Velvet Kiss

You know, I read this manga after I bust a nut, I finished reading this manga after I bust a nut in like hours before I finished it. My point is, my horniness isn't going to be factor on how I will judge/rate this manga, my horniness wouldn't cloud my judgement and post nut clarity would also help me out on reviewing me this manga. I ain't gonna praise it or rate it high because I'm blinded by my horniness, and because it has many s*x scenes, as a man it is automatically good when you're horny,no. I'm observing and reviewing this without that shit so I'll try to be not biased about it, just because they showed naked girls. First of all, if you're looking for a good drama series, don't pick this up, it is a bad forced drama. 2nd if you're feeling horny and don't want h*ntai manga shit, go pick this up, almost every chapter has s*x on it, it's like breathing to the characters. The author is horny as fuck when he/she was making this manga. I'd say 40-50 % of the manga shows a girl and boy having s*x, how lazy is that? every chapter the s*x scenes takes up like 4-5 pages minimum and sometimes it goes 6-7 pages, all of that to make the manga longer, without the s*x scenes, I bet It will be around 18-20 chapters long. Most of the times the s*x is just a filler, it doesn't help with the progression of the story, I get it if MC and the other girl (not the FMC) have s*x, that will establish the feelings of MC for the other girl, but most the times the s*x is there just to fill up the manga pages. The drama is shit, you got a horny tsundere spoiled brat girl and a pushy weak ass beta MC (not as beta as the others, he man-up and smash the girl), you know this is what I don't understand about japanese people, when someone blackmail you, secretly play along with them while you gather evidence, or you could just fuck them off. There's a lot of problems here, blackmailing, pedophilia (middle aged man, teen girl having sex, I don't care if the girl started it, as an adult male, you're the one who's supposed to stop this behavior), technically reverse rape (teen girl "forced" our MC doing it, if it was the other way around it would be called rape, so it's fair to say that this is reverse rape case) and so many others. The story without the sex isn't really enticing enough, most of the girls are all sl*ts, the only proper girls are the MC's workmates, I was rooting for the glasses girl workmate, but the MC got in loved with another useless girl, then he got NTR'd then calls back the main girl again (which is in teens btw) & uses her as rebound, a safety net, then everything that went wrong with them got solved through s*x, come on how can I take the story seriously now? suddenly all their conflicting personalities got solved through s*x? so that they can force the MC and heroine to reconcile? I also believe that the author got lazy with the other girl "saeki" if I remember correctly, the fastest way for her to get out of the picture was to NTR the MC, looks like the author heard that this series wouldn't be around any longer that's why he/she take the NTR route for fastest way to get saeki out of the picture and gave kanako and MC the reconciliation sex. The drama with her step-mom/aunt, it's all BS for me and that's what I was talking about the forced drama. I believe the author didn't intend to make the step-mother the villain, I think it was Yuki-san (the other rich boy who seems interested in our FMC kanoko) but since the series is nearing its end, the author needed something for FMC and MC to unite, that's why the author make her an enemy, which I think is BS.

Let me start by telling you that this manga obviously is catering to the male demographic, and it'd be very easy to write it off as some h-manga with a story, and if you tend to judge a story off of it's most basic content without looking further, than you probably will, but if you can gather your maturity and analyze the story as more than "OMG SEX!!!!", then you'll actually find this a really great story. I was hesistant to read it at first, I asked myself "is this just another h-manga" as soon as I saw the cover. Then I saw that ithad 32 chapters which was unusual, and that it was on an ipad app for regular non h-manga, so I thought i'd give it a shot and ended up reading the whole thing in 1 go. The story involves a lot of sex but unlike an h-manga the sex actually added to the plot instead of making you ashamed that they think this is what it takes to get you to read it. Even in regular anime and manga you'll see dumb scenes of girls randomly chasing guys or all going after him and it's just downright embarrasing because the series would've been fine without it but some genius thought it'd make it better, you won't find that here. Yes she has sex with him in the first chapter, but as you find out it's not just for some random reason. Kanoko, a girl our main character is forced to befriend to pay off a debt, is a rich girl that has been through really rough times. She doesn't feel connected to her real family so she hangs out with her rich friends that engulf themselves in a world of lust and soon that's become the only way she knows how to build a relationship. Shin is our main character, he's an average salaryman that must be friends with Kanoko because he's fallen into debt, we later learn this is to give Kanoko a way to feel close to someone since she's so detached from her family. Shin gets Kanoko to slowly adapt to a real relationship even though it starts out as quote "fucked up". That's only half of the story, they face many challenges as Kanoko's old world tries to drag her back in while a scheming aunt goes power hungry. The characters were great, they had a lot more depth to them than most of the characters in anime/manga with overused personalities that do illogical things for no reason. Shin isn't some pervert that is super happy he gets to hang out with a cute girl. He's very pissed off about it and feels trapped because he has to work off his debt by being a slave to some girl. Then we see he may have his feelings but his decisions are also influenced by his personality, he protects Kanoko when she gets herself into bad situations and isn't afraid to tell her off. Eventually he starts seeing being with Kanoko as something he wants to do instead of something he's forced to do, but it's not some quick decision, he constantly wants to be free of his duty so he can have a life and fights it, but eventually being with her becomes his life. Kanoko as I explained only knows 1 way to have relationships with people, I think in society we judge people way too quickly and would label her off as a spoiled slut after seeing the first chapter, but this manga won't let you do that because it goes into depth about what's happend to her and you can understand why she's turned out that way. She doesn't have a good understanding about the world but slowly comes to love it as they go out. There are other characters like a reporter that'll do anything to get a scoop in hopes of resolving her personal vendeta with the Kikuchiya's and a two faced character that i won't reveal but will inform you influences half of the entire plot. I really enjoyed this manga, like I said I finished it in 1 go and without a doubt will read it again. It did something that I feel we've written off as something that would never happen, it takes the mature content of an h-manga but instead of giving it a loose plot with sex thrown in, it uses sex as a contributer to the story, it's not just random smut but a mature story. Therefore I wouldn't call this an h-manga but instead a hybrid that takes parts from multiple genres and combines them to make a beautiful story with a proper ending. I'm very happy that I read this and it makes me proud that someone took the time to write a story for guys that actually deals with everything in a mature manner and felt we would enjoy it because we aren't just a mindless group of perverts only looking for boobs with no concern for the story. If you can analyze the whole story and deal with the mature themes than you should definitely read this. I gave this manga a 10 because I believe it does what most anime and manga should be doing, no not adding sex scenes, but actually thinking of their audience as more than a bunch of mindless people that will love a series because they put 1 thing they stereotype them to like in and making the rest of the story half-assed.

Work is a pain in the ass, isn't it? Japan is a very workaholic society; I don't think I'd be exaggerating if I said they have one of the worst cases of overworked laborers in the world. Little vacation time, underpaid workers, and long hours, work in Japan literally "takes over ones life", more-so than any other nation in the world. Velvet Kiss shows this realistically. We see the characters juggle their love lives with work, which ultimately, is impossible in such a job-oriented society. I read in awe as Harumi Chihiro effortlessly told a story that flawlessly depicts this--a middle-class, average guy, through luck, encountersa crazy-ass rich beauty. Sex-friends at first, their hearts and emotions slowly grow closer together as the chapters fly by... they slowly become more than friends, and into something more....

Okay~ Honestly, this is the very first H Manga that I totally enjoyed~ I have always thought H manga are only read because of the H scenes. With a little plot and many H scenes and you're good to go~ But I guess Velvet Kiss proved me wrong. Despite the many H scenes, Velvet Kiss still managed to put off a good plot. The H are just there because it's just something a warm-blooded human being does everyday. It's natural (although the orgies are kinda bit fucked up). It has a real substance, the characters are well played, and the art is really good. I even found myselffalling in love with Nitta-san~♥ It has gotten me really hooked the very first time I read it. I thought it was just some lame H manga with good H scenes but then no, I found myself feeling all the emotions the characters felt. I didn't just read every single page~ I felt all of it (now, this is a bit weird since it's an H Manga. lol) Anyway, I won't write this review too long. BOTTOM LINE: Velvet Kiss is a very good read. two thumbs up for me :)