Since I read about Higashiyama's tendency toward lolicon porn? I ended up reading one of his series called Implicity. It's two volumes long (around 11 chapters). I probably skipped over a bunch of information while reading it. The manga hasn't been translated into English yet.
But even though I knew that it was het porn (alas those many male genitalia floating around through those 500 pages), there was a girl-girl 'friendship??' that really made me want to ship them together (my goggles were on way too hard- I basically read the entire thing through the lens of the relationship between the female characters).
(I got oddly invested.) (I hope it's okay to talk about Higashiyama's other works in a thread about Higashiyama)
The setting is a dystopian society in an artificial environment. While there are many characters whose arcs introduce the world, the main ones are two girls named Yulka and Sheena. They are both dolls, a scientifically created prostitute like existence, but the latter is revealed to be a human girl. After a conspiracy of rapists comes after Sheena, they run away together after Yulka saves Sheena by killing Sheena's attacker. The rapists are part of a forum of predators. As they run away, they're taken in by a woman who is investigating the forum. It's revealed that the forum and Sheena have deep ties as Sheena is actually a girl named Alice who was the daughter of the creator of the conspiracy, and the rapists want her back.
...etc
This is kind of late, but what the hell...about Implicity first, since I can never find out the answer about the very end of the manga.
Did Sheena/Alice survive at the very very end? A from her own point of view as if it there is a computer screen that says "system shutdown". much earlier, her irises emit light, later on around the end her eyes turn again towards the end.
She may or may not be a human, or a modified human, but she was "born from human" as in surrogacy. "system shutdown" equals she is about to die?
Also, after Yulka scattered the paper flowers, someone picked it up on the beach. No idea who that person is. Sheena (Alice)? Yuu (the boy)? their kid? Yuu's necklace is on the tree, but why? How many years have passed since all four of them (Yuu, Sheena, Yulka, and Kuon) escape?
Implicity is one of the most terrifying mangas that I have ever read, Ironically, the character Kuon is my favorite heroine from all the manga that I have read.
Anyway:
1. Show's lolicon is very very good. I have to admit that I cringed when I first read them. I read them because I was curious about his "day job".
2. Prism is still my favorite manga despite what happened. Two photos were all it took to kill your career.
3. Stretch is pretty good as long as you do not demand shipping the two MCs. Keiko is straight, Ran seems to be gay. Living together. So it is as Yuri as Futari Escape, or Trying Out Marriage With My Female Friend.
4. Vampeerz turns out to be very good. It cannot possibly be not a Yuri when the main couple is gay, and then only one (Maoa) of the remaining six supporting cast is straight as far as we know so far. I hate to say this, but it is still not as good as Prism. 7 Tankoubons and counting not bad consider it is published in Sunday Gen-X.
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