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Sundome Vol. 1 (Sundome) Customer Reviews
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What is your biggest turn on? Would you call it a fetish?
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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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