Not For the Faint of Heart - How Good Was I? Review
So I'm back with a new installment of everyone's favorite naughty review series, bolstered tonight by some lime gin and an appreciation for uncensored hentai. And I can say rather safely that anyone looking for very, very uncensored manga would do well to check out this volume from the Project H line. One of the loudest complaints I hear about Project H is that the works tend to be censored, and while that doesn't usually bother me that much, the naysayers can find no fault with the explicitness of this volume.
The stories are something else. This is a collection of short works, the longest being just two parts. The plots aren't anything to really write home about, are more excuses for some sex to happen. And for that this is mostly a fun and fine volume. I tend to want a little bit more from my sex manga than what's here, but the volume is definitely sex positive most of the time, which is nice. There are a couple of places, though, that there were some concerns over consent, which is always something that makes me look a little closer at what the work is saying. I'm willing to forgive this volume most of it, but there were two stories that were just a little too far in my opinion, which is really a shame, because otherwise the volume manages to have a lot of fun (which is to say, a lot of fun sex).
And the art is gorgeous. It's perhaps not the most realistic in certain regards, but it is definitely explicit and erotic. The characters all tend to look the same with a few minor differences, but their personalities tend to vary drastically, and the dynamics between partners also is quite different from story to story. It's part of why I liked so many of the stories, not really for the plot but because the characters were fun to watch, and were admirably rendered. The sex is graphic (and like I said, explicitly non-censored) and mostly fun for all involved. The stories stick to pretty mundane (relatively) beats, mostly guys and their girlfriends, though there are some various fetishes explored (public sex, some kink).
In the end (and the bottom of my glass) this volume is something that I enjoyed, and almost very much enjoyed but for a few places I felt were a little too troubling to me. Not that I wouldn't go back and just skip those in the future, but judging as a whole I feel it would have been better served without those. Still and all, the art and the characters make it worth it to at least give it a look. Not much more to say, really, other than gin is good, and this volume gets a 6.75/10 from me.