AKI-SORA review

Erik_The_Red6
Apr 10, 2021
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.
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AKI-SORA
AKI-SORA
Author Itosugi Masahiro
Artist Itosugi Masahiro