Pleasure & Corruption

If you go into this manga expecting a thoughtful exploration of BDSM, you're going to walk away disappointed. The author isn't especially involved in the subculture, so what's depicted in the story is mostly surface level at best. At worst, it can be problematic and unflattering. Likewise, anyone looking for a romance story isn't going to find much of one here. Surprisingly, the topic of love only comes up rarely and mostly towards the end, and it isn't especially deep or complex either. People looking for a smutty ecchi manga will similarly be disappointed. If you're already interested in bondage, you might get some enjoymentout of the situations presented here, but the content is pretty tame and restrained overall. Yes, there are some more extreme scenes, but they're few and far between. And the art style itself is fine, but you will notice the occasional error that signifies a more amateur work, which this is. That's not meant to be a knock against the creator, because we all have to start somewhere. But these things do stand out. So what's left? It's a drama, plain and simple. You'll see multiple "love" triangles. You'll see scandals. You'll see misconceptions born from a lack of communication. It's the kind of story that tries to give the class bully a redemption arc just to keep him from fading into the background. If you know what you're getting into, you may very well find enjoyment in this manga. Personally, I thought it could have gone a little farther, a little deeper. It'd be worth following the author to see what else they come up with, though.

The first 10 Chapters are very harsh. Rape is prevalent in every chapter, and only after the stockholm syndrom starts kicking in, does the story start to pick up speed. If I wasn´t drunk reading it, I wouldn´t have made it past chapter 1. But I did and I enjoyed it. The art is good. Nothing groundbraking, but definitly serving it´s purpose. "The charaters are all assholes." quote: The author. I didn´t smypathise with a single character because they are all filled with problems. It is intentional, but it´s still very offputting. The plot however is truly groundbreaking. In my review to "the friend-eater game" I wrote,that the characters switch emotions way to fast. This story has a character go trhough following emotios (maybe spoiler?): I love you, I am worth nothing, i want to mutilate you, Why don´t You love me?, crying, i´m so sorry, don´t worry about me, I love you and that´s why I will kill myself in your name, ties rope around her neck and comes to understand bondage, stops killing herself, let´s be freinds, crying and finally to i love you. All of this is in a single chapter (36) The sheer amount of turns i simply couldn´t expect for the life of me, are exceptionel. If you want a surprising story with an antagonist that reminds me of johann liebert from monster, that still (mostly) makes sense this is for you. Plese be aware that there is a lot of rape and bondage in this manga. If you can stomach this please go ahead and have a nice day :)

The series is still not fully translated to English so I feel like, despite it being very good in some parts (and incredibly lacking in others), it will remain more or less underground. But after reading the 59 chapters, I must say that its quite an unique piece of manga. The art is very good. You won't find incredibly detailed backgrounds nor things like that, but the proportions are always very well kept, the emotions are always incredibly well shown and the female characters are suggestive in a relatively tasteful way. The story is... all over the place. I won't go onto the details as of/why/ its like that as I would spoil everything, but basically, things escalate uncontrollably, situations don't really make sense and a bunch of issues are left unresolved by the end. If you just "turn your brain off" and never question "what" or "why" or "what the fuck did the police just forget about everything??" then the story is quite interesting. The MC is a bland self insert, but that's nothing new in manga. Compared to the average bland self insert, the MC of this story at least has some kinks and guts, so its not terrible. All of the other characters are relatively well crafted, particularly the female MC. In the end, this story feels like it was just made along the way while the original intent was just to display some nice bondage scenes. There's no way for me to say that this is good, but it also wasn't bad. On the contrary, I really enjoyed reading it and I was incredibly engaged. Should you read this? It definitely is an engaging story, the art is super nice and it covers a relatively niche area. If youre looking for something similar to this plot, its not like you have much to choose from. And what you can choose isn't bad, so we cant complain. I think that this story was licensed by an English publisher so that may be why the fansubs stopped. In any case, make sure that you can either get a hold of the last 2 volumes in English or that you can read Japanese.