too much HET!
Agreed
Really? I'm the last guy that wants het in his yuri but the whole point of the story is four girls getting hit in the face with sexuality and they probably won't see lesbians being all over each other in public. Especially in Japan.
And this is Amano Shuninta we're talking about, it's not like there is any real danger of het development.
Yeah, although this is obviously yuri, the beauty of the work is that it really focuses on the discovering of sexuality as a young girl. This is the point of youth when everything is confusing and is really about discovering yourself, which I think is illustrated by Shuninta perfectly.
I like this because it's really the first manga I've read to touch upon what it's like to be a horny teenager. I mean sure there are plenty of mangas with pornographic qualities, but this is the first one that's really delving into the fact that embarrassment and awkward interactions with your crushes are so much more abundant than actual sex at that age.
Oh, I agree strongly.
I think cropping a page sums up a good deal of Ayame's social life.
It's a very different work, and vaguely reminds me of It's Not My Fault That I'm Not Popular! or the surprisingly excellent Onani Master Kurosawa, in that it acknowledges that people kinda think about sex a lot as they grow up. Ayame 14 tends towards erotica and comedy like a lot of Shuninta's manga, but I think it avoids being strictly pornographic by its weird intensity (its exaggeration of a sexually awakening character).
(like, if the post-pubescence era is normally like fumbling through a strange land that you grow to understand, Ayame's post-pubescence is like walking through a homoerotic minefield, blindfolded, after being spun around in place a few turns.)
There's a thing I've noticed with a lot of manga; high-schoolers are fetish objects, klutzy ecchi-comedy dopes, or awkward romantics that take years to work their way up to kissing and hand-holding. You know, the whole slut/virgin perception.
It's good to see stories that acknowledge the awkward, hormone addled, and introverted side to people constructing their sexual identity.
edit: correction of a term
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