Is there any fictional location in Japanese anime and manga culture that is more associated with eroticism than a crowded train?
Starting today, I’m going to occasionally blog about recent chapters of certain hit ecchi manga. I realize that reading the manga itself will probably take less time than reading these reviews, but I think this kind of thing should be fun to talk about and sometimes the review can be it’s own form of entertainment. Plus, I’m sure there are a lot of people who don’t read manga and would probably be curious about stuff like this. So fuck it, let’s do this.
Currently there are 11 tankobon (volume) releases of To Love-Ru Darkness that have been scanned and uploaded onto the internet. Those tankobon contain the first 44 chapters and first 18 bonus ‘bangaihen’ chapters. (Volume 12, released in December along with that memorable OVA, contains chapters 45-48 and two more bangaihen chapters, one of them being the topic of this post). All the same, I figured chapter 44.5 would be a natural place to start, since it’s the first chapter you won’t find in the currently available 11 tankobon.
Only about one chapter is published per month, plus the random bonus chapter which occurs about once every two and a half months. So these kind of posts won’t happen very often, but they should be fun. With that said, let’s get to it (chapter taken from CXC Scans).
Chapter 44.5 (Bangaihen ch. 19)
The first two panels provide a setup. Yui seems a bit salty, and Rito feels a bit guilty. Cue the flashback to explain the cause of this friction (note how unbelievably huge Yui’s ass becomes):
Oh shit!
You have to love how they work the setup and the payoff in the same panel. From checking on the baby to being tackled ass first by a sudsy naked Yui in 2 seconds. Which probably hurt, given that Yui’s hip measurement might as well have doubled in this scene. Yui seems like a fairly ordinary body type when wearing clothes, but when she’s naked she’s got Kim Kardashian curves, apparently.
Seriously, she’s like a yet undiscovered ninja from the Naruto universe who can do some silly hand sign bullshit and then cast “double weight technique”, but only for her ass.
It never gets old seeing Rito with that “I’m so screwed” look on his face, even as he cops a feel like he’s checking grapefruit at the supermarket. It’s little moments like that which make me think he is actually a genius perv who pretends to be scared of girls. I mean, who catches someone from behind by cupping their breasts?
(Note to the artist: smooth move there with the soap sud camel toe, btw.)
Wow, didn’t see that coming. A grope session on a crowded train!
At least the “accidental” part is somewhat novel, since as we know it’s crowded trains where lady killers make their move and pretty young things are always in the mood.
Of course, it’s not really an accident when Rito’s arm isn’t even being pressed into action, I mean seriously, look at it. He’s got a good two inches to spare between Yui and the woman next to her, and yet… and yet… blast it all he can’t get his arm out of there! Someone call the jaws of life!
It might be a hard sell, but even if she doesn’t believe it, Rito knows this excuse will buy him precious seconds. Hold on and don’t let go Rito!
This guy is the fucking master. A master who has incredibly huge hands. I mean, a few seconds ago just one of Yui’s ass cheeks was bigger than Rito’s head, and now he’s palming that thing like it’s a nerf ball. And you know what they say about guys with big hands? No wonder all these hots girls put up with his happy accident bullshit.
Yes, it doesn’t seem he’s noticed that your boobs are rubbing up against him. Don’t sound so shocked. I mean, think about it for a second…
Number times Rito has ‘accidentally’ seen or felt girls breasts during his young life: 7,245,152,523 times. At least.
Number times he’s gotten to squeeze an extremely curvaceous female behind with all his might for an entire train ride? Zero.
The dude’s got priorities. He’s a man on a manly man’s mission, and that mission will not be deterred.
I always love these inexplicable X-ray vision titty shots. I realize the artistic reasoning- by showing Yui out of body nude it communicates to us that she’s experiencing sexual excitement. I get that.
But the cynical part of me remembers this is a bangaihen chapter, and by such standards the titty ratio hasn’t been quite what you normally expect from these, and time is running out. Yabuki takes some heroic measures here so that people who only read this manga to fap (everyone) will get their finishing move in before it’s too late.
And of course the cat paw does its thing.
So far in this manga we’ve seen a girl reach climax due to a mechanical object that Rito is on the other end of, and both times that girl was Yui. Rito might as well be her own little sex toy at this point.
Overall, Bangaihen #19 was a fairly solid bonus chapter, not as amazing as the one that comes immediately after (Mikan!) but still, hard to complain here. The service is more symbolic than in other chapters, and while Yui service isn’t quite as magical as it once was, it helps that she’s been developing at a Nurse Ryouko type of pace as of late.
