Its Thursday, so that means my other favorite manga-bon came out today. This is Young Jump, the dirty one. Certainly not as dirty as the ones you can get that are made specifically to be dirty (try to keep up here, folks), but includes a lot more naked ladies and storylines revolving entirely around sex than my Monday manga-bon, Spirits. I'll spend the next few days introducing some of my faves:
"My Wife is a High School Girl"
For some unfathomable reason, 17-year-old Asami-chan has ended up married to her homeroom teacher. Her parents agreed to the marriage on the condition that she 1. keep it a secret from her schoolmates, and 2. not have H (sex) until she has successfully completed her studies. And Asami-chan tried so hard, but it just didnt work out that way. The first 30 episodes were her and her husband trying to get it on but getting interrupted every time by meddling interlopers. Now that they have finally done the deed, it remains to be seen how the manga-ka is going to hold the readers interest.
PROS: You have never seen anyone draw women the way this manga-ka draws women. Full-bodied and full breasted, gravity defying, but somehow not in the least bit porny. Corn-fed is the only way to describe them, and she never gets tired of drawing them.
CONS: Totally unbelievable, cheesy storylines, and Asami-chan is a good little Japanese girl to a fault. The episode where she overcame her embarrassment to give her husband a handjob because it was her duty as a wife was particularly cute.
"Tsuppari Momotaro"
Does anyone know the Japanese legend of Momotaro, the peach-boy? Long story short: Momotaro is born from a peach and discovered floating down the river by an old woman doing the washing. She and her old woodcutter husband raise him as their own, and in the end he takes off across the country with a monkey and other animals on a quest to rid the country of devils and demons.
Tsuppari Momotaro picks up a hundred years later. The country is overrun with devils and demons again, none of whom are aware that Momotaros grandson has started the quest anew and is out to kick some devil ass. The drawing is deliberately sloppy, Momotaro is fat and always naked (unless he's wearing the tutu that his grandmother made for him), and the same scenes are used many times as a kind of running gag. Add to that uncountable poop jokes, dick jokes, and fart jokes, plus some really creatively drawn demons, and you start to see why I like this one. There is nothing in the world like it.
PROS: Totally original, and chock-full of poop jokes, dick jokes, and fart jokes.
CONS: What cons?
Tomorrow: "Chisa x Pon" and "GANTZ."
"My Wife is a High School Girl"
For some unfathomable reason, 17-year-old Asami-chan has ended up married to her homeroom teacher. Her parents agreed to the marriage on the condition that she 1. keep it a secret from her schoolmates, and 2. not have H (sex) until she has successfully completed her studies. And Asami-chan tried so hard, but it just didnt work out that way. The first 30 episodes were her and her husband trying to get it on but getting interrupted every time by meddling interlopers. Now that they have finally done the deed, it remains to be seen how the manga-ka is going to hold the readers interest.
PROS: You have never seen anyone draw women the way this manga-ka draws women. Full-bodied and full breasted, gravity defying, but somehow not in the least bit porny. Corn-fed is the only way to describe them, and she never gets tired of drawing them.
CONS: Totally unbelievable, cheesy storylines, and Asami-chan is a good little Japanese girl to a fault. The episode where she overcame her embarrassment to give her husband a handjob because it was her duty as a wife was particularly cute.
"Tsuppari Momotaro"
Does anyone know the Japanese legend of Momotaro, the peach-boy? Long story short: Momotaro is born from a peach and discovered floating down the river by an old woman doing the washing. She and her old woodcutter husband raise him as their own, and in the end he takes off across the country with a monkey and other animals on a quest to rid the country of devils and demons.
Tsuppari Momotaro picks up a hundred years later. The country is overrun with devils and demons again, none of whom are aware that Momotaros grandson has started the quest anew and is out to kick some devil ass. The drawing is deliberately sloppy, Momotaro is fat and always naked (unless he's wearing the tutu that his grandmother made for him), and the same scenes are used many times as a kind of running gag. Add to that uncountable poop jokes, dick jokes, and fart jokes, plus some really creatively drawn demons, and you start to see why I like this one. There is nothing in the world like it.
PROS: Totally original, and chock-full of poop jokes, dick jokes, and fart jokes.
CONS: What cons?
Tomorrow: "Chisa x Pon" and "GANTZ."
Hey, have you ever heard of Boogie Pop Phantom? Is it good? I saw one episode on the Locomotion channel when I was in Brazil, and of course now I can't find it in the US.
sorry for the long entry...hehe...
I'm going to be in Tokyo for 11 days in Sept. I'm so stoked.. and I can't wait!!!