Batou Shoujo
a review by saulgoodman
a review by saulgoodman
The story is told entirely from a POV perspective of our sexually awakening protagonist, Unnamed, unseen and unheard, apart from the occasional speechbubble-less lines of text representing him, the story warmly allows its masochist audience to comfortably self-insert as the sadist heroine ferociously glares and berates you with amusingly twisted insults like a first class VR experience.
And the real meat of the story, well, there really is none. It's primarily just the heroine hurling insult after insult, glare after glare, with the occasional touch of NSFW scenes, although nowhere near bordering actual, full-fledged porn. However, you can guesswork the story with the protagonist's narration.
I also suppose it was comedically arousing. The series offers amusing reaction panels and one-liners.
And the art is both surprisingly and unsurprisingly great to look at. Eromanga can have some detailed character expressions, to really express the characters' sexual deviance and pleasure. And in this case, the heroine's sadism. Her scornful glares, dark, displeased eyes, downturned eyebrows, facial gradient shading to express disgust and hatred. The briefness and shallowness of the series is almost a shame, given how a proper story would allow the art to bloom at its full potential. But for all the intents and purposes, and considering this originates as pixiv work, I don't at all lie any fault with the author.
If you're not willing to read 156 chapters of Nana to Kaoru and its other fetish-enlightening sequels and asking yourself what other masosadist manga exist, then I suppose you can give this a try. Boasting an incohesive plot, abrupt ending, surprisingly detailed art, humorous dialogue and, of course, masosadist fetishism; you can probably find something else better to read while loafing around in bed.
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