// On :Monday 28 April 2014
Circle: Nihon Dandy
Author: Matsuno Susumu
Pages: 18
Release date: 15/08/2010
Genres: exhibitionism, lolicon, shotacon
Parody: Original
Translated: yes
Rating:
Nudity is a wonderful thing. To be nude is wonderful as well, but we've got the misfortune to be in a culture that see our body as a shameful thing, thanks to the religious reign of terror that destroyed everything good and just from earth for nearly 1,000 years.
Lately humanity seems to have regained some hope, and maybe we will be able to say a big fuck you to religion in the future, but for now we have to endure the heritage of that stupidity. Still believed by many. In 2014. Srsly.
Someone, especially the ones prone to masochism, could indeed think that something good was born in that sea of atrocity. The good thing I'm talking about is shame itself; in an intelligent world people won't blame you for your taste and harmless behaviors, and without such blame you won't have anything to be ashamed of. That would be a great gain for everyone, but those who indeed enjoy the shades of psychological degradation would miss the pleasure of feeling the most scandalous being on earth.
So, let's enjoy our chances to show our nude bodies to our friends, and share our blushful feelings as every good friend does ~ A trip to the river would be an excellent excuse to bask in such delightful emotions, as this doujin show us. Four young friends decide to have said trip, and there they have no other option than to take a bath.
A fortunate serie of coincidences see our four protagonists completely naked, everyone placed in a different spot on the scale of willingness. But even the more reticent is fast to appreciate the bless of such freedom, along with a share of shame that spice everything up.
I've really appreciated how the emotions are portrayed, quite a good depiction of those young feelings in that age of changing from 'total uncaring' to 'extremely sensitive about you own body'. This is, by the way, a no-sex doujin, so you'll see no penetrations, or even a little masturbation here, since everything is based on the psychology.
It managed to gift me with both arousal and a deeper delight for that pure childish fun. I've also welcomed the range of the bodies, with a character far from the canonical shota cute character.
Talking about the art, Matsuno Susumu is one of those mangaka that really challenge my aesthetic rational side. Normally I would see some of the qualities of his drawings as defects, but still those manage to enchant me. Maybe it's just taste, or maybe he's just fucking good, who knows? Either way, I love his style, and his deliciously flat lolis with those slim bodies. And obviously his focus on one of my main fetishism ~
On a final note, despite bearing a very similar title with this doujin from the same author, those are two unrelated stories.
Afterwords: After a while writing this review I've felt like Ryo Saeba. Probably here I'm not able to stay serious for more than three paragraphs straight.
