My get-well drug :)
I've had a sort of stressful week so I turned for comfort to my ultimate comfort read (and guilty pleasure), Mayu Shinjo's manga Sensual Phrase. It's not 'good', objectively speaking, but it's incredibly entertaining and always makes me feel better.
I posted about SP before, but the very short summary of this 18-volume manga (yes, I own all of it :P) is that it follows its heroine Aine, who is a high school girl who becomes a lyricist for a visual band Lucifer, and its hero Sakuya, the band's vocalist and Aine's OTP. They get together early (one of the things I love in stories, but they so rarely give it to me: a couple together dealing with things) and have a lot (and I mean A LOT) of sex while overcoming more and more outlandish obstacles. (Seriously, if you are prudish, be warned: at the store I bought SP at only the first volume was not shrink-wrapped and it was R-rated. The rest of the volumes are easily NC-17).
It's basically a manga that probably took every kink my teennybopper self had and put it shamelessly out there. Yay for that!
Plus, I just love how cheerful the story is. It's not fluffy because it has gobs of angst but both Aine and Sakuya are sort of teflon people and angst that would probably require years of therapy in other people only adds a bit of spice to the manga without bringing it down. It's delish. Despite being constantly threatened, kidnapped, blackmailed, forced to give up the man she loves and at one point even raped, all she needs is hugs, ILYs and healing sex and she is bright-eyed and ready to move on (I wonder if it says something troubling about me that I don't remember by whom she was raped, except that it was one of those periodic baddies. But I do remember every detail of Sakuya going to kill the bad guy, and them (Sakuya and Aine) slitting their wrists together, and the healing shower sex :P). And as for Sakuya, his past as a child whore and a product of rape who grew up with an alcoholic mother who hated him, not to mention things like temporarily being turned into a drug addict by his evil half-brother or suffering an almost fatal car accident (while protecting Aine, of course) does not seem to interfere in the least with him being a hunky McMuffin psychotically devoted to his woman.
There is something...wholesome about that, just as there is about the very traditional happy ending :P
Basically if I read a couple of volumes of SP, I always feel better.
So there :) This is a really good write-up on the manga, with summaries, basically explaining better than I am why I like it so...
If they ever turned it into a drama it would be so entertaining though they would have to WAY tone down the sex :P
I posted about SP before, but the very short summary of this 18-volume manga (yes, I own all of it :P) is that it follows its heroine Aine, who is a high school girl who becomes a lyricist for a visual band Lucifer, and its hero Sakuya, the band's vocalist and Aine's OTP. They get together early (one of the things I love in stories, but they so rarely give it to me: a couple together dealing with things) and have a lot (and I mean A LOT) of sex while overcoming more and more outlandish obstacles. (Seriously, if you are prudish, be warned: at the store I bought SP at only the first volume was not shrink-wrapped and it was R-rated. The rest of the volumes are easily NC-17).
It's basically a manga that probably took every kink my teennybopper self had and put it shamelessly out there. Yay for that!
Plus, I just love how cheerful the story is. It's not fluffy because it has gobs of angst but both Aine and Sakuya are sort of teflon people and angst that would probably require years of therapy in other people only adds a bit of spice to the manga without bringing it down. It's delish. Despite being constantly threatened, kidnapped, blackmailed, forced to give up the man she loves and at one point even raped, all she needs is hugs, ILYs and healing sex and she is bright-eyed and ready to move on (I wonder if it says something troubling about me that I don't remember by whom she was raped, except that it was one of those periodic baddies. But I do remember every detail of Sakuya going to kill the bad guy, and them (Sakuya and Aine) slitting their wrists together, and the healing shower sex :P). And as for Sakuya, his past as a child whore and a product of rape who grew up with an alcoholic mother who hated him, not to mention things like temporarily being turned into a drug addict by his evil half-brother or suffering an almost fatal car accident (while protecting Aine, of course) does not seem to interfere in the least with him being a hunky McMuffin psychotically devoted to his woman.
There is something...wholesome about that, just as there is about the very traditional happy ending :P
Basically if I read a couple of volumes of SP, I always feel better.
So there :) This is a really good write-up on the manga, with summaries, basically explaining better than I am why I like it so...
If they ever turned it into a drama it would be so entertaining though they would have to WAY tone down the sex :P