Review 43: April 4th

Art: 8
Plot: 6
Characters: 5
Sex: 5

Ahhhh, nothing sets the mood quite like pedophilia! Ahem, now that my severely sarcastic outburst has started things off, let's get to the story. Or rather, the lack of story. This centers on Nao, the child-like uke of 'April 4th'. His seme, shown above, is the feminine Iori, who apparently was so frustrated at his uke-like looks that he had to find a ten-year-old to top. Clearly, all the other ukes rejected his advances due to his overwhelming girliness.
Jabs aside, the story focuses on Nao recalling the day when Iori more-or-less forced himself on him when they were alone at Nao's house. Nao realizes at some point that he loves Iori 'like that', but he doesn't admit it for a large part of the storyline. What creativity, what brilliance we see here!

The plot's terrible. I've already outlined it, so you should be able to judge that for yourself. Zomg, the uke gets semi-raped by the semi because he's in denial of his feelings, and then he has to come to terms with his newfound love! That's not endearing, that's creepy. What is this, Twilight? (oooh, she said it! Giiiiiiiirl!)

The characters outdo the plot on the scale of awful. When Nao is not playing the easily-raped ten-year-old uke, he apparently shifts to another personality in which he plays the in-denial 'I-just-did-it-with-a-guy-but-how-can-I-be-gay' card. Iori is just as bad, portrayed as a beautiful shemale with all the grace of an elegant uke. Except that he's supposed to be the seme. Lame.
Oddly enough, this ends up reading like a bad Kuroshitsuji Doujinshi. Yeah, I went there!

The sex should not be mentioned. There are some things that cannot be unseen. Ugh. I'll have it be known that I only review these shotacrap because they're on the yaoi list.

All in all, 24/40. Boooooo. Go home!

Recommendation: If you like the aforementioned shotacon, or are writing an M-rated Kuroshitsuji yaoi.