Review 97: Hidoi Otoko

Art: 7.5
Plot: 6
Characters: 8
Sex: 7

Okay, lots to say about this one. It's one of the ones where we've got an older uke (businessman) and a younger seme (college student). The seme hooks up with the uke at a bar, and the uke - a very serious man for the most part - deems it a purely sexual relationship, unbeknownst to the seme, who thinks they're together. Ironically, all they do when they're together is have sex, so I can see how the uke was confused.

The art is pretty good for the most part, but there are a handful of panels where I actually stopped reading to look more closely at them... certain flaws really stand out to me I guess, particularly when a character's nose or mouth is drawn oddly.

The characters are very difficult to understand, but I give it good points for portraying the difference between 'being on top' and 'being the dominant person in the relationship'. And, of course, much the same with the 'being on bottom' and 'being the submissive person in the relationship' thing. Though the older man is bottom, he's still the dominant person in the relationship, while the seme is on top but is the whiny, childish one. It's nice to see an understanding of this phenomenon in yaoi.

The sex is much too frequent. As in, every few pages. It makes it boring and completely expected, thereby lessening how interesting it is. Not too many points docked due to the uke's interesting shenanigans when he gets angry at how the seme's friends were calling him submissive and 'not aggressive at all'. And 'an old geezer'. That one must have hurt.

All in all, 28.5/40.

Recommendation: If you're curious about the aforementioned phenomenon.