Review 141: Barbarian in Tokyo

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

The plot revolves around a 22-year-old idiot detective named Fubuki, who looks suspiciously like Ayase from No Money. This detective gets into all sorts of trouble and is rescued multiple times by the head of the nearby yakuza group. This leads to sexual endeavors that look very unbalanced due to Fubuki's childlike appearance.

The art is terrible. Sometimes I was mislead because the lines didn't make sense with the expression shown. Most of the faces were just flat and unappealing, and even the main characters weren't remarkably drawn most of the time.

The plot was the only decent part of this one. It reminded me of a prototype of Fake, which is actually one of my favorite action/drama series. However, this yaoi messes up by giving the uke detective absolutely no ability to get himself out of bad situations. I don't think he can even shoot a gun, really. So exasperating.

The characters, as I may have insinuated earlier, are lame and easily likened to similar, also undesirable ones. The uke is the typical helpless, bunny-uke who gets kidnapped all the time, and the seme is the typical yakuza boss with a soft spot (and a not-so-soft spot) for for said uke. Been there, read that.

The sex is sad. By sad I mean that Fubuki is way too young looking and he doesn't seem like he'd be experienced with sexual activities. But he appears to experience very little pain during the sex scene... odd. Can't say that struck me as realistic.

Overall, 26/40.

Recommendation: Go read No Money. Seriously, it's better. Never thought I'd say that.