Futago To Sensei

So there's a spectrum of adult anime and it's all very clear cut for me. On one side of the spectrum there's anime that's just very suggestive with some degree of yuri/yaoi content but it's not necessarily explicit. Then there's the middle ground of explicit hentai anime of the yuri/yaoi variety. And then there's futanari which is a genre in its own right that exists in a separate area to the above. It's all under the banner of ‘adult cartoons’ but that's it in terms of description. It's akin to literary romance novels of the yuri/yaoi variety being discussed at a book club, as opposed to being handed out as pulp erotica amongst the membership list. Different rooms for different purposes.

Man, searching for scanlations in specific languages is such a hassle. I was trying to find Portuguese translations of this webtoon and it was like searching for a code. For Indonesian I found this on Pinterest where people made boards with direct links to the entire chapter. It’s kinda messy since you have to click on each pin to read it but it’s ad-free. Sometimes people also host the image sets on their Tumblr blogs but that’s getting less common since a lot of sites get nuked. The way people provide us with access to scanlations in these social media sites is kinda rough but it exists. It’s like a black market for comics.

I pretty much picked out Japanese Mom and Son: Jerk Instructions because it was so damn strange-titled. And it is as weird as you might imagine. Yet, that doesn't necessarily mean it's terrible. The manga lives up to the promise of its premise – at times to the point of being rather admirable. It's clear that the creator of this title dare him or herself to go to the maximum extreme of their ideas, and I can respect that.

Though many of the jokes fall flat, reading this manga was a good experience, and the story is actually fairly short. As long as you’re aware of the type of “edge” content this is before you start reading it, then it’s a great read for someone looking for something entirely off the wall. Just be warned though: after reading this do not look at your family dinner.

A sense of disappointment, to be sure. Not the kind of ending that motivates a cliff note-worthy ‘Wow’ or acclamation of ‘Yes!’, but a resounding ‘Huh’. All that pretension, all those characters of great power, the great prophecy—never meant to amount to anything but the sum total of the failures of a bureaucratic corporate structure, save for the scant approval of a single form. The ultimate petty triumph of a unassuming man in his unassuming suit. Instead of a great, shiny crown, he got a stomped-on form with the two words ‘APPROVED’ printed upon it. And after so very long, hundreds and hundreds of chapters of sheer, unadulterated chaos, it all just...ends. With a shrug of the shoulder, of course. Audacious, yes. But I just didn’t enjoy feeling that way.

There is currently no suitable legal digital infrastructure for accessing Japanese manga outside of Japan. Until same-day release manga are made available globally from publishers for reasonable prices, the gray market for fans to read raw manga will continue to exist due to basic supply and demand principles.

My two cents: Chapter 7 writing improved dramatically. Sharper dialogue and more vivid descriptions of scenes. I wonder if the author has suddenly “hit his stride” or if someone else is suddenly contributing to the writing. Perhaps, it is a collaboration that started with one writer and has recently been influenced by a writer friend who is more technically sound. These kinds of style changes occur frequently in online serials because the author receives feedback immediately and the writer adapts to that feedback as he writes. The author is not a fixed entity. Rather, he is a process.

This question is somehow related to my anime club days in college. So, an “uncensored version” of this would probably just be the entire thing without all of the steam or lightly placed beam shots that were censored in the normal TV version of this. This has been released in an uncensored form on some of the uncensored Blu-rays for this series that have been released in Japan, and it is available on streaming in the uncensored form on a few different streaming services, such as HiDive. From what I understand, though, HiDive’s selection of anime changes somewhat from time to time, so this series may not be available on HiDive forever. Anyway, the uncensored version of this is somewhat different from the censored version. First of all, there is more fan service in the uncensored version. But also, some of the magic circles and some of the other visual effects are more detailed. As for the overall experience of watching this in uncensored form, the best way to put it would be to say that this series is a show that is ABOUT its premise. And so, watching it in uncensored form really feels like you are experiencing the show as it was MEANT to be experienced – that is, in a somewhat chaotic, unconventional, and slightly bizarre form. (Diablo’s inner monologues, for example, are awkward enough on their own, but they are also awkward in ways that are compounded by and made worse by by the increasingly visually complicated and chaotic nature of the scenes in which they appear.) It’s a very specific kind of “experience”, but if you’re asking this question then you probably have some sense already of what I’m talking about.

This series is another one that I'm hesitant to title for fear of getting someone's hopes up that this is going to be some sort of normal story, and they'll be disappointed when it's not. Shiofuki Mansion is a vibe, not a plot. The art is incredibly sharp and detailed, making the weird situations that the characters in this series find themselves in even more strange and humorous. It's one of those series that you read once and then are never sure what to do with it. You either kind of hate it and never look at it again, or you're kind of fascinated by it and never look at it again. It's a very Pija circle sort of thing. If this series is your sort of thing, then you may also want to look into the rest of Pija's work, although none of it is quite as “memeable” as this.

A beautiful example of the diversity found in doujinshi: heartfelt fanmade stories and then, this.

This title is extremely specific and sounds almost clinical. It's an eroge visual novel that caters to a very specific audience. 'Summoning an evil god' is a common trope for darker eroge titles and explains how a character will lose control or become corrupted. The rest of the title goes into character development and what kind of fetishes will be shown off. The title is so specific, that it's not really well known outside of dedicated communities and won't get memes or fan art made for it. It's a very consumable product for people with specific fetishes. Looking at it from the perspective of it being a 'story' or 'game' does it a disservice, it's more of an experience.

Power dynamics are also expressed in the interaction between Mi-young and Dae-ho. At first Mi-young has all the power because of her age, her role as guardian and teacher. However, as the story progresses power is transferred to Dae-ho, as he grows in self-assurance and is provided with alternative options by other girls. Mi-young is now consumed by jealousy and uncertainty. Inversely, Sua, who seems to have no power at all, exerts great emotional power over Dae-ho due to their shared past. In this way, a seemingly one-sided scenario is in reality highly complex due to the various interactions of the characters and their influence upon each other.