EROMANGA
HALL OF FAME

Some ten years after debut, this is the eighth book by an artist who has kept the bones of the style while refining its details. Keikenzumi da yo, Watashi-tachi stands in the hall as the volume that gathers that maturity into a five-part serial.

A university student, through an unexpected incident, comes to know two characters, Nanami and Matsuri, and the story starts from there. The serial Toilet no Oujisama runs five chapters across city parks, a department store and an amusement park, takes a somewhat serious turn near the end, and closes on an epilogue set five years later. The official genre tags place it as a loli harem work.

Readers agree above all on its comic momentum and its laughs. The standalone short at the back is set in Nyouland, a country inside a dream, whose "Nyouland language" makes sense when read from right to left. Naming a country after the artist's long-held subject is a piece of play that readers take as a wink to those who know the earlier books.

Some two years separate it from the previous volume, Lolikko Mura Okoshi, a long interval for Takashiro Go-ya. According to the afterword, the artist moved to digital drawing partway through the stories collected here.

The print volume appeared in September 2019, and the book reached DLsite about a year and a half later, in February 2021. No chart record survives from its print years, but since going digital it has drawn the second-most ratings on DLsite of any book by the artist. It stands 86th among the hall's commercial works.