Cotoji

I've read the first two volumes, and the story is nonsensical fluff which is slightly enjoyable at times, but is not really worthy of discussion. What needs to be discussed is the creepiness of the art. The characters, we are told, are first year high school students, but as depicted they look like hyper-sexualized elementary school girls, or middle school at best. (Look at the cover closely and tell me that's not an eight year old licking a phallic symbol.) As written, the characters' personalities seem to be about as mature as elementary or middle school students. Also, there is a strange absence of male characters, leaving all these weirdly sexualized girls constantly touching each other while emoting and posing in ways that left me feeling like a perverted voyeur. Plus there is all the fetish stuff going on, with one character being repeatedly splashed or drenched in water, an easily injured one writhing in pain again and again, one lounging in lingerie and forced to dress as a Playboy bunny, another as a furry, and the teacher who carries large guns. One student even has a crush on a very phallic looking construction worker sign. So who is the intended audience here? This series just has too many twisted implications for me to keep reading.… (meer)