EROMANGA
HALL OF FAME

Nothing says a sex scene has to sit between the parts of a story. Zecchou Refle gives a whole book over to one, and enters the hall for it.

An office worker who cannot say no books a massage parlour by the station on a drunken impulse. Of the 119 pages, 102 are that single session. Nothing else is cut into it.

The practitioner is a woman; the male assistant is barely given a face. Pochitaro holds that arrangement to the end, keeping the reader's eye on the one being worked on. Past a hundred pages of continuous climax the book still does not tire, because each arrival is drawn as a different one — readers count them off as they say so. No shortcuts either. Tension is eased first, the approach moves from outside inward, and a safe word is agreed on partway through. That several readers name anatomical correctness and correct procedure as the first thing worth praising is unusual in this genre.

That care shows in who reads it. A book sold to men draws women who identify themselves as such in their reviews and say other women should read it too. What they raise first is that nobody in it is unwilling.

A 43-page version was handed out at the summer convention of 2023; the 119-page book followed that November. The next year it took first place in Weekly SPA!'s Kono Ero-Manga ga Sugoi! award for 2023 — a doujinshi, placed above the commercial volumes.