It's Not Like That Darling

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rating: Mature
volumes: 3 complete
It's Not Like That Darling is a josei manga by Nagae Tomomi. The story revolves around a college girl named Maiko Ninomiya. After having recovered from her accident she has been having frequent erotic dreams about the same guy. One day she gets trampled by a stampede of fan girls following the new literature professor,Yukiya Nagase. Turns out he's the guy from Maiko's erotic dreams! Her heart beats fast whenever she's around this stranger. We later find out that Nagase was in a relationship with a woman named Haruka who passed away recently. She donated blood to Maiko after her accident and the theory is that Haruka's emotions are possessing Maiko's body. Maiko decides to live with Nagase to be around Touya, Haruka's young son who calls Maiko "mommy".

A couple of years ago I read the first two chapters and was hook. But there wasn't any more scandalations for a long time. Finally I've read the complete series.

The art is really nice. It's very clean and I love the use of spaces. I love the line quality and the expressions the characters make are really good. I haven't really read that many smut manga before so I didn't know what to expect. This is NOT hentai. The erotic scenes are tastefully done, very sensual and there aren't really many of them except when Maiko dreams about it in the begining. The most erotic part of this series was the extra oneshot at the end about an office worker and her boss.

The story has a lot of plot twist and gets a little cliche with the love triangle towards the end. Maiko does a big sacrifice at the end but it works out well for her, Touya and Nagase.

score: 3.5/5

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Volume One
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Volume Two
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Volume Three
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