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reading this one-shot was a MISTAKE.

i personally came across this series while scrolling through amazon, and the cover art got me intrigued, mostly because of the phallic imagery, which by itself is of course a little questionable but since it's by the same author as Aku No Hana, i figured, why not give it a shot. after all, shuzo oshimi wrote the perversion theme in aku no hana really well, so i had faith.

i lost it all.

Yumeko, the MC, is a perverted girl who's OBESSESSED with dicks. there's not much else to her character other than,
- dick
- thinking about dick
- wanting to draw dick
- being ... mad when she can't draw dick
there's genuinely not much else to her.

Honda, the other MC, ha that typical looking loser design that you see a lot of "perverted" characters have (if you take a look at a panel of him, you'll get what i mean.) and i honestly don't even know why i'm droning on about his design, as it's the least of my concerns. he's honestly just an art student, who gets roped into yumeko's crazy ass obsession with dicks.

i doubt that this one-shot had much potential anyway, but the development is just not it. it's quite lazy, repeating the same scenario over and over, just yumeko being a penis-obsessed girl, as honda awkwardly poses as her nude model. that's not to say that nothing happens, but it doesn't create much excitement.

he then (as you'd expect as it drags on) gets boners whenever he poses nude. yumeko, despite her obsession, actually comments on it LESS than honda does, which is weird in hindsight, because she finally gets to see a dick, but honda gets most of the dialogue whenever he's in the scene.

and don't even get me started on that ending.

to cut things short, honda's embarrassment leads him to blurting out that yumeko needs to pose nude for him, or else he won't pose nude for her anymore. she does, because she needs that 9 to 5 dick on hand. however, she's obviously embarrassed too, and honda feels bad, blahblablah, they stop talking for like a month. yumeko can't help but feel like something is missing (it's dick,), and so she goes into the art room and goes "SEX NOW!!!"

WHAT THE FUCK????????

AND THEY ACTUALLY DO???

this development makes no sense. these characters had little to no chemistry, the only interactions they'd ever have were because of yumeko's dick fever. that shit was borderline hentai.

they just smear paint over each other's bodies and fuck.

what comes out of this?

honda wants the be yumeko's canvas for life. weird

yumeko wants to go to art college as a result. weirder.

in all fairness, the art college thing was referenced earlier on, but it's still an unsatisfactory ending (if there could even be one of those.)

this is also one of oshimi's earlier works, so i implore you to go and read Aku no Hana as well as Chi no Wadachi, which are amazing.
this one shot is not an accurate window into oshimi's writing. if you're looking for a crack story that takes itself semi-seriously at times, then for sure, indulge yourelf, but most audiences wouldn't like this story.