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mayoraasei(Translates as - I love my sister)
Having had to fight tooth and nail against obsessive shoujo smut fangirls who insist this is, like, the best manga ever (well, not really, I mostly just give them a wide berth because anyone who likes this thing has to be seriously sick), I love this ANN review:
You know, maybe the title should have tipped me off on this one. But I'm the kind of fool who's dumb enough to give anything a fair shot once, especially when it's accompanied by the wailing of shoujo obsessives who claim that they were utterly moved by the emotional drama and trauma and anything else that ends in -ama. So I'm reading this series, having at least a mild inkling of what the premise entails, and trying to buy into the depth of this guy's conflicted feelings for his twin sister. Except there ISN'T ANY! (Depth, that is.) This story is basically about a guy who wants to bone his little sister. That is IT. Why the hell did I ever think there would be any sort of expansion on this theme? They basically spend each chapter getting dangerously close with each other, often in explicit ways, and this smut is repeated over and over until you just want to read some conservative, pedantic pre-Tezuka shoujo manga about how little Chieko became a good obedient wife and waits every day to serve dinner to her salaryman husband because he gets so tired from perpetuating the Japanese economic miracle. Now, there are some "taboo" series that have been done well—I'm thinking Koi Kaze or Hourou Musuko—but I would not, among any of them, include "BokuImo," which should be killed with God's purifying fire.
This is why I hate the sleuth of shoujo smut parading as stories - anything from Love Monster to Private Prince to Cos-Play to anything by Shinjo Mayu. Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against sex in manga, per se. A lot of my favourite manga have sex scenes in them - anything by Yuu Watase, Kimi wa Pet, heck, even Andante had a sex scene even though it was published in a magazine for primary school kids.....OTZ
But manga that spends 20 pages out of its 30-paged chapters using sex as a cheap excuse for plot, and using plot as a cheap excuse for sex should never be labelled as "good".
And while BokuImo is pretty bad, it probably isn't the worst out there.
And I'm sorry, I really hate the art.
Having had to fight tooth and nail against obsessive shoujo smut fangirls who insist this is, like, the best manga ever (well, not really, I mostly just give them a wide berth because anyone who likes this thing has to be seriously sick), I love this ANN review:
You know, maybe the title should have tipped me off on this one. But I'm the kind of fool who's dumb enough to give anything a fair shot once, especially when it's accompanied by the wailing of shoujo obsessives who claim that they were utterly moved by the emotional drama and trauma and anything else that ends in -ama. So I'm reading this series, having at least a mild inkling of what the premise entails, and trying to buy into the depth of this guy's conflicted feelings for his twin sister. Except there ISN'T ANY! (Depth, that is.) This story is basically about a guy who wants to bone his little sister. That is IT. Why the hell did I ever think there would be any sort of expansion on this theme? They basically spend each chapter getting dangerously close with each other, often in explicit ways, and this smut is repeated over and over until you just want to read some conservative, pedantic pre-Tezuka shoujo manga about how little Chieko became a good obedient wife and waits every day to serve dinner to her salaryman husband because he gets so tired from perpetuating the Japanese economic miracle. Now, there are some "taboo" series that have been done well—I'm thinking Koi Kaze or Hourou Musuko—but I would not, among any of them, include "BokuImo," which should be killed with God's purifying fire.
This is why I hate the sleuth of shoujo smut parading as stories - anything from Love Monster to Private Prince to Cos-Play to anything by Shinjo Mayu. Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against sex in manga, per se. A lot of my favourite manga have sex scenes in them - anything by Yuu Watase, Kimi wa Pet, heck, even Andante had a sex scene even though it was published in a magazine for primary school kids.....OTZ
But manga that spends 20 pages out of its 30-paged chapters using sex as a cheap excuse for plot, and using plot as a cheap excuse for sex should never be labelled as "good".
And while BokuImo is pretty bad, it probably isn't the worst out there.
And I'm sorry, I really hate the art.
