[SUMMARY]
Onanie Master kurosawa is a story about about a boy named Kurosawa Kakeru who is in Middle school and therefore is going trough puberty, he is somewhat of a loner who thinks of himself as an elitist (a person who thinks is superior to others in status) this will lead him to commit mistakes, and later on he will be challanged to confront them.
[COMMENTARY]
When I first started reading kurosawa, I got a feeling of familiarity which drove me back to my early days of middle school. If we described this story in a more slang-ish way, Id say this is sort of a "Edgy teen meets 1st world problems", but hold on because its much more than that.
As we delve into the world its settled who kurosawa is, what he is doing, his occupation, the world building and the characters surrounding him, and then its presented to us the dillema.
So far so good for kurosawa with a dirty yet interesting story, being able to grasp such morality issues like our personality, honesty, social activity and mainly every teen problem ever. Normally when people are faced with such a thing as Teen problems they expect something incredibly cheesy and simple minded, with overflowing melodrama, however not in this case.
Kurosawa manages to have a clear and realistic view on what is puberty and what it makes us do, it doesnt need much drama, half of the time Kurosawa is making subtle comedic references to for eg. Code Geass, Case Closed.. etc. and its really clever when showing us the plans kurosawa comes up with, to the point you actually get ingrossed in it no matter how silly it is, you are allways left with a thrilling feeling that even if you think kurosawa is going to succeed, you´ll allways doubt the outcoming. For the first half of the story you are left with a michievous and sharp kurosawa, and dark and evil kitahara, a sweet takigawa whom kurosawa found interest in, a nice and soft nagaoka, and the rest are yet to be explored at all, which is fine because they will adress it later.
One of the greatest things about kurosawa is how the writter portrays the characters who normally would be stereotyped as the evil doers, and belive me theres enough twists here to make you dizzy, at some point you´ll be left caring for everyone simply because they become a part of you, egs. going from Sugawa to others,.
I remember that as a kid I liked to create fantasies, worlds, and much other stuff, I was rather creative person, when I reached middle school I had that thing you call the "edgy syndrome", this meaning that I liked to be the misterious guy and closed myself from the world around, I thought of myself as a superior, but I was clearly wrong.. This is what kurosawa shows us, you cant live alone, theres nothing good about it, when you open yourself there will be pain, there will incidents, but thats a part of life.
Normally when you watch those shounens where the MC is normally this really special kid that is like super strong and misterious, well kurosawa contradicts it, if anything it criticizes it, in really well executed way, without having to directly bash it, not only it criticizes shounen like it criticizes teenagers in general.
You are human, you love, you care, you feel atracted for, and mainly you want to remain in constant contact with other humans and beings in general, everything feels much more natural, and youll find yourself smiling most of the time.
The only problem I could see with Kurosawa is how kitahara seemingly recovered way too fast from a depressin, well even then the mangaka did it well, still time skip is time skip and it fucking sucks..
Other than that Kurosawa is a great Doujin who has great characters, realistic overview on puberty, bullying and other teen problems, and a solid ending, give this one a try romance lovers!
