Midara

    (Icarus, 2006)
™ and © 2006, 2006 Yumisuke Kotoyoshi

There’s a certain consistency to Yumisuke Kotoyoshi’s erotic manga. The women are strikingly voluptuous, they usually end up tied up, and what begins as rape typically ends up as consensual sex that both parties—assuming there are only two people involved—come to enjoy. So it is that a beautiful police detective’s attempts to defuse a hostage situation turn into humiliating rape, and then end up as something enjoyable, in one of the short stories here.

This black and white graphic novel collects several hentai stories into one volume, all with similar female types and plot developments. Certain details get lost here and there in translation from the Japanese; for example, pages getting printed out of order on occasion.

— Andy Richardson
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