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...so here it is.
Bohra is a fangirl. Seriously. I remember noticing before Comiket that she'd switched from Naruto djs to books based on some football anime and/or manga. (Eyeshield, apparently.) Well, guess what sport features prominently in the first two stories! (Hint: it's not baseball). It almost makes me want to get into Eyeshiled so that I can figure out what series characters/events Bohra's 'originals' are ciphers for.
The stories themselves are decent, and I get the feeling Bohra wants to do longer series. (I want her to do longer series too. She's a damn good storyteller.) The first is an oyaji/seinen pairing, while the second is a dokyusei bit. There are some pretty realistic moments for all the fantasy, and they're well-done stories overall, but I miss the supernatural elements in her other stories. But I guess you can't have that when you're fanficcing your favorite dj source material.
Bohra stops pretending that she isn't by the third story, which is - get this - about a young man who suddenly finds himself in a world populated by human-half-the-time, animal-the-other-half creatures. Our Hero has been chosen as the mate for the last remaining tiger creature, whose children he's meant to bear. O.H. adamantly opposes this turn of events, but something about Tigerman's smell compells him, and...it's as if someone took the first Sex Pistols tankoubon and sent it through the yomikiri blender, with a side-order of Sakurai Shu3's characters from Seikai Houretsuden for added flavor.
Not that I mind, because like the best fanfic it works by taking the best bits and condensing them into something smaller. I've just never seen a professional mangaka be so obvious about it before.
The next story is one which should have been published in her previous tankoubon, but was not. I'm sorry to say that it's taking up space in this one, because it's honestly not very good. Our plot: uke with social anxiety order falls secretly and hopelessly in love with the proprietor of a gyudon establishment. The fact that Our Hero is apparently sexually aroused by eggs helps (the master gives him freebies).
Unfortunately for Our Hero, he works at a magazine and takes his editor to the joint. She loves it and writes a glowing review, making it the Next Big Hot Spot and oh woes! it becomes so popular Our Hero can't even get inside, thanks to all the crowds. This love is surely doomed!
Or is it? Because the master, rightfully distraught by the departure of the only sexually available charater in the story, refuses to open his restaurant, thus driving away the fickle masses. But ever-constant Uke still comes by and then they go home and eat eggs and have sex.
I'm not kidding.
The final story gets back on track, and like the first two, touches on Real Life issues. Child-adoring picture book illustrator oyaji is thrilled when Single CGI-Designer Dad moves in next door with his young kids in tow. Turns out SC-DD is divorced - his wife left him over the long hours he spent at work. ("She said she couldn't be sure I wasn't cheating on her," SC-DD says morosely. "But I really was working long hours. Of course, I was cheating on her a bit too...")
Then they get drunk and have sex, and continue to do so. But only when they're drunk. Oyaji knows he's being used for a lay, but that's all right, because he's just using SC-DD for his children...right? It couldn't be anything more than that, right? He's too old to be attractive, and SC-DD won't do him sober. And it's pointless to have feelings for SC-DD, so he might as well not. But that's okay, because at least he has the kids.
Oyaji is only too happy to help out with the kids. So happy, in fact, that their affection for Oyaji incurs SC-DD's jealousy, and SC-DD pulls them, and himself, out of Oyaji's life.
Oyaji goes on Long Recuperative Trip with his coauthor. He returns to find the kids, frantic with separation anxiety ("He left us like Mommy did!") waiting at his genkan. He and SC-DD put the kids to bed with just enough page space for the emotional showdown and some cathartic sober sex. And then the kids wake up and there are shenanigans for all. Good times.
ETA: Happily, the tankoubon atogaki features the continuing saga of Bohra v. Bookshelves and Earthquakes, and is a scream as always.
これで以上です。
Bohra is a fangirl. Seriously. I remember noticing before Comiket that she'd switched from Naruto djs to books based on some football anime and/or manga. (Eyeshield, apparently.) Well, guess what sport features prominently in the first two stories! (Hint: it's not baseball). It almost makes me want to get into Eyeshiled so that I can figure out what series characters/events Bohra's 'originals' are ciphers for.
The stories themselves are decent, and I get the feeling Bohra wants to do longer series. (I want her to do longer series too. She's a damn good storyteller.) The first is an oyaji/seinen pairing, while the second is a dokyusei bit. There are some pretty realistic moments for all the fantasy, and they're well-done stories overall, but I miss the supernatural elements in her other stories. But I guess you can't have that when you're fanficcing your favorite dj source material.
Bohra stops pretending that she isn't by the third story, which is - get this - about a young man who suddenly finds himself in a world populated by human-half-the-time, animal-the-other-half creatures. Our Hero has been chosen as the mate for the last remaining tiger creature, whose children he's meant to bear. O.H. adamantly opposes this turn of events, but something about Tigerman's smell compells him, and...it's as if someone took the first Sex Pistols tankoubon and sent it through the yomikiri blender, with a side-order of Sakurai Shu3's characters from Seikai Houretsuden for added flavor.
Not that I mind, because like the best fanfic it works by taking the best bits and condensing them into something smaller. I've just never seen a professional mangaka be so obvious about it before.
The next story is one which should have been published in her previous tankoubon, but was not. I'm sorry to say that it's taking up space in this one, because it's honestly not very good. Our plot: uke with social anxiety order falls secretly and hopelessly in love with the proprietor of a gyudon establishment. The fact that Our Hero is apparently sexually aroused by eggs helps (the master gives him freebies).
Unfortunately for Our Hero, he works at a magazine and takes his editor to the joint. She loves it and writes a glowing review, making it the Next Big Hot Spot and oh woes! it becomes so popular Our Hero can't even get inside, thanks to all the crowds. This love is surely doomed!
Or is it? Because the master, rightfully distraught by the departure of the only sexually available charater in the story, refuses to open his restaurant, thus driving away the fickle masses. But ever-constant Uke still comes by and then they go home and eat eggs and have sex.
I'm not kidding.
The final story gets back on track, and like the first two, touches on Real Life issues. Child-adoring picture book illustrator oyaji is thrilled when Single CGI-Designer Dad moves in next door with his young kids in tow. Turns out SC-DD is divorced - his wife left him over the long hours he spent at work. ("She said she couldn't be sure I wasn't cheating on her," SC-DD says morosely. "But I really was working long hours. Of course, I was cheating on her a bit too...")
Then they get drunk and have sex, and continue to do so. But only when they're drunk. Oyaji knows he's being used for a lay, but that's all right, because he's just using SC-DD for his children...right? It couldn't be anything more than that, right? He's too old to be attractive, and SC-DD won't do him sober. And it's pointless to have feelings for SC-DD, so he might as well not. But that's okay, because at least he has the kids.
Oyaji is only too happy to help out with the kids. So happy, in fact, that their affection for Oyaji incurs SC-DD's jealousy, and SC-DD pulls them, and himself, out of Oyaji's life.
Oyaji goes on Long Recuperative Trip with his coauthor. He returns to find the kids, frantic with separation anxiety ("He left us like Mommy did!") waiting at his genkan. He and SC-DD put the kids to bed with just enough page space for the emotional showdown and some cathartic sober sex. And then the kids wake up and there are shenanigans for all. Good times.
ETA: Happily, the tankoubon atogaki features the continuing saga of Bohra v. Bookshelves and Earthquakes, and is a scream as always.
これで以上です。
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Love you summary of Egg Love. (I wrote Eggy Love first by mistake. Ew.)
Title or other pertinent info? Link to amazon.jp? Enquiring minds want to know.
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BTW, my favorite bit in the last story was when the children get all bent out of shape after Oyaji and SC-DD ditch them to have sex, and when they complain the next morning, their father scolds them: "I've been working VERY HARD all night to make (name?) your new mommy!" And poor Oyaji just about dies of blush.
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Love your icon, btw. For some reason, it never loaded the animation on my other browser.
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