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HALL OF FAME

Set down one rule of play, and a story no longer needs a heavy reason for anything. Hametomo Collection stands in the hall as the second book, in which Tamagoro tried that design out in serial form.

Like the first book, this is bicchi-mono, fiction built around sexually forthright heroines, but where that book was an assembly of one-shots, this one is rebuilt around serials. A three-chapter title story sits at the centre, joined by runs of two and three chapters. The title story takes as its device an app that awards points each time its user sleeps with someone; the other three-chapter run invents a made-up duty assigned at a school. The rule carries the characters' motives, so the stories never turn damp and nobody ends up unhappy.

Readers keep writing about how lightly the book reads, and some trace that to the white of the page and the charm of the drawing. Between episodes come pages of the artist's own comments, binding the serials together in the author's voice.

One piece, "TAKE OUT," gets a sequel in the next book, Doutei Danshi Kousei Iinkai, and returns again as a coda at the back of the fourth, Caramel Hame Art. Tamagoro's habit of carrying characters from one book to the next has no longer-running example.

It collects a little over a year from the Comic Penguin Club Sanzokuban line and was published in 2015. Two English-language databases carry entries for it under two different English titles. Among the hall's commercial works it stands twenty-first.