Koibito-H6

Story:
The story is nothing short of amazing, so well done and with lots of consistency. It develops nicely through the 6 volumes, with a nice ending. Very few things to pick on, but I guess it isn't for nothing this is considered a great work of art. Nonetheless the progress is a bit slow in the middle (specially volume 3), but it isn't enough to do anything about the greater feeling that the story has. Also, I have some mixed feelings about the position of the bikes in the story, it seems kinda a bit too important.

Art:
Nothing bad about this. The art pleased me all the way through, both in the actionscenes and when it was more slowpaced. Characterdesign was also really cool, and panoramic views totally awesome.

Character:
The characters are really well done, with the title character topping it all (no spoilers, but he was really cool). Kei and Kaori are well done, moreso than in the anime I imagine. Most of the others were devolped in a great manner, with a good bunch of mysteries and intrigues. But I must say that the protagonist, Kaneda, got on my nerves some times, though many male protagonists are like that. I can't really explain, but I didn't like him as much as the rest of the characters.

Enjoyment:
Enjoyment is really important, and that's where Akira is the best. I finished it in about 5 days I think, it was really thrilling, and I couldn't wait untill the end, so that I could discover how it all ended. Nothing less than highly entertaining, and I enjoyed every second I was reading it. I just had to read a bit more and a bit more. On the other hand, it didn't feel to long either, thus making it almost perfect.

Overall:
I discovered it on a whim, and I'm happy I did. It's the best manga I've read, by far, and I recommend it to everyone. It was really great.

"You either die stiff or live long enough to see yourself go soft." - The Dark Knight

Upon reading Rapeman’s synopsis, I became quite amused. The notion of using rape as a weapon to bring about justice is a crazy one—it’s also quite a unique one. As a result, I expected this manga to be both innovative and absurd. Fortunately for this reader, both expectations were met.

Let’s start with the hero of this story: a pusillanimous teacher by day who becomes an enigmatic rapist by night. As unique as he may seem, he’s actually not that different from other superheroes. Consider some of the individuals he encounters in his various cases. There’s a maniac who violates women using a strap-on, a woman who lures men with the intent of castrating them, and an arsonist who causes all sorts of trouble. These individuals are the closest thing this manga has to supervillains.

As you can probably guess, Rapeman doesn’t have any superpowers. His physical prowess is quite impressive though, allowing him to unarm/overpower his targets with ease. And he’s definitely not an idiot to say the least; otherwise he wouldn’t conduct so much reconnaissance or planning to avoid getting caught in the act. Like any other superhero, he also wears something to conceal his identity. His outfit, however, consists of a mask and regular clothes (this is one thing the anime adaptation does better).

The suit aside, there are some other similarities worth briefly mentioning. The protagonist has to deal with people impersonating his libidinous alter-ego. He has his own tools, one of which is handcuffs akin to Batman’s batarang. There’s even a photographer who tries to capture him on camera. The only thing missing is an origin story—the answer to the question of what causes someone to become a hero like this.

Although this hentai is arguably a parody of the superhero genre, I can’t see it appealing to a lot of people. If you’re someone who was repulsed rather than amused when you learned of its existence, then it’s definitely not for you. As for typical fans of hentai, they’re probably better off reading something else. Most of the pornographic scenes go straight to the sieging of the castle and the firing of the cannon; there’s not much foreplay involved. And while you won’t see much of the female reproductive organ during those scenes, you will see a lot of the hero’s weapon of choice (as well as the next door neighbor).

I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some readers who found Rapeman to be misogynistic. Those that feel that way obviously took the reading far too seriously, thus killing any chance of enjoyment. Said readers probably missed out on all of the humor as well. Despite being a humorist myself, I don’t really understand why some of the stuff I say amuses people. What I do understand, though, is why this manga is able to make people laugh. Everything the central character does is nothing short of bizarre—he’s got his own costume, he does all this undercover work, and he even names his techniques. It's funny because when you put all the pieces together, you get something that doesn’t resemble an average rapist at all.

I’ve touched on both the humor and originality, but neither serve as the highlight of this read; the main character takes that honor. If there’s anything I love to see in works of fiction, it’s the humanizing of criminals. So many works have shown not all people who commit bad deeds are necessarily bad themselves. In Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, for example, the most decent human being is a murderer.

Rapeman is not the devil of fornication you may think he is. There are so many individuals far more deserving of the adjective 'vile' than him: Ed Gein, Nero, and the Jews in the New Testament being a few of them. Despite ravishing so many, it’s very difficult to call this vigilante a cold, heartless bastard. This is because he feel remorse for his actions. He's not like Ted Bundy, a serial killer who felt no guilt towards his misdeeds. He’s a criminal that still has a shred of humanity within him. That alone is enough for me to justify calling him a decent human being.

Up to this point in the review, I’ve referred to the main character as a hero on several occasions. He doesn’t go on some grand adventure like Aeneas after the sacking of Troy. Nor does he perform some great feat like Sigurd’s slaying of the dragon Fafnir in the Saga of the Volsungs. So why do I still refer to him as a hero? Because I believe in Joseph Campbell’s definition of a hero: "A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." As far as I can tell, Rapeman doesn’t seem to care about pleasure, fun, or money. What he truly cares about is the welfare of the people he subdues. He manages to save/help so many people through one of the most questionable methods I’ve come across in fiction. Whether or not what he’s doing is right, however, is a philosophical issue I won’t be delving into.

Philosophy isn’t something you see much of in pornography, neither is the following. Whenever this high school teacher puts on the mask, he’s taking a huge risk. If the police caught him, there would be severe ramifications. Surprisingly, the law is the least of his worries; some of his targets are nothing short of deadly, resulting in quagmires that could easily cost the protagonist his life. Think of Breaking Bad or the Chimera Ant arc of Hunter × Hunter. Both shows are ones in which the characters are in genuine danger and had me thinking someone could die at any moment. While Rapeman doesn’t convey the aforementioned feeling to the same extent, it’s an area in which it’s definitely got the rest of pornography beat.

This might come as a surprise to you, but this manga has gotten several adaptations. You may’ve heard of the anime, but did you know there are more than seven films as well? I’ve viewed Rapeman in all three mediums, and the manga is hands down the one I got the most out of. The anime ended up being mediocre as a comedy, whereas the live-action film ended up being unsettling rather than amusing (and the boredom didn’t help in either case). Is the manga free of boring/unfunny/unsettling scenes? Of course not, but it definitely has less than the anime and films.

If nothing else, this hentai manages to show how interesting an unorthodox character can be. Rapeman is Kurt Gödel, Professor Moriarty, and Saint Augustine compounded into one man—an intelligent but righteous, sometimes villainous hero. Why do the police hunt him? Because he’s not our hero. He’s a silent guardian. A watchful protector. A stiff knight.

So without spoiling:
-Overpowered main character
-Different world (Isekai)
-Harem
-Hentai version

Now mix these all together and make it cute, perverted
and make everything seem ... easy, chill and without complications.

That's all I really need to say. It's an amusing manga with a cute storyline and many girls (I don't really remember guys in the story).

Don't read it if you don't like lot's of lewdness which kinda takes over the story towards the end. I'd also suggest it be 16+ age but ¯_(ツ)_/¯


More (more spoiler-ish):
You view the story though the eyes of the main character and he's very lax and doesn't care that much. Like most harem stories they always get the girl, and in this case he actually gets each and every one of them ;D

This should be my favorite manga of all time. It features a pair of badass female protagonists (a personal favorite character type of mine) and keeps you guessing whether or not Nana is actually as dumb as she seems. Ringo is an enjoyable straight (wo)man to Nana's weirdness, and I found them super enjoyable. The artwork and setting are both fantastic, and it had the makings of becoming a One Piece tailor-made for people who, like me, can't get into One Piece for one reason or another.

Then it ended.

The ending ruined the whole experience for me. It was rushed, went nowhere, left plot threads hanging, and destroyed what should've been a fun, quirky, and cute series.

Again, I liked almost everything else. Nana and Ringo in particular were excellent characters, and Hoshi was shaping up to be a fun addition. The villains had cool powers, the world struck me as a sort of ecchi One Piece scenario, and everything about it was poised to succeed.

Overall, I can't hate on this series too much. I'm glad I read it, and Nana has gone on to be one of my favorite characters ever. But... I can't in good conscious rate it above a 5 with how it ended.

Yet another Manhwa with lots of promise that gets cancelled.

Now, I'm not trying to scare you away from reading XO Sisters because it's not finished, but the fact that it was cancelled affected my enjoyment and my opinion about it. Certainly, it is not easy to review an unfinished Manhwa but I will try my best.

Storywise, XO Sisters falls into the countless generic Mangas/Manhwas that have the MC and his/her companions fight against monsters from another realm whilst the general population of the world are unaware of them. This overused plot depends on many genres like comedy or romance/harems to try and stand out from the others, and surprisingly, the story itself is what draws the reader, not the romance(if there was any ??) or the comedy.
Already the summary in MAL does a very poor job to describe the setting and story behind it. Obviously the MC being mistaken for being gay at an all girls school is not the main plot line. The fantasy elements and the harem are the main twist behind it.

I found the art to be very good. The heroines are beautifully drawn and the action scenes are really engaging. The character's expressions convey really well the moments of comedy and seriousness, but the backgrounds are forgetful overall.

You get a glimpse of what the story will evolve into and you barely scratch any kind of character development before it ends, but the character interactions and the story make up for it. Every heroine has a notable personality, but they too fall into the same stereotypical characters that come with the genre. Glasses to the smart, blonde to the tomboy, you get the idea.

I thought XO Sisters was entertaining. You get to see how the MC deals with his and new life in school and how he manages to get himself into strange situations with his newly formed harem, as well as the action moments that come with it. You are led to believe that the MC's abilities are not natural and that he has some hidden power that will awaken 'a la shounen-esque', but as the plot thickens, the story ends.

Overall a 6/10 okay read if you have an hour or so to waste. You are warned to read at your own risk if you can deal with an incomplete story.

First, if you read this manga, don't be an idiot and keep relating it to Death Note.

I'm a Death Note fan too. You want to compare? Let me compare for you. We all know that DN is distinctly good but as someone who has read it all over again in both English and Japanese three times over I found a good deal of loopholes in the story, which I will list them down in a future review, simply because the story is too long and complicated for the author Tsugumi Ohba to handle. On the other hand, in case of Lost+Brain, the story is very compact, right to the points, and virtually free of loophole.

Okay, I strongly believe what makes most of you keep ranting about this manga, despite all the little interesting implications about hypnotism, is the very method the protagonist chooses to change the world - MEMORY ERASURE. Most of you may think it is unfounded, but no, it is exactly what had been happening in the world since the last half of the past century in the name of the neoliberalism crusade led by the U.S.'s economic mega-guru Milton Friedman, as described in details by Naomi Klein in "the Shock Doctrine." He craved for what he called blank slate of the society and the human mind, on which he can literally rewrite everything. Ewen Cameron was the world leading psychiatrist who share the same views and the two men's ideologies converged during regime changes throughout the world. In torture, human were made regress to infantile state, with their memory erased, mostly irreversible. Instead of hypnotism, which is more time consuming and requires extreme mastery, electroshock was used to erase memory and remake human.

I found a rather clear echo of the book in this manga. The bottom line is if you are good then you are more likely to do right more than wrong, so "as planned" is never a necessary phrase to blurt out any more and things should just go smoothly, even though it went all wrong in the end because of a single mistake. That's the narrative that Lost+Brain chooses, to let us follow a well-planned operation until its very end without inserting too much unnecessary twists to confuse readers. The ending might be kinda bad though.

You should read this manga if you are a disciple of LOGIC, not a disciple of some "death note cult."

It's a decent, short Harem Manga.


The MC finds a Knife that makes him leader of all ninjas and random Girls come for him to retrive it. They all get naked for one reason or the other, hilarity ensues.

The Manga is quite short (15 Chapters) and is rather straight to the point - girls getting naked. While there is a backstory (the Ninja leader thing) that's just an excuse for some omnious, faceless Ninja leader to throw more and more girls at MC who just keeps them in his harem.

If you like Ecchi Harem stories, this is the Manga for you.

If you don't... then don't read this.


I personally enjoyed it. 7/10

Mod Edit: review may contain spoilers.
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With the limited amount of 10/10s in existence, I am forever on the lookout for anything of the more serious and twisted variety, for if there is anything that can get a reaction out if me, it is not blushing wuv shoujo, or the usual braindead school anime.

Bradherley's Coach certainly fits the bill: set in Europe in the early 1900's (the setting matching best with England), is is about girls from orphanages getting picked based on their appearance to join the opera troupe of one of the most powerful nobles (the fourth, to be precise!) in existence - Bradherley. The girls view this like we would see winning the lottery in modern times; jumping from rags to riches.

What the girls do not know about is a plan Bradherley put forward to parliament after something serious occurred at a prison. (There was a riot, the result being a lot of death and injuries.) Seeing his chance in the aftermath, Bradherley suggested taming the wild urges of the inmates serving life at prisons by offering a 'lamb' to counter their violent and lustful needs after a certain amount of months, preventing any further riots by allowing the inmates to give into their urges by offering them one innocent victim who would be sacrificed for the greater good.

The 'lamb' would be tricked into thinking she's being taken to Bradherley's estate in a coach, get taken to a prison instead, then get lead into a room full of 30-60+ inmates and, finally, the prison guards would then watch on as the inmates beat and rape the girl over and over. This would be allowed to continue for as many days as it took for the girls to die.

For handling the payments given to the orphanages for the 'lambs', supplying the girls and basically taking all the risks, Bradherley gained more power within the government and maybe even was allowed to evade paying taxes. There were a lot of benefits balanced against the risks. But, really, what risks were there in allowing inmates who wouldn't ever leave prison to have their way with girls with no family; girls who wouldn't be remembered?

Following the short introduction of a girl leaving her orphanage, blissfully unaware of her fate, the manga started off by showing a fairly graphic rape sequence. It didn't disturb me - I've seen one too many doujins on the internet to be easily disturbed, as well as a fair few other things - but I have read that some of the early parts of the story made some people stop. But, after the opening two chapters, the chapters that followed didn't show that kind of thing quite so graphically, instead mainly focusing on short stories involving different girls outside of the prisons...or, in other words, the events leading up to them becoming 'lambs'. The mangaka showed what happened to the girls in detail at the start in order to get the readers to fully understand what the girls had to endure and then stopped so as to not make the series pornographic. There was even a chapter telling the story from the perspective of a few prisoners; a chapter that was good because it helped me understand how the prisoners handled the situation they found themselves in.

What I loved when reading this series was the art. It was drawn with the intention of being realistic in an attempt to make the events more believable and disturbing, and it worked a treat. I couldn't spot any flaws in the art, either. The mangaka is meant to be pretty famous and, if this effort is anything to go by, I can see why.

To sum it up, Bradherley's Coach is an excellent series to read... if you can handle something realistic to the point of being disturbing. Rape is only shown in graphic detail at the beginning and it does veer away from being pornographic, though. It's short enough to read in one go, it only lasting for eight chapters, and the fact that each chapter tells the story of a different girl (or two) keeps it fresh. I highly recommend it to lovers of short 'n grim stories.

Story:
The gist of the story is about a girl, Satoko, who is conflicted about her feelings for two guys. She's a giver by nature of her time, advice, and life. Her friends constantly vent to her, and she feels as if she is the head of the household due to childish parents. At a couples mixer (she had to set up), she ends up alone, but briefly meets an intelligent airhead, Shinguuji. Satoko then begins dating a guy Kenji, who is attractive but doesn't stimulate her. The story doesn't have a linear plot, and bounces between wondering when Kenji's going to find out and who she ends up with.

Hetamen is great for making you feel guilty. I want to cheer on the characters , but also give the side-eye. I don't justify cheating even for cute manga characters. In all honesty, she never should have led on the guys. It's never wrong to just ask for time to think out your feelings.

Something I find funny, the manga and Satoko never fail to remind you that she likes Shinguuji not Kenji. It was set in stone when she fell asleep when Kenji wanted to get all lovey-dovey. :p

Also, there are implied love scenes, which aren't really inappropriate minus a line or two. I was surprised that there's A LOT, if not constant, of sexual content in the last two volumes. Apparently, this is a "mature" manga depsire the slapstickness.

Art:
I like the artwork! It's not necessarily an art style you may not have seen before, but I find it appealing. I like seeing Kenji with his determined eyes, like at the movie theater scene. The faces are nice and convey emotion well when they are meant to.

Characters:
I don't have a favorite character in particular. I had liked Kenji, but he was designed to be the likable dude you felt bad for. His little brothers were very adorable too. Kenji started creeping into no-no behavior toward the end of the first volume. I wish he hadn't gone that route. I guess it goes to show even so-called good guys' true colors will show. For those who this may bother, Kenji started showcasing rapey vibes under the guise of possessiveness. I guess the mangaka found she made him too likable and had to derail that fast.

I'm with Satoko concerning Shinguuji. How is this guy still alive? He's absent-minded to the point of forgetting meals, and can never find anything in his messy room. He's also easy to scare, but will pull from hidden bravery to help someone. All in all, a self-less guy who needs a day-planner. It's also canon, that he is super handsome. “Like a prince from some other country,” as Satoko once said.

Satoko is a neutral character, who is very wishy-washy. You can see early, that she's trying to make herself love the good guy over who she prefers. She understands what she is doing is wrong, and doesn't try to convince herself otherwise. Still, she prefers Shinguuji's company and lips as oppose to Kenji's. She became annoying at some points.

Overall:
The story was okay, but essentially (for the first few chapters) it's just about a girl cheating on her boyfriend, emotionally and physically, over and over. Also, Satoko fantasizes about Shinguuji a lot. If reading about iffy actions doesn't turn you away, you could try reading Hetamen. The story's not ground-breaking or something I would reccomend, but it is entertaining at times. Apparently, Hetamen stands for "good-for-nothing."

Another isekai like any other, only differential is that the protagonist becomes a dragon after his reincarnation, he has a very cute slimes companions and we have an excellent theme of adventurers challenging him to be stronger, but soon this is changed and he returns to have a human appearance (due to certain events) and will have a life as a normal adventurer, a story filled with clichés for people who like the genre (like me), but do not expect a very deep story, nor with much suspense and drama , we have the same fights always solved by the protagonist op and logic he will have a harem forming along the chapters (the differential is that the protagonist is not a virgin).

A full plate for those who like the genre isekai, but if you are not in the genre it is best to pass away from this work.