La Pomme Prisonnière

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This might look like some kinky hentai for fetishists on a surface level, but, surprisingly, that's actually not the case, I think. Nudity and some occasional (and surprisingly non-explicit) sex scenes aren't here to make you feel horny. All of this eyebrow-raising stuff is a part of main heroine's daily habits and routines. What does she do? Well, she eats, drinks alcohol, plays with runaway street cats, sleeps naked when it's too hot, drinks some more liquor, tries to tame stray cats, wanders around town aimlessly, eats and drinks even more, tries to have sex and fails spectacularly. Yeah, nothing to see here, business as ... usual, folks...

While its gorgeous art may be arousing to some...well, a lot of readers, La Pomme Prisonnière is not some ordinary 'hot and spicy' fap\schlick material. I mean, for me personally at least. It is a deliberately goofy, dumb, humorous and acutely weird character study. It's an also a rare example of a narrative with sexual content, where it's a completely natural part of main character's personal traits and portrayed in a casual and laid back manner.

Sex is not a crime. Nudity is nothing to be ashamed of. You're free to do as you please when you're alone, don't worry about the other people opinions, they won't know anyway...

Hita-Hita, also known under a nicer appellation which is La Pomme Prisonnière — a name that will call to mind for some people a French brand of Calvados (apple liquor) —, is a fascinating experience where the reader is able to dive into the daily life of an unusual young woman whose laziness and cheekiness would make her look like one of those feline she's fond of.

While following her nonchalant lifestyle and lightly ... unorthodox games, we really got the feeling to enter into her intimacy and to understand her simple view of life, even though the chapters are very short and there is not much of them. It personally reminds me my idle days of week end, or holidays, lounging, turning over and over, in my bed (and why not with rain pounding outside). Or something like this, well, I think that's suggestive enough to visualize the story and atmosphere.

It would of course not be so bewitching without this marvelous art. I have a personal crush on his way of representing woman bodies (I'm quite wicked).

Well then.

What an interesting manga to say the least.

I took this up after finishing "Forget-me-not" because this is related to that on MAL.

La Pomme Prisonnière, which just means "The Imprisoned Apple", also a Drouin Calvados product (no idea if hidden meaning). Follows Imari of "Forget-me-not" doing all kinds of aimless activities, though, mostly, commits such activities in the nude. Hey, someone needed the fanservice.

Don't quote me, but I have heard that nudity is a form of purity, probably dates back to religious references, so that being taken over to this short may or may not be a kind of parallel the story aligned itself ... to. It would check out as Imari is mostly doing aimless stuff, nothing lustful too, mind you. What confuses me is why if she isn't really that innocent of a person in the original story. I have no clue, but as a standalone, this has enough evidence to correlate some kind of connection with a pure person that Imari is presented to be here.

The art is quite literally the same as "Forget-me-not", so I don't see why I should change my thoughts on that.

The enjoyment is, well, it can go one of two ways ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). Personally, this was a fun little manga that literally takes little effort to read as dialogue is incredibly small to the point where it doesn't even matter. Imari does a thing here, sometimes it is funny, sometimes it is just another one of those antics, sometimes it is what it literally is, "some state of existence".

I would take this up if you have seen the original story already. Up there with one of the easiest things to read. And if nothing else. Fanservice.

Let's just call this 5.5/10.