Bunkou no Hitotachi

Damn it! When I thought about reading this manga, I didn't think it would be so bad. Today I say: avoid this manga!

Bunkou no Hitotachi is an erotic manga, which started in 2010 and ended seven years later, amid controversies and aversions about its own content. From the beginning, its content was considered controversial by readers and even by the magazine that serialized it, Manga Erotics F, renowned for having Umibe no Onnanoko as his most famous work ever made. Your proposal is interesting: a transferred student gets involved with the only two students from a city in the interior of Japan. So, what could go wrong? What makes you negative for criticism? How did Naoki Yamamoto, your creator, manage to tarnish your reputation on content like this? For that, we need to enter the manga, but carefully.

Following the synopsis, the manga only presents an inner city and two environments: the school and Kobayashi's house, where everything disgusting happens. Yoshida and Dobashi were the two students at the school until the third member arrived. And it is from there that the expectation created by the initial story deceives everyone. As expected by the publication site, the manga is erotic, with explicit nudity and sex throughout the work. I had already tried some similar content before, so I created an optimism of what was to come. However, it was in vain. What is acceptable is only due to the initial synopsis, since after Kobayashi's presentation, eroticism is seen as something routine, unhealthy and without any development between the characters. What is created is not a drama, as we imagined, but a mask that allows us to believe that what we are reading and seeing is normal. I am not annoyed to have read everything, but disappointed to find one of the most extraneous and textless things that exist in erotic manga.

Sundome is the perfect example of how it should work. The protagonists' fetishes and sexual desires have a meaning, a reason for existing. It is not random, nor is it extended over several chapters. Events and environments are constantly altered, giving new interpretations to the libidinous moments that occur. Umibe no Onnanoko also follows something similar, but has drama as the main engine of the characters' erotic actions. Absolutely everything that involves sexual curiosity has a purpose, is developed and creates tension or dramatization, depending on how you see the work.

In this manga, NOTHING happens. Curiosity is the only reason sex exists. It has no history, just a false drama and nothing authentic. It's not like Naoki doesn't try, but he hasn't been able to deliver anything productive or exciting. It is noticeable that the girl closest to Yoshida, Dobashi, has some reason to look at the sexual relations between Yoshida and Kobayashi with such discomfort. But I believe that the author did not know how to develop anything else. Everything is in the theories of what the manga could become. Instead, I felt really uncomfortable with each indifferent look from Dobashi, in addition to the erotic scenes not unlike what is known with Sundome and Umibe.
It is justifiable that the work fell into the abyss of forgetfulness. How can a relevant author waste ink with so much shit? How dare he create disgusting content with no purpose? He could work around problems at the beginning and deliver a narratively positive and decent ending. But what happened was the opposite, a neglect by the author himself with his production and a heap of raw pornography.

Bunkou to Hitotachi is another one of those manga to forget that you read and laugh after years, to remember how bad it is. I had more fun doing this review than reading these 3 volumes. After all, it shouldn't even exist. A waste of time for those who had hopes for this title.