EROMANGA
HALL OF FAME

A compilation can redraw a scattered series as a single map. "Bouken no Sho Series Soushuuhen: The Adventurer's Book has Perfect. Vol.1" stands in the hall for doing exactly that, with an actual timeline and map attached, and turning one world into something that can be read straight through.

It gathers the first and second instalments of the series, a side story and two pieces set in the same world, and adds a newly drawn seventh instalment of 26 pages. It is an anthology of the onee-shota and inhuman kinds, in which succubi and slime girls are drawn as predators of humankind. The new instalment alone centres on a nun who has taken in orphans, and leans toward what the genre calls "shota-onee".

What readers single out across the book is that the monsters are drawn as monsters. The menace of a predator is given settings that hold together, and that consistency becomes the texture of the world. The timeline and map come up as a guide for rereading the story in order, and one reader writes of grasping, only here, a whole that had been followed in fragments.

May 2020, 184 pages: the first compilation from KAMINENDO.CORP, the circle run by the artist Akazawa RED. Its listed debut event is Comic Market 98, which, as the pandemic spread, became the first in the convention's history to be cancelled outright. The book reached readers through download stores, and an audio version was added that December.

On DLsite it is the circle's most widely read title, and unlike the first and sixth instalments it was read in nearly equal measure on both stores. The compilations have continued to a third volume. In the hall it is fourth among the inhuman works.