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Jackass is a terribly cute manga. I'll keep my review short and sweet because writing too much about it will be giving away spoilers, and I don't want that.

I'll begin by applauding how well the mangaka handled the 'I'm gay but I didn't know I was gay till something happened to me'. It was completely natural and progressed in an organic succession; both the parties involved behaved in a manner that would be typical of people in their position, esp the MC. I also loved how the fetish angle was added to the entire drama - this was a first for me and I ... thoroughly enjoyed it!

It was also interesting to note how 3 different stories were told in 7 chapters. The bully's story was especially interesting (at least for me). All in all, if you're looking for something light, fun and completely kawaii to read (with very few sex scenes), I'd highly recommend this manga!

*SPOILERS*
The only issue I had with this was the way a sexual relationship was handled between a 15 yr old child and a middle aged man. I mean, if the seme was 18-20, I'd have been more forgiving bc of the small age gap between them, but 20 years is too big an age gap for me to look past.

This story caught me totally off-guard! Pantyhose just totally changed in my eyes. I will never be able to wear them again without being reminded of this passionate story! I might have discovered something new about myself, hah!

Not only is the art style amaaaazing with all its ikemen, the intensity of the characters reacting to each other took hold of my heart right away. If you want to have your heart thunder against your chest in anticipation, this is the short manga you need to read. The various relationships come together perfectly, making it like a small soap opera with a very satisfying ending, mhm!

Seriously, ... gosh, I haven't enjoyed a highschoolish BL story like this one as much as I did this one.

Jackass is a manga that seems to not even be really sure what it wants to be. It goes from being just a long set up to a fetish porn to an attempt to portray a coming out story, then back to fetish porn, than again back to an attempt at a more "serious" plot and finishes with good old porn. Either this is attempt to market a manga to that sort of fujoshi which is unable to enjoy a story unless it has two dudes banging, maybe it's the opposite and it's trying to get manga serialization for the author's personal fetish by trying ... to pitch it with a story. Both are plausible scenarios and both should by solved by focusing just on that one part the author wanted to focus as this mix just weakens both of those parts simultaneously.

The story isn't that great - it's pretty much just a basic "oh shit I might be gay" scenario, just laced with some stockings. Take away the homosexuality and you have a generic script for shoujo manga as the heroine realizes she has a crush on someone. This only has an illusion of having a good story that is created by most of yaoi manga having an absolutely awful storytelling. Among those, even an average work would look very good, and as they say the one-eyed is the king in the land of the blind.

Also, the one saving grace this has is an art that too is better then the average yaoi, this time by far (for yaoi standards). Those characters look like actual people and not like aliens from Planet X whose hands had to be evolved to enormous sizes to help them survive by swimming in those muddy waters of their home world, as the yaoi character design usually looks.

Well, if you're a fan of yaoi you will most likely give this a very high score regardless of this review or of the actual content of the manga, so this is just a fair warning for those reasonable ones who might have wandered to this manga entry by chance and might be wondering if the high mean score is really deserved.