Overall: Lesicake
Smexy Times: Panty-less
Art: Crap
This is my first time linking you guys to a new site, thanks to a commenter of mine. The site looks very nice, but I'll use MangaFox primarily for images still, as well as where I primarily read my manga.
Anyway, onto the review.
Yes, I am a little biased against the art style of this manga. It was released in 1998, so it's not the prettiest thing. It can get pretty sometimes, but the style makes the (many) sex scenes a little awkward. (I tend to prefer a little more of a shoujo-y style myself.)
This is also a manga that attempts to put some things in to hide its' Lesicake status. But the plot sets up the two women so they can just have sex. The plot doesn't even enthrall me in the least.
So there's a student (Miyuki I think) and there's a college professor (Reiko, I only remember her name because she demanded Miyuki call her that during sex. Hint: Miyuki failed.). Miyuki will be able to graduate in one year if she... passes the class Reiko's teaching or something. Some kind of thesis? I doubt Miyuki is bright enough to go for a PHD, so I'm assuming it's some big English paper. But anyway, the point is, Miyuki needs to graduate that year for some reason, so she goes to the Professor for help, who says that she'll give Miyuki the credits she needs if Miyuki writes the thesis and agrees to date Reiko.
Whoa now, hold the phone. That's just wrong. You can't go around doing that! See why I dislike this plot? Oh don't worry, it only gets worse.
So, to keep the story going, Miyuki says yes. So they agree to go have sex. And then, they spend most of the rest of the manga having sex.
And I'm sure you're probably thinking at this point, "Wait. This is Lesicake and most of the manga is sex. Why isn't this rated higher in the 'Smexy Times' section?"
Well, to answer your question young sprout, they attempted to censor the sex. It's actually kind of hilarious, cause they do a piss poor job at it.
So they we come to the end of the story, a whole two page end. So apparently the professor gets found out because a magazine with the picture of the two women kissing is printed in it (though I'm not sure how the photographer was able to take the picture because she lives in an apartment building), and Reiko decides to just up and quit. So she and Miyuki go to America together.
Ugh, this ending is so stupid... I don't even. First, Reiko isn't even broken up about this? She was the one who said earlier in the manga that jobs were scarce. Isn't she scared of what's going to happen to her now? She's a professor, she can't be that rich. Also, this is 1998. America isn't fond of the gays either. Reiko and Miyuki wouldn't be able to live a happy life there either. And third, Miyuki just quits college to go with Reiko, claiming she'd just be "relying on others for everything anyway" if she worked at a top-notch company in Japan. This is when this woman pissed me off. First off, you're going to be relying on Reiko because you now don't have a college degree, and you probably lost the credits you've been working on that semester. So you're going to be relying on Reiko for all the money and taking care of everything. How is it so easy for these women? It shouldn't be such a snap decision.
Anyway, I'm done ranting on the manga ending. This isn't very good. It's cheesy and filled with badly censored smut. Plus the art is old, definitely not as pretty as today's more modern yuri manga. If you're looking for just plain old sex, go for this. Because it will give you that. But no happiness or character development or even character depth.
However, I do credit this manga for one thing. This is the first time I've ever seen the word dyke in a yuri manga.
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