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Yokai Girls #2
Yokai Girls, Vol. 2
An all new action-comedy manga of monster (girl) proportions!
Nishizuru Yakki has always considered himself a fairly normal guy. He's graduated from school, works a part-time job, and has never had a girlfriend. Yet he does have one unusual ability--he can see yokai! He usually copes with these ghostly visions by ignoring them--until he meets a mysterious young woman named Rokka. Now, his normal days have taken a notably abnormal turn, as Yakki finds himself the sole defender of a motley array of sexy supernatural beings!
Nishizuru Yakki has always considered himself a fairly normal guy. He's graduated from school, works a part-time job, and has never had a girlfriend. Yet he does have one unusual ability--he can see yokai! He usually copes with these ghostly visions by ignoring them--until he meets a mysterious young woman named Rokka. Now, his normal days have taken a notably abnormal turn, as Yakki finds himself the sole defender of a motley array of sexy supernatural beings!
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June 9, 2020
This manga keeps adding "battle" elements, and it's just fucking fun. When watching XEBEC's adaptation of Yuragi-sou no Yuuna-san whenever it was it aired (2018?) I kept cheering a bit anytime the yokai shenanigans veered too closely to battle-manga territory. It was, after all, a Weekly Shounen Jump series. Yokai Girls (aka Monster Girl) ran in Weekly Young Jump, the magazine of shit like Gantz, Terra Formars, and Tokyo Ghoul. It wouldn't be too crazy for this to go full action, and it seems we're sliding into the genre anyway (now we just need Kaguya-sama to become a fighting series, too!).
Some pretty wack shit happens in this volume. Yatsuki's sixth sense somehow triggers a combo move with a weakened Rokka, whose spirit combines with Yatsuki's arm to turn it into some Tekken-Mokujin-looking rocket-punch thing. Later in the volume, Nagi and her butler try to push Yatsuki further to hone his ethereal energy. He manages to coat his fists in spirit power like some Yu Yu Hakusho shit. Should I be upset a harem ecchi manga is building toward more superpowered fight scenes? Maybe, but I love it instead.
As for miscellaneous things, I love how Funatsu gives the spider girl the striped stockings to fit her spider theme. A bit better than the nurikabe's weird shoes. But, more importantly, I like how her nipples remain hard for much of the fight, and her panties are pulled down a little for some time as well. When Yatsuki disrupts the battle to have her fix her panties, she pulls them into a very extreme cameltoe, particularly egregious but this is why we read ecchi. Obviously, Funatsu continues his thing of having panty folds vaguely highlight labia, and every girl's thigh-high stockings cut gently into their leg-meat.
One thing that stood out in particular was that Momo oddly looked cuter to me in her plainclothes form than in her maid-cafe uniform. I think my wiener twitched a bit more when she referred to herself as a "gloomy otaku girl" than from any actual lewdness elsewhere in the book (I'm certainly exaggerating, but perverted hyperbole is key to the persona I use when writing these sort of reviews...).
Shout out to all the Arc System Works references. BlazBlue and Guilty Gear are explicitly mentioned. Some background character mentions "Sukukaja," a MegaTen series spell, and thus a Persona 4: Arena reference. Fun shit.
Some pretty wack shit happens in this volume. Yatsuki's sixth sense somehow triggers a combo move with a weakened Rokka, whose spirit combines with Yatsuki's arm to turn it into some Tekken-Mokujin-looking rocket-punch thing. Later in the volume, Nagi and her butler try to push Yatsuki further to hone his ethereal energy. He manages to coat his fists in spirit power like some Yu Yu Hakusho shit. Should I be upset a harem ecchi manga is building toward more superpowered fight scenes? Maybe, but I love it instead.
As for miscellaneous things, I love how Funatsu gives the spider girl the striped stockings to fit her spider theme. A bit better than the nurikabe's weird shoes. But, more importantly, I like how her nipples remain hard for much of the fight, and her panties are pulled down a little for some time as well. When Yatsuki disrupts the battle to have her fix her panties, she pulls them into a very extreme cameltoe, particularly egregious but this is why we read ecchi. Obviously, Funatsu continues his thing of having panty folds vaguely highlight labia, and every girl's thigh-high stockings cut gently into their leg-meat.
One thing that stood out in particular was that Momo oddly looked cuter to me in her plainclothes form than in her maid-cafe uniform. I think my wiener twitched a bit more when she referred to herself as a "gloomy otaku girl" than from any actual lewdness elsewhere in the book (I'm certainly exaggerating, but perverted hyperbole is key to the persona I use when writing these sort of reviews...).
Shout out to all the Arc System Works references. BlazBlue and Guilty Gear are explicitly mentioned. Some background character mentions "Sukukaja," a MegaTen series spell, and thus a Persona 4: Arena reference. Fun shit.
June 20, 2020
Very interesting, but wow, culture shock.
I think I've learned more about Japanese folk-lore in the last 2 volumes than I have in the past 30 years. So many new terms & kanji. Like I said last volume, to keep from being overwhelmed, flat-out ignore all the names, or just abbreviate everything down to 2 letters. I'm really enjoying this so far, but worry most Westerners will really struggle with all the yokai & locations. So, make it easy on yourself, focus on the appearance & initials of the characters. Art, rather good. Dialogue, good, butva bit forced & overdramatic at times. Characters, interesting, unique, & in some cases, likeable & even relatable.
I think I've learned more about Japanese folk-lore in the last 2 volumes than I have in the past 30 years. So many new terms & kanji. Like I said last volume, to keep from being overwhelmed, flat-out ignore all the names, or just abbreviate everything down to 2 letters. I'm really enjoying this so far, but worry most Westerners will really struggle with all the yokai & locations. So, make it easy on yourself, focus on the appearance & initials of the characters. Art, rather good. Dialogue, good, butva bit forced & overdramatic at times. Characters, interesting, unique, & in some cases, likeable & even relatable.
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