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3.2 AVERAGE
3.2 AVERAGE
There are 6 one-shots in this collection, each with their own theme. Overall, the book is a pretty good collection, doing some novel things with the Yuri genre, and the author loves drawing their sex scenes, as evidenced by their Twitter (https://twitter.com/na_ga_shi_ro); and Pixiv account (https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/30583883), which I will be masturbating to shortly.
Each of the stories here are best treated separately, and here are my spoiler-free reviews of them, in the order they appear
1. I Want to Leave Behind a Miraculous Love: 3/5
A touching story about the boundaries of language. Also sex. That too. Wish there was more of the former, but ah well
2. The Case of Eko and Lisa: 4/5
Talks about the commodification and objectification of sex, and how genuine intimacy sprouts from it regardless.
3. Top or Bottom? The Showdown!: My Repressed Highschool Memories/5
Reminds me of how me and my friends acted in highschool, shipping each other and doing things that definitely would've gotten us suspended. Still processing the trauma that those memories have given me, but overall a really funny story.
4. An Infidelity Revisited: NTR/10
Short, sweet, and to the point, just like the titular affair.
5. Heir to the Curse: Trigger Warning/10
this story deals with themes of generational trauma and consent, and in my opinion does so in a rather nuanced, if extremely fucked up way. If stories about sexual assault aren't for you, then please skip this. It's extremely graphic, and the story tackles the themes in a way that a lot of people will find insensitive, but I found the story more of a toxic, Stockholm-Syndrome style deal more than anything.
6. Eternity 1 and 2: Eve and Eve: 5/5
My overall favorite from the bunch. A story about a love that strives to be eternal, but aside from that, it's best to go in blind.
Each of the stories here are best treated separately, and here are my spoiler-free reviews of them, in the order they appear
1. I Want to Leave Behind a Miraculous Love: 3/5
A touching story about the boundaries of language. Also sex. That too. Wish there was more of the former, but ah well
2. The Case of Eko and Lisa: 4/5
Talks about the commodification and objectification of sex, and how genuine intimacy sprouts from it regardless.
3. Top or Bottom? The Showdown!: My Repressed Highschool Memories/5
Reminds me of how me and my friends acted in highschool, shipping each other and doing things that definitely would've gotten us suspended. Still processing the trauma that those memories have given me, but overall a really funny story.
4. An Infidelity Revisited: NTR/10
Short, sweet, and to the point, just like the titular affair.
5. Heir to the Curse: Trigger Warning/10
this story deals with themes of generational trauma and consent, and in my opinion does so in a rather nuanced, if extremely fucked up way. If stories about sexual assault aren't for you, then please skip this. It's extremely graphic, and the story tackles the themes in a way that a lot of people will find insensitive, but I found the story more of a toxic, Stockholm-Syndrome style deal more than anything.
6. Eternity 1 and 2: Eve and Eve: 5/5
My overall favorite from the bunch. A story about a love that strives to be eternal, but aside from that, it's best to go in blind.
The last story is 5 stars one of my favourite things ive read in a while i cant stop thinking about it. Everything else ranges from okay to bad. One of the stories (Chapter five: "heir to the curse: the envy of evil") included a sexual assault scene and was just bad! Couldve been a good story but the author chose to have a character assault their love interest. Wish i hadnt read that one.
So tldr last story is 5 stars, the rest are 1-3 stars.
So tldr last story is 5 stars, the rest are 1-3 stars.
Eve and Eve is a comic collection by Rouge Nagashiro, the first mature rated yuri title from North American publisher Seven Seas now attempting to bring a sexier side of wlw. Containing six stories ranging from survivors of the apocalypse, a sex android employed by a comic artist, high school classmates caught up in games of shipping their peers and arguing passive or active sexual roles, former classmates reuniting who bring out a bad side in each other, a centuries old curse, and a philosophic piece on love and eternity with a married couple. The latter story, also where the title for the collection comes from, is another with a science fiction theme and unique. I’d almost say pick it up for this chapter alone.
Five of the six stories feature adults and the one with teenagers is also the least explicit. As in sexual activity is only implied. However, I should also mention one of the chapters has a scene that is not consensual in nature. There is a curse on descendants of a woman who was offered in compensation to a Goddess for a wrongdoing, who also fell in love with the Goddess in the process but, was already married. These female descendants will find a woman lover to bear their child and so forth. It’s implied tradition that those who are cursed don’t necessarily respect autonomy and consent since how things started. But while complicated there isn’t a reason a descendant could not do the work to find a consensual partner. All the cursed character here would have needed to do was explain first anyway because there was already love, instead of this is the one choice I have, I will have you, even if it’s bad. Still, despite trying to bring across the feelings and circumstances of the characters in this entry, I personally would have preferred a book that didn’t have a selection ending in marriage and pregnancy where a partner professing their love drugs and rapes the other. This is several pages, with detail or, well… presented explicitly enough.
To quote from a different chapter of the comic “Adult books and manga are desire crystallized.” Which brings us to a little controversy recently over Eve and Eve. Two of the chapters were originally from adult publications. I have seen the Japanese 18+ anthology Yuri Pregnancies (二次元コミックマガジン 百合妊娠) where the chapters “I Want to Leave Behind a Miraculous Love” and “Heir to the Curse” originated. (Specifically, volume 1 and 3 if anyone wants to track them down themselves but, please look into and understand what they are if you’re going to do that.) These were later included in Eve and Eve in Japan with another four chapters from Comic Yuri Hime, which is not an adult publication. Nagashiro really changed scenes for inclusion in Eve and Eve in Japan, which is what Seven Seas licensed. While the original anthology had a level of censoring itself, for the collected edition it’s not just one part of female anatomy at issue— entire panels, breasts, nipples and areola, shading, body fluids, sfx have been redrawn. It’s overall much less explicit art, though I think it’s perfectly reasonable to still consider it mature. But again, Seven Seas had nothing to do with how differently those chapters are presented.
It is frankly cool English language readers are getting mature yuri, so it’s a bit sad Seven Seas first mature release has been wrapped up in controversy that they did nothing to deserve. Though irrespective of the erotic level to be found in Eve and Eve, there are other issues that can turn readers off.
Five of the six stories feature adults and the one with teenagers is also the least explicit. As in sexual activity is only implied. However, I should also mention one of the chapters has a scene that is not consensual in nature. There is a curse on descendants of a woman who was offered in compensation to a Goddess for a wrongdoing, who also fell in love with the Goddess in the process but, was already married. These female descendants will find a woman lover to bear their child and so forth. It’s implied tradition that those who are cursed don’t necessarily respect autonomy and consent since how things started. But while complicated there isn’t a reason a descendant could not do the work to find a consensual partner. All the cursed character here would have needed to do was explain first anyway because there was already love, instead of this is the one choice I have, I will have you, even if it’s bad. Still, despite trying to bring across the feelings and circumstances of the characters in this entry, I personally would have preferred a book that didn’t have a selection ending in marriage and pregnancy where a partner professing their love drugs and rapes the other. This is several pages, with detail or, well… presented explicitly enough.
To quote from a different chapter of the comic “Adult books and manga are desire crystallized.” Which brings us to a little controversy recently over Eve and Eve. Two of the chapters were originally from adult publications. I have seen the Japanese 18+ anthology Yuri Pregnancies (二次元コミックマガジン 百合妊娠) where the chapters “I Want to Leave Behind a Miraculous Love” and “Heir to the Curse” originated. (Specifically, volume 1 and 3 if anyone wants to track them down themselves but, please look into and understand what they are if you’re going to do that.) These were later included in Eve and Eve in Japan with another four chapters from Comic Yuri Hime, which is not an adult publication. Nagashiro really changed scenes for inclusion in Eve and Eve in Japan, which is what Seven Seas licensed. While the original anthology had a level of censoring itself, for the collected edition it’s not just one part of female anatomy at issue— entire panels, breasts, nipples and areola, shading, body fluids, sfx have been redrawn. It’s overall much less explicit art, though I think it’s perfectly reasonable to still consider it mature. But again, Seven Seas had nothing to do with how differently those chapters are presented.
It is frankly cool English language readers are getting mature yuri, so it’s a bit sad Seven Seas first mature release has been wrapped up in controversy that they did nothing to deserve. Though irrespective of the erotic level to be found in Eve and Eve, there are other issues that can turn readers off.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Rape
Moderate: Sexual content, Pregnancy
A character is also drugged.
