66 instances of breasts being lovingly drawn, many times with a “boing” speech bubble coming out of them. This is only counting when the cleavage or underside of the breast can be seen. Sometimes they are obscured. Sometimes there are three instances per page.
There is a large two-page spread of Mako and Yuu having a hula-hoop contest which is the biggest cheesecake shot I’ve ever seen in any manga, ever. And please keep in mind I’ve read Video Girl Ai and parts of I”s by Masakazu Katsura, who is some sort of king when it comes to this type of fanservice. To be fair, I didn’t get to the twister scene in I”s, though, so maybe that’s more cheesecake.
Mako may be gone as of the next volume. That would be so great.
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