"Ecchi shitai" to Itte Kure: Seijin(?) Buchou to Junshin(?) OL

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if you've never been blue-balled in your life before, you will experience it mentally, physically, spiritually, metaphorically, and vertically in this manga.

meet "holy gentleman" director ujihara-san—boss by day, playboy by night—and "pure virgin" fuyutsuki-san—subordinate by day, nympho (yes, nympho) by night. surely, what can go wrong with such a match, right? turns out a lot of things can go wrong, but for all the right reasons.

i have a very love-hate relationship with smut. oftentimes, in the pursuit of aesthetic art and appealing smut, an author often loses track of the story and pushes an agenda just to get the two characters out of their ... clothes. but [un]fortunately for both you and me, that does happen but not in the way we'd expect it to. you see, both our main characters are reserved in their own way— fuyutsuki struggles with a fear of coming off as overbearing or demanding when asking to get physical, as well as losing her partner in the process, while ujihara struggles with his own past trauma, which makes him think thrice (yes, not even twice, THRICE) before wanting to initiate anything physical. so what happens when these two people enter a relationship? two very sexually frustrated adults who fantasize about the other, of course.

it's honestly quite funny to see these two maintain a line between respect and wanting to jump each other's bones while also highlighting how morbidly sad their situations are that made them this way—i won't go much into their backstories as that would spoil the story, but it deals with very prominent social issues and stigma surrounding men and women when it comes to sex and relationships.

over the course of the story, you can really see they value each other not just based off of a face value or work persona—in the words of our "holy gentleman," "the bitter feeling of a love rapidly fading away...i don't want to taste that again." we see instances where they love each other not just because of looks, but of their attitude and personality, and i find that mighty impressive how seamlessly it's integrated into the story without making it seem like, "oh i love him; now the next panel justifies me pushing him on the bed." if you know, you know.

overall, it is a pretty good smut—possibly one of the only stories i have come across that has a good mix of both porn and plot—and i would recommend giving it a read, even if just for the laughs.