The Goddess's Sprinter

This manga is about how Takase, as part of his training in order to become a better track athlete, is doing testosterone training. This involves cycles of abstinence where he gets as aroused as possible without ejecting over 8 days, ejects on the ninth day, and then repeats. If it isn’t already completely obvious, allow me to make clear that this manga is heavily ecchi harem focused. If you are not into that you will definitely not like this manga so there is no point in further reading this review. Now with the assumption that everyone still reading does like ecchi harem stuff, I stilldon’t think this is all that good of a manga. Just to get it out of the way, as you probably expect the plot is pretty bad. The whole premise doesn’t actually make much sense, which shouldn’t be a surprise considering the type of manga it is. It has explanations for what different hormones do and how muscles work that are strangely overtly detailed so that may lead you to believe that there’s actually substance there, but these explanations are pure nonsense. Takase’s character arc is also pretty bad. It’s centered around him getting better at track, but the manga doesn’t actually focus all that much on track. Takase is also a pushover that supposedly gains confidence as a result of his training, but that really didn’t manifest outside of a couple moments specifically focused on that. Outside of those he’s a complete doormat through and through. More importantly, the harem aspect is even more of a mess. The basic concept I suppose could be called light netori. The main heroine is Takase’s older brother’s wife, though they’ve essentially split up. The second heroine is a woman that has long had a crush on Takase’s older brother. The third heroine is Takase’s track rival’s younger sister. None of these are at the level that can really be considered netori and thus I don’t think this would appeal to those that are into it. But at the same time, all three holistically are close enough that it feels kind of off to those that aren’t into netori. The relationship development between each of them and Takase is pretty bad even for an ecchi harem manga. On top of that, the ending is incredibly rushed and essentially involves two of the heroines leaving and getting with other guys and Takase getting with the remaining one simply through process of elimination. It leaves a terrible final impression and is completely unsatisfying. In terms of ecchi the art is decent enough, but not good enough to hold up the manga. The actual ecchi scenes are just okay. They’re mostly light femdom with a focus on muscular legs so for those that are especially into that they may find them more appealing. But as someone that’s neutral on the fetish I found them not that good and pretty repetitive. tl;dr: A trashy ecchi harem manga that’s also mediocre at the ecchi harem part.