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: Sundome, Volume 2 (v. 2)

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5952
EAN: 9780759528536
ISBN: 0759528535
Label: Yen Press
Manufacturer: Yen Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 224
Publication Date: May 27, 2008
Publisher: Yen Press
Sales Rank: 100675
Studio: Yen Press



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Kurumi makes Hideo quit her cold turkey for two weeks! Whatever is poor, horny Hideo to do? Well, for one thing, his club is visited by a masked OB for some hardcore "physical training." Then, there's a UFO-sighting field trip up to a mountain. But Hideo's never quite over his obsession with the precocious transfer student and he thinks he's gotten just a little closer to the object of his affection when he helps her catch a panty-thief. His reward? A trip to the movies... in handcuffs!





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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 2 out of 5 stars - Unrealistic situations and disjointed storyline make for bad manga.
Sundome is a sort of soft porn (ecchi) manga - it's the first such book I've ever bought, and if this is an example of good ecchi then it will probably be the last one I'll try. The premise is interesting, which is why I bought it, and the cover looks good and there's some good crisp artwork inside, but the rest of the book is uninspiring to say the least.

I don't expect titles like this to have truly realistic storylines, but a third of the way into this manga all I can think is "Jeez, anyone would have said 'sayonara' to this woman already". The situations this guy is placed in are just so annoying - no one would stand for this abuse, even if they were totally smitten by this woman. The writers don't even try to make this girl likeable in any way and the situations the main character gets into lack any humour, so you're just left with a feeling of unease, wondering why the main character keeps pursuing this girl.

The other problem is that the scenes are so disjointed and all the characters (even the main character) are so unlikeable and forgettable that it's hard to make sense of (or care) what's happening from one page to the next. A major problem is that the characters' moods, rather than differences in their individual appearances, determine what they look like, so any guy who looks scared will look exactly the same as any other guy looking scared, so it makes it hard to tell what's going on or even who is the subject of a particular scene.

The action revolves around an extra-curricular school club that seems to be there just because it brings characters together. The club is barely fleshed out and the writers fail to make it the least bit interesting, so the reader is left wondering why anyone would want to join. Added to this, people join the club and go through their activities with no apparent rationale other than to get the main character from one painful incident to the next. There is no character development whatsoever and the whole experience of reading this is almost as tortuous as the hell the main character is put through in pursuit of his love interest.

It seems a lot of other readers enjoyed this manga, which leaves me wondering if this is the best of a bad genre - it's the only explanation that I can think of for this train wreck of a manga getting high ratings. Surely there must be other ecchi titles that are better than this, but maybe not.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Amazingly good mature content title.
Is constant sexual arousal and torment better than being rejected by the girl of your dreams? It is according to the male lead in Sundome.

I've read manga and watched anime for years now, and I have to admit that I wasn't expecting anything more than another book with a generic plot and loads of fan service or no plot and over the top sexual content. Neither of those definitions describes this book.

The story isn't about sex (as in the act of sex), it's about what makes you WANT sex. To that end there is a load of fan service, but rather than being accidental, cute, and somewhat embarrassing for the characters involved, it's intentional, provocative, and intense beyond embarrassment.

By the time I had finished the second volume I was ready for the main characters to 'seal the deal', but true to the way the story plays out...it just left me waiting for and wanting for volume three. It's brilliant, I want it to happen. But it would almost be a letdown.

I'll admit that the plot starts out a bit thin in volume one(they have to get you drawn in), but by the end of the second volume you can already see a gradual shift towards something a little deeper than what the cover art would indicate.

Sexy? Oh yes! Smart? We'll see, but certainly a big improvement over the majority of the content out there.

It should go without saying that the content in Sundome is largely inappropriate for readers who are A: offended by nudity and strong references to sex and/or B: too young to properly deal with these issues. So, as a previous reviewer said (and I'm paraphrasing). Keep the kiddies away, but involve your significant other (spouse, girl/boyfriend).


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Sundome
I completely agree with N. S. Michael, in fact i dont think i could have said it better myself.

its sexy not porn!


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Good Tease
I completely agree with N. S. Michael, this book is really good, the pages will turn themselves when you get into the story. Not henti but one step away.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - What is your biggest turn on? Would you call it a fetish?
First of all...

**GENERAL WARNING: THIS MANGA IS NOT FOR CHILDREN**

It is most certainly a mature audience manga as it's sole subject is turnons... and the variety and depth of humiliations a person would endure in the pursuit of their sexual obsessions.

Take our hero... a newly sworn president of a club that swears off women who has recently met the woman of his dreams... his very naughty dreams. She is everything he has ever desired in a woman, and seems to enjoy his company to boot... but she will never, EVER sleep with him, and even says as much. Of course, that's not to say she won't tease the hell out of him and abuse their "no sex" relationship to the hilt (in some cases, the hilt being his own... but never enough).

Okada walks a very fine line with this manga, in several ways. First of all, it's purely about what turns people on... nothing really to do with the deed itself, just what gets them started. That would seem to me to be a very difficult subject to focus on without ever doing the deed, but Okada does it well. I think he's plotted this DOM/SUB couple, with enough side characters to keep the variety in, well enough to keep readers begging for more for quite a few volumes to come.

Secondly, he toes the line between art and porn. While I know this manga would certainly not be for everyone, I just can't find myself relegating it to the darkened corners of an adult video shop. It doesn't have the narrative to save it like Dance Till Tomorrow does, but it also doesn't go that far beyond shadowplay when it comes to titillation. It's sexy... very much so, but it's not porn. Personally, I'd call it mature fiction in comic form. Say, the kink of Laurel K. Hamilton without the actual sex... or vampires.

Third, this book is populated with many different versions of the perpetual deviant. All of it's characters have a fetish of some sort, and almost all of the characters are illustrated versions of what most of society would deem the creepiest of "harmless" perverts. There's the guy who's into dolls, for one. Definitely a paraphillia, but nothing really all that wrong with it, either (from a "live and let live, save by harming none" kind of perspective). It's more than a little freaky, but not in a "call the police" kind of way, which I think would be most people's first instinct... and yet another reason why I like this manga. It challenges us to view quite a few different sides of fetishism in a different light while not being self-righteous due to looking at it through the lens of comedy.

In any case, I found it an interesting and sexy read and am unashamed to admit I'll be looking forward to volume two... just, parents, keep your kids away (though you might want to share it with your spouse after the kids are asleep). 




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