AKI-SORA

Aki Sora is a fantastic read. What can I say about this delightful, delectable, downright dangerous tale? This might sound sort of odd, but Aki Sora is a lot like Death Note, except imagine Light having a older sister instead of a death note, and that the whole plot revolved around him fucking her and a bunch of other people. The premise is that Sora has feelings for his sister Aki and vice versa , one thing leads to another and there ya go. There are a lot of twists, nothing to write home about (mainly because you shouldn't tell your family you read this) but it's cool that the series has them and keeps the plot pretty exciting. Characters are a little bit more complex than they appear and while it won't blow you away it is still pretty fun to read. The art is good and you probably haven't seen anything like it. Aki Sora, the Arnold Palmer of incest manga, give it a try.

Pure smut, nothing more, nothing less. Some semblance of plot is the set up for several explicit scenes of incest, rape, masturbation, etc. The characters are stick-thin in terms of depth and rely on one or two personality traits throughout. There is of course a possibility for a story like this to explore deeper questions, but that is really out of this manga's league (this is just a story of constant lust), see Koi Kaze for a more serious look. I know this manga is defined as an "ecchi" manga but it's more or less hentai.

As someone who is not a huge fan of sex in media – I found Aki-Sora to be a difficult read.
I found myself cringing or feeling bored in some parts.
Why did I read it then? To prove to a friend that I actually could.
Warning: There is a lot of sex and other mature themes in Aki-Sora.

Story: 6/10
Aki-Sora is about a young boy who has a sexual relationship with his sister.
The story is about a young boy's sexual exploits until about 20 chapters in. The redeeming parts of the story that make Aki-Sora a worthwhile read – are the character backstories. I found the backstories of Aki, Sora and Nami's parents to be quite intriguing as well as the building of the relationship between Kana and Nami.
Other than that the story is mostly disconjointed sex scenes at the end of each chapter (which served as a buildup to the 'climatic' sex scene). This is where Aki-Sora suffered for me.

Art: 4/10
Yes the characters are cute; but I sometimes found it hard to interpret which character was saying what in each panel.
The illustrations of various body fluids also made me a bit queasy.

Characters: 7/10
Aki-Sora is a character driven manga in which we get to see the different character's inner turmoils.
In some cases – this is brilliantly executed; when not over shadowed by the constant sex.

Enjoyment: 3/10
I found myself forcing myself to read through some parts. I prefer action stories with a lot going on as well as brilliant characters. Aki-Sora is not a story like that.

Overall: 5/10
Aki-Sora only gets an average from me. It's not because of the incest – that doesn't bother me.
I know that it is an ecchi manga – which isn't my type of story.
It isn't a masterpiece; but I do recommend it to people who enjoy ecchi/incest type of stories.

**It might contain some spoilers so beware**

Story (4/10):

It's about a kid who loves his older sister to the point where they enter a forbidden relationship with her, but for some reasons, there are other girls who almost use him for his penis. Which totally feels out of place when it comes to the manga.

Art (6/10):

It's an old-style art from 2008. It's neither good nor bad. It's decent.

Characters (6/10):

Sora's character is the classic boy who always gets played with, but aside from that he's really good at helping others and is quite caring. Aki is has that older sister/motherly care aura around her when it comes to Sora, but in school, she is the usual top student who's good at everything. As for the twin sister Nami, I didn't really like her. She wants things but doesn't try to get them and does unnecessary things that won't benefit her from achieving her dreams. Overall, the cast feels like the usual, the only character I liked in the manga is Runa, because of her personality.

Enjoyment (4/10):

I would say that I enjoyed the first 20 chapters because it felt like a guilty pleasure, but by the end, I didn't really enjoy it because the point where it ended felt out of place and there should've been more to it. It left a bad after taste after finishing it.

Overall (5/10):

It was really enjoyable at first, but by the end, I knew that the decision made was for the best, but I still felt like the ending needed a little more context than what it did.
I wouldn't recommend it to anybody unless they are into incest/love-between-siblings/ecchi then that would be a good recommendation for them.

Warning: this review may contain spoilers.
First impressions: So when getting into this manga, I was a little skeptical to review it because of its somewhat controversial nature dealing with rape, incest, orgies, etc. But I will try my best to review it.

Story, 6/10
"Love is a thing that comes in many forms"
"But what happened when your love is a taboo in society?"
The story begins with Sora who is starting to come to terms with the fact that he is in love with his older sister, Aki. While trying to hide this fact, he finds out that Aki also loves him through a very awkward bath time experience and a heart to heart chat which eventually leads to sex. At this point, both of them decide to began there relationship together.

So Aki-sora is basically an ecchi drama with a taboo relationship added in for more flavor. It's centered around the main character trying to come to terms with the fact that he and his sister are in love with each other and are in this incestual relationship, while trying to hide it from every one else.

So we have this romance story about incest which would turn a lot of people away. Which I can kind of understand a bit. But personally, I don't really mind because for me it not what is in a story that counts; rather, it's what they do with it that counts. For the most part Aki-sora does do an okay job at presenting this taboo relationship.
They took it seriously enough that it has some very genuine moments within it, and it actually looks like they both care for each deeply. But I would like to add before I continue this review that I am in no way promoting the idea that any of you try and fuck your family members.

But like all those who pursue forbidden fruit, they eventually get the consequences of what such a “relationship” would offer. However, I would probably use that word loosely. But this taboo relationship becomes almost like flavoring at some points because the story decides to throw in a harem so that every one can get on the main character's mighty sword.

Literally right after he starts going out with his sister, Sora gets dragged into all these crazy sexual situations, like meeting a girl who is an exhibitionist, getting into a sexual relationship with his twin sister's best friend, getting raped by his twin sister, getting involved in an orgy, and also having sex with one of his friends girlfriend twice. So It's really over the top with its fan service, which didn't bother me that much because I quite like ecchi and fan service and all that other stuff. But the problem with it is that this story has quite a bit of quote unquote "mature" content in it.

Because this show does have incest as a main theme, which is quite serious I might add, its nice that this story took that aspect at least a little bit seriously. However, I couldn't take this story seriously because of all the other stuff that is going on in the background. I mean if you are in “love” with someone, you generally don't have casual sex with a bunch of other people while in a serious relationship. Or maybe that's just me because I was raised in a old fashioned household. Maybe this is some new social practice which I haven't heard of before.

However, one positive regarding this aspect in particular is that it seems to show you some of the different ideologies that people have when it comes to relationships with the main character by exploring some those different ideologies with some of the different characters in the story. So that was kind of interesting. Although they really don't to much with it.

However, when I think about it, this is an ecchi story, so I shouldn't take it too seriously. But it's interesting for an ecchi show to have some kind of serious aspects to it. So I give credit where it's due.

But the final nail in the coffin is the ending. It basically ends open to interpretation. I feel there was going to be more story, but never got the chance to get there. Afterwards, I found out that it actually got cancelled. So I guess that explains it.
But I still feel that it was incomplete. But even if that were the case, a good writer would actual take that into consideration when trying to wrap it up. Not saying the writing was bad… Ok, to be honest, the writing was pretty meh as a whole.

Characters, 5/10
So the Main character can be pretty much described as a person who has got a sister complex and is some what of a push over. However, I did like the fact he was somewhat realistic in his reaction to him being in these some what sexual situations with a lot of these girls that we meet. Because let's be honest- wouldn’t most men his age do a similar thing he was doing if they got Into those situations?

The side characters are pretty basic in personality and I wouldn't say generic; rather, it's just that they feel very unnatural to me as characters. Although, it is probably because they are involved in situations that isn't your every day kind of thing. But they do add some psychoanalysis to the characters in order to add some depth to them, which I quite liked. But other than that there really isn't much to them.

But I really liked the whole thing about Sora's twin sister Nami and her best friend because it basically shows you what jealousy can actually do to a person and how you shouldn't try to pursue a relationship when you have been in the friend zone.

Art, 6/10
So the art work for Aka-sora Is pretty average. The nsfw scenes were nicely drawn. The backgrounds were okay for the most part. The character designs are also generic.

Enjoyment, 5/10
So for Aki-sora I kind of liked it for what it was. But at the same time I don't know whether to hate it or the like it, so I liked that it was somewhat different I guess. And that's not a bad thing. But in all honestly, if you going to do something like this, I think it better if you try a bit harder to make your story better written.

Overall,6/10
If you are a person who has strong morals then I recommend that you stay away from this and read something different. But if you are a person that likes ecchi then you will probably like it a bit, I guess. But in all honesty this would have been better as a hentai instead of an ecchi/drama/whatever tags it has.

(spoiler warning. better safe than sorry)

Ever wanted to fuck your sister?

I sure hope not. We're all well-adjusted human beings around here.

Aki-Sora is a manga which transcends barriers and breaks glass ceilings. It reaches for new heights, and achieves the impossible. It's in a class of its own- no manga could ever be as terrible as this.

This is a story about sex. Specifically, how many weird sex situations can you get in before the reader loses their suspension of disbelief and gives up all hope on humanity. For me that was the part where the main character had to act as a substitute "hot beef injection" for his friend who has Erectile Dysfunction.

Aki-Sora is a shitty h-doujin series that by some cruel twist of fate became a manga. It refuses to focus on the main plot- the relationship between the titular characters- in favor of getting Sora into more and more ridiculous sex situations so that the reader can get their jollies off without worrying about things like "Morality" and "Laws". It fails to craft sympathetic characters and a coherent plot because it's too busy thrusting sex in the reader's face.

Would Sora and Aki's relationship and the struggle they face in a society that abhors their actions be more compelling if the focus of the story was on them instead of the over the top sexualization that drips from it's pages? Yes. Would the subplot of Nami and Kana's love be more engaging if they didn't have sex battles with Sora caught in the middle (somewhat literally)? Yes. Underneath the thick layer of terribleness, there is a good idea, which makes it all the more of an affront when the author willfully ignores this because he wanted to write a sex story instead.

This manga has no redeeming factors. It's my measuring stick for how bad a manga can be- in fact it's the only manga I have ever given a rating of 1. I have never encountered something as offensively bad as this, and I'm not sure I ever will again. Leave this steaming pile of shit well alone.

This series is not as much a story about Aki and Sora as it is a story about Sora. Aki takes not a third of prominence in this story that Sora does but definitely more than any other character. The synopsis creates the impression that it's primarily about the bond between two characters but this is not the case; it's about a character that repeatedly gets pulled into emotionally - and sexually unconventional situations by others and I might add that his frequent having sex with his older sibling is probably one of the psychologically more normal situations the character falls into.

It's very sexually explicit and one might call it pornography with a plot; it actually has some dramatic and impactful plot twists whose spoiling would ruin the experience so I won't go into that. It's however mostly about the psychological complexity of some of the characters which are oftentimes scarred mentally in some way.

The narrative structure of the strip is rather unusual: various chapters provide flashbacks and tie into the greater plot of explaining the unusual psychology of the characters, whereas other chapters are discontinuous from the story, and mostly serve as humor, or are based around the sex scenes. One might argue that it doesn't so much "have a plot" as that the world is slowly built and revealed by the author; a lot of the plot-driven chapters are very flashback-based.

Whereas Aki more so feels as a character that purely exists to have a relationship with Sora, Nami in particular feels like the hero of his own stories and received far more chapters with him as a central figure that explain his history and reasons for being so jaded. Nami is to me in many ways the highlight of the story in how complicated and unique the character and its motivations and history are.

The main character continues to find himself into various somewhat surreal sexual situations; some of these are violent rape by threat of mutilation that leave the character crying; some of which is the character being reluctantly forced into it but ending up enjoying it all the same and some of it is the character enthusiastically partaking.

Many moments of it are disturbing and many are also touching and emotionally moving.

The art style is superb and conveys the emotions really well; the author does an excellent job at drawing facial expressions to add to this as well as weather effects that properly convey the mood of this story.

It should also be noted that various chapters including the last one contain no sex scenes whatsoever and that they are still very enjoyable to read — it is really porn read for the plot.

Aki-Sora is more of an R-rated drama than a porn/hentai flick, although it shows a bit borderline but you can see scenes like this on R rated media. I am not one that favors incest because that is an illusion provoqued by genetic attraction and lust for a family member that brings sexual abuse and rape instead of real love and ends in genetic deterioration. HOWEVER... I make an exception to this story because during the whole story, even if aki and sora began doing pervy things, it shows that Aki really loved Sora. She always puts his benefit first than her own and even if she lusted after him she waited calmly and did not jump him or rape him the first chance she got. Same can be said for Sora but he was being lead by Aki most of the time even if he cheated on. Unlike aki how ever, Nami his twin sister used and raped him for her own selfishness and to see if she truly was a lesbian for lust of her best friend. (Usually incest goes like this: from female to male is mostly love. From male to female is 90% lust that ends up in rape and sexual abuse.) Also, what aki sora taught me: "even lesbians get friend-zoned".

Aki lives a wonderful life. She's got the beauty, intelligence, sports skills and popularity. Although, that changes when she's at home. She's very lazy and untidy leading her little brother, Sora, to clean it. Plus, Sora's twin sister Nami, is madly inlove with her best friend Kana, but doesn't admit it.

Bullied by Nami and often teased by Aki, Sora is left to do chores their mom has to do. But, where's their mom? She's busy with work like most moms. I'll add more, Sora actually harbors lustful feelings for his big sister Aki, who feels the same. It's an adventure and they have to work hard in order to keep these feelings from being discovered by their parents.

OKAY STOP. Let's take a break here and read my opinion. I saw this manga when I was looking for something ecchi-ish to read, but I didn't think it was this strong. Sex is shown throughout the whole story, but no showing of genitals to be safe.

The story is about two siblings having deep love for each other to the point that they actually committed incest. But doing it once didn't satisfy them, as they did it many more times and stopped when they were caught by somebody they know. I'll be hiding that character for now and will reveal it later.

The story progresses as Sora makes more friends, girls to be exact, and these girls have the same feelings Aki has for him. At volume two, the mother they see is actually their aunt, who acted like their mother when they were kids. The twins do not know what's going on, but Aki does, as she was the one who told their aunt not to reveal it. If she were to, the kids would be devastated due to the fact that their real mother died in a car crash and Aki and their aunt were lying. At the end of volume two, Nami and Sora engaged in sex. Well, not really engage but more of "Nami raped Sora." because she was jealous that Sora and Kana were actually progressing more that they were.

Volume three and four are just fillers in my opinion, just sex here for Sora and sex there. But, there was a point that when Sora took Kana's virginity, they were secretly filmed by the jealous Nami. At volume five, Sora and Kana were chosen to become the models of a photo-shoot. Then Sora befriends more minor characters and had sex with them. When volume five reaches the end, Kana had discovered Sora and Nami having sex and joins them, competing with Nami. The prize? Sora. Why does the little fucker have all the fucking girls?! I feel lonely. (┳Д┳)

One of those threesomes actually fixed Nami and Kana's relationship. They forgive and reveal their feelings towards another. At the final volume, there's a man who comes in to their house and Aki calls him father. But, Nami and Sora did not acknowledge him as he wasn't there during their childhood days. In one of those chapters, Aki becomes aroused and she and Sora again have sex again in the living room. Believing that the door was locked and nobody else was in the house, they continued. They actually finished and Aki says she's thirsty, leading Sora to get her a glass of water, but was stopped as they see their father standing by the door and was watching them the whole time.

This leads to Aki being taken away by their father and goes off somewhere far. Sora becomes lonely and acts strangely for some time, but gets the words of encouragement and goes off, searching and wanting to meet his beloved sister. He finally reaches his destination despite being in the road for days. As he meets Aki, they go to the hospital and Sora sees that his "father" was in it. Their father had been suffering. He still becomes stiff and refuses to call him father, leading to Aki slapping him really hard.

Eventually, their father dies and the whole family attends the funeral. It's revealed that the reason their father had separated them was because he committed incest too, and they were the product. It comes down to the point that Sora had to make his decision. Aki stays, or not. As he thinks hard, he does not notice the train leaving, with Aki. His final words on that chapter was "Don't go."

In the end, Sora is shown putting flowers on their mother's grave. That means he already knows the truth. He starts praying but a shadow catches his attention. He stands up and talks about their mom and dad finally being together again and will never be separated. It turns out that it was Aki, who arrived. In the end, nothing could stop their love for each other and they continued seeing each other.

The characters filled their roles nicely although there were characters who only appeared in filler chapters. A minus one for that.

Love, as portrayed in this manga, moves me. I don't care if you call me a pervert for the ecchi things in this manga. What I'm after is the story. Classic and simple. Forbidden Love. It's the main point of the manga. How will the lovers survive? How will their friends react? How long will they be able to keep this up? How will the society accept them? These are the questions that lingered in my mind while reading it.

Aki-Sora...oh boy. Blood-related incest, yuri, exhibitionism, orgy...this manga seems to be trying to cover every sexual genre in existence. With that said, there's a solid story beneath it all that will have you asking yourself many questions. (Edit 2/1/2012: Manga is complete; review is final.)

Story: 8/10

The story is about Sora, a middle school boy, trying to come to terms with having a sexual relationship with his older sister, Aki. It eventually goes on to cover his various sexual exploits, though the majority of the story focuses on Aki. The story is choppy; certain chapters could benefit from being re-ordered. My criticisms aside, the actual story deals with mature issues and questions, and mature readers will definitely enjoy this manga. Younger readers should stay away from this one; it can be very confusing at times, not to mention the blatant sexual content.

Art: 8/10

Nothing bad, nothing overly special. The characters are all nice to look at, and the background art is done adequately. My main issue was how absurdly feminine looking Sora is. Sora is most definitely a trap, and this topic is a cause of humor in the series.

Aki-Sora is of the smut genre. There are blatant sex scenes in it, and most of them are between Sora and Aki, which is repulsive to some people. I mean, art-wise, the scenes were well-drawn, but I was bothered by it. I got over it a little by telling myself it's just their way of showing their love for each other. It was just a little more physical than I would have preferred.

Character: 10/10

This manga is VERY character driven. The manga's main focus is about forbidden relationships. The two main questions the manga asks the reader to consider are "Why is it wrong for siblings to love each other" (other than the obvious biological problems their child would have) and "What does it mean for two people to have sex?" The characters each have their own point of views on these questions, and it really gets you thinking. These characters are very well developed in very short a time.

The story is as much psychological as it is sexual. Most of the characters of the story are in love with someone society forbids them to be with. It is REALLY interesting to see the inner battles a character has with himself/herself over what they need/want to do. Do they abide by the rules of society, or pursue their love interest?

Enjoyment: 9/10

Aki-Sora has the right balance of ecchi, comedy, and romance. It's a mature title. The ecchi isn't composed of panty shots or "oops I tripped and landed on your boobs", and the comedy isn't composed of nosebleeds or "oops I tripped and landed on your boobs and you hit me halfway to the moon".

Overall: 8/10

An above-average manga of the ecchi genre. This manga is seinen, not shounen, and is aimed at a more mature audience. There aren't many seinen mangas out there, and even fewer of those are of the ecchi/romance variety. This manga is a step up from shounen romance manga. When you finally get sick of characters taking 200 chapters to FINALLY get together, manga like these are what you are looking for.

Final edit: February 1st, 2012.