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The main strength of this work is the art.

As usual, Hontoku's art is of high quality and pleasing to the eye. The fetishization of office workers is portrayed well through her attention to detail: lanyards around the neck, the slight reveal of socks as dress pants ride up, crisp suits and the gap appeal of neat bondage. Shizujirou, the protagonist, is the epitome of this with his glasses, fangs and becoming black hair. My only complaint would be that the aesthetics of the characters are too uniform (they all belong to the same genre of the Hontoku-gaze ikemen), but really, the lechery and decadence of ... pillow business within the corporate world is nicely romanticized by the great art!

Shizujirou's personality flanderizes as the story progresses, but this proves to be quite comedic as he acts more and more like a typical airheaded bimbo; it is part of the exploratory aspects of yaoi to see how much a character can get away with being annoying as long as it is male. Anyway, the average plot takes place in a universe where yaoi logic prevails: every male is gay while every woman is straight; you must be either a top or bottom; there are barely any mob female characters; it is normal for grown men to neglect or even quit their job for dick etc. The fluffy PWP worldview and unapologetically corny BDSM lines border between woobification and mockery of real men.

All in all, would recommend to anyone who has an office worker fetish!

I'm biased towards aesthetically pleasing art styles and hot ikemen. The art is probably the only salvation of this manga and heightens the experience considerably. If the art was not so good, I would probably rate it a 3, because the rhyme and reason of the plot feels like it was written by a middle schooler. There is too much exposition and deus ex machina as with a lot of animanga nowadays (supposedly forgivable however, given the episodic nature); the villains are extremely one-dimensional to the point of their cruelty being unrealistic; the build-up to graphic, cathartic scenes do not live up to anticipation. Therefore, ... it often feels as if the villains are let off far too easily.

But because Chief Dan is an ikemen who appeals to the female gaze, I will rate this a 6.