EROMANGA
HALL OF FAME

Seichouchuu no Masegaki ni Ai no Shisshin Acme Shidou stands in the hall as a collection that works a single subject through nine pieces and sets harshness and tenderness side by side within it.

It is an adult collection in the loli genre, gathered from work published in COMIC LO. It belongs to the mesugaki line, in which a cheeky girl is brought low by an adult, and the publisher itself presents it as a collection built around non-consent. The cast includes a stepsister, a tanned and boyish classmate, and the girl next door whose mother never comes home. The three linked magical-girl chapters placed at the end shift the register to tentacle material.

The harshest pieces and ones close to romance sit in the same volume, and the later chapters lean brighter. On the point that this range carries the reader to the last page, the reviews agree.

Hikoma Hiroyuki's pages work through a sense of presence. One reader's remark survives that sound can be heard even in panels where no sound effect is lettered. Each character is given a different skin tone and cast of face, and that refusal to line up girls of the same type keeps the nine pieces from blurring together.

It is the fourth collection from an artist who debuted in 2013. Six years in, the artist had dug at one subject and no other. From the previous volume in 2017 through every collection since, the titles have all carried a word from the same line. Among the hall's commercial works it stands fourteenth.