僕は妹に恋をする

[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.

Comments

[siu.livejournal.com]

Angel Sacturary (sp?) was another one. I like the art though~~~~ Plot was pretty interesting too (aside from the whole incest which is kinda a mini thing anyway)

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

I liked Angel Sanc too ^^ It had a plot. Sex was just there by accident (or as part of the plot).

I didn't like Sara or Setsuna though, but at least their relationship is more believable. The two in BokuImo grew up in a perfectly normal suburban family, that's just disgusting.

[siu.livejournal.com]

yeah - i watched the ova, and it was like... uh... great...

[siu.livejournal.com]

of boku wa imouto that is

[orenji-sky.livejournal.com]

The fact they "struggle" with the immorality of incest through 10 volumes and to still end up together in the end is the biggest headdesk, ever. 10 years do not change your DNA, nor maternity -"-

I like the spin-off 僕の初恋をキミに捧ぐ though, cos the sempais' characters were so much more interesting than yui and iku -V- If she ends up killing him off I'm gonna be pissed -"-

I still think Angel Sanc was the best taboo-galore ever written -V- Sara and Setsuna were bleh but the supporting cast more than makes up for that XD

[luna-rainbow.livejournal.com]

Hey, at least Angel Sanc was interesting, and it has all these obscure (albeit laughable) biblical references. And tabloo galore though it was, she didn't try to pretend they weren't taboo, that it was morally acceptable, and at least she tried to make the situation more believable. I mean, Sara and Setsuna grew up in a really abusive family and had very few friends outside, so it makes sense that the two of them are really attached to each other.

HatsuKoi? I've heard good things about that..........from the people who liked BokuImo ==; I don't know why, but her art really bothers me.

Bah, and the fact that "before I leave you 'forever', I want to remember you by us having sex together" *proceeds to have sex together*.

YUCK.