A bunch of content warnings on today’s review, for blood, and violence, and “comedic” BDSM and nudity and some other stuff.
Fujimori Manatasu is a very cute high school student. At 18, she already has a modeling career and is well-liked by her friends. Walking home from school one day she sees what looks like a giant black crescent in the sky. She is rescued from some slavering creature by a woman with abs of steel, Ultimate Fang, and her apparently small child, Meteora. The next day at school, Manatsu finds the child to be 18, and a transfer student into her class…and both Juou Ruriru, the child and Juouo Hagane, the buff mother, are now her next-door neighbors. Hagane is there, because Manatsu has blood that will also give her super powers as well, if only Hagane can awaken them. Preferably by having sex, but whatever. When another equally buff woman arrives, Savage, (real name Jade Anderson) Manatsu’s mom falls, hard. Now it’s up to Hagane to awaken Manatsu’s powers and gain a partner. Eventually, she does, of course.
In the meantime, the monsters, the blood and the gags keep coming in ULTIMATE-MAMA by Hayashiya Shizuru-sensei.
If you have ever read Hayashiya-sensei’s Ultra Sword (or my review of it) the plot may sound vaguely familiar. A girl with blood that attracts monsters is guarded by people with powers. In this case, the blood would also give the girl powers. Unlike Ultra Sword, this series is not rapey at all, really. The superwomen are super cut and have washboard abs and sexy scars and are totally into having sex with women. Manatsu is, by Chapter 7, reasonably okay with it too. Mom and Savage were love at first sight, which was kind of cute.
There is also a clearly evil couple who have sex to call up the crescents which act as a door for the monsters. Who are they and what are the meaning of these attacks? Their acts creates both the crescent doors in the sky and items that fall from those which turn regular humans into the monsters…a bit like Sailor Moon.
Now here comes the real CW part. ULTIMATE-MAMA is currently available on Fanza Books, which is a pretty skanky adult manga and eronovel site.The first things you will see on the site are a whole lot of primary and secondary genitalia, realistic and decidedly not. It’s that kind of site. The manga is being released a chapter at a time for about 220￥/chapter. I sure hope it’ll be collected.
In the meantime, I’m very much enjoying this manga for exactly what it is. ^_^
Ratings:
Art – 8 24 volumes of Hayate x Blade really leveled up her skills in action scenes, for sure.
Story – 7 Lots of elements held together by humor at the moment.
Characters – 9 Charming and goofy and chaotic, exactly what she does best
Yuri – 9
Service – 8 Nudity, sex, underwear, silly BDSM, yes, there is service
Overall – 8
If, like me, you’ll basically read anything and everything Hayashiya-sensei does, the funny violence and funny blood and funny BDSM all are par for the course. Fang and Savage are very nice to look at, if you like that type, which I do. (Not to put a fine point on it, Hayashiya-sensei’s tastes are *clearly* my tastes, as well. ^_^)
