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A review by thebookbin
Days of Love at Seagull Villa, Vol. 1 by コダマナオコ, Kodama Naoko
dark
fast-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
0.0
I just read Days of Love at Seagull Villa by Kodoma Naoko and I can’t be more disappointed.
The story claims to be about a city girl who moves to the country to start a new life and falls in love with the woman who runs the villa where she stays. There’s a cute baby involved too. It seemed right up my alley—pastoral and I LOOOVE stories with kids.
But this is exactly what I was afraid of when picking up a lesbian manga. It reads like it’s for men. It’s hypersexualized. The story makes no sense because we have to make room for gratuitous sexy scenes. The main character Mayumi leaves the city because her boyfriend got her best friend pregnant. She shows up to the town and is walking along the sea wall when the Love Interest, Rin arrives. Rin, for some inexplicable reason is convinced Mayumi is going to jump and starts yelling at her and they both end up falling off the wall into the ocean—but it’s not high enough to kill anybody? This entire plot point was so that they could both be wet.
Then, without introducing themselves to each other, Rin brings Mayumi to her house “to take a bath” and claims Mayumi is “taking too long” so she just gets in with her. It’s not the nudity I have a problem with but when Mayumi is like “I told you I wasn’t going to jump, I’m moving into Seagull Villa” Rin is like “well why didn’t you say so.” You’re telling me they saw each other’s tatas before introducing themselves? Then the baby, who is four, apparently has a thing “for big breasts” and tries multiple times to breast feed from Mayumi. Rin gets drunk and makes out with Mayumi who just lets it happen.
And THEN on Mayumi’s first day of school as a teacher she gets embroiled in the middle school drama and finds out the teen who lives with Rin is the illegitimate daughter of an important village person. The guy has a claimed daughter who bullies his illegitimate daughter but then Mayumi catches the abandoned teen making out with her HALF SISTER and that’s where I stopped.
I’m just so disappointed. I feel like this story had a lot of potential. I’m crushed that it was something that seemed so right up my alley turned into an excuse to write very bizarre fetishes.
1/5 fetishistic stars
The story claims to be about a city girl who moves to the country to start a new life and falls in love with the woman who runs the villa where she stays. There’s a cute baby involved too. It seemed right up my alley—pastoral and I LOOOVE stories with kids.
But this is exactly what I was afraid of when picking up a lesbian manga. It reads like it’s for men. It’s hypersexualized. The story makes no sense because we have to make room for gratuitous sexy scenes. The main character Mayumi leaves the city because her boyfriend got her best friend pregnant. She shows up to the town and is walking along the sea wall when the Love Interest, Rin arrives. Rin, for some inexplicable reason is convinced Mayumi is going to jump and starts yelling at her and they both end up falling off the wall into the ocean—but it’s not high enough to kill anybody? This entire plot point was so that they could both be wet.
Then, without introducing themselves to each other, Rin brings Mayumi to her house “to take a bath” and claims Mayumi is “taking too long” so she just gets in with her. It’s not the nudity I have a problem with but when Mayumi is like “I told you I wasn’t going to jump, I’m moving into Seagull Villa” Rin is like “well why didn’t you say so.” You’re telling me they saw each other’s tatas before introducing themselves? Then the baby, who is four, apparently has a thing “for big breasts” and tries multiple times to breast feed from Mayumi. Rin gets drunk and makes out with Mayumi who just lets it happen.
And THEN on Mayumi’s first day of school as a teacher she gets embroiled in the middle school drama and finds out the teen who lives with Rin is the illegitimate daughter of an important village person. The guy has a claimed daughter who bullies his illegitimate daughter but then Mayumi catches the abandoned teen making out with her HALF SISTER and that’s where I stopped.
I’m just so disappointed. I feel like this story had a lot of potential. I’m crushed that it was something that seemed so right up my alley turned into an excuse to write very bizarre fetishes.
1/5 fetishistic stars
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual harassment and Incest
Minor: Suicide attempt