What do you get when you mix together a considerable amount of smut, sexy demons and angels, and a hormonal teenage virgin? You get 'Akuma na Eros', a cautionary tale of why desperate, love-obsessed teenage girls should not have access to demon-summoning materials.

Story - 5/10

Mayu Shinjo's works can be summed up in two words: "schoolgirl smut", all following roughly the same script: the teen protagonist meets a mature, hot guy who is attracted to her (most of the time literally) virginal naivete, with their "love story" consisting of the guy basically assaulting her as often as he can until she ultimately gives in and they have sex (more often than they already did).

'Akuma na Eros' is no exception: this time, the story has a supernatural twist to it, as Miu makes a pact with Satan himself to get Shion-senpai to notice her. Naturally, the centerpiece of the manga is the love triangle between Miu, Satan and Shion, with the Miu/Satan side being significantly more lewd and prominent than the Miu/Shion one. The plot is built on and moved forward by the romance aspect, with very little outside intervention from other characters.

Characters - 4/10

Miu starts off as very much another instance of the "pure, naive shoujo heroine" stereotype (sometimes too naive to be believable), and doesn't stray much past that. Satan stays the same throughout the entire manga, with a sleazy, confident macho grin plastered on 99% of the time. Shion is the nice guy who ends up forgettably bland in comparison, although he gets considerably more interesting near the end of the manga. There isn't really any character development, unless you count Miu giving in to Satan's seduction as "development".

Art - 7/10

The art is honestly pretty good. While you can only tell all of Shinjo's characters apart from each other by their hairstyles, a smutty shoujo story demands hot guys and a cute protagonist, and 'Akuma na Eros' delivers on that front. Miu is appropriately adorable and Satan has a sultry stare to pierce the Heavens, though Shion has a bit too "sharp" a look compared to his gentle personality, and the necks of the male characters made me go "hmmm" occasionally.

Enjoyment - 6/10

I would say 'Akuma na Eros' works as a decent introduction to Shinjo, and is one of her best works; she doesn't try to stretch the plot too far, like in 'Haou Airen', and the amount of smut and cheese here is so big that the religious aspect is just a convenient plot device used in order to get a boring, love-obsessed high school girl to bone the Devil. What can I say, it's a guilty pleasure for me.

Overall - 6/10

If you haven't read anything else by Shinjo, the recycling of plots and characters won't be as bothersome. Ultimately, you can take it as a parody of the smut subgenre, since it throws so many cliches of the genre at you that you'll need a few moments for everything to sink in. But if you're not a fan of brainless smutty shoujo, I doubt you will enjoy this.