Yokujou Climax

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Desire Climax is a Shoujo, Smut, Romance, Drama manga that initially feels like all the typical smutty manga I have encountered but it ends up having a remarkably in-depth story. It’s a shame that the story becomes really messed up, later on.

Mio Omori is a high school girl who’s supporting her destitute family but her current job barely covers the basic living expenses. In need of some money, she receives the offer of being the maid for her extremely rich landlord however the son (Shoei Jinnai) happens to have an ulterior motive to her working there. In the beginning I was like “what the heck!” ... as the set-up just seemed rather cliché and unrealistic. However what initially felt like a simple ‘hates him but falls in love with him’ story actually developed into something more, with some dramatic plot twists and surprising developments.

Just like how the story develops into something remarkable, so do the characters. Unlike the usual dim-witted shoujo heroines, Mio is a caring, capable girl and sadly she can be a little easy to take advantage of; on the other hand Shoei (a.k.a. Prince Junnai) is still the typical two-faced guy that only shows his true self towards our heroine. However these two happen to have a troubled past together, which is what makes the romance between them fascinating. As for the supporting characters, they do a good job in actually supporting the story, by making their own mark and being the source of some surprises.

What also does a good job in supporting the story is the artwork for this manga, which can be described as exquisite. The individual characters look well-drawn, with nice defined features and you can tell that the mangaka put some effort into them, as well as the background environment.

Overall Desire Climax, started off as an interesting shoujo manga with some elements of comedy scattered throughout. Not to forget this is mostly a dramatic romance, with an unnecessary amount of randomly placed smutty moments. Though halfway through, matters become far too complicated, as the story goes off on tangent moving unto some ridiculous matters (e.g. love affairs). Knowing this, it’s really just about asking yourself; whether this is the type of shoujo manga you’re looking for.

*Be warned, there's A LOT of sexual content.*

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Story: It definitely had a twist in it that you do see very often, and that probably had to be the best part of the whole manga. I like surprises, so to me, it was a pretty interesting twist to the story.

Art: The art was absolutely dreadful--In my opinion. Art is subjective, and this is merely my opinion, but I simply did not like the art. I really think they could've done better, but it's still decent.

Character: Shoei is a very...interesting character. He's your typical Prince-like character with a hidden agenda. To everyone he's this nice, popular guy but when he and Mio are ... alone, let's just say he becomes a whole new person.

Mio's character really annoyed me, honestly. The manga was rather disappointing and I was hoping the heroine would have a more interesting, unique character. But sadly, she's just your typical Shoujo one. (Not that there's anything wrong with that, but it does get boring after a while...)

Enjoyment: It was alright. I enjoyed it more towards the ending, when things actually got a bit more interesting and it wasn't all about the smut.

Overall, I'd give it a 5 just because I did enjoy it at some parts, but not enough to ever recommend it to a friend or ever re-read it.

This rating is based off this manga being part of the shojou drama/romance genre.
I might be a little harsh on my rating but I’m trying to be realistic here…Apart from the sex scenes, there is literally nothing interesting in this manga. It’s highly unrealistic, the characters drive you crazy and I can’t give it a good rating just based on the sex scenes. I mean if I wanted to read something like that I’d just move on to hentai.

The plot is the biggest disappointment. I’m not even sure where to start or how to describe it very well.
The story’s about Mio and Shoei ... ‘s [also known as the Prince, and yes they literally call him that] relationship. If u can really call it a relationship…it just them having sex basically. There’s this underlying plot line that has them as childhood friends but do to a kidnapping incident, Mio forgets everything about that time. I really wish they would have played on that more and gone down the thriller/mystery route; it could have been really awesome. But no, it gets pushed aside to display the Prince’s wealth and power over the local community. They do bring the kidnapping up towards the end but by that time you can figure it out for yourself…

There are bits of incest thrown in there as well. When I saw where it was going I totally wanted to drop it [sorry just not my thing.] But since I kept reading against my better judgement...my opinion on the whole thing is that the writer just wanted to toy around with the idea of a brother/sister relationship in a lot of aspects. It causes a lot of drama but in the end none of it really went anywhere.

I almost rated this a 5 since I didn’t really know how to feel about it, but if I was asked to recommend it I’d say no. There was little to no character development, scarce plot, and really if u wanna read something like this, go read hentai instead.

Story: 3 [poor]
Art: 7 [good]
Character: 4 [decent]
Enjoyment: 5 [OK]
Overall: 4 [decent]