Can We Talk About This?
Recently a friend in Steemit asked me to do a review about Minamoto Monogatari ( Minamoto's Adventure). Well, I will be honest here, I am not so into these kind of genre really. I find this genre kind of saturated already for the market, I am not saying that this Manga is bad or has no quality at all. Its just I had already saw a lot of these in the past and I kind of got tired of them already.
You know, because a woman asked me to do this review, somehow a question got into me. Why does boys that looks like girls have a serious fan base?
My sisters are fans of these K-pop groups of boys that looks like girls. They buy stuffs about them like posters, music albums, magazines and such, they even wear those shirts that have the face or the name of that particular artist or band. And of course the problem doesn't really end up with just my sisters, they have friends that goes in the house and talks about them while wearing the same kind of shirt. And it doesn't stop there. I personally have female friends that are into them and colleagues as well. Its like an epidemic, its contagious, its serious!
Okay, right before this post goes in a totally different direction, I have to start now commenting about this Manga titled Minamoto Monogatari. Minamoto Monogatari is a straight-up harem echhi with some psychological, romance into it. Minamoto-kun, the main character of this Manga, looks like a girl(like those K-pop boys that I mentioned above) and is bullied because of that.
One day, he meets his aunt which is a Genji no Monogatari(a Japanese literary work) maniac that pushes Minamoto-kun(our one and only hero) into making every girl her aunt gets interested into his woman. So he could bang them eventually. Yes, to bang them, this Manga itself is so direct to the point that if someone sees me reading this Manga they will think that I am reading a Hentai Doujin.
Just look how fu**ed up is the scene that I cropped above via Microsoft Paint. If someone with no idea at all about Anime and Manga sees this they will probably think that this work is a straight up pornography. Okay, because I attached pictures of tits and boys that looks like girls in this post, now I have to tag this post with NSFW. Damn it! I always aim for family friendly content, why did my blog ended up like this?
Tell that to your completely family friendly Citrus and Imouto sae ireba ii post.
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This Manga is written and illustrated by Minori Inaba that I had read as Minori Ineba in Japanese because the troublesome kanji 稲(ine) messed up with my reading ability again. Reading the Japanese names is the hardest task in this language.
Minori Inaba, based on her name is a female that makes her work in a weekly Mangazine company named Weekly Young Jump. As always, there aren't much info about the author. I tried looking for her info in the Japanese articles such as Japanese Wikipedia and it tells really limited infos about her like what age (23) she won her first Comic making contest before being serialized and the titles of those entries that she had done.
稲(ine), this kanji means rice. It is also a kanji used in the word 稲妻(inazuma) which means lightning. If you break down inazuma's kanjis , you will learn that it consists of the kanji for rice and wife which makes no sense at all for a word that means lightning. Sometimes I just want to hang myself with how illogical these Japanese words are.
This Manga consists of 9-10 pages per chapter that is something unusual for a Manga that runs in a weekly Mangazine. For many times before I had already mentioned that usually a Manga chapter in a weekly Mangazine most of the time runs in a 20 page format per chapter. Minamoto Monogatari is one of the few exceptions that I found that don't follow this rule.
There are advantages and disadvantages for such format. A good advantage for it is, the author could make the quality and quantity consistent because of his/her work load is only half of the usual norm. And the disadvantage that I see is it might not get an Anime adaptation because of it. I had mentioned in my post for Domesticated Girlfriend that there are works out there that don't get TV adaptations not because of Manga quality issues but because of how profitable or valid for a TV adaptation a work is.
In the validation area Minamoto Monogatari already hits a red flag because the story of the work revolves around the sexual desires of Minamoto-kun. As I think of it, censoring all of these sexual parts for an Anime adaptation will remove the relevance of the Manga itself for an Anime adaptation. In Domesticated Girlfriend the director could choose to censor some of the sex scenes and still make the work relevant because the story isn't just really about sex, it has a deeper and mature story. But still, no Anime adaptation even just a live action series.
In Minamoto Monogatari's case, I think the work focuses more on banging. There are shows like Kaijo and To Love-ru that made it out there but they have sports, gag and stuff that makes them work somehow. I watched To Love-ru and it was originally like a Doraemon format show at first(like they introduce new items and such every chapter) but ended up focusing more on the romance part(that ended up into a wild harem).
Conclusions
The quality of Minamoto Monogatari is something to appreciate. Despite of the length and saturation issues, this work is something that you can still line up with the good works out there. For it's score, I will give it 7 out of 10 and I am really being nice here. 7 and not lower because I respect the author for being honest on how she shows her sexual desires via her Manga. A work like this cannot be produced without motivation and such or else the work will have no spirit at all.
Will I recommend this work to others? No, most of the time no. But if someone asks me about it I will say that its good cause it deserves to.
BTW the name of the cover girl above is Kawasaki Aya, she is this week's issue of Weekly Young Jump's cover. Minamoto Monogatari and Imouto Umaru chan runs in that Mangazine
Sex is a healthy exercise! Think of those poor AIs that cannot do it! On the other hand, Maid-chan does not need to run into lampposts if a nice specimen of the other sex walks by.
btw. Maid-chan will do a review of Eromanga-sensei today. No sex, but still a bit lewd.
that is true maid chan, and sex isnt only healthy for our physical health, it is also healthy for our mental and emotional health.