That hasn’t stopped me before however, and I’ve even liked the one manga that I read in the BL genre. The Heart of Thomas looked, however, like a very tasteful shoujo that could be enjoyed by everyone.
This isn’t that.
But when someone comes to you with promises of the ultimate trash, how can one refuse? I couldn’t. I didn’t. And so here we are. By the way, there’s spoilers and very NSFW descriptions. You are warned.
Venus ni Seppun is a yaoi manga written by Mika Sadahiro, which I’m not familiar with, but the friends of mine that have, assured me that she mostly dabbles in weird, downright offensive at times, yaoi. So, this is not even her worst, it’s just her normal.
Now, I could tell you the premise and shock you right away, but I want to go slow.
The manga starts with the introduction of two members of the Yakuza, Toma and Miyako. These two are friends from before the Yakuza days, as both lived in the same orphanage, and even back then Miyako loved Toma…’s hands. His dirty hands, to be more specific.
Which is not weird, it’s symbolic. Because the manga starts with the boss of the family ordering Miyako to cut BOTH of Toma’s arms, because Toma killed the boss's dog.
Why, you ask? Well, Miyako asked the same and the answer couldn’t be more obvious… a panel of Toma being raped by the dog.
Yes.
I don’t even understand what led to that moment, but the author seemed to think it was obvious enough, so I just...I just have that panel on my life forever.
But if you think that this manga will be these two friends running from the Yakuza while having hot sex… you don’t really understand where this is going.
Miyako really cuts Toma’s arms, but only after letting Toma touch… whatever he wanted.
This also causes Miyako to.. uh… ejaculate.
I’m rethinking this review.
Miyako leaves the Yakuza after this, and the rest of the manga is a very “romantic” story about these two, as Toma needs Miyako to help him with everything, from peeing, to wiping his ass, to feed him and to shove prosthetic arms up his butt. I’m rethinking this review.
Toma cannot do anything without Miyako around him, the only thing he does after chapter two, is to jump in a car and instantly gobble a dick. Outside of that, he cannot do anything, even when there’s other people around him. At a point in the story Miyako leaves him so he enters in a fucking coma.
Toma does something else, however, cheating with a rich guy that I can’t remember the name of and I’m not sure I care enough to not just call him “Rich Guy”.
So, at first I wasn’t really understanding the whole Rich Guy plot, but this is what I can gather. Our main characters are attacked by gangsters, and to save them, this rich guy just gives the gangsters a REALLY expensive watch.
Which is something very specific that happens twice. This guy just gives watches to every person he sees with a knife… which is understable, I suppose.
But to pay for the watch, Toma turns into Rich Guy’s sex slave. So what does Rich Guy do? He forces Toma to have sex with Miyako, but blindfolded.
The rest of the manga is just various degrees of these three guys doing it, while the mangaka tries to still make this a dramatic story. Miyako slowly gets more jealous of Toma and Rich Guy’s relationship, so he shoves a prosthetic arm up Toma’s ass and sucks Rich Guy’s dick. Understandable.
There’s also a bunch of flashbacks of these two characters in the orphanage which serves to explain that Miyako was a bit of a bitch, having locked Toma in a house for a while, and then when the nun finds Toma, Toma proceeds to be gay with Miyako. I cannot relate with anyone here, and it’s not because of their sexual orientation.
Miyako does it again, by the way. He locks a dude with NO ARMS, inside his house for four days, until he realizes that the Rich Guy also didn’t check on Toma, which, why would he? You’re the one that lives with him and you locked him inside YOUR house. What the fuck?
So they rushed to the house because it was more than likely that the guy was dead, because, again, he cannot do anything other than gobble dick.
The ending is left open ended, as the trio gets inside a car and leaves to the horizon, assumingly while Toma sucks dick. Nothing really left resolved, but… as I wrote that, I also wonder if there’s anything to resolve here?
There is a sequel that I’m not sure I’ll check, because I’m sure it’s just more of the same.
So conclusion?
I dunno.
I read this in a voice chat with two friends and it was pretty fun to just trash it as it goes, but I’m not sure how many times I want to repeat that experience. I still wouldn't name this the worst manga I’ve ever read, but it is close.
