Some borderline "spoilers" ahead, but most of are mentions from the first volume, between chapter one and two.
ART
Pretty Good, I give it a 7/10, your typical Shojo Romantic manga drawings.
Pushed me to read it more, CLEARLY not the best around, but still something enjoyable.
The manga is a bit graphic (No genitals, but we do see tits), so you've been warned.
STORY AND CHARACTER
As non biased as possible.
This story's just flat out incoherent.
Rico Matsumi, Alias (R), is asked to become an erotic writer by her aunt for the sake of the company. Rico is 16.
Her aunt never consulting Rico's parents.
Let that sink in your mind for a moment.
The manga "starts" with how she meets Minato Kaburagi, a 15 year old (one year younger than Rico), who's sleeping naked on a local floor. Who prostitute himself with women for money, who also won an award (which makes him the youngest to win an award.
He almost forces her to touch his private parts and then he takes her phone and snoop through it not even 5 seconds to find out somehow that "OH R IS RIKO. GIVE ME YOUR VIRGINITY (or money) OR I'LL TELL EVERYONE"
This all happens, in the first two chapters.
Let that sink in even more.
Then our main character, Rico, will have to take a persona for (R) to avoid people knowing she is the one writing the erotic stuff and she gets into a relationship with Minato.
Where her aunts ask her to take part in a really sexually suggestive photo shoot for the stuff (R) writes, with someone else than Minota (because her boyfriend was busy with school, obviously...) .
Then the manga consists mainly of Rico and Minota trying to have sexual intercourse 1/3 times in the entire manga because Rico has nosebleeds or passes out whenever they get sexual.
Let it sink in baby, oh yeah.
I get that this manga is meant for young girls who're discovering their sexuality, but sadly for me there is some stuff that doesn't add up and destroyed entirely the appeal of the manga for me.
I give the character a 4, the story gets a 2.
ENJOYMENT
The manga was released in 2004, written by Sugi Emiko (すぎ恵美子) who died soon after releasing her last manga, Dokidoki Aki no Ninpouchou in 2007.
It had its charms, it would have been something really good if it wasn't for the extreme non-sense even if it made some of its charm.
A manga that would have had an extremely high potential, if the person who wrote it didn't rush most of the detail only inside of two chapters.
It is short and the humor isn't bad, but some stuff doesn't make sense and shows almost no effort into trying to be a minimum good or logical.
Enjoyment gets a 3.
I also give this manga an overall 3.
